Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Postfix and Dovecot SASL startup catch-22

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Tue, February 6, 2007 15:20, Dick Middleton wrote:
> I've been meaning to point this out for a while; I don't reboot very
> often so it's not a big priority.
>
> To use dovecot SASL with postfix you need to start dovecot first.
> However
> dovecot needs to create a socket in postfix jail
> (/var/spool/postfix/private)
> which, of course, doesn't exist until postfix is started.

Does that mean your /var/spool/postfix is not on a harddisk?
I would highly recommend running a mail server only with the spool
directory mounted to a harddisk.

> What I notice is that postfix doesn't complain if
> /var/spool/postfix/private
> exists when it is started.
>
> I'm thinking that the dovecot init.d script could mkdir -p this directory
> before starting (perhaps commented out since most users won't need it).

Anybody have any thoughts on this?

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  Heiko Zuerker
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