Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 418191
don't attempt to run cron job if cyrus-imapd isn't running/enabled
Last modified: 2008-11-26 12:37:03 EST
Description of problem: if cyrus-imapd is installed but not running, system maillog is spammed by cron job. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cyrus-imapd-2.3.9-7.fc8 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. clean install, install cyrus-imapd 2. wait until 4am cron job 3. read maillog Actual results: Dec 10 04:14:36 acura ctl_mboxlist[32551]: DBERROR: reading /var/lib/imap/db/skipstamp, assuming the worst: No such file or directory Dec 10 04:14:36 acura ctl_mboxlist[32551]: skiplist: recovered /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds Expected results: No messages Additional info: can we add functionality to /etc/cron.*/cyrus-imapd so that it exits without doing anything if cyrus is not enabled and/or not running? Perhaps add something like: [ ! -f /var/lib/imap/db/skipstamp ] && exit 0 or chkconfig cyrus-imapd 2> /dev/null || exit 0 or service cyrus-imapd 2> /dev/null || exit 0 Thanks!
This happens only before cyrus is first started. The fix is committed and will be released in an update, as soon as something more important happens.
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