On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:59:39 +0200 Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 17:31 +0800, Sergey Redin wrote:
Hello Timo,
What was the reason to remove ssl_parameters_file setting? Is it possible to restore it? We really need it, and I can see no reason to remove this useful setting.
Why do you need it? You know that it wasn't really even working before I removed it?
No, I did not know that, in fact I never needed it before.
Here is our problem. We run multiple virtual servers with some hosting software, including dovecot. Now it generates ssl-parameters.dat every time it starts, and this means that every time one of our servers reboots, all the VDS's inside it run ssl-build-param, and this takes really long before the server is able to do anything else. We changed ssl_parameters_file to 0 and now dovecot generates this file only when it is not present, but the problem is that all the files in /var/run are removed after reboot. So we need to put the files somewhere else, for example into /usr/local/etc. We can do it manually, in fact I already created a quick patch that makes dovecot use "/usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat", but we try to make as little patches as possible.
It is very easy to add this setting back to dovecot (even if it did not work before), and it will be usefull, at least for us.
-- Sergey Redin