On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 01:43:45PM +0200, Per Steinar Iversen wrote: > All works well so far, except for one new strangeness: We have a script, > run by root, that counts the number of unread mails in inboxes. To be able > to parse this information easily the seen-files are converted from > skiplist to the flat format first. This worked well for years, but now > there is a change, sometimes the conversion triggers a checkpoint, the log > is then something like this: You read the flat files with a tool? > Sep 13 13:06:18 imap cvt_cyrusdb[21330]: skiplist: checkpointed /var/lib/imap/user/d/dxxxx.seen (8 records, 716 bytes) in 0 seconds > > What is new now is that the seen-file is owned by root and not cyrus after > the checkpoint. > > Is this a bug or just me doing something stupid? The change that's triggering it is is that recovery can cause a checkpoint now. The cvt_cyrusdb should be running as Cyrus (you could argue it should drop privs automatically) Alternatively, there's cyr_dbtool. You can use that to dump the .seen db and pipe the output to somewhere. Run that as cyrus user as well. There's always a risk that the file will choose to run "recovery", and hence trigger the checkpoint. Bron. ---- 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
