cleanups and unique IDs.

[Martin Konold]

Am Dienstag, 7. September 2004 14:06 schrieb Ira Abramov:

Hi Ira,

> I defined a user Ira Abramov, Email "ira" and UID "ira", assuming the

Email address _must_ be ira at mydom.com not ira!

> I edit the user to change the mail address and discover it is immutable
> (WHY?),

This is because the this email address is the key which is stored in other 
peoples calendar pointing to your account. If you change it later these 
references would become dangling.

Use new aliases instead...

> I instead delete the entire user. 

This is also a potential option...

> "Awaiting cleanup" I go to check if there is a cron job I should know

No the cleanup should happen rather fast within a second or so on a single 
location setup.

> about, but no such luck. a complete restart of the kolab daemons finally
> gets rid of the entry. redefining the user complains that the UID still

For some reason your kolab daemon was not working correctly.

> Should I pick Kolab1 instead for stability or are such basic issues also
> affecting the stable release?

Well, Kolab2 is much more stable/reliable for many others including me.

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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