I'm trying to configure dovecot+postfix on a new 14.04 release image in EC2. I installed mail-stack-delivery without installing postfix or dovecot separately. Now I can't figure out how to restart dovecot because /etc/init.d/dovecot seems missing. Or am I missing something? Thanks.
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Ok so after going through dovecot's wiki (version 2), it seems that we can restart/reload/stop dovecot by using:
For root:
# doveadm reload - to restart/reload dovecat
# doveadm stop - to stop dovecat
For sudo users:
# sudo doveadm reload - to restart/reload dovecat
# sudo doveadm stop - to stop dovecat
You can just type doveadm / sudo doveadm to see a list of other commands you can use with doveadm too.
AndrewL64
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Thanks to @douggro for the reminder! I actually did sudo service --status-all but dovecot wasn't on the list, and then sudo service dovecot returns dovecot: unrecognized service, which made me believe dovecot wasn't converted to a service yet. So I never thought of actually trying with restart.
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When the old services are converted from init.d to the upstart, service status xxxx returns service unrecognized. Instead please use servicename status
The coexistence of upstart and init.d is confusing, so in Vivid and later releases it is replaced with systemd
The current state in 14.04 is confusing and creating some issues when monitoring things as well, at least with my experience.
tony
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