Bug#686110: cyrus-imapd: Corrupted databases can exhaust logging diskspace

Patrick Goetz pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu
Wed Aug 29 09:43:59 UTC 2012


On 8/29/2012 4:04 AM, Jamie Thompson wrote:
> Such is your prerogative as maintainer. I regard logging several
> thousand identical lines per minute as a bug however, especially when
> it's for a database that could be deleted on startup anyway. The fact it
> has the ability to take down a machine is just the icing on the cake.
>

Isn't this just a question of modifying the init script to delete this 
database every time cyrus starts?  This sounds like something that would 
take 5 minutes to fix; but in any case you can always modify the 
init/startup script yourself, too.


-- 
Patrick Goetz



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