> On September 25, 2016 at 4:54 PM Christophe Bricout
> <christophebric...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> SUMMARY:
> Dovecot shows an issue when "localstatedir" path is too long
> The issue exists also with dovecot-2.2.25
>
> CONFIGURATION:
> The configure options are:
>
> ./configure --prefix=${TARGET_DIR} \
> --sysconfdir=${TARGET_DIR}/cfg \
> --localstatedir=${TARGET_DIR}/var \
> --with-ssl=openssl \
> --with-sqlite \
> --disable-shared
>
> RESULTS:
> When executing dovecot (as root), the followin message appears:
>
> Error: service(dict):
> net_listen_unix(/<user>/localbin/minnowboard-turbot-applications/1.0/linux/x86_64-linux/localbin/dovecot/2.2.18/linux/x86_64-linux/var/run/dovecot/dict)
> failed: Value too large for defined data type
> Error: service(config):
> net_listen_unix(<user>/localbin/minnowboard-turbot-applications/1.0/linux/x86_64-linux/localbin/dovecot/2.2.18/linux/x86_64-linux/var/run/dovecot/config)
> failed: Value too large for defined data type
> ---
>
> WORKAROUND:
> The problem is solved by defining shorten localstatedir or using base_dir =
> /var/run/dovecot.
>
> It seems the path lengh causing a such issue. Path Lengh > 127
>
> Available for additional experiments
> Best Regards
Hi!
Unix socket maximum path len is 108 characters. This is *nix limitation, not
dovecot.
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