On 18 Mar 2020, at 19.55, Adam Raszkiewicz <araszkiewicz@medallies.com> wrote:

Freshly compiled dovecot 2.3.9.3 on Centos 7 for some reason not able to start
 
sudo systemctl status dovecot.service
● dovecot.service - LSB: Starts the Dovecot POP3/IMAP service
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2020-03-18 16:32:17 UTC; 15s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 2868 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot start (code=exited, status=127)
 
Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts the Dovecot POP3/IMAP service...
Mar 18 16:32:17 dovecot[2868]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot: line 34: log_info_msg: command not found
Mar 18 16:32:17 dovecot[2868]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot: line 35: start_daemon: command not found
Mar 18 16:32:17 dovecot[2868]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot: line 36: evaluate_retval: command not found
Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: dovecot.service: control process exited, code=exited status=127
Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Starts the Dovecot POP3/IMAP service.
Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: Unit dovecot.service entered failed state.
Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: dovecot.service failed.
 
I have compiled the same code on Centos 6 and had no problem to run it.
 
Any thoughts on that?

Can you use the community packages instead?

https://repo.dovecot.org/

Sami