Pid wrote:

Hi,

Could someone please post an example of a /etc/init.d/dovecot startup script? (We use fedora core 5, if that makes any difference.) Ours seems to be missing.

Cheers,

Pid

Taken off Debian Testing, YMMV:

root@server01:/etc/postfix# cat /etc/init.d/dovecot #! /bin/sh # # Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>. # Modified for Debian GNU/Linux # by Ian Murdock <imurdock@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. # #

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DAEMON=/usr/sbin/dovecot NAME=dovecot DESC="mail server"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

# The init script should do nothing if dovecot is being run from inetd for p in sed -r "s/^ *(([^:]+|\[[^]]+]|\*):)?(pop3s?|imaps?)[ \t].*/\3/;t;d" \ /etc/inetd.conf do for q in sed -r "s/^ *protocols[ \t]*=[ \t]*(([^\"]*)|\"(.*)\")/\2\3/;t;d" \ /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf do if [ $p = $q ]; then exit 0 fi done done

case "$1" in start) if grep protocols /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf | sed 's/#.*$//' | tr -d '"' |
egrep -q '[^#]*(\bpop3s?\b|\bimaps?\b)'; then if [ -x /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login -a -x /usr/lib/dovecot/imap ]
|| [ -x /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login -a -x /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 ]; then echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON echo "." fi fi ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME " start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON echo "." ;; #reload) # # If the daemon can reload its config files on the fly # for example by sending it SIGHUP, do it here. # # If the daemon responds to changes in its config file # directly anyway, make this a do-nothing entry. # # echo -n "Reloading $DESC configuration..." # start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile
# /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON # echo "done." #;; restart|force-reload) # # If the "reload" option is implemented, move the "force-reload" # option to the "reload" entry above. If not, "force-reload" is # just the same as "restart". # echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON sleep 1 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON echo "." ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME # echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2 echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac

exit 0

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