Hi,

I have Solr FTR working with dovecot, and need to do the commit and optimize recommended here:
https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Solr

Should this run as root, or as each mail user. The documentation above implies, but doesn't state,
that it is root. The docs here are similar:
http://grimore.org/networking/dovecot/full_text_search

But the docs here say it has to be done for each user:
http://www.unixsamurai.com/dovecot-full-text-search-jetty-solr/

I don't know Solr well enough to answer. Which is correct?

Thanks

John

John

the optimize and commit commands don't specify any mail user in them:

# Optimize should be run somewhat rarely, e.g. once a day
curl https://<hostname/ip>:<port|default 8983>/solr/dovecot/update?optimize=true
# Commit should be run pretty often, e.g. every minute
curl https://<hostname/ip>:<port|default 8983>/solr/dovecot/update?commit=true

It doesn't actually matter which cron user you run them under so long as that user can execute the commands successfully. The idea (if you need them) is to run them globally under a single user. 
If you schedule them under more than one cron user it is just running the same commands more times, not doing anything specific per user.

John