On Sat, December 16, 2017 9:08 pm, Peter wrote:
> On 16/12/17 20:45, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> Try systemctl enable dovecot
> ...and systemctl start dovecot.
> You need to be starting and stopping dovecot with systemctl (or the
> older service command which still works in CentOS 7), if you do not then
> systemd cannot track the running state properly.
Peter, Aki, thanks, getting there
//meanwhile, tried manually copy denyhosts.py 3.1 over latest RPM 2.9
(just copy the file, can't be that complex, he says..), and, stuffed up
denyhosts...:
Dec 16 21:45:54 systemd[1]: Failed to start SSH log watcher.
seemed like a good idea at the time, fools just never learn...//
but, dovecot is good:
# systemctl status dovecot
● dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled;
vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2017-12-16 21:51:04 AEDT; 7s ago
Docs: man:dovecot(1)
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/
Process: 1559 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 1552 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/dovecot/prestartscript
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1563 (dovecot)
CGroup: /system.slice/dovecot.service
├─1563 /usr/sbin/dovecot
├─1564 dovecot/anvil
├─1565 dovecot/log
├─1567 dovecot/config
├─1569 dovecot/imap-login
├─1570 dovecot/auth
├─1571 dovecot/ssl-params
├─1573 dovecot/imap-login
├─1574 dovecot/imap-login
├─1575 dovecot/imap-login
├─1576 dovecot/auth -w
├─1578 dovecot/imap
├─1579 dovecot/imap
├─1580 dovecot/imap
└─1581 dovecot/imap
