reconstruct caused mailboxes (skiplist) corruption?

Per olof Ljungmark peo at intersonic.se
Fri Nov 12 02:41:50 EST 2010


On 11/12/10 00:06, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:12:31AM +0100, Paul Dekkers wrote:
>> Hmm, allright, so I ran it with a truss (like strace for FreeBSD) to
>> give me a bit more verbosity, and I realized I should chown.
>>
>> But then:
>>
>> # chown cyrus 22003.
>> # sudo -u cyrus /usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct user.bla
>> fatal error: can't read mailboxes file
> 
> Confirmed: bug in FreeBSD's truss.  If you must truss, always
> run it with a specified output file, which should avoid the
> bug.  Otherwise a random file (mailboxes.db in this case) will
> get random stderr junk written to it!

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