On Mon, 25 May 2015 15:50:08 +0000 Pascal Volk user+dovecot@localhost.localdomain.org wrote:
On 05/25/2015 03:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Hey guys, please tell me that Dovecot does not depend on systemd!
Nope, Dovecot doesn't depend on systemd. Why should it depend on systemd?
I could ask the question "why should it depend on systemd" about a whole raft of programs that do depend on it. It's a mystery to me. Anyway, I'm glad that it doesn't.
But: Dovecot supports systemd. If you want to enable systemd, use:
./configure --with-systemdsystemunitdir
It sounds like the preceding is some sort of dohickey to enable Dovecot to more easily be started/managed by systemd. I hope that's all it is, and I hope it always remains voluntary, because installing systemd on my machine, the way I have it set up, would have all sorts of side effects.
Anyway, in the near future I'll probably be managing Dovecot through Daemontools.
Thanks for the explanation,
SteveT
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