Multiple copies of cyr_expire running

[Gary Mills]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:10:02PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 08:13 -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
> > I notice that there are two of these running today:
> >     $ ps -fp "$(pgrep cyr_expire)"
> >          UID   PID  PPID   C    STIME TTY         TIME CMD
> >        cyrus  2510   986   3 04:00:01 ?         219:28 cyr_expire -E 3
> >        cyrus 18280   986   3   Apr 27 ?        1580:15 cyr_expire -E 3
> > There are also lots of errors like this.  They refer to the same
> > message over and over again:
> >     Apr 28 08:07:56 castor cyr_expire[18280]: [ID 264569 local6.error] DBERROR: mydelete: error deleting <200904201356.n3KDuJes008536 at taygeta.cc.umanitoba.ca>: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> > Should I kill one of the cyr_expire processes?  Is there a safe way
> > to do this?  
> 
> I'd kill -15 both of them.  Then watch to see if they get stuck again.

I did that last time around, with bad results.  POP3 stopped working.
I had to restart master to fix that.

> > Is the duplicate delivery database broken?  Is there a
> > way to fix it?
> 
> There is no reason to fix it; I'd just delete it.  You maybe will be a
> couple duplicates but no big deal.

I thought that some information need by the sieve vacation responder
was stored in that database.  I don't want to break that feature for
thousands of people.

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