On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:51:01PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 08:02:03PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > > This is not necessary. /etc/userdb may be a directory, and installing a soft > > link from the subdirectory to an external file should also work. > > > > Furthermore, the --with-userdb option to the configure script replaces > > /etc/userdb with something else. Since you're apparently packaging > > Courier-IMAP for yourself, this should be a workable solution to be added > > to your packaging script. > > We don't build the userdb on the same host where we use it. In > our installation, it's not practical to make the path to the userdb > the same on the host where it's built and the host where courier-imap > runs. So "--with-userdb" doesn't help us.
You have a site-specific custom configuration. > We could use the symlink trick, but what happens when we want to > have a couple of different courier-imap installations with different > userdbs? Create different symlinks. > Do we re-create the symlink before building the userdb for > each host? What if we want to build userdbs for more than one > installation at the same time? This is not scalable. It's a site-specific custom configuration that must be solved on-site. > Please reconsider? There's nothing to reconsider. Existing facilities already handle the situation adequately. -- Sam ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
