On Sat, December 16, 2017 9:08 pm, Peter wrote:
On 16/12/17 20:45, Aki Tuomi wrote:
Try systemctl enable dovecot ...and systemctl start dovecot. You need to be starting and stopping dovecot with systemctl (or the older service command which still works in CentOS 7), if you do not then systemd cannot track the running state properly.
Peter, Aki, thanks, getting there
//meanwhile, tried manually copy denyhosts.py 3.1 over latest RPM 2.9 (just copy the file, can't be that complex, he says..), and, stuffed up denyhosts...:
Dec 16 21:45:54 systemd[1]: Failed to start SSH log watcher. seemed like a good idea at the time, fools just never learn...//
but, dovecot is good:
# systemctl status dovecot ● dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2017-12-16 21:51:04 AEDT; 7s ago Docs: man:dovecot(1) http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ Process: 1559 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 1552 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/dovecot/prestartscript (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1563 (dovecot) CGroup: /system.slice/dovecot.service ├─1563 /usr/sbin/dovecot ├─1564 dovecot/anvil ├─1565 dovecot/log ├─1567 dovecot/config ├─1569 dovecot/imap-login ├─1570 dovecot/auth ├─1571 dovecot/ssl-params ├─1573 dovecot/imap-login ├─1574 dovecot/imap-login ├─1575 dovecot/imap-login ├─1576 dovecot/auth -w ├─1578 dovecot/imap ├─1579 dovecot/imap ├─1580 dovecot/imap └─1581 dovecot/imap