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

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Feb 22 17:22:07 UTC 2016


On 02/22/2016 06:31 AM, Noel Butler wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>
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>> We do not depend on systemd, but unit files are provided and
>> automatically installed if enabled.
> 
> That's excellent news, because hell will freeze over before systemd is
> introduced to official slackware releases

  Or Solaris, for that matter.

            -Dave

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