dovecot - Oct 2005 - Feature/bug starting from xinetd

Hi, I hate to have my first post be a bug, but this drove me crazy for
a while.

I compiled the latest version from source and followed the instalation
instructions. I then copied the xinetd.d entries from the Wiki and
proceded to test.

No matter what I did I could not log on. I found that while I was editing
/usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf, nothing was hapening. I then started it
manualy and found several errors in my editing. :-)

After fixing the errors and getting it to work properly, I went back to
running it from xinetd. It would not allow me to log on, nor would it
use any of the loging options I set.

After making a symlink from /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf to /etc/dovecot.conf,
it worked perfectly.

My suggestions:

	1.	Change the Wiki to point out the difference in the config
		file location.

	2.	Change the inetd version to default to /usr/local/etc.

	3.	Add (and/or document) an option to the inetd version to
		specify config file location.

Thanks,

Geoff. ( A very happy Dovecot user, thanks for a good product).

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On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 14:29 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson
wrote:
> After fixing the errors and getting it to work properly, I went back to
> running it from xinetd. It would not allow me to log on, nor would it
> use any of the loging options I set.
> 
> After making a symlink from /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf to
/etc/dovecot.conf,
> it worked perfectly.
> 
> My suggestions:
> 
> 	1.	Change the Wiki to point out the difference in the config
> 		file location.
Where in wiki does it say that it's only in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf?
> 	2.	Change the inetd version to default to /usr/local/etc.
> 
> 	3.	Add (and/or document) an option to the inetd version to
> 		specify config file location.
The default config file directory is specified when configuring Dovecot
(--sysconfdir=/etc). If you installed it from binary package, it's
usually in /etc/dovecot.conf. Starting it from inetd shouldn't change
the config file location.
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