dovecot - Jan 2003 - Bug#175509: dovecot: init.d script should add some syslog statements on startup/shutdown (fwd)

[Amelia and Timo.  As you are both on the dovecot list, I'm replying
there to avoid cluttering up your inboxes.]

This bug was reported to Debian but I feel it should be fixed upstream.
Adding logging in th init script itself would require adding additional
dependencies to the package and not be as convenient.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing at talsever.com>

It would be nice if the init.d script could add some statements in the
system log on startup and shutdown.  For postfix, postfix-script (called
from the init script) uses:
starting the Postfix mail system
stopping the Postfix mail system

These are useful; one can start the daemon and check that it's initialized
(netstat works as well, I suppose, but this is still useful docco).


-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at debian.org>

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 21:41, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> It would be nice if the init.d script could add some statements in the
> system log on startup and shutdown.  For postfix, postfix-script (called
> from the init script) uses:
> starting the Postfix mail system
> stopping the Postfix mail system
> 
> These are useful; one can start the daemon and check that it's
initialized
> (netstat works as well, I suppose, but this is still useful docco).
Yes, I've heard this request before but forgot to add it. I'll add
"Dovecot starting up" (or better suggestions?) but I don't think
I'll
add any specific shutdown message, since either there will be some error
message or "Warning: Killed with signal x".