Moving Cyrus from one server to another

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

Hi,

--On Montag, 22. November 2004 2:02:40 Uhr MEZ -0800 Frank Reta 
<frank at lag.net> wrote:

> After scouring the archives I couldn't find an answer to this particular
> question:

it's in there, but you may not have seen it ...

> I've cyrus imap running beautifully on a RH 8.0 box right now but I'm in
> a  situation where I need to move the operation onto another RH8.0 box.

> The immediate error that comes up in /var/log/messages is:
>
> Nov 22 01:52:18 lumbergh master[2003]: setrlimit: Unable to set file
> descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted

That's not an error. Just ignore it.

> followed about 20 seconds later with:
>
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh ctl_cyrusdb[2009]: DBERROR db4: unable to join
> the environment
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh ctl_cyrusdb[2009]: DBERROR db4: Ignoring log
> file: /var/imap/db/log.0000000017: unsupported log version 7
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh ctl_cyrusdb[2009]: DBERROR db4: Invalid log
> file:  log.0000000017: Invalid argument
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh ctl_cyrusdb[2009]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: Invalid
> argument
> Nov 22 01:52:36 lumbergh ctl_cyrusdb[2009]: DBERROR: critical database
> situation

Probably you have different version of Berkeley DB on the two machines. 
Your safest course of action is to follow this advice:

<http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=31889>

Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn
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