db log.* files?

Eric Luyten Eric.Luyten at vub.ac.be
Mon Oct 15 10:25:52 EDT 2007


> OK, the log.* files in the db, db.backup1, and db.backup2 directories
> are related to BerkeleyDB, right? They're the result of updates not
> being "committed", right? So why do they not get cleared out when
> "ctl_cyrusdb -c" is run? It seems as if I'm getting an ever growing
> number of these log.* files, but yet do not seem to be getting any
> more error syslog messages than usual. The only safe way to clear
> these out is to shutdown Cyrus, right?


Did you start the cyrus master process from within a directory
the 'cyrus' user has write access to ?

(it's a known issue)


Eric.


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