old lock files listed at cyrus-imapd startup

[Bron Gondwana]

It is safe to delete the entire lock file tree at startup.  They are normally stored on tmpfs, so a system restart will remove them.

Regards,

Bron.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014, at 07:43 PM, Marcus Schopen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do see a lot of .lock file when starting cyrus:
> 
> /run/cyrus/lock/t/user/test/Drafts.lock
> [...]
> 
> This has already been reportet in the Ubuntu bug tracker #1010424 two
> years ago:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cyrus-imapd-2.4/+bug/1010424
> 
> /etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd:
> 
>     # Clean stale entries
>     find "$LOCK_DIR" -mindepth 1 -depth -size 0 # -delete
>     find "$PROC_DIR" -mindepth 1 -depth -name '[0-9]*' # -delete
> 
> 
> Is it safe to use the -delete option and to remove old .lock files at
> startup? Or what are these old lockfiles for?
> 
> Ciao
> Marcus
> 
> 
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