[Dovecot] start dovecot at boot

[Troy Engel]

FYI: the OP states he's on CentOS; Axel's RPMs spec file (for .src.rpm) 
uses some RPM macros not present on CentOS4 (or RHEL4), I had a quick 
conversation with him about this, it appears they're added in RPM 4.4 
but 4.3 is what's on RHEL4/CentOS4.

If you want to rebuild his .src.rpm (i.e. to disable unused things like 
Postgres, SQLite, etc.) you'll need to set up a personal ~/.rpmmacros 
with the following:

%bcond_with()     %{expand:%%{?_with_%{1}:%%global with_%{1} 1}}
%bcond_without()  %{expand:%%{!?_without_%{1}:%%global with_%{1} 1}}

This'll allow those three lines at the top to properly parse and work. 
Alternately you can just edit the spec, delete those 3 lines and hard 
code the right values (which are delete the inotify line, use 
pam-stacked, and use linuxquota=2 for %configure).

hth!
-te


Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> May I suggest compilling the .src.rpm from:
> http://atrpms.net/name/dovecot/
> 
> Or better yet, just install the .i386.rpm from atrpms.
> The .rpm have standard init scripts for dovecot in:
> /etc/init.d/dovecot
> 
> Is just a matter of:
> rpm -ivh dovecot-*rpm
> chkconfig dovecot on
> vi /etc/dovecot.conf
> service dovecot start
> 
> HTH
> Oliver
> 
> jepoy wrote:
>> hi guys,
>> just recently installed dovecot from source on my centos box.how can i 
>> enable it to automatically start upon reboot.
>>  
>> tnx
>>  
>>
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