[Dovecot] No localhost after reboot

[Bob Hall]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:14:25AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> "Bob Hall" <rjhjr at cox.net> writes:
> 
> > I've been SIGHUPing Dovecot when I make changes in dovecot.conf. This 
> > seemed to work fine; I made changes to the imap_listen setting and 
> > Dovecot accepted them. However, I just reset
> > 	imap_listen = *
> > and used killall instead of SIGHUP, and restarted, and Dovecot is 
> 
> Don't do this on SysV (Solaris 8 has pkill instead) - killall kills
> EVERYTHING there. (used for shutting down the system).

I suppose "kill <pid>" is more universal than "killall <process name>"?
At any rate, use whatever sends the TERM signal.
 
> Anyways, can we please have a decent set of manual pages for dovecot
> before 1.0 that specifies what is re-read after SIGHUP and what needs a
> full restart? :->
> 
> > Maybe I shouldn't have swapped keyboards during the reboot. Or maybe 
> > the keyboard uses the wrong brand of pixie dust. Or maybe I need to 
> > hit it with a hammer. Or maybe the power company flushed out some 
> > fat electrons when they cleaned the tap brushes on the dynamos...
> 
> Maybe the current was the wrong color? <shrug> ;-)
> (One Power Co here in Germany is called Yello Strom)

And what do they use to generate "yello strom"; starkbier?

Bob Hall