Am Sonntag, dem 18.04.2021 um 08:17 +0200 schrieb Jean-Daniel: > systemd don’t need pid files, and the executable must be started > without forking. > > > Can you show us the content fo the system dovecot.service file. As > long as it contains this line, it should be fine: > > Type=simple > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot -F
Just before I saw your mail, I found now a solution. The original dovecot.service has this: [Service] Type=notify ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot -F which according to systemd.service man page needs a sd_notify() call from the running process. So somehow this is broken now? I changed it to the following and now it works: [Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot I don't know that much about systemd what of forking/exec/simple would be the best one.
