very old imapd process in /var/lib/cyrus/proc

[Marcus Schopen]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 20.01.2011, 21:02 +0100 schrieb Simon Matter:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see some very old pid files in /var/lib/cyrus/proc:
> >
> > -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   58  9. Nov 21:24 12116
> > -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   58  9. Nov 23:56 26636
> > -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   46 23. Nov 10:00 30308
> > -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   53  3. Dez 21:11 5042
> > -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   87  5. Dez 14:54 5623
> > -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   53 19. Nov 11:03 7064
> > -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   55 21. Dez 11:41 8681
> > -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   17 26. Nov 13:59 9610
> > ...
> >
> > # more 30308
> > xxx.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [80.131.xxx.xxx]
> >
> > The imapd processes are still running. How to kill them? Just a "kill
> > pidnumer" for each of them or will that harm any cyrus databases?
> 
> I think killing the way you said (which means SIGTERM) is not a problem.
> However, it would be interesting to know what those processes are doing?
> Maybe you could strace them?
> I think the newer cyrus-imapd versions have some ways to detect not
> existing clients while older version waited forever, so what's your
> version?

I'm using Cyrus 2.2.13-14+lenny3 on a Debian/Lenny system.

Ciao,
Marcus