dovecot - Feb 2016 - To what extent does/will Dovecot depend on systemd? was systemd changes...

Not sure if the issue is limited to the Debian Auto-Builds, but after the latest
commits an update of the packages fails:

https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/53cc71cae88ee81fd7eae47aed743496f8c884a2

Feb 21 07:31:22 nihlus dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.devel (950a6e6) starting up
for imap, lmtp
Feb 21 07:31:22 nihlus systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/dovecot/dovecot/master.pid
not readable (yet?) after start.

The PID-File seems to be expected under yet another sub-dir of /var/run/dovecot.

Regards
Thomas
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> On February 21, 2016 at 11:03 AM Thomas Leuxner <tlx at leuxner.net>
wrote:
> 
> 
> Not sure if the issue is limited to the Debian Auto-Builds, but after the
> latest commits an update of the packages fails:
> 
>
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/53cc71cae88ee81fd7eae47aed743496f8c884a2
> 
> Feb 21 07:31:22 nihlus dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.devel (950a6e6)
starting
> up for imap, lmtp
> Feb 21 07:31:22 nihlus systemd[1]: PID file
> /var/run/dovecot/dovecot/master.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
> 
> The PID-File seems to be expected under yet another sub-dir of
> /var/run/dovecot.
> 
> Regards
> Thomas
Hi, 

This is fixed in
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/22d75d47097ca83c6e824a5129d81e8f18fb589b

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Aki Tuomi

* aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> 2016.02.21 12:43:
> This is fixed in
>
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/22d75d47097ca83c6e824a5129d81e8f18fb589b
Thanks Aki. As all patches are in the source tree, I guess this is not included
in Stephan's Auto-Build:

$ dpkg --unpack dovecot-core_2.2.21-1~auto+130_amd64.deb 

$ grep PID /lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service 
PIDFile=/var/run/dovecot/dovecot/master.pid

I manually edited the file afterwards and ran dpkg --configure which brought up
the server.
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On 21/02/2016 10:43 PM, aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi wrote:
>> The PID-File seems to be expected under yet another sub-dir of
>> /var/run/dovecot.
>>
>> Regards
>> Thomas
>
> Hi,
>
> This is fixed in
>
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/22d75d47097ca83c6e824a5129d81e8f18fb589b
>
> ---
> Aki Tuomi
This doesn't seem to be fixed for me, with latest -hg and a full make 
clean and new ./configure as of 30 mins ago.

This is with a raspberri pi with Raspbian 8 (all up to date).

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot
PIDFile=/var/run/dovecot/dovecot/master.pid
ExecReload=/usr/bin/doveadm reload
ExecStop=/usr/bin/doveadm stop
PrivateTmp=true
NonBlocking=yes
# Enable this if your systemd is new enough to support it:
#ProtectSystem=full

I'm running ./configure with:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib 
--localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info 
--with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules --disable-rpath 
--with-systemdsystemunitdir=auto --with-storages=maildir 
--with-ssl=openssl --with-solr --with-ioloop=best --with-stemmer 
--with-libwrap --with-lucene --without-sqlite --without-ldap 
--without-pgsql --disable-static

It's not an old dovecot.service file either - updated when I installed 
the build a few minutes ago.

By manually editing the systemd file above I was able to get the service up.

Reuben

On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 10:03:15 +0100
Thomas Leuxner <tlx at leuxner.net> wrote:

[snip]
>
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?

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt 
February 2016 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/key

On 21.02.2016 19:10, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 10:03:15 +0100
> Thomas Leuxner <tlx at leuxner.net> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>
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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> February 2016 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
We do not depend on systemd, but unit files are provided and 
automatically installed if enabled.

Aki