Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-10-31 Thread Rich Wales
: 1 Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong, and/or what I can do to make sure a sync_client stays running on my master server? -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.richw.org === http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales "

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-10-31 Thread Rich Wales
a few problems. Can you (or anyone else) suggest anything I can do in the meantime (while I'm still running 2.3.9) to ensure that a sync_client stays running on my master server, or to start a new one as needed if it dies? -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAI

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-11-03 Thread Rich Wales
ve a chance of tracking the problem down? I added the -l and -v flags to sync_client, but right now, the only clue I have is that /var/log/messages includes a couple of errors saying "Error in do_sync(): bailing out!". No core dump files anywhere in sight. -- Rich Wales ===

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-11-04 Thread Rich Wales
are the "Error in do_sync(): bailing out!" notices in the /var/log/messages file. Are there some other log files saved somewhere else? I do have "-l" and "-v" specified for the sync_client command. Should I add any additional options in order to get debugging info?

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-11-04 Thread Rich Wales
Wesley Craig wrote: > The replica sync_server will also log to syslog. No, sorry, as best I can tell, there isn't anything non-routine in any of the log files on my replica server. Do I need to specify any command-line flags to sync_server? -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto,

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-11-04 Thread Rich Wales
e this might reveal anything? -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.richw.org === http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales "The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, theory and practice are identical -- whereas

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-11-04 Thread Rich Wales
7;t know where to look for it. If anyone can help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here, I'll be grateful. -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.richw.org === http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales "The difference betw

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-11-04 Thread Rich Wales
nt to upgrade to 2.3.10 in hopes of getting rid of some problems with the sync code intermittently crashing, but this is a production system, and I don't feel comfortable upgrading to 2.3.10 as long as there are unresolved serious bug reports. -- Rich Wales === Palo Alt

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-11-04 Thread Rich Wales
appening. I modified my syslog.conf and kicked syslogd, and now I'm seeing those entries in /var/log/messages. I'll let the list know if I experience any more sync_client crashes. Should I be looking for similar syslog messages on my replica server too (and checking syslog.conf on that sys

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-11-04 Thread Rich Wales
resembled any sort of error indication at the times when sync_client bailed out. Is it possible that something I should be seeing is being filtered out by syslog.conf? What syslog facility name is used by sync_server? -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EM

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-11-10 Thread Rich Wales
in the way this kind of situation is handled? -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.richw.org === http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales "The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, theory and practice are identica

Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-10 Thread Rich Wales
? I tried this just now, and the change is NOT propagating from the replica to the master. What do I need to do in order for changes made on the replica to get copied over to the master? Or is this simply impossible? -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-11 Thread Rich Wales
is not going to scale to a large setup with hundreds or thousands of users; I understand this. If this idea of doing two-way partial replication with a single Cyrus instance on each server will in fact work, should I use the same value for sync_machineid on both servers? Or should they be differ

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-12 Thread Rich Wales
across different IMAP servers. -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.richw.org === http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales "The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, theory and practice are identical -- whereas in

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-12 Thread Rich Wales
e my Postfix to send each user's mail to be delivered on the Cyrus server where he/she will be reading his/her mail. But I can do that. -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.richw.org === http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales

Replication: problems with synctest

2007-11-12 Thread Rich Wales
odunit), which gave a "user not found" error, even though there IS an account named "admin" in the sasldb2.db on that machine. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong here? -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.richw.org

Re: Replication: problems with synctest

2007-11-13 Thread Rich Wales
ed value. I'm not sure why, yet. Replication syncing in the other direction (whodunit to flipflop) works just fine. Remember, what I'm trying to do here is to set up replication going both ways between a pair of servers. This is 2.3.9, BTW. Any ideas welcome. -- Rich Wales === Pa

Re: Replication: problems with synctest

2007-11-14 Thread Rich Wales
sing either of these authentication methods either. I'm mildly concerned that a future software upgrade might cause these libraries to reappear. Is there a more reliable way to disable SASL authentication mechanisms, other than removing files from the library directory? -- Rich Wales ==

Bad problems with 2.3.10 on FreeBSD

2007-11-20 Thread Rich Wales
nto some other platform (maybe another Ubuntu box). -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.richw.org === http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales "The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, theory and practice are ide

Cyrus and Postfix on separate machines -- how?

2007-11-23 Thread Rich Wales
it can deliver a message over my LAN to a separate Cyrus server, instead of delivering it over a Unix-domain socket to Cyrus running on the same box. Any suggestions? -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.richw.org === http://en.wik

Re: Cyrus and Postfix on separate machines -- how?

2007-11-23 Thread Rich Wales
rprisingly, I had to add a line to /etc/services on the machines involved to define LMTP (as TCP port 24). -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.richw.org === http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.w

Can't connect to timsieved (2.3.14)

2009-05-26 Thread Rich Wales
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Specifying another authentication mechanism doesn't seem to help. I tried LOGIN and CRAM-MD5, with the same result. When I tried PLAIN, I got a "Broken pipe" error right after sieve-connect's AUTHENTICAT

Re: Can't connect to timsieved (2.3.14)

2009-05-26 Thread Rich Wales
quot; "DIGEST-MD5" "SIEVE" "comparator-i;ascii-numeric fileinto reject vacation imapflags notify include envelope body relational regex subaddress copy" OK havespace "blah" 1000 OK quit Connection closed. (05/26 16:30 ri...@liberation ~ 103) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "sieve-conn

Re: Can't connect to timsieved (2.3.14)

2009-05-27 Thread Rich Wales
garbage before complaining of some sort of SASL problem -- sometimes simply saying "failure: prot layer failure". This worked fine before I upgraded to Cyrus 2.3.14. Is something known to be broken in 2.3.14? Has anyone else out there ever seen anything like this? What should I try next?

Re: Can't connect to timsieved (2.3.14)

2009-05-27 Thread Rich Wales
eve-connect", not in the Cyrus code. But I'm still suspicious of a situation where sieve-connect may have done something which caused a timsieved process to crash mysteriously -- something which no client should be able to do to a server process. But whatever . . . . -- Rich Wa

Cyrus SSL/TLS and StartCom SSL certificates?

2009-11-21 Thread Rich Wales
doesn't offer SSL certs with 1024-bit public keys, by the way, so that isn't an option here. Rich Wales ri...@richw.org 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

Re: Cyrus SSL/TLS and StartCom SSL certificates?

2009-11-21 Thread Rich Wales
RL info in PEM files -- but this is probably a "wish list" item and not a "critical bug fix" issue. Rich Wales ri...@richw.org 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

How to make sync_client invoke STARTTLS for replication

2010-02-11 Thread Rich Wales
entication mechanism in use. Right now, the lack of TLS is not a major issue because one of the servers is connected to my LAN via a VPN link (so it's encrypted). But I still want to know what I'm supposed to do in order for a TLS layer to happen. Rich Wales ri...@richw.o

Cyrus replication and file system problem

2007-09-15 Thread Rich Wales
is completely down. In my scenario, the replica server will be running, and the Cyrus application will be running, but the spool directory will be missing. Is there anything in particular (configuration options, messy kludges, etc.) that I need to do in a setup like this in order for replication to