On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:19:01PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Jeff Laine wrote: > >The troublemaker is the cyrus. It starts and opens it's sockets, but > >whenever > >I try to establish a connection to pop3 or imap ports (i.e. via telnet or > >cyradm) cyrus goes nuts and spawns child processes in endless manner, > >trashing logs with this: > > > >>tail /var/log/debug.log > > > >Jun 2 23:27:35 free master[49269]: about to exec > >/usr/local/cyrus/bin/pop3d > >Jun 2 23:27:35 free master[43639]: process 49269 exited, status 1 > >Jun 2 23:27:35 free master[49270]: about to exec > >/usr/local/cyrus/bin/pop3d > >Jun 2 23:27:35 free master[43639]: process 49270 exited, status 1 > >Jun 2 23:27:35 free master[49271]: about to exec > >/usr/local/cyrus/bin/pop3d > >Jun 2 23:27:35 free master[43639]: process 49271 exited, status 1 > >Jun 2 23:27:35 free master[49272]: about to exec > >/usr/local/cyrus/bin/pop3d > >Jun 2 23:27:35 free master[43639]: process 49272 exited, status 1 > >Jun 2 23:27:35 free master[49281]: about to exec > >/usr/local/cyrus/bin/pop3d > >Jun 2 23:27:35 free master[43639]: process 49281 exited, status 1 > >... > > > >...until I stop the master process. > > It seems that when you try to connect with pop3 a child process is > spawned as it should, but it dies unexpectedly so a new is spawned. > Could it be something as simple as permissions to access the mailbox files? > > Rather than relying on log files, try to launch the master manually with > the -D flag, it may give you a more verbose output. > > >I tried both cyrus-imapd23 and 22 with default configurations but it > >gives the same problem every time. > > > >I have similar configuration on 6.4-RELEASE without such troubles. > > Similar but not the same? Sounds like you should review again your > config files, also, the versions of cyrus-imapd on your working > installation, is that the same as the new one? Consider posting your > configs in next post. > > > BR, Erik
Thanks for your reply, Eric. Running master in debugging mode helped to find out that I had 640 permissions on libdb* files. Doh. Thanks! -- Best regards, Jeff _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"