Replication: sync_client -r dies

[Ken Murchison]

sync_client in 2.3.10 should be much more resilient.


Rich Wales wrote:
> I'm running 2.3.9 on a FreeBSD 6.2 system.
> 
> Recently, I installed 2.3.9 on an Ubuntu 7.10 system and set it up as
> a replica of my original server.
> 
> Everything seems to be running well, except that the "sync_client -r"
> processes on the master tend to die after a while -- at which point no
> more sync activity happens, ever, until I restart Cyrus on the master.
> 
> Here are the sync-related lines in my configuration files.
> 
> On the master:
> 
>     cyrus.conf:
>         syncclient cmd="/usr/local/cyrus/bin/sync_client -r"
> 
>     imapd.conf:
>         sync_host: flipflop.richw.org
>         sync_authname: admin
>         sync_password: ********
>         sync_machineid: 1
>         sync_log: true
>         sync_repeat_interval: 15
> 
> On the replica:
> 
>     cyrus.conf:
>         syncserver cmd="/usr/cyrus/bin/sync_server" listen="csync"
> 
>     imapd.conf:
>         sync_machineid: 1
> 
> Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong, and/or what I can do
> to make sure a sync_client stays running on my master server?
> 


-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University