hello,

Lacking any other guidance, I'm using the following minimal sysv
script to start and stop dovecot. If anyone would like to comment on
or improve it, I'd be most grateful.

thanks,

will

#!/bin/sh

System V init script for dovecot imap server

bodged together by will 12.2.06

PIDFILE="/var/run/dovecot/master.pid" LONGNAME="dovecot imap server" NAME="dovecot" DOVECOT='/usr/local/sbin/dovecot'

case $1 in start) echo -n "Starting $LONGNAME"; dovecot echo "...done"; ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping $LONGNAME" PID=cat $PIDFILE kill $PID echo "...done"; ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac

exit 0

EOF