[pkg-kolab] Bug#399996: kolab-cyrus-common: the squatter parameter is missing from cyrus.conf

[Benoit Mortier]

Le Vendredi 24 Novembre 2006 19:54, Tom Fernandes a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday, 23. November 2006 05:20, Benoit Mortier wrote:
> > Package: kolab-cyrus-common
> > Version: 2.2.12-8
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > The cyrus.conf is missing the squatter parameter
> >
> > # index generation
> >         squatter        cmd="/usr/sbin/squatter -v -r user" period=1440
> >
> > This build index, improve performance and get rid of the squatter
> > messages
>
> hmm - not sure if this is really a good idea to make it a default
> setting. It is not a default setting in cyrus-imapd=2.2.13-9 and there's
> probably a reason for that. The cyrus maintainers might be able to
> explain why it's not enabled as default. Therefore CC'ing.
>
> Some reasons I can image is that for a small setup squatting might not be
> needed. For a large setup squatting (creating the indexes) takes _a long_
> time.
>
> So IMHO it should be up to the administrator to enable or disable it.
>
>
> The cyrus maintainers have the following lines in their cyrus.conf:
>
>
> -------8<-----------------------------------------------------------
>
> # indexing of mailboxs for server side fulltext searches
>
>         # reindex changed mailboxes (fulltext) approximately every other
> hour #squatter_1     cmd="/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/sbin/squatter -s"
> period=120
>
>         # reindex all mailboxes (fulltext) daily
>         #squatter_a     cmd="/usr/sbin/squatter" at=0517
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------->8----------------

Hello,

so you just can put that in the cyrus.conf from kolab-cyrus-common so people 
know how to do it, You can keep it commented.

Cheers
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Benoit Mortier
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