After upgrading to 2.4.10 my log gets flooded

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Mon Aug 29 15:18:46 EDT 2011


On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:

> Hi,
>
> today I upgraded from 2.3.16 (brought by Scientific Linux 6.1) to 2.4.10 (self
> compiled).
>
> Since that everytime an IMAP folder is opened, my log is flooded by many of
> the following messages:
>
> > Aug 29 20:50:33 chromosom imap[19289]: IOERROR: stating flat
> /var/lib/imap/user_deny.db: No such file or directory
> > Aug 29 20:50:33 chromosom imap[19289]: DENYDB_ERROR: error reading entry
> 'muehlfeld': cyrusdb error
>
> I read on the web, that I can simply touch that file to create it (and set
> owner to cyrus). But then the message changes to:
>
> > Aug 29 21:01:52 chromosom imap[23562]: fetching user_deny.db entry for
> 'muehlfeld'
>
> Also I get a huge amount of the following log entries for every time a folder
> is opened:
>
> > Aug 29 21:01:52 chromosom imap[23785]: seen_db: user muehlfeld opened
> /var/lib/imap/user/m/muehlfeld.seen
>
> Can I just ignore the messages by rsyslogd? Or is there a change to fix this?

Don't log at DEBUG level.  Use something like:

local6.info	/var/log/cyrus.log


 	Andy


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