On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 04:22:44 +1100 Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
On 6/03/2016 8:16 PM, aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi wrote:
Stephan, for Jessie you should compile with systemd support enabled and leave the init.d link out completely. You can enable the ProtectFull=yes in the systemd file.
Many of us Debian users hate the fact that systemd even exists..... for now we can run servers without systemd, but who knows in a few years or a couple of releases.
systemd is a cancer, that's been said before and it will be long time, if ever, before it is not said regularly.
Cheers A.
Hi Andrew,
See this thread:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2016-February/103277.html
The systemd dependencies are pretty much just cosmetic: Inclusion of a unit file, and (maybe) that special way of reporting back to systemd when the daemon is listening and fully functional, which AFAIK doesn't affect Dovecot's functionality when used in a sans-systemd environment. Much as I like Dovecot, I'll blow it off my machine in a microsecond if it ever stops functioning in the absence of systemd, and from the thread I mentioned, I doubt that will ever happen.
One other thing: Later in this thread it's suggested that a distro (Debian) remove Dovecot's sysvinit init script. Although this sounds like a showstopper, it's really an opportunity. You can simply respawn Runit (or daemontools-encore or S6 or any other daemontools-inspired process supervisor) from /etc/inittab, and start Dovecot from there. The following is my huge, immense Runit run script for Dovecot:
=================================================== #!/bin/sh install -d -m 0755 -o root -g root /var/run/dovecot exec dovecot -F
So even though Debian might eliminate the init script, there's a very nice way forward, and once you get Runit running, you can begin slowly switching all your massive sysvinit init scripts with 5 line Runit run scripts.
And of course, you could switch to Devuan. Or do what I do: Run Void Linux, which ships with Runit actually performing PID1 init duties as well as process supervision.
SteveT
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