errors with irst attempt at usig db4 for imap backend ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> --On 28. März 2006 02:27:47 -0400 "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:
>
>> master[62957]: process started
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such
>> file or directory
>> master[62957]: process 62959 exited, status 75
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such
>> file or directory
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such
>> file or directory
>> master[62957]: ready for work
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such
>> file or directory
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: dbenv->open '/var/spool/imap/db' failed: No
>> such file or directory
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: writing /var/spool/imap/db/skipstamp: No
>> such file or directory
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: init() on skiplist
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: recovering cyrus databases
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/imap:
>> Permission denied
>> ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: opening /var/spool/imap: cyrusdb error
>
> Looks like your permissions are wrong.

Permissions look okay:

# ls -ld /var/spool/imap /var/spool/imap/*
drwxr-xr-x  10 cyrus  cyrus   512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap
-rw-------   1 cyrus  cyrus   144 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/annotations.db
drwxr-xr-x   2 cyrus  cyrus   512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/db
drwx------   2 cyrus  cyrus   512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/db.backup1
drwx------   2 cyrus  cyrus   512 Mar 29 00:30 /var/spool/imap/db.backup2
-rw-------   1 cyrus  cyrus  8192 Mar 28 06:26 /var/spool/imap/deliver.db
drwxr-xr-x   2 cyrus  cyrus   512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/log
-rw-------   1 cyrus  cyrus   328 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/mailboxes.db
drwxr-xr-x   2 cyrus  cyrus   512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/msg
drwxr-xr-x   2 cyrus  cyrus   512 Mar 28 11:52 /var/spool/imap/proc
drwxr-xr-x   2 cyrus  cyrus   512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/ptclient
drwxr-xr-x   2 cyrus  cyrus   512 Mar 28 06:13 /var/spool/imap/socket

> If I were you I'd use skiplist for all the databases that are db4 by default 
> ...

What is skiplist, and what does it give over db4?  And, of course, what 
drawbacks are there to it?

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