[OpenIndiana-discuss] complaint about dovecot in sfe IPS not starting.

[Jonathan Adams]

you needed to try a "svcadm clear dovecot" ... it was still in
maintenance from the first time it was enabled.

Jon

On 25 February 2013 12:34, Dmitry Kozhinov <dima at desktopfay.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the replies. I need Dovecot only to provide an authentication
> mechanism for Postfix. So all that I wanted to do:
> - Install Dovecot;
> - Run Dovecot service;
> - Tweak Dovecot configuration so that Postfix can use authentication.
>
> I have run GUI Package Manager (I am a newcomer from Windows world,
> sorry...) and have searched for "dovecot". Strangely Webmin appeared in the
> search results, obviously not what I need. So I added SFE repository and
> searched again. The search revealed three packages:
> - "dovecot/src" version: 2.1.14
> - "imap/dovecot" version: 2.1.14
> - "network/dovecot" version: 2.0.13
>
> Note that all three packages indicate "Category: None", so that it is
> impossible to find them using Category tree at left side of Package Manager.
>
> I have installed the "imap/dovecot" package. Then (the # denotes command
> prompt here):
>
> # svcs dovecot
> STATE          STIME    FMRI
> disabled       17:54:49 svc:/site/dovecot:default
>
> Aha, disabled. Trying to enable:
>
> # svcadm enable dovecot
> svcs dovecot
> STATE          STIME    FMRI
> maintenance    17:57:36 svc:/site/dovecot:default
>
> Maintenance... Isn't it should run out-of-the box? Trying to apply your
> advices:
>
> # pfexec mkdir -p /etc/ssl/certs
> # pfexec mkdir /etc/ssl/private
> # cd /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config
> # pfexec cp -p -R conf.d/ dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot/
> # cd /usr/share/doc/dovecot
> # pfexec sh mkcert.sh
> # svcadm enable dovecot
>
> And is it running?
>
> # svcs dovecot
> STATE          STIME    FMRI
> maintenance    17:57:36 svc:/site/dovecot:default
>
> Maintenance... Maybe another package "network/dovecot" is missing? Trying to
> install with GUI Package Manager, and it says "No updates necessary", and
> indicates that "network/dovecot" is not installed.
>
> So I ended installing Dovecot from OpenCSW, which went trouble-free. Up and
> running now.
>
> - Dmitry.
>
>
>
>
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