[Dovecot] Binary locations

[Pascal Volk]

On 10/06/2009 05:32 PM Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Where do you think the following binaries should be installed to? The
> possible locations are:
> 
>  - bin/
>  - sbin/
>  - libexec/dovecot/ (or lib/dovecot/ in most Linux distros)
> 
> So the binaries are:
> 
> 1) These probably belong to bin/ or sbin/ or both:
>  - authtest
>  - dovecotpw
>  - doveadm
> 
> 2) Binaries that you might want to call from mail_executable setting:
>  - rawlog
>  - gdbhelper
> 
> 3) Index file dumping programs, mostly meant for debugging problems:
>  - idxview
>  - listview
>  - logview
>  - mailboxlogview
>  - threadview
> 
> 4) Some extra tools that might be useful sometimes:
>  - imap-utf7 : Encode/decode IMAP mailbox names (mUTF-7 <-> UTF-8)
>  - maildirlock : Lock a Maildir, primarily intended for compressing
> files in maildir
> 
> And perhaps some of the binaries should be renamed? The authtest
> actually now looks like a bad name. Maybe it should have been
> "doveauthtest" or "dovecot-authtest" or ..?

under $PREFIX/bin:
    authtest (or doveauthtest)
    dovecotpw
    imap-utf7
    maildirlock

under $PREFIX/sbin:
    doveadm
    doveconf

under $PREFIX/libexec/dovecot (or $PREFIX/lib/dovecot):
    rawlog
    gdbhelper

Hm, all the *view utilities also under $PREFIX/libexec/dovecot


Regards,
Pascal
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