Re: Running reconstruct as cyrus user

2004-04-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 14:37, Craig Ringer wrote: > On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 01:01, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > Can someone offer advice on how to get this command the script is trying > > to execute working? Maybe I don't need to be using the 'cyrus' user to > > do this? > > I'd be reluctant to

Re: Running reconstruct as cyrus user

2004-04-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 16:26, Andrew J Caird wrote: > Robert, > If you don't use the "-" in "su - " it won't try to find the environment > of the account you're specifying (cyrus, in this case), so you don't need > to have a home directory. Of course, you need to make sure that the > environment

Re: Running reconstruct as cyrus user

2004-04-02 Thread Andrew J Caird
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I found a script that supposedly will sa-learn Cyrus IMAP mailboxes for > spam and ham. The script wants to run the reconstruct command as the > cyrus user, but 'su' seems to have a problem with the way it is setup: > > su - -s /bin/sh cyrus -c "/usr

Re: lower casing in 2.2.3

2004-04-02 Thread Neil Schneider
Seem to still be having the problem with case sensitivity in lmtp delivery. This problem didn't exist in my previous version, running on my old server, but it's driving me crazy right now. SuSE 8.2 rpm version cyrus-imapd-2.1.12-34 from the distribution. Everything else seems to work fine. Damn ou

Re: Murder question

2004-04-02 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote: > Well, what I mean is that there is a time window where mailbox operation > front the frontend would succeed, but the outcome not received by the > frontend. Example : > > 1. MUPDATE master down, frontend loose connection > 2. MUPDATE master up again > 3.

Re: Signal 11 with mupdate master and other funny things

2004-04-02 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:08:32PM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote: > > If you use cyrus 2.2, mupdate should restart automatically almost > > immediately. > > In the short term, upgrading to 2.2.x is out of the question, but I > would curious as to why/how it

Re: Murder question

2004-04-02 Thread Etienne Goyer
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:22:36PM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote: > > > If I understand correctly, some strangeness may happen between the time > > the connection is lost and reestablished, like user creating folders but > > not seeing them right away. Con

Re: Running reconstruct as cyrus user

2004-04-02 Thread Craig Ringer
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 01:01, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > Can someone offer advice on how to get this command the script is trying > to execute working? Maybe I don't need to be using the 'cyrus' user to > do this? I'd be reluctant to manually move messages and reconstruct unless I had to. I do cu

Re: Signal 11 with mupdate master and other funny things

2004-04-02 Thread Etienne Goyer
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:08:32PM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote: > If you use cyrus 2.2, mupdate should restart automatically almost > immediately. In the short term, upgrading to 2.2.x is out of the question, but I would curious as to why/how it would restart almost automatically. Is master manag

Re: Murder question

2004-04-02 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote: > If I understand correctly, some strangeness may happen between the time > the connection is lost and reestablished, like user creating folders but > not seeing them right away. Considering that, would'nt it be a good > idea to have that value very low (l

Re: Murder question

2004-04-02 Thread Etienne Goyer
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:06:17PM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote: > > > In a Murder, if I understand correctly, it is the frontend who initiate > > the connection with the mupdate master. I suppose when the mupdate > > master is shutted down and restarted,

Re: Signal 11 with mupdate master and other funny things

2004-04-02 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote: > Any idea what is causing the signal 11 ? I wonder if it could be > related to the first two issue in any way. > > I am currently writing a mechanism to watch over the mupdate service and > page/restart the service int he event of a failure. Would there

Re: Murder question

2004-04-02 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote: > In a Murder, if I understand correctly, it is the frontend who initiate > the connection with the mupdate master. I suppose when the mupdate > master is shutted down and restarted, this connection is lost. How/when > does the frontend reconnect to the m

Re: allowing cyradm to administer from remote host

2004-04-02 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Robin M. wrote: > It seems that when I log in on the localhost with cyradm I can administer > the system, but if I use cyradm from a remote host I can log in but cannot > issue any administration commands. How do I enable administration using > cyradm from a remote host ? Sinc

Re: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Ken Murchison wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote: > >>Or one could do away with DBD entirely and switch to skiplist. > > > >Is this a good idea for true hash databases such as the delivery database > >and TLS session database

Re: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Ken Murchison
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:53:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Curtis Robinson wrote: 4. Upgrade to BDB 4.2.something, **recompile cyrus against it** 5. db_upgrade 6. Configure the ber

Re: allowusermoves in perl ay 2.2.3

2004-04-02 Thread Ken Murchison
Philip Chambers wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 13:25:04 -0500 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you provide a protocol dump of what the perl program is sending to the server? I have a whole load of humble pie to eat! When I switched protocol logging on for user cyrus I found it logg

Performance and Scalability question...

