[Dovecot] init script as provided http://wiki2.dovecot.org/DovecotInit

[Pascal Volk]

On 10/31/2013 11:19 AM Jess Portnoy wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I would add:
> # dovecot        Startup script for the dovecot server
> #
> # chkconfig: - 
> # processname: dovecot
> # config: /path/to/config
> # pidfile: /path/to/pid
> 
> So that it supports the chkconfig used by RHEL and clones too.
> 
> Also, maybe it should be installed by the Makefile's install target? it 
> could then also set:
> DAEMON=/path/to/dovecot/daemon
> instead of:
> DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/dovecot
> 
> Cause naturally, it will know the prefix chosen.
> 
> May the source be with you,
> 
> Jess Portnoy

The comments between "### BEGIN INIT INFO" and "### END INIT INFO" are
comments as defined in "Comment Conventions for Init Scripts"¹.
Therefore each LSB compliant Linux distributions should know how to
handle those comments.

The keywords you've mentioned are not defined in the specification.
I think it would be the distribution's job to add local extensions (see
specification).

Also the comments are ignored by other operation systems, e.g. *BSD or
Solaris.

Reason, why the Makefile shouldn't install the init script:

  - there could be a /etc/init.d/dovecot from a package
  - the init script (copied from doc/dovecot-initd.sh) could contain
    local modifications


Regards,
Pascal
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