I find this very odd hehe Code: node01:~# apt-get --purge remove dovecot Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package dovecot is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. node01:~# /etc/init.d/dovecot start node01:~# /etc/init.d/dovecot stop node01:~#
This is the contents: Code: #! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: dovecot # Required-Start: $syslog # Required-Stop: $syslog # Should-Start: $local_fs $time ntp # Should-Stop: $local_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Dovecot init script # Description: Init script for dovecot services ### END INIT INFO # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email protected]>. # Modified for Debian GNU/Linux # by Ian Murdock <[email protected]>. # # Do NOT "set -e" # PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DESC="IMAP/POP3 mail server" NAME=dovecot DAEMON=/usr/sbin/dovecot DAEMON_ARGS="" SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME CONF=/etc/dovecot/${NAME}.conf # Read configuration variable file if it is present [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME # Exit if the package is not installed [ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0 # Exit if the configuration file doesn't exist [ -f "$CONF" ] || exit 0 # Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables . /lib/init/vars.sh # Define LSB log_* functions. # Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present. . /lib/lsb/init-functions # cong file readable? if [ ! -r ${CONF} ]; then [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "${CONF}: not readable" "$NAME" \ && log_end_msg 1; exit 1; fi # The init script should do nothing if dovecot or another imap/pop3 server # is being run from inetd, and dovecot is configured to run as an imap or # pop3 service for p in `sed -r "s/^ *(([^:]+|\[[^]]+]|\*):)?(pop3s?|imaps?)[ \t].*/\3/;t;d" \ /etc/inetd.conf` do for q in `sed -r "s/^[ \t]*protocols[ \t]*=[ \t]*(([^\"]*)|\"(.*)\")/\2\3/;t;d" \ ${CONF}` do if [ $p = $q ]; then exit 0 fi done done # determine the location of the PID file # overide by setting base_dir in conf file or PIDBASE in /etc/defaults/$NAME PIDBASE=${PIDBASE:-`sed -r "s/^[ \t]*base_dir[ \t]*=[ \t]*([^ \t]*)/\1/;t;d" ${CONF}`} PIDFILE=${PIDBASE:-/var/run/dovecot/}master.pid # # Function that starts the daemon/service # do_start() { # Return # 0 if daemon has been started # 1 if daemon was already running # 2 if daemon could not be started start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \ || return 1 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \ $DAEMON_ARGS \ || return 2 } # # Function that stops the daemon/service # do_stop() { # Return # 0 if daemon has been stopped # 1 if daemon was already stopped # 2 if daemon could not be stopped # other if a failure occurred start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name ${DAEMON##*/} RETVAL="$?" [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2 # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript. # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be # needed by services started subsequently. A last resort is to # sleep for some time. start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name ${DAEMON##*/} [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2 # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit. rm -f $PIDFILE return "$RETVAL" } # # Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service # do_reload() { # # If the daemon can reload its configuration without # restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP), # then implement that here. # start-stop-daemon --stop --signal USR1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME return 0 } case "$1" in start) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME" do_start case "$?" in 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;; 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;; esac ;; stop) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME" do_stop case "$?" in 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;; 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;; esac ;; reload|force-reload) log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME" do_reload log_end_msg $? ;; restart) # # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the # 'force-reload' alias # log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME" do_stop case "$?" in 0|1) do_start case "$?" in 0) log_end_msg 0 ;; 1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start esac ;; *) # Failed to stop log_end_msg 1 ;; esac ;; *) #echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2 echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 3 ;; esac exit 0
Code: node01:~# cat /usr/sbin/dovecot cat: /usr/sbin/dovecot: No such file or directory /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf does exist though. Code: node01:~# ls -la /etc/dovecot/ total 176 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-11-05 23:34 . drwxr-xr-x 95 root root 4096 2010-11-12 16:23 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45551 2010-11-05 23:34 dovecot.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45568 2010-11-05 03:20 dovecot.conf~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45557 2010-11-05 23:34 dovecot.conf.bak -rw------- 1 root root 4621 2009-09-23 13:12 dovecot-ldap.conf -rw------- 1 root root 5127 2010-11-05 21:52 dovecot-sql.conf -r-------- 1 root root 5127 2010-11-05 03:20 dovecot-sql.conf~ Thanks again.
I don't know why it didn't remove the other Dovecot files, but the most important thing is that /usr/sbin/dovecot is gone, so Dovecot cannot be started anymore.
