Not able to start dovecot

Sami Ketola sami.ketola at dovecot.fi
Thu Mar 26 15:29:23 EET 2020



> On 18 Mar 2020, at 19.55, Adam Raszkiewicz <araszkiewicz at medallies.com> wrote:
> 
> Freshly compiled dovecot 2.3.9.3 on Centos 7 for some reason not able to start
>  
> sudo systemctl status dovecot.service
> ● dovecot.service - LSB: Starts the Dovecot POP3/IMAP service
>    Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
>    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2020-03-18 16:32:17 UTC; 15s ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
>   Process: 2868 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot start (code=exited, status=127)
>  
> Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts the Dovecot POP3/IMAP service...
> Mar 18 16:32:17 dovecot[2868]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot: line 34: log_info_msg: command not found
> Mar 18 16:32:17 dovecot[2868]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot: line 35: start_daemon: command not found
> Mar 18 16:32:17 dovecot[2868]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot: line 36: evaluate_retval: command not found
> Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: dovecot.service: control process exited, code=exited status=127
> Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Starts the Dovecot POP3/IMAP service.
> Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: Unit dovecot.service entered failed state.
> Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: dovecot.service failed.
>  
> I have compiled the same code on Centos 6 and had no problem to run it.
>  
> Any thoughts on that?

Can you use the community packages instead?

https://repo.dovecot.org/ <https://repo.dovecot.org/>

Sami

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