[Dovecot] Hundreds of auth-worker sockets in /etc/dovecot

[Eggert Ehmke]

On Dienstag 27 Oktober 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 13:22 +0100, Eggert Ehmke wrote:
> > I run dovecot 1.2.6, before last update I had 1.2.2. on Debian Lenny. I
> > noticed that my config directory /etc/dovecot is filled up with hundreds
> > of old auth-worker.12345 sockets.
> 
> They should exist in Dovecot's base_dir, which is by default
> in /var/run/dovecot/ directory.
Ok, this is the configured directory indeed, and it is clean.
 
> > I guess they should have been cleaned up, is
> > there a misconfiguration? When I remember right, this did not happen with
> > dovecot 1.1.
> 
> They get wiped out from base_dir when Dovecot starts up. If your
> base_dir isn't in /etc/dovecot/, I've no idea why they would have gone
> there.
Must have been a misconfiguration when I installed dovecot new on this server. 
I cleaned the files manually, and all works fine. Thanks.