On Thu, Sep 15, 2016, at 12:09 AM, Carlos Velasco via Cyrus-devel wrote: > > We're in the process of moving from Cyrus 2.4.17 to 2.5.7. > > > > So far this is going OK - but I've noticed when I stop the 2.5.7 server > > (this is on FreeBSD so 'service imapd stop') - it leaves behind idled? > > > > Should this be stopped by the imap server itself, or does it need stopping > > manually / by the control scripts? > > I had this problem some time ago. > For me, solution was to use --with-libcap at configure/compile time. > Linux here. > > === > master sends Term signal to all process group, including idled, although > ppid is 1. > > Problem here was that idled was being launched by root. So sending it a > signal from cyrus user will not work. > Looking into code, I needed to add libcap "--with-libcap" to configure > and recompile. This makes become_cyrus success before START section and > idled being launched now by cyrus user. > === > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/cyrus-devel/2015-August/003393.html >
Wow, that's an excellent observation about it running as root, thank you! You might have just solved https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3909 I think idled ought to become_cyrus itself. It shouldn't continue running as root even if it was started as root.
