[Dovecot] Binary locations
Stewart Dean
sdean at bard.edu
Tue Oct 6 21:07:36 EEST 2009
ummm... I like the idea of an anchor as per Jim Redi
> <anchor>/sbin is for the dovecot daemon,
> <anchor>/libexec/dovecot is for supporting tools & utilities
> <anchor>/lib is for dovecot's (shared) libraries
> <anchor>/etc is for config files
...I use /usr/local for that in my installation. Which means that, if
upgrades (of the OS) do messy things to the contents of /etc/ or/bin
or..., the dovecot stuff is in /usr/local/etc, /usr/local/bin or sbin
and is left alone. And, of course, the anchor can be null.
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 ..?
>
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