hi Ben
I tried with removing the base_dir definition from my config, restartet
dovecot and checked with the commands you provided below:
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root@nordkap:~# doveconf -d base_dir
base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot
root@nordkap:~# doveconf base_dir
base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot
root@nordkap:~# su vmail -s /bin/sh -c "doveconf base_dir"
base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot
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for me it seems that all is build with /usr/local
But after removing the symlink and restarting dovecot I get the errors again
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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.
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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@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
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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
