[Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 21 15:46:44 EET 2012


On 21.3.2012, at 15.26, Noel Butler wrote:

> The purpose of any build scripts --sysconfdir is to tell the
> configuration to build in a path for its binaries configuration file(s).
> 
> Dovecot 2.1.3, seems to insist that that directory is now /etc/dovecot/
> ignoring --sysconfdir=/etc  as in 1.2.x and previous majors before that,
> is this a bug? if not, then I see no point of sysconfdir any more and it
> should be removed, if dovecot deliberately ignores what it is told to
> use.


--sysconfdir=/etc uses /etc/dovecot/

--sysconfdir=/opt/dovecot/etc uses /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/

There is now always the dovecot/ suffix, but the the /etc part is still configurable.



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