* Timo Sirainen <t...@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 -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de