On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:33:50 -0400 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Phil Chambers wrote: > > > What do I have to do to add a new partition? I have added it to my > > /etc/imapd.conf but createmailbox says "Unknown/invalid partition" when I > > try > > and add a new user to it. > > Did you also create the directory/mountpoint and give it the correct > ownership/permissions? Yes, it is all in place and the ownerships/permissions are the same ar the existing working partitions. > > > > I did a HUP on master, not too optipistically (the man page says it just > > re-reads /etc/cyrus.cinf, not /etc/imapd.conf), but that did not help. > > The services read imapd.conf when they are spawned. If you have idle > imapd waiting for connections, they won't re-read imapd.conf. A quick > and dirty way to force idle imapd to respawn is to simply 'touch' the > imapd binary. > Thanks for the latter information, it points to what the problem was. It seems I must have been picking up idle imapd processes which had been running for a long time. Before sending my message I had tried over a period of a couple of hours withhout success. Today I tried again and it worked OK, so the idle imapd processes have probably been restarted in that time. Phil. --------------------------------------- Phil Chambers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) University of Exeter ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
