ummm... I like the idea of an anchor as per Jim Redi
<anchor>/sbin is for the dovecot daemon,
<anchor>/libexec/dovecot is for supporting tools & utilities
<anchor>/lib is for dovecot's (shared) libraries
<anchor>/etc is for config files
...I use /usr/local for that in my installation. Which means that, if
upgrades (of the OS) do messy things to the contents of /etc/ or/bin
or..., the dovecot stuff is in /usr/local/etc, /usr/local/bin or sbin
and is left alone. And, of course, the anchor can be null.
Timo Sirainen wrote:
Where do you think the following binaries should be installed to? The
possible locations are:
- bin/
- sbin/
- libexec/dovecot/ (or lib/dovecot/ in most Linux distros)
So the binaries are:
1) These probably belong to bin/ or sbin/ or both:
- authtest
- dovecotpw
- doveadm
2) Binaries that you might want to call from mail_executable setting:
- rawlog
- gdbhelper
3) Index file dumping programs, mostly meant for debugging problems:
- idxview
- listview
- logview
- mailboxlogview
- threadview
4) Some extra tools that might be useful sometimes:
- imap-utf7 : Encode/decode IMAP mailbox names (mUTF-7 <-> UTF-8)
- maildirlock : Lock a Maildir, primarily intended for compressing
files in maildir
And perhaps some of the binaries should be renamed? The authtest
actually now looks like a bad name. Maybe it should have been
"doveauthtest" or "dovecot-authtest" or ..?
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