DBERROR

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:34:04AM +0200, Per-Olov Sjöholm wrote:
> Simon Matter said:
> >> Adding the following to the original post as well.
> >
> >> Jul 13 22:50:06 xanadu ctl_cyrusdb[2060]: checkpointing cyrus databases
> >> Jul 13 22:50:07 xanadu ctl_cyrusdb[2060]: done checkpointing cyrus
> >> databases
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 22.24, Per-Olov Sjöholm wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Does anybody know why this show up in the logs every half hour....
> >>> Jul 13 21:53:24 xanadu ctl_cyrusdb[4270]: checkpointing cyrus databases
> >>> Jul 13 21:53:24 xanadu ctl_cyrusdb[4270]: DBERROR: error listing log
> >>> files:
> >>> Permission denied
> >
> > Check your permissions on and in the /var[/lib]/imap directory, something
> > seems really wrong here.
> 
> User _cyrus has all access to read and write to the files. And it works as
> said if I reboot.

This error is the result of a long-standing bug in `master'.  It fails
to chdir() to a safe directory before changing to the cyrus UID and
spawning children.  A workaround is to `cd' to / or the IMAP directory
before restarting master.

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-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
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