squatter best practices

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Jim Howell wrote:

>          I'm running a Solaris 8 system with Cyrus 2.1.11.  We have an
> occasional report where doing an IMAP search causes the session to abruptly
> end.  Re-running squatter on that mailbox helps.  So I have some questions.
> Does anyone actually run squatter on an on-going basis?

Yes.

> If you do run it on an on-going basis, how often do you run it?

Weekly.

> Do you run it out of the cyrus.conf as an event or cron?  We use
> cron.  Does it matter?

Doesn't matter.

There was a bug in squatter that might cause this in early 2.1 versions,
but it was fixed in 2.1.3.  Do you have core dumps?

-Rob

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