the prefix number of the configuration filename

David Bishop dovecot at dpe.lusars.net
Tue Feb 16 00:49:16 UTC 2016


At a guess, the directory gets listed, the names get sorted numerically,
and then read in order low-to-high. In theory, the end result will be the
same regardless of what order stuff gets read in, but doing it in a
deterministic order makes troubleshooting easier.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Dogz <dogz.tw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am very curious about the prefix number of the configuration
> filename, such as 10-auth.conf
> 10-director.conf
> 10-logging.conf
> 10-mail.conf
> 10-master.conf
> 10-ssl.conf
> 15-lda.conf
> 15-mailboxes.conf
> 20-imap.conf
> 20-lmtp.conf
> 20-managesieve.conf
> 20-pop3.conf
> 90-acl.conf
> 90-plugin.conf
> 90-quota.conf
> 90-sieve.conf
> 90-sieve-extprograms.conf
>
> What are those meanings of 10,15,20 and 90 ?
>
> Please advise me and thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Dogz
>


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