[Dovecot] systemd socket and service

[Vasiliy G Tolstov]

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:36 +0100, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> > > > 2) Does dovecot.service required to use dovecot lmtp, or it may be
> > > > stoppped (i not often check my mails via client, but have many incoming
> > > > mails some time)
> > > 
> > > I don't understand. If you want LMTP enabled, you also need to list its
> > > socket to dovecot.socket. LMTP is executed in a similar way to
> > > IMAP/POP3. (If you want LMTP via UNIX socket, I don't really know the
> > > answer to that. Does systemd support listening on UNIX sockets? Maybe
> > > it requires patching Dovecot more.)
> > 
> > I'm not fully understand how can i do that and not lost my changes to
> > dovecot.socket when the packages updates and file has been rewritten...
> 
> packages should install systemd socket/service files in /lib/systemd/.... if you want to 
> change any file, you should copy it to /etc/systemd/... and modify it there.
> systemd prefers files in /etc/systemd over those in /lib/systemd

Ohh. Very nice. Thank You very much!
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Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru>
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