very long cyr_expire at startup and no mail delivery

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Thu Jun 24 21:48:23 EDT 2010


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:38:39PM +0200, Marcus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> because of a kernel update I had to restart my server. After the restart
> cyrmaster was running, but I couldn't connect to imap or pop3 port and
> sendmail couldn't communicate via socket with cyrus. A "ps ax" showed a
> running "cyr_expire" process for about 20 minutes. After the cyr_expire
> process finished everything worked fine again.
>  Question now: is there a way to avoid such long cyr_expire checks at
> startup or how to do a check by hand before shutting down the cyrus so a
> startup would become quicker?
> 
> System: Debian/lenny 
> Cyrus: 2.2.13-14+lenny3
> Sendmail: 8.14.3-5+lenny1
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcus
> 
> P.S.: I think this cyr_expire problem might be related to my "FATAL:
> lmtpd: unable to init duplicate delivery database" I posted in April.

I want to see your cyrus.conf - I'm almost certain it's wrong.

Bron.


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