dovecot - Aug 2009 - v2.0 configuration paths

In Dovecot v2.0 I'm splitting dovecot-example.conf to multiple files.
It's probably annoying to have tons of dovecot-*-example.conf files, so
what do you think about:

1. Change default sysconfdir from $prefix/etc to $prefix/etc/dovecot
(that's what most distros do anyway)

2. Install *.conf files to $sysconfdir/example/ without the "-example"
part in any of the config files.

So new installations would then start with "mv example/* ."

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El 31/08/09 12:03, Timo Sirainen escribi?:
> In Dovecot v2.0 I'm splitting dovecot-example.conf to multiple files.
> It's probably annoying to have tons of dovecot-*-example.conf files, so
> what do you think about:
> 
> 1. Change default sysconfdir from $prefix/etc to $prefix/etc/dovecot
> (that's what most distros do anyway)
> 
> 2. Install *.conf files to $sysconfdir/example/ without the
"-example"
> part in any of the config files.
> 
> So new installations would then start with "mv example/* ."
> 
Greetings *

I'll would like to see a config dir like /etc/dovecot.d, and, inside it
something like:

network.example
namespaces.example
logging.example
protocols.example
security.example
plugins.example

But if i got to choose only from the two that you listed, i'll go for
option 2.


Kind Regards.

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Equipo de Infraestructura
ONUVA | Integraci?n de Sistemas

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Julio C. Ortega said the following on 31/08/09 19:01:
> But if i got to choose only from the two that you listed, i'll go for
> option 2.
IMHO the best solution is the Apache way: you can have either a monolithic
httpd.conf file, or you can #include a single file, or you can #include a
wildcard such as myconf/*.conf




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luigi

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On Seg, 31 Ago 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> In Dovecot v2.0 I'm splitting dovecot-example.conf to multiple files.
> It's probably annoying to have tons of dovecot-*-example.conf files, so
> what do you think about:
>
> 1. Change default sysconfdir from $prefix/etc to $prefix/etc/dovecot
> (that's what most distros do anyway)
That's a good change.
> 2. Install *.conf files to $sysconfdir/example/ without the
"-example"
> part in any of the config files.
>
> So new installations would then start with "mv example/* ."
However, I don't think anywhere under /etc is the best place for  
example configuration files. I think they belong rather under  
/usr/share, though is no big deal if they are elsewhere.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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Hello, Dovecot.
You wrote 31 ??????? 2009 ?., 20:33:57:
> 1. Change default sysconfdir from $prefix/etc to $prefix/etc/dovecot
> (that's what most distros do anyway)
  Yes!
> 2. Install *.conf files to $sysconfdir/example/ without the
"-example"
> part in any of the config files.
  And yes!



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On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 12:33 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> In Dovecot v2.0 I'm splitting dovecot-example.conf to multiple files.
> It's probably annoying to have tons of dovecot-*-example.conf files, so
> what do you think about:
> 
> 1. Change default sysconfdir from $prefix/etc to $prefix/etc/dovecot
> (that's what most distros do anyway)


Good idea.

> 2. Install *.conf files to $sysconfdir/example/ without the
"-example"
> part in any of the config files.
> 

Not so sure about that one, well yes into example/, but I'd still keep
the word example in the filename, because no mater how well warned,
there will always be those who blindly cp blah.conf ../   destroying any
pre-existing files

Cheers