[Dovecot] need help with dovecot-lda

Daniel Parthey daniel.parthey at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Sat Dec 15 18:21:05 EET 2012


Andreas Meyer wrote:
> Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > # su - vmail
> > > vmail at delta:~> doveconf -m lda base_dir auth_socket_path
> > > base_dir = /usr/var/run/dovecot
> > > auth_socket_path = auth-userdb
> > > 
> > > But I don't know how to tell dovecot-lda to listen on sockets
> > > in /usr/var/run/dovecot
> > 
> > Do you mean 'connect to'? It's important to be clear.
> 
> hm, what does dovecot-lda do? I think it tries to connect to
> /usr/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb ?

Try to trace the open syscalls of dovecot-lda and its children:

strace -f -eopen /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f anmeyer at anup.de -d anmeyer at anup.de

This should give you an idea about which files
dovecot-lda really tries to open.

Regards
Daniel
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