Running murder in unified config

[Andrew Morgan]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Jesus Roncero wrote:

> Hi all,
> Again with one of my questions. I am trying to run a murder installation, 
> with two boxes. My idea is to run a frontend/backend box in unified config 
> and one extra backend. The thing I was trying to set up is to run the 
> frontend/backend/mupdate master on the same box, but it looks like it is not 
> possible. Looking at the source code at imap/mupdate.c we have something like 
> this:
>
> if (masterp &&
>    config_mupdate_config == IMAP_ENUM_MUPDATE_CONFIG_UNIFIED) {
>    /* XXX  We currently prohibit this because mailboxes created
>     * on the master will cause local mailbox entries to be propagated
>     * to the slave.  We can probably fix this by prepending
>     * config_servername onto the entries before updating the slaves.
>     */
>     fatal("can not run mupdate master on a unified server", EC_USAGE);
> }
>
> I found one other reference on the mailing list but no answers: 
> http://www.irbs.net/internet/info-cyrus/0604/0307.html
>
> So, is there anyway to run the mupdate master on the same node where the 
> frontend/backend unified config is running? or do I need to place it in a 
> different box? on one backend?

You would need to run the mupdate master as a separate installation of 
cyrus (at least a separate configdirectory).  The backend and the mupdate 
master cannot share the same mailboxes.db file.  Just guessing on that 
part, but it seems logical to me.

 	Andy