Hi, I'm currently on my third or fourth upgrade (for the whole Courier shebang) and it's finally dawned on me that some of the documentation could use a little help. While I'll try to assemble "HOW-TO's" as I go along, one thing that I spotted straight away (this time!) was this statement in the top level "INSTALL" file:
<Begin> Make a backup copy of your current sysconfigdir, then delete the old version of Courier. "rm -r /usr/lib/courier" will do nicely. All the possible configurable settings are in sysconfigdir, everything else can simply go." <End> ... except that the SSL certificates seem to be in "/usr/lib/courier/share" by default. [ Which was a bit of a nuisance the first time I followed that advice; these days I'm getting smarter and/or more paranoid! ] Of course, there's no need for the certs to be there, just that the package presumes that "@datadir@" is where to put them. It seems to me that sysconfigdir is a better place to put them, except that the distribution files (like mkesmtpdcert.in and perms.sh.in) expect to find the certificates in datadir. Overall, it seems to me (in this instance) better to move the default location to the sysconfigdir directory. Unless there's a security issue or something? In which case a *subdirectory* or sysconfigdir (aka "aliases") might be a better solution? Malc. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
