On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:38:48 +0100 Benoit Branciard Benoit.Branciard@univ-paris1.fr wrote:
Bjørn T Johansen a écrit :
When upgrading from source, it's ok to just run make install and every files will be overwritten with the new version? Nothing else one should do?
Pay attention to the fact that the dovecot daemon dynamically starts the imap and pop server executables whenever inboud connexions are requested.
If you upgrade without stopping the master dovecot, and clients request connexions, dovecot will try to run the new imap and pop executables, which are not the same version as the master, and problems may arise.
The "good" solution is to stop the master dovecot *before* make install, and restart it afterwards; or to make sure no clients try to connect before you completed the upgrade process.
Yes, I always stop dovecot before running make install.... :)
BTJ