Cyrus IMAP 2.5.10 BerkeleyDB use?

[Kenneth Marshall]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:13:21PM +1100, ellie timoney wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017, at 09:42 AM, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 04:14:38PM -0600, Dan White wrote:
> > > On 02/16/17 16:10 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> > > >We are running version cyrus-imapd-2.5.10, and even though no databases
> > > >in imapd.conf default to berkeleydb, something is still using it. Here
> > > >are our database definitions from our imapd.conf:
> > > >
> > > >duplicate_db_path: /dev/shm/cyrus-imapd/duplicate_db
> > > >statuscache_db_path: /dev/shm/cyrus-imapd/statuscache_db
> > > >annotation_db: skiplist
> > > >duplicate_db: skiplist
> > > >mboxkey_db: skiplist
> > > >mboxlist_db: skiplist
> > > >ptscache_db: skiplist
> > > >quota_db: quotalegacy
> > > >seenstate_db: skiplist
> > > >statuscache_db: skiplist
> > > >subscription_db: flat
> > > >tls_sessions_db: skiplist
> > > >userdeny_db: skiplist
> > > 
> > > In what way is it used?
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Dan,
> > 
> > That is the problem. I do not know what or why it is being used, but
> > something
> > is because it had a corruption issue and started impacting IMAP
> > connections.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ken
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> Are you sure it was cyrus-imapd using it, and not sasl?  I believe sasl
> can still use BDB, and if its database is corrupt then that would affect
> authentications, which would affect new IMAP connections...
> 
> I have this on my system, for what it's worth:
> 
>     $sudo file /etc/sasldb2 
>     /etc/sasldb2: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 9, native byte-order)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> ellie

Hi Ellie,

When I run 'lsof /var/imap/db/__db.001' for one of the BerkeleyDB files,
I only get Cyrus processes: lmtpd, imapd, pop3d. saslauthd does not even
show up and the only authentication mechanism we have defined on the
IMAP systems is LDAP.

Regards,
Ken