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[Dr. Harry Knitter]

Am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 18:31 schrieb Andrew Morgan:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dr. Harry Knitter wrote:
> > Could you please give me a hint what you mean with configdirectory?
> > In my case (SuSE 10.0 as well as 9.2) I found a subdirectory db
> > in /var/lib/imap the directory where the database seems to be located.
> > There is a directory deliverdb with a subdirectory db in the same place.
> > As having copied the whole directory /var/lib/imap including
> > subdirectories from the old installation to the new one I cant´t imagine
> > that these old directories are the cause of a changed Berkeley DB
> > version.
>
> In your /etc/imapd.conf, something like:
>
> # Configuration directory
> configdirectory: /var/spool/cyrus/config
>
>
> The "db" subdirectory under the configdirectory holds some transaction log
> type stuff.  I've had trouble in the past with changing versions unless I
> clean out that directory first.
>
>  	Andy

I´ll try that. However I can´t believe that this might be the cause. Also the 
directory /var/spool/imap was completely transferred to the new installation. 
If there were informations concerning dtabase version in this directory these 
informations would tell cyrus the type of the backuped data. So why should 
this not work?

Harry


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