[Dovecot] base_dir= problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On 12.12.2013, at 0.55, Philippe Lelédy <dovecot at leledy.fr> wrote:

>>> Dec 04 17:03:16 ssl-params: Fatal: creat(/var/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat.tmp) failed: No such file or directory
>> You still have state_dir=/var/dovecot (and don’t place it under /var/run/, it’s meant to be durable).
>> 
> doveconf -a | grep state_dir
> 
> gives nothing.
> 
> Adding state_dir = /var/run/dovecot to dovecot.conf gives
> 
> doveconf -n -c dstate
> # 2.1.17: dstate
> doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file dstate line 116: Unknown setting: state_dir
> 
> What to do ?

Ah, it’s configurable only in v2.2. In v2.1 it can only be changed by recompiling with configure --localstatedir=/somewhere