[Dovecot] Config review (2.0.5)
Ralf Hildebrandt
Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Wed Nov 3 12:47:02 EET 2010
* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On 3.11.2010, at 10.34, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
> >> ln -s /var/run/dovecot /usr/local/var/run/dovecot
> >
> > ln -s /usr/dovecot-2/var/run/dovecot /var/run/dovecot
>
> That symlink probably gets deleted at system bootup.
>
> > (since /var/run/dovecot didn't exist here, I have everything below --prefix=/usr/dovecot-2)
>
> If you haven't changed base_dir, then the symlink isn't necessary. In the example above I was assuming base_dir had been changed to /var/run/dovecot from the built-in /usr/local/var/run/dovecot.
I left base_dir at it's default, which is $prefix/var/run/dovecot
So, no harm, no foul
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Ralf Hildebrandt
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