mouss wrote:
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
Unless, like he said above it may have been installed via a tarball.
dovecot --versionworks for my /really/ ancient version. (Yes, I am too embarrassed to say which version.) You should and see if there is more than one installed and if so at how dovecot is started at startup/boot to know which one is used.
So try a 'which dovecot' to see if you have more than one installed. And if there is more than one look in /etc/init.d (for SysV-type systems
- YMMV) for a dovecot file and see which one it is calling.
Rod
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).