"error sending to idled"

Steve Huston huston at astro.princeton.edu
Sun Feb 19 22:49:34 EST 2006


On 2006/02/19 20:30, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> In /etc/cyrus.conf I have:
> SERVICES {
> ...
>   idle          cmd="idled" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/idle" prefork=0
> ...
> }
> But I continuously see messages in the log file like:
> imap[18492]: error sending to idled: 2
> And I don't see any idled processes running:
> sardine:/etc # ps ax | grep idled
> 18841 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep idled
> sardine:/etc #
> What am I missing?

I just decided to turn on idled this weekend on our server, and
discovered that since I didn't run ./configure with the '--enable-idled'
option, idled wasn't compiled (and I assume support for it wasn't in
imapd, since the subsequent 'make' generated those two binaries).

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