[Dovecot] Hundreds of auth-worker sockets in /etc/dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 13:22 +0100, Eggert Ehmke wrote:
> I run dovecot 1.2.6, before last update I had 1.2.2. on Debian Lenny. I 
> noticed that my config directory /etc/dovecot is filled up with hundreds of 
> old auth-worker.12345 sockets. 

They should exist in Dovecot's base_dir, which is by default
in /var/run/dovecot/ directory.

> I guess they should have been cleaned up, is 
> there a misconfiguration? When I remember right, this did not happen with 
> dovecot 1.1.

They get wiped out from base_dir when Dovecot starts up. If your
base_dir isn't in /etc/dovecot/, I've no idea why they would have gone
there.

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