Documentation issue? Dovecot support/install scripts from the wiki don't work... what's the trick?

[William H. Magill]

I suppose this is a documentation issue ...

I'm a longtime, but infrequent MacPorts user...
Just (successfully) updated Macports to 1.9 (from 1.8) and "upgraded outdated" installs (Apache2/MySQL/PHP primaries).
Apparently everything went "normally," no problems noted and everything is still working.
... as expected ...  Nice clean work guys, thanks.

This update was in preparation for the installation of Dovecot, Postscript, Postfix and Procmail.

Downloaded and installed "zsh-devel" then Dovecot  as noted in the wiki how-to for Dovecot.
	         http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SetupDovecot

On to step 1 ... download all the zsh scripts from the "Attachments" section.
"Make_Dovecot_User.command" worked as expected.

Looked at "Make_Dovecot_Directories.command" ... it looked strange...

I used to use zsh extensively, but haven't for probably 10 years now....  the scripts had two "undefined" terms... which
cause them to fail on execution (not surprisingly.)

		"mkdir --parents --verbose /opt/local/var/log/dovecot"

Which, not surprisingly, throws the error...
              mkdir: illegal option -- - usage: mkdir [-pv] [-m mode] directory ... 

So the obvious question here is ... ?--Parents?  ?--Verbose?  what is the assumed user environment here?
Or what is the syntax of the command usage?
	... clearly  "sudo ./Make_Dovecot_Directories.command" fails.


T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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