Hello, today I run the command "doveadm auth cache flush" for the first time. # doveadm auth cache flush doveadm(root): Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecotauth-master) failed: No such file or directory 0 cache entries flushed # base_dir was the only item contain 'run' and it did not end with a / So I tried to set base_dir to /var/run/dovecot/ and could now rerun "doveadm auth cache flush" without problems. I compile dovecot from source and found --with-rundir=/var/run/dovecot as an option to configure. I changed to /var/run/dovecot/, recompile and removed the base_dir setting in dovecot.conf again. Now "doveadm auth cache flush" work out of the box. doveconf -d base_dir is var/run/dovecot/. Finaly I compiled dovecot with --localstatedir=/var and removed --with-rundir from configure. The resulting package had again base_dir = /var/run/dovecot so "doveadm auth cache flush" don't work. looks like somewhere the missing / should be added in case base_dir has no trailing / without special configuration. Andreas