Hi Frode,
No, we're not using RedHat's RPM's. I've compiled our own.
Thanks
Peter
_____________________________________________________ Peter Ip, PhD Computing and Network Services, University of Toronto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Frode Nordahl wrote:
From: Frode Nordahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Ip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:35:00 +0200 Subject: Re: locking problem in imap-2002b
On Oct 4, 2004, at 22:40, Peter Ip wrote:
Hi,
I'm running imap-2002b on RedHat AS3.
Are you running with RedHat's RPM's or have you compiled your own version?
RedHat patches imap-uw, replacing imap-uw's locking functions (using fcntl).
In my experience, this causes things to lock agains eachother everywhere, and bypasses IMAP's kiss of death method, since the fcntl syscall is just restarted when it recieves the signal.
Mvh, Frode Nordahl
A user using Netscape Messenger couldn't compact his INBOX - imap said the INBOX was read-only. When I looked on the server, another user held the lock file in /tmp:
# ls -li INBOX 7094292 -rw------- 1 64763 mailusr 178262 Oct 4 16:31 INBOX
# ls -l /tmp/.*.6c4014 -rw-rw-rw- 1 23048 mailusr 5 Oct 4 06:52 /tmp/.891.6c4014
User 23048 had an imapd process:
# ps -uawx | grep 23048 #23048 27815 0.0 0.0 4656 1896 ? S 06:52 0:00 imapd root 30656 0.0 0.0 1616 496 pts/1 S 15:18 0:00 grep 27815
The INBOX for user 23048 had inode number 7094295. Is there a race condition that is being tickled? I looked in the RELNOTES for imap-2004a
but couldn't see anything relevant.
Peter
_____________________________________________________
Peter Ip, PhD
Computing and Network Services, University of Toronto
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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