[Dovecot] Fresh Dovecot Install

[John Schettino]

Yep - I did a source install *after* installing the Fedora Core 2
version (.99something) via yum.

You may have better luck doing that if you can find an RPM for dovecot
for RH9 - then all you'll need to do is make a symlink from
/usr/sbin/dovecot (move aside the RPM version first) to
/usr/local/sbin/dovecot (your built-from-source version) after you make
install dovecot from source, and the service scripts for the Redhat
dovecot build will (probably) work.

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:34, Jakob Curdes wrote:
> >I get nothing when I:
> >
> >rpm -qa | grep dovecot
> >ps aux | grep dovecot
> >service dovecot status
> >
> >  
> >
> I suppose you are expecting that after doing a "make install", the 
> application already runs, like you are used from rpm installs ?
> That will not be the case. I am not even sure if the dovecot install 
> process places a start/stop script in /etc/init.d. Often you have to do 
> many things on your own after a source install, like adapting or 
> creating a start/stop script or copying and modifying a sample 
> configuration file. That's what Mark pointed out : you should probably 
> at least go through the provided configuration file and then you can try 
> and start dovecot by hand and observer the relevant logfiles, depending 
> on your dsitribution. If you find that all works well, you can use the 
> start/stop mechanism to integrate dovecot startup into your system 
> startup. Sorry, but when compiling source packages you have to "RTFM" 
> and adapt the explanations to your configuration.
> 
> If you configured dovecot and started it and it fails to run, start it 
> from the command line and watch out for fatal errors on STDOUT or in the 
> logs. Most probably the ports are in use by another pop/imap program.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Jakob Curdes
>