> On Monday 27 September 2010 17:30:01 Mark Nipper wrote: >> On 27 Sep 2010, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> > I wasn't able to find a specific howto for this during a brief >> > Google-search. >> >> I recalled that the Debian package for Cyrus had some >> decent instructions on this. You can see them at: >> --- >> https://mail.incase.de/svn/cyrus22/trunk/cyrus-imapd-2.2.13/debian/README.D >> ebian.database >> >> That will get you started. I have this at the bottom of >> my imapd.conf: >> --- >> # bypass BDB hell >> annotation_db: skiplist >> duplicate_db: skiplist >> mboxlist_db: skiplist >> ptscache_db: skiplist >> quota_db: skiplist >> seenstate_db: skiplist >> subscription_db: skiplist >> tlscache_db: skiplist >> --- >> >> So those were all of the different databases I converted >> to skiplist to avoid any potential problems. > > Thank you, I will have a look through this. > Are there any caveats I need to be aware off? > > I am planning on taking notes of all the changes and actions I take and > post > them back to the list. (This thread is here to keep a record as well :) ) > > Lets start with the basic info about my installation: > Distribution: Gentoo > Cyrus version: 2.3.14-r3 (The "-r3" is, afaik, Gentoo-specific) > > I don't appear to have these files: > ** > diff -u /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-db-types.active \ > /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-db-types.txt > ** > > Are these Debian specific? Or is there something missing from my > installation? > Or do these only exist when Cyrus is not running? (Which I would find > strange) I don't know the Debian packages but I'm quite sure it's Debian specific. Looks like their way to remember the current state of backends somehow. > > And from what I gather, the instructions refer back to the contents of > these > files. > Is there a way to get these files created? > > Thanks, > > Joost > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
