[dovecot] Re: dovecot RPM for Red Hat Linux

[Dag Wieers]

On 13 Apr 2003, Warren Togami wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 15:42, Warren Togami wrote:
> > http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=160
> > 
> > This .src.rpm is dovecot with RH-specific default settings.  I modified
> > Jeremy Katz' dovecot-0.99.8.1 package a bit.
> 
> I ran into and fixed a few packaging problems listed below, but the last
> two I'm not exactly sure how to fix.  Any suggestions?
> 
> One problem within /etc/init.d/dovecot
> ======================================
> start() {
>         # Check if pxe is already running
>         if [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/dovecot ]; then
>             echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
>             /usr/sbin/dovecot &
>             [ -n "`pidofproc /usr/sbin/dovecot`" ] && success
>             RETVAL=$?
>             [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/dovecot
>             echo
>         fi
> }

Warren, why are you using pidofproc and success yourself ? Red Hat has the 
infrastructure that takes care of this. I have never have to use these 
myself.

You could take a look at my sysv-script in my SPEC file. I always embed 
these files in the SPEC file so that the path-macros affect the 
sysv-script too.

There I simply do:

	start() {
	        echo -n \$"Starting \$prog: "
	        daemon \$prog
	        RETVAL=\$?
	        echo
	        touch %{_localstatedir}/lock/subsys/\$prog
	        return \$RETVAL
	}

	stop() {
	        echo -n \$"Shutting down \$prog: "
	        killproc \$prog
	        RETVAL=\$?
	        echo
	        rm -f %{_localstatedir}/lock/subsys/\$prog
	        return \$RETVAL
	}

Any suggestions to this are welcomed.

Kind regards,
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