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Date:      Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:34:28 +0200
From:      Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org>
To:        Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
Cc:        Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes
Message-ID:  <4A26A614.9090409@locolomo.org>
In-Reply-To: <200906031818.35160.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
References:  <20090602194756.GB43583@free.bsd.loc> <4A258935.7090708@locolomo.org> <20090603104131.GA40064@free.bsd.loc> <200906031818.35160.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>

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Mel Flynn wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 12:41:31 Jeff Laine wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for your reply, Eric.
>> Running master in debugging mode helped to find out that I had 640
>> permissions on libdb* files. Doh.
> 
> I'd file a bugreport upstream, this is not a "debug level message" but 
> critical error condition, in fact with Denial of Service potential for the 
> entire machine.

Hold that, I reinstalled my server this week from source and encountered 
no such problems.

Before filing any bug report, consider how permissions where changed: 
Did you accidentially change them manually? Do you have umask set to 
some non-standard value? Do/should ports override root's umask?

Of course, some condition that causes a proces to exit unexpectedly 
ought to give a clearer log message, and it shouldn't keep retrying, for 
that you might consider sending a bug report to the developers.

BR, Erik
-- 
Erik Nørgaard
Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157                  http://www.locolomo.org



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