2004-04-02 Thread Bryan Hughes
We are looking into using CYRUS as our mail server.  We are currently at 7 million users and growing.  CYRUS looks like an ideal solution based upon the architecture (imap servers with the murder server).  Some questions:   -  What is the largest production installation of CYRUS o

Re: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:53:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Curtis Robinson wrote: > > 4. Upgrade to BDB 4.2.something, **recompile cyrus against it** > > 5. db_upgrade > > 6. Configure the berkeley DB environment

RE: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Curtis Robinson
Hello all, The problem has been isolated to a DoS attack on the system. Now, it is operating fine. Sorry for the trouble. Curtis Robinson Senior Systems Analyst Information Technology Florida Institute of Technology 321.674.8069 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Fro

Running reconstruct as cyrus user

2004-04-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I found a script that supposedly will sa-learn Cyrus IMAP mailboxes for spam and ham. The script wants to run the reconstruct command as the cyrus user, but 'su' seems to have a problem with the way it is setup: su - -s /bin/sh cyrus -c "/usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct spam" Aside from the fact

Re: allowusermoves in perl ay 2.2.3

2004-04-02 Thread Philip Chambers
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 13:25:04 -0500 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you provide a protocol dump of what the perl program is sending to > the server? > I have a whole load of humble pie to eat! When I switched protocol logging on for user cyrus I found it logged the cyradm activ

Re: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Craig Ringer
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 23:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > You'd need to version symbols in [all instances of] the library for that to > not blow in your face. The same goes for libsasl, libldap, and anything > else different libs would like to link/dlopen to at the same time. [stupid non

Re: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Craig Ringer wrote: > I've certainly never had much luck with it, and prefer to link against a > bdb4.2 build in /usr/local for site-local apps installs. Of course, then > you can run into all _sorts_ of fun if a PAM or nss module you use > happens to be linked to a different v

Re: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Etienne Goyer
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:53:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Curtis Robinson wrote: > 4. Upgrade to BDB 4.2.something, **recompile cyrus against it** > 5. db_upgrade > 6. Configure the berkeley DB environment, it has precedence over >anything Cyrus tries t

Re: Stupid passwd question

2004-04-02 Thread Etienne Goyer
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:07:57AM -0500, Mauricio wrote: > If we use NIS so users can access their account from any > machine within our domain, would cyrus be able to snatch the password > from NIS? If configured to authenticate against PAM via saslauthd. -- Etienne Goyer

Re: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Craig Ringer
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 21:53, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This is not guaranteed to fix your problem, but it just might. If your > machine is SMP on Linux, it is almost guaranteed that DB 4.1 will give you > severe headaches. If I remember correctly, the bdb that ships with Red Hat 9 and

Stupid passwd question

2004-04-02 Thread Mauricio
If we use NIS so users can access their account from any machine within our domain, would cyrus be able to snatch the password from NIS? --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Curtis Robinson wrote: > The berkeley db version is 4.1.25. This problem is new. This system has been > running for monthes > with changing the software. So, it is hard to say what the problem is. I will try > the debugging > route, but that is terrority I am not familia

RE: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Curtis Robinson
Cyrus is using a custom compiled Berkeley DB version with using the default compile options. The berkeley db version is 4.1.25. This problem is new. This system has been running for monthes with changing the software. So, it is hard to say what the problem is. I will try the debugging rou

RE: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Curtis Robinson
Sorry, I forgot to mention that. All mailboxes have quotas of 100MB. Now, the users that are logged into the run away process generally have a couple of megs to around 70 MBs. The process do not stop at the size of the users mailbox. Mailboxes: skiplist The rest are default build options. Here i

Re: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Craig Ringer
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 15:54, Curtis Robinson wrote: > Hello, > > I need major assistance. We have a dual cpu w/ 2GB of RAM. Recently, lmtpd and > imapd processes have been eating up all available memory to the point the machine > stops responding. I have try to reconstruct every mailbox and f

Re: BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Loftis
I'm cynical, but I'd say it's a Redhat problem LOL...more seriously though what is the size of your dbs mailboxes file, what DB type? Any particularly 'bushy' mailboxes? --On Friday, April 02, 2004 02:54 -0500 Curtis Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I need major assistance. We hav

BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

2004-04-02 Thread Curtis Robinson
Hello, I need major assistance. We have a dual cpu w/ 2GB of RAM. Recently, lmtpd and imapd processes have been eating up all available memory to the point the machine stops responding. I have try to reconstruct every mailbox and fix the mailbox database, but nothing has fixed it. Some of