[Dovecot] startup script

[dovecot at dovecot.org]

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