mupdate is multithreaded. Try strace -f -p to see what it's doing. Thanks, Dave On Apr 17, 2012, at 2:43 AM, Frank Elsner <Frank.Elsner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi experts, > > we have a mupdate server (Solaris 10, Cyrus 2.3.16) and frontnend and backend > servers (Redhat Linux due to migration from Solaris environment). > > The RHEL frontend connects to the (Solaris) mupdate server, authentication > work. > > But after > > Apr 17 07:27:21 eg-mailfrontend cyrus/mupdate[7395]: successful mupdate connection to mupdate-febe.intern.tu-berlin.de > Apr 17 07:27:21 eg-mailfrontend cyrus/mupdate[7395]: scarfing mailbox list from master mupdate server > > nothing happens, the mailbox list lacks update. > > Lets look what mupdate does: > > [root@eg-mailfrontend elsnccpa]# ps -ef | grep mupdate | grep -v grep > cyrus 7393 7388 0 07:27 ? 00:00:00 mupdate > cyrus 7395 7388 0 07:27 ? 00:00:00 mupdate > [root@eg-mailfrontend elsnccpa]# strace -p 7396 > Process 7396 attached - interrupt to quit > accept(4, ^C <unfinished ...> > Process 7396 detached > [root@eg-mailfrontend elsnccpa]# man tcpdump > [root@eg-mailfrontend elsnccpa]# man imapd.conf > [root@eg-mailfrontend elsnccpa]# man imapd.conf > [root@eg-mailfrontend elsnccpa]# strace -p 7395 > Process 7395 attached - interrupt to quit > futex(0x7f8af2249e84, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 1, NULL^C <unfinished ...> > > The frontends running the same cyrus version under Solaris work perfect. > > Any clue? > > > --Frank Elsner > ---- > 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/