[Dovecot] base_dir= problems

[Philippe Lelédy]

Hi

I first let base_dir = with it's default value of /var/dovecot.
I changed my mind and now I have

doveconf -n
# 2.1.17: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: OpenBSD 5.4 amd64  ffs
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/

After a few days, imap clients couldn't login. Here the problem

Dec 04 17:03:16 imap-login: Fatal: Corrupted SSL parameters file: 
/var/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat
Dec 04 17:03:16 imap-login: Fatal: Corrupted SSL parameters file: 
/var/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat
Dec 04 17:03:16 master: Error: mkdir(/var/dovecot) failed: Read-only 
file system
Dec 04 17:03:16 master: Error: safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/mounts.tmp.) 
failed: No such file or directory
Dec 04 17:03:16 master: Error: file_dotlock_open(/var/dovecot/instances) 
failed: No such file or directory
Dec 04 17:03:16 ssl-params: Fatal: 
creat(/var/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat.tmp) failed: No such file or directory

By-pass

ln -s /var/run/dovecot /var/dovecot


Strange ?

Ph. Le.