On our mupdate master server, mupdate is defined in cyrus.conf with `prefork=1'. However, two of them are running, both children of master... UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD cyrus 1594 483 0 Apr 15 ? 0:00 mupdate -C /etc/mupdate/imapd.conf -m cyrus 1596 483 0 Apr 15 ? 22:18 mupdate -C /etc/mupdate/imapd.conf -m The second one seems to be doing all the work. What's the first one for? Both have opens on the unix-domain socket. Only the second one has TCP connections. In fact, there were three started, but one terminated... Apr 15 22:09:16 castor mupdate[1595]: [ID 166678 local6.error] bind: /imap/mupdate/conf/socket/mupdate.target: Address already in use Apr 15 22:09:16 castor mupdate[1595]: [ID 702911 local6.error] bind failed Apr 15 22:09:16 castor master[483]: [ID 684980 local6.warning] service mupdate pid 1595 in READY state: terminated abnormally What's going on here? -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking- ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html