On 10/31/2013 11:19 AM Jess Portnoy wrote:

Hello list,

I would add: # dovecot Startup script for the dovecot server # # chkconfig: - # processname: dovecot # config: /path/to/config # pidfile: /path/to/pid

So that it supports the chkconfig used by RHEL and clones too.

Also, maybe it should be installed by the Makefile's install target? it could then also set: DAEMON=/path/to/dovecot/daemon instead of: DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/dovecot

Cause naturally, it will know the prefix chosen.

May the source be with you,

Jess Portnoy

The comments between "### BEGIN INIT INFO" and "### END INIT INFO" are comments as defined in "Comment Conventions for Init Scripts"¹. Therefore each LSB compliant Linux distributions should know how to handle those comments.

The keywords you've mentioned are not defined in the specification. I think it would be the distribution's job to add local extensions (see specification).

Also the comments are ignored by other operation systems, e.g. *BSD or Solaris.

Reason, why the Makefile shouldn't install the init script:

• there could be a /etc/init.d/dovecot from a package
• the init script (copied from doc/dovecot-initd.sh) could contain local modifications

Regards, Pascal

1 = http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-gene...

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