On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 07:36, Tracy Bost wrote: > I had that same problem last week. With RedHat Enterprise 3, which is > basically Red Hat 9... > Still not sure what caused it exactly, so if you find out anything please > let the list know. > What I did notice was if I deleted all the files under /var/imap/db, it > would work again until the next reboot or stopping of cyrus.. It really > seemed like to me the mailboxes file was corrupted. Maybe you can try > running reconstruct to see if that works for you. I didn't have much time to > investigate, so I just rebuilt cyrus again and used a backedup mailboxes > file that I knew was good. > I've seen this happen when there wasn't an explicit kill of the Cyrus master process as a part of the system shutdown sequence. Done the "right way" you'll have an init script that starts/stops Cyrus as a part of the SysV rc sequence. There lots of ways to do this but the init script that I use can be seen at http://www.entrophy-free.net/init.d/cyrus -- The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed RedHat.
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