On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Bron Gondwana wrote: > 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? Yes. I added "su cyrus" to this step in the script, that does seem to work well. > >> 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. -psi ---- 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
