hi Ben
for me it seems that all is build with /usr/local But after removing the symlink and restarting dovecot I get the errors again << May 7 17:47:57 nordkap dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: No such file or directory May 7 17:47:57 nordkap dovecot: lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.
I checked all the configs again for any path to /usr/local and found nothing (which is not commented out) that would affect basedir << root@nordkap:~# find /usr/local/etc/dovecot/ -type f -exec grep -H /usr/local/ {} \; /usr/local/etc/dovecot/README:/usr/local/share/doc/dovecot/example-config/ /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:!include_try /usr/local/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:#base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/ /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf:#mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/modules /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-quota.conf:# executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
So dovecot should use the default path /var/run if I understood you right. But it does not do so in my case. Is there any information which I could provide to help narrow down the
I tried with removing the base_dir definition from my config, restartet dovecot and checked with the commands you provided below: << root@nordkap:~# doveconf -d base_dir base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot root@nordkap:~# doveconf base_dir base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot root@nordkap:~# su vmail -s /bin/sh -c "doveconf base_dir" base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot problem? On the other side it's not really important as it works like charm with a symlink ;-)
Cheers
tobi
Probably your Dovecot binaries are built with a default base_dir of /var/run/dovecot. What do the following give you?
doveconf -d base_dir (as root) doveconf base_dir (as root) doveconf base_dir (as vmail:vmail)Would it might be a "fix" to symlink /usr/local/var/run/dovecot to /var/run/dovecot ? Or would that break something with dovecot? It probably won't break anything, but why don't you just use /var/run/dovecot in the first place and take that base_dir definition out of dovecot.conf?
Ben