ctl_cyrusdb -c reports "unable to archive environment"

[Michael Ellis]

Hi, Ken.

Sorry for not mentioning the obvious stuff.

Here's a listing of /var/imap:
drwxr-x---  15 cyrus  maild   466 Jul 24 19:23 .
drwxr-xr-x  21 root   wheel   670 Jul 24 19:12 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 cyrus  mail     49 Jul 24 19:14 .cshrc
-rw-------   1 cyrus  mail    638 Jul 24 19:39 .tcsh_history
drwx------   3 cyrus  mail     58 Jul 24 19:23 Library
drwxr-x---   8 cyrus  mail    228 Jul 24 19:23 db
-rw-------   1 cyrus  mail   8192 Jul 24 19:23 deliver.db
drwxr-x---   2 cyrus  mail     24 Mar  7  2002 log
-rwxr-x---   1 cyrus  mail   1756 Jul 24 14:41 mailboxes
-rwxr-x---   1 cyrus  mail   8192 Jul 24 19:23 mailboxes.db
drwxr-x---   2 cyrus  mail     24 Mar  7  2002 msg
drwxr-x---  60 cyrus  mail   1996 Jul 24 19:25 proc
drwxr-x---  28 cyrus  mail    908 Mar  7  2002 quota
drwxrwx---   5 cyrus  maild   126 Jul 24 19:23 socket
drwxr-x---  28 cyrus  mail    908 Mar  7  2002 user

and here's /var/spool/imap:
drwxr-x---   4 cyrus  mail   264 Mar  7  2002 .
drwxr-xr-x  13 root   wheel  398 Jul 24 19:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 cyrus  mail    24 Jul 24 20:36 stage.
drwx------  13 cyrus  mail   398 Jan 19  2003 user

 From this, it seems as though ctl_cyrusdb *should* be able to archive 
(assuming that it archives to either /var/imap or /var/spool/imap).  I 
was motivated to post the original question on the off-chance that 
ctl_cyrusdb backs up in some way other than to the obvious places 
(/var/imap and /var/spool/imap).

Thanks for the reply...

-Mike Ellis

On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 08:29  PM, Ken Murchison wrote:

>
>
> Michael Ellis wrote:
>
>> I am happy to report that things are starting to shape up.
>> Besides not being able to see the text I enter into "cyradm", the 
>> most nagging problem I am having right now is in determining why 
>> "ctl_cyrusdb -c" fails.
>> When I issue that command from the /var/imap directory (as the cyrus 
>> user), I get the following dumped to stdout:
>> ctl_cyrusdb: unable to archive environment
>> ctl_cyrusdb: unable to archive environment
>> Checking the system log revels these errors:
>> Jul 24 19:23:17 powermac7300 ctl_cyrusdb[12952]: checkpointing cyrus 
>> databases
>> Jul 24 19:23:17 powermac7300 ctl_cyrusdb[12952]: DBERROR: archive 
>> /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
>> Jul 24 19:23:17 powermac7300 ctl_cyrusdb[12952]: DBERROR: error 
>> archiving log file: /var/imap/db/log.0000000001
>> Jul 24 19:23:17 powermac7300 ctl_cyrusdb[12952]: DBERROR: archive 
>> /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
>> Jul 24 19:23:17 powermac7300 ctl_cyrusdb[12952]: done checkpointing 
>> cyrus databases
>> Obviously, I am concerned about deploying the mail server with these 
>> errors in place.
>> Can somebody familiar with how the "ctl_cyrusdb" archives its data 
>> offer any advice?
>
> What are the permissions on /var/imap/db?
>
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