Cyrus stops working after reboot

[Jim Levie]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 07:36, Tracy Bost wrote:
> I had that same problem last week. With RedHat Enterprise 3, which is
> basically Red Hat 9...
> Still not sure what  caused it exactly, so if you find out anything please
> let the list know.
> What I did notice was if I deleted all the files under /var/imap/db, it
> would work again until the next reboot or stopping of cyrus..  It really
> seemed like to me the mailboxes file was corrupted. Maybe you can try
> running reconstruct to see if that works for you. I didn't have much time to
> investigate, so I just rebuilt cyrus again and used a backedup mailboxes
> file that I knew was good.
> 
I've seen this happen when there wasn't an explicit kill of the Cyrus
master process as a part of the system shutdown sequence. Done the
"right way" you'll have an init script that starts/stops Cyrus as a part
of the SysV rc sequence. There lots of ways to do this but the init
script that I use can be seen at
http://www.entrophy-free.net/init.d/cyrus
-- 
The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed
RedHat.


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