[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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