Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

Blake Carver wrote:

I'm trying to help someone with Dovecot, and it looks like this one is a few versions behind.

They say that they're not sure if it was installed Via an RPM or a source tarball. Dovecot is use MySQL.

This is a RHEL5 server. There are RPMs listed as installed (rpm -qa) but I don't know how I can tell what was used to install the currently used set up. (also asking on the Postifix list)

Is there something in a conf file or something that shows me how it was installed?

same method as for postfix :)

more generally, # rpm -qa lists all the installed packages

see the rpm man page for more options/functionalities (you can check which package "owns" a file, and you can get the list of files installed by a pckage, ... etc).