finding the code and upgrade notes

2014-09-22 Thread Boylan, Ross
It would be good if the COPYRIGHT had a pointer to the Debian source code. It would be nice if the code were browseable online. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cyrus-imapd-2.4 does have a browse link for the VCS, but clicking on it only gives you a directory with 2 icons. I was looking for

multi-step upgrade

2014-09-22 Thread Boylan, Ross
I'm reconstructing a system that was on Lenny to be either Wheezy (likely) or maybe testing. It included Cyrus imap (2.2) and SASL. Any advice for how to go about this? I have backups; in fact the system now seems to be running OK as Lenny, but it's no longer trustworthy (various

RE: finding the code and upgrade notes

2014-09-22 Thread Boylan, Ross
It would be nice if the code were browseable online. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cyrus-imapd-2.4 does have a browse link for the VCS, but clicking on it only gives you a directory with 2 icons. Silly me: the browse source code link on the other side of the page had what I wanted. What's

Bug#766403: cyrus-common: Restarting Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmasterfind: `/run/cyrus/lock': No such file or directory

2014-10-22 Thread Boylan, Ross
1) The directories /var/run/cyrus and /var/run/cyrus/socket were both present, owner cyrus, group mail. 2) I did dpkg-reconfigure to allow package removal to take out the directories, and then purged the packages. This led to a complaint can't remove /var/run/cyrus, directory in use

Bug#766403: cyrus-common: Restarting Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmasterfind: `/run/cyrus/lock': No such file or directory

2014-10-23 Thread Boylan, Ross
The system is currently down for an office move; I'll be able to check next week. /run and /var/run certainly looked very similar. Ross From: Ondřej Surý [ond...@sury.org] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:56 AM To: Boylan, Ross; 766...@bugs.debian.org

Bug#766403: cyrus-common: Restarting Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmasterfind: `/run/cyrus/lock': No such file or directory

2014-11-04 Thread Boylan, Ross
': No such file or directory root@wheezy4:/# ls -l /run/cyrus total 0 drwx-- 3 cyrus mail 60 Nov 4 18:39 lock drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 80 Nov 4 18:59 socket Ross From: Ondřej Surý [ond...@sury.org] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:56 AM To: Boylan, Ross

Re: Any advice on big upgrade lenny->jessie?

2017-05-23 Thread Boylan, Ross
Is the following test in cyrus-common.postinst (from 2.4) right? if [ -f /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-db-types.active ]; then /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/upgrade-db RET="$?" case "$RET" in 0) ;; 2) echo "ERROR:

Re: Any advice on big upgrade lenny->jessie?

2017-05-23 Thread Boylan, Ross
>Is the following test in cyrus-common.postinst (from 2.4) right? > if [ -f /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-db-types.active ]; then >/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/upgrade-db . > Should it be ! -f? Narrowly, no, since debian/cyrus-upgrade-db, known as upgrade-db after installation, has

Any advice on big upgrade lenny->jessie?

2017-05-05 Thread Boylan, Ross
I'm recovering email from an old system that was running lenny (Debian 5) with cyrus imapd 2.2.13-14+lenny6. I have the disks, though attached to a host running wheezy (Debian 7). I have a jessie (Debian 8) system on which I'd like to run cyrus, with all my old mail. The lenny configuration

Re: Source repository? [mostly solved]

2017-05-05 Thread Boylan, Ross
ran into. Ross From: Boylan, Ross Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 3:01 PM To: Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Source repository? After checking various places I found https://alioth.debian.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2929 and tried