signaled to death by 7

[Joshua Kordani]

This might sound silly, but I'm a rather junior systems admin and I'm 
very new to cyrus admin, so i don't know what version we're running, but 
its at least a release or two old.

I got everything back up and running... when I said earlier that I had 
already tried restarting the cyrus master process... what I was really 
doing was giving it the hangup signal thinking that it would reread the 
configs, which it wasn't doing... so I had to use the /sbin/services 
whateveritwascalled restart, and that did the trick.

Thanks for your responses!
Josh K.

Wesley Craig wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2008, at 14:14, Joshua Kordani wrote:
>> An imap process keeps kicking out when a particular user tries to access
>> his mail.
>>
>> mail log reports this:
>> master[8762]: process 26353 exited, signaled to death by 7
>>
>> The process in question is the imap process that is handling the
>> particular user's connection.
>>
>> When I use telnet to access this user's mail, the server terminates the
>> connection as soon as i make a select mailboxname request.  I can list
>> them just fine.  It happens to all mailboxes this user owns.  I've
>> restarted the cyrus master process.  I've turned up logging on the mail
>> facility all the way up, and the only thing that is reported is that the
>> connection terminates, and that the process is signaled to death by 7.
>> It only happens with this user, and i've even run a reconstruct.  Where
>> should I look next?
> 
> Attach gdb (or whatever) to the process after authN, before select.  I'd 
> guess the mailbox needs to be reconstructed, for whatever reason.
> 
>> (as an aside, in my efforts to disable the imaps service which we were
>> not using, but was filling up logs, i managed to turn off the pop3
>> service and I can't get it back on... I only commented out the imaps
>> entry in /etc/cyrus.conf and sighupped cyrus master, so I don't know...)
> 
> I've seen that in older versions (what version are you running?), but 
> haven't been able to reproduce it in recent versions.  The problem, 
> generally speaking, is that master runs as cyrus, so it's can't open new 
> low-numbered ports. The bug is that it thinks pop3 is a new.
> 
> :wes
>