ot: 2.2 ghettoforge install systemctl Q

voytek at sbt.net.au voytek at sbt.net.au
Sat Dec 16 13:00:01 EET 2017


On Sat, December 16, 2017 9:08 pm, Peter wrote:
> On 16/12/17 20:45, Aki Tuomi wrote:

>> Try systemctl enable dovecot
> ...and systemctl start dovecot.
> You need to be starting and stopping dovecot with systemctl (or the
> older service command which still works in CentOS 7), if you do not then
> systemd cannot track the running state properly.

Peter, Aki, thanks, getting there

//meanwhile, tried manually copy denyhosts.py 3.1 over latest RPM 2.9
(just copy the file, can't be that complex, he says..), and, stuffed up
denyhosts...:

Dec 16 21:45:54 systemd[1]: Failed to start SSH log watcher.
seemed like a good idea at the time, fools just never learn...//



but, dovecot is good:

# systemctl status  dovecot
● dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled;
vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sat 2017-12-16 21:51:04 AEDT; 7s ago
     Docs: man:dovecot(1)
           http://wiki2.dovecot.org/
  Process: 1559 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1552 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/dovecot/prestartscript
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1563 (dovecot)
   CGroup: /system.slice/dovecot.service
           ├─1563 /usr/sbin/dovecot
           ├─1564 dovecot/anvil
           ├─1565 dovecot/log
           ├─1567 dovecot/config
           ├─1569 dovecot/imap-login
           ├─1570 dovecot/auth
           ├─1571 dovecot/ssl-params
           ├─1573 dovecot/imap-login
           ├─1574 dovecot/imap-login
           ├─1575 dovecot/imap-login
           ├─1576 dovecot/auth -w
           ├─1578 dovecot/imap
           ├─1579 dovecot/imap
           ├─1580 dovecot/imap
           └─1581 dovecot/imap






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