[Dovecot] Dovecot under daemontools

Rick Romero rick at havokmon.com
Thu Aug 10 18:51:34 EEST 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 11:35 -0400, John Peacock wrote:
> Rick Romero wrote:
> > 4. Config file gets overwritten on make install.
> 
> No it doesn't.  *dovecot-example.conf* gets overwritten on each install; 
> very different thing.  It is worthwhile to make a copy of the prior 
> dovecot-example.conf so you can make a diff and see what has changed 
> (this is very useful during the rc period).
> 
> John

Then I stand corrected. 

Maybe I moved dovecot.conf to dovecot.conf.bak the first time instead of
copied, which caused my upgraded dovecot to not fire up without copying
the backed-up config file back..




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