From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 10 15:17:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB50348 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:17:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6F827A for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:17:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3YhrGb2PDNz9D for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:09:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:07:25 -0500 From: Daniel Staal To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Gamin/IMAP issue Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:17:44 -0000 Since upgrading to 9.1 I've been getting errors retrieving my email via IMAP. They don't appear to actually prevent anything, but they are annoying at least. (And while I haven't noticed anything else that is having the same errors that doesn't mean it's not happening...) The errors I'm getting are: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-daniel/fam- Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (daniel) Error: Input/output error Check for proper operation and configuration of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd). ('daniel' of course being the name of my user.) I'm using courier-IMAP and gamin. The only thing I can find online on this is someone else on the freebsd forums who had the same problem ~8 years ago, who eventually gave up and switched to fam. (Well, other than the ones that say 'install fam/gamin', which I have installed, but doesn't appear to be working.) I have rebuilt and reinstalled both courier-IMAP and gamin. (I actually did a 'rebuild all dependencies' for gamin.) Permissions on the /tmp and /tmp/fam-daniel directories are as I'd expect. I've also increased kern.maxfiles to 100000, to make sure it can handle my large maildir directories. (Though this wasn't a problem before I upgraded.) Anyone have any other ideas on where I can start troubleshooting? (And yes, I'm considering upgrading to Dovecot, but I want to know everything is working first.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------