[Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

Blake Carver lists at lisnews.com
Wed Aug 20 14:32:30 EEST 2008


Thanks Rod,

So I guess my big question here is, how do I upgrade this sucker?
I'd love to just use an RPM, but if this was originally installed via
source will I mess it up?
When I do rpm -qa | grep dovecot I get dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5
BUT
dovecot --version shows me a different #

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Roderick A. Anderson <raanders at acm.org> wrote:
> Unless, like he said above it may have been installed via a tarball.
>  dovecot --version
> You should and see if there is more than one installed and

So --version shows just one version, 1.0.3 (pretty damn old)

> So try a 'which dovecot' to see if you have more than one installed. And if
> there is more than one look in /etc/init.d (for SysV-type systems - YMMV)
> for a dovecot file and see which one it is calling.

 'which dovecot' just gives me /usr/local/sbin/dovecot

Taking a look at /etc/init.d/dovecot shows me it's staring Dovecot
using /usr/local/sbin/dovecot
and
ps auxw | grep dovecot does show that's the one that's running
/usr/local/sbin/dovecot


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