Hi,
--On 18. Januar 2005 17:12:39 Uhr -0200 Andreas Hasenack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For some reason the file /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000001081 belonged to root! I am pretty sure that nobody changed the ownership manually. Is this a
Seems someone ran recover (either db_recover or cyrus' recover utility) as root.
hmm, I'm not so sure. For one I am usually the only one who does anything on that machine, although I can't entirely rule out the possibility of somebody else's interference. More importantly, however, I myself issued the db_recover command *as root* in order to fix things. I'm not sure if that was ill-advised; I suppose it may be better to do that as cyrus. Anyway, this did *not* cause any files to have their ownership changed.
--On 19. Januar 2005 7:24:53 Uhr +0100 Simon Matter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't think Sebastian is in his early days with cyrus so I'm really interested what has happened. Since they are running cyrus clustered, I could imagine something has happened during a failover to another node.
I've been thinking about that possibility myself, but the last failover occurred more than two days before things got wonky. I just verified in our backup system that the file didn't even exist at 2 a.m. yesterday. So I guess it was *created* with the wrong ownership!? Since none of the processes involved run as root, this would have to be a bug in the OS, right?
Has anybody else seen this specific problem before?
One reason why I'm so interested is because I'd love to get rid of BDB, or at least have an rpm build which is per default BDB free.
Well, so far we've been happy with BDB. Unless there is some concrete evidence that it was involved, I guess we'll stick with it. Any backend would be in trouble if its files stopped being writeable ...
Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian Hagedorn M.A. - RZKR-R1 (GebÃude 52), Zimmer 18 Zentrum fÃr angewandte Informatik - UniversitÃtsweiter Service RRZK UniversitÃt zu KÃln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587
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