Re: moving .pop files to a new location on a live server

At 8:29 PM +0100 6/11/06, Obantec Support wrote:

>  Hi
>
>  I am having file lock problems. 1 customer has a soft quota of 50MB and hard
>  limit of 100MB and a 27MB mbox file.
>
>  a snip of the logs shows
>
>  Jun 11 12:00:46 proteus2 popper[6328]: martinco at 82.45.254.97
>  (82.45.254.97): -ERR POP timeout from myservers.name.here
>  Jun 11 19:27:25 proteus2 popper[4862]: (v4.0.8) Timeout (120 secs) during nw
>  read from martinco at 82.45.254.97 (82.45.254.97)
>  Jun 11 19:27:25 proteus2 popper[4862]: martinco at 82.45.254.97
>  (82.45.254.97): -ERR POP timeout from myservers.name.here
>  Jun 11 20:06:48 proteus2 popper[7819]: martinco at 82.45.254.97
>  (82.45.254.97): -ERR [IN-USE] /var/mail/.martinco.pop lock busy!  Is another
>  session active? (11)

Hi Mark,


I'm a bit confused.  The 20:06:48 session should have been fine, 
since the 19:27:25 session should have ended after the timeout.  Was 
the popper process for the user still active?  Also, what does the 
spool being locked have to do with quotas?

>  i need to resolve this by using a separate location for the .pop files with
>  no quotas.
>  i have the space on a second drive that is not using quotas.
>
>  i started qpopper from command line with ./popper 111.222.333.444:110 -R
>
>  so how do i migrate to the separate drive. my worry is those processes
>  already running under /var/mail/spool/.username.pop
>
>  do i have to recompile with
>
>  ./configure --enable-standalone --enable-temp-drop-dir=/users/qpopper/mail
>  make clean
>  make
>  make install

You can set the temp-drop-dir using a configuration file; that way 
you don't have to recompile.  You can tell Qpopper to read a 
configuration file by adding the command-line flag for the flavor(s) 
of configuration files you'd like to use.

>  or does qpopper run better under inetd?

Choosing to run from inetd or in daemon mode is independent of using 
other flags and options; you can mix and matcg.

-- 
Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal;    facts are suspect;    I speak for myself only
-------------- Randomly-selected tag: ---------------
Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.