On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:57 PM, PGNet Dev wrote:
@2.0's master.conf, there's, e.g.,service config { type= config executable =config unix_listener { path = config mode = 0666 } } can someone please explain function/usage for the 'type', 'executable' & 'path' fields?
There are a few internal special-case services and type specifies what type it is. So with type=config Dovecot knows that to reload configuration it needs to connect to that service.
executable is the binary name, relative to PKG_LIBEXECDIR. path inside unix_listener is the path to the unix socket where to listen for connections, relative to base_dir.
and, for any file paths, are the presumed to be _relative_ to the dovecot executable? in $PATH? can they accept full/absolute paths?
They don't use $PATH. Absolute paths are fine.
