dovecot - Apr 2003 - dovecot RPM for Red Hat Linux

http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=160

This .src.rpm is dovecot with RH-specific default settings.  I modified
Jeremy Katz' dovecot-0.99.8.1 package a bit.  When I upgraded from
0.99.8.1 it seemed to be broken until I looked at /var/log/maillog. 
There it indicated that the dovecot cache files were bad, so I erased
/home/*/mail/.imap/ and it seemed to work subsequently.

There are a few more RH specific tweaks that I plan on doing for this
package.  If you have any suggestions to default config tweaks for this
package please reply or post in that bugzilla entry above.  I would like
for this package to be a drop-in replacement for RHL's uw-imapd
eventually, but there are a number of migration issues that need to be
addressed first.  This package will eventually be included in the Fedora
tree after it goes through our QA.

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Warren Togami
warren at togami.com

p.s.
Keep up the good work.  I absolutely love dovecot!

On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 15:42, Warren Togami wrote:
> http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=160
> 
> This .src.rpm is dovecot with RH-specific default settings.  I modified
> Jeremy Katz' dovecot-0.99.8.1 package a bit.
I ran into and fixed a few packaging problems listed below, but the last
two I'm not exactly sure how to fix.  Any suggestions?

One problem within /etc/init.d/dovecot
=====================================start() {
        # Check if pxe is already running
        if [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/dovecot ]; then
            echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
            /usr/sbin/dovecot &
            [ -n "`pidofproc /usr/sbin/dovecot`" ] && success
            RETVAL=$?
            [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/dovecot
            echo
        fi
}

This line "/usr/sbin/dovecot &" executes in the background, but
the next line "[
-n "`pidofproc /usr/sbin/dovecot`" ] && success" happens
too soon, causing a non
zero return value and a FAILED message during bootup.  I confirmed this by
adding "sleep 5" between the two lines, giving it enough time to
startup
completely before testing for the pid.  It no displays the fake FAILED message
during bootup.  What should be the proper fix for this?

RH init script problem
=====================Another problem happens during RH's init scripts after
you reboot.  By default
dovecot uses /var/run/dovecot/login/ as a directory to create unix sockets for
login.  RH's init script displays an error messages when I tries to remove
/var/run/*/* files because it is a directory, not a file.  I changed
dovecot's
default to /var/run/dovecot and it now avoids this error.

chkconfig problem
================[root at goku log]# chkconfig --list |grep dovecot
dovecot         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
[root at goku log]# chkconfig dovecot on
[root at goku log]# chkconfig --list |grep dovecot
dovecot         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
The init.d and rc.d stuff seems to have problems, I haven't analyzed this
yet.

Service name problem
===================During startup it says "5dovecot: Starting Dovecot
Imap:"
I'm not sure why it says "5dovecot" rather than
"dovecot".  Any ideas?

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com