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

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Mon Feb 22 11:31:39 UTC 2016


On 22/02/2016 17:14, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> 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
>> February 2016 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence
>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
> We do not depend on systemd, but unit files are provided and
> automatically installed if enabled.
> 
> Aki

That's excellent news, because hell will freeze over before systemd is 
introduced to official slackware releases

-- 
If you have the urge to reply to all rather than reply to list, you best
first read  http://members.ausics.net/qwerty/


More information about the dovecot mailing list