On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 21:39 +1100, Rob Mueller wrote: > > When I shut down Cyrus cleanly, which of the files in /var/lib/cyrus/db > > can be deleted safely along with deliver.db then? > > FYI, we're using 2.3 and have: > > duplicate_db: berkeley-nosync > seenstate_db: skiplist > subscription_db: flat > mboxlist_db: skiplist > > And our cyrus start script does: > > # Remove db3 log files > rm -f /var/imap/db/log.* > rm -f /var/imap/db/__db* > rm -f /var/imap/deliver.db > > So basically we try and completely delete everything to do with BDB on each > cyrus restart. It makes restarting a much saner proposition.
be careful. in general, deleting transactions which haven't been applied to the database isn't a good solution. but since you're only using Berkeley for duplicate_db, which is non-critical, it is fine in your setting. -- Kjetil T. ---- 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
