[Dovecot] Can't Start Dovecot

[Reindl Harald]

netstat --numeric-hosts --numeric-ports --programs -u -t -l

will list all listening ports and as root also the
exectueable

/etc/init.d/dovecot star is they way to go
never start a service by it's binary without
a good reason without knowing exactly how it
is supposed to work

BTW: the dovecot binary lives in /sbin/ not /bin/
[root at srv:~]$ ps aux | grep dovecot
root      1843  0.0  0.0  19548  1520 ?        Ss   11:58   0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -F

i am generally wonder about /usr/local as you said you
installed with yum - typically distributions packages
are using /usr/bin, /usr/sbin/ and not /usr/local

Am 15.10.2012 15:37, schrieb John Reddy:
> Never mind. The command
> /etc/init.d/dovecot start
> would work; however, something else is using the port. Tracking it down.
> John
> 
>> From: linuxpencil at hotmail.com
>> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
>> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:01:04 -0400
>> Subject: [Dovecot] Can't Start Dovecot
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi;
>> I just installed dovecot from yum on CentOS5.
>> ps wax grep "dovecot" only brings up the grep
>> The command "dovecot" is not recognized.
>> # ls /usr/local/bin/dove*
>> doveadm   doveconf
>> No dovecot. What up?

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