[Dovecot] v2.0 configuration paths

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Aug 31 20:31:00 EEST 2009


On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 14:17 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > 2. Install *.conf files to $sysconfdir/example/ without the "-example"
> > part in any of the config files.
> >
> > So new installations would then start with "mv example/* ."
> 
> However, I don't think anywhere under /etc is the best place for  
> example configuration files. I think they belong rather under  
> /usr/share, though is no big deal if they are elsewhere.

Yeah, maybe that's better. $datarootdir/dovecot/example-config/ and if
dovecot.conf isn't found when starting up mention the path to the
example dir.

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