On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Earl R Shannon wrote: > We've recently experienced problems with some of the cyrus index files > in user account getting suffixed with .NEW and not going away. Their > presence indicates a problem with the account. We are currently guessing > that the files are being left as a result of the server being shutdown > and they don't get cleaned up properly.
They'll get "cleaned up" the next time a process does a transaction on the mailbox. Their presense just indicates that the server shut down (or, yes, crashed) halfway through a mailbox update. So, unless you see other evidence of a problem, I wouldn't worry too much. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
