[Dovecot] Permission problem with LDA and dovecot 2.2.1

[Tobi]

hi Ben

I tried with removing the base_dir definition from my config, restartet 
dovecot and checked with the commands you provided below:
<<
root at nordkap:~# doveconf -d base_dir
base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot
root at nordkap:~# doveconf base_dir
base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot
root at nordkap:~# su vmail -s /bin/sh -c "doveconf base_dir"
base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot
 >>
for me it seems that all is build with /usr/local
But after removing the symlink and restarting dovecot I get the errors again
<<
May  7 17:47:57 nordkap dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: 
connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: No such file or directory
May  7 17:47:57 nordkap dovecot: lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. 
Refer to server log for more information.
 >>
I checked all the configs again for any path to /usr/local and found 
nothing (which is not commented out) that  would affect basedir
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root at nordkap:~# find /usr/local/etc/dovecot/ -type f -exec grep -H 
/usr/local/ {} \;
/usr/local/etc/dovecot/README:/usr/local/share/doc/dovecot/example-config/
/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:!include_try 
/usr/local/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol
/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:#base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/
/usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf:#mail_plugin_dir = 
/usr/local/lib/dovecot/modules
/usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-quota.conf:#  executable = script 
/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
 >>
So dovecot should use the default path /var/run if I understood you 
right. But it does not do so in my case.
Is there any information which I could provide to help narrow down the 
problem? On the other side it's not really important as it works like 
charm with a symlink ;-)

Cheers

tobi

> Probably your Dovecot binaries are built with a default base_dir of
> /var/run/dovecot. What do the following give you?
>
>      doveconf -d base_dir        (as root)
>      doveconf base_dir           (as root)
>      doveconf base_dir           (as vmail:vmail)
>
>> Would it might be a "fix" to symlink /usr/local/var/run/dovecot to
>> /var/run/dovecot ? Or would that break something with dovecot?
> It probably won't break anything, but why don't you just use
> /var/run/dovecot in the first place and take that base_dir definition
> out of dovecot.conf?
>
> Ben
>