To what extent does/will Dovecot depend on systemd? was systemd changes...

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Mon Feb 22 07:14:08 UTC 2016



On 21.02.2016 19:10, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 10:03:15 +0100
> Thomas Leuxner <tlx at leuxner.net> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/53cc71cae88ee81fd7eae47aed743496f8c884a2
> [snip]
>
>> The PID-File seems to be expected under yet another sub-dir
>> of /var/run/dovecot.
> I wasn't aware that any Dovecot functionalities have become dependent
> on systemd. Is this discussion simply about the unit file and PID file
> location for Dovecot under systemd's process manager, or is Dovecot
> starting to acquire systemd dependencies that will make it difficult to
> run without systemd in the future?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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We do not depend on systemd, but unit files are provided and 
automatically installed if enabled.

Aki


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