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and subject line Bug#523810: fixed in dovecot 1:1.2.7-1
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regarding dovecot-common: Strange /etc/init.d/dovecot script
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Package: dovecot-common
Version: 1:1.1.13-2
Severity: normal
/etc/init.d/dovecot is quite strange, IMHO.
I noticed that while all other daemons are reporting correctly when
they boot up:
...
Sat Apr 11 17:49:08 2009: Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfix.
Sat Apr 11 17:49:08 2009: Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartd.
Sat Apr 11 17:49:09 2009: Starting FTP server: vsftpd.
Sat Apr 11 17:49:09 2009: Starting NTP server: ntpd.
...
dovecot is not (like it's never started?). Further inspection revealed
that this is dependent on VERBOSE env. variable, but I think these
messages should be unconditional, like in other packages.
But dovecot also does something that other packages don't, it always spits out
the following:
Sat Apr 11 17:49:21 2009: Info: If you have trouble with authentication
failures,
Sat Apr 11 17:49:21 2009: enable auth_debug setting. See
http://wiki.dovecot.org/WhyDoesItNotWork
I don't think these two lines belong to the boot sequence, what if all
other packages decided they could point out to some faq or similar,
the screen would be cluttered beyond comprehension. IMHO, those two
lines should be eliminated, and appropriate warning put to some
README.* file in /usr/share/doc/dovecot.
Finally, the last objection to the dovecot startup script has to do
with performance. My (userspace) bootup sequence takes about 26
seconds (yeah, fast disk), of which 12 is spent in /etc/init.d/dovecot.
That is just not right, that dovecot takes almost as much time to go
up as ALL the other daemons and scripts on the system (dozens of
them). Further inspection revealed that ntp-wait command is the
culprit.
While I read and understood the explanation for such behaviour, I
think it should be workaround in a different way, such that boot
sequence is not slowed down that much. Actually, I think such
incantation would never work because dovecot is started right after
the ntp daemon, and 12 seconds is probably not enough to get it
syncronized properly in such a short time. So it probably just
timeouts and proceeds like ntp-wait was never run (haven't tested
this, remind you, just an opinion). Except it wasted a lot of time, of
course.
So this whole report is actually 3 smaller bug reports, but they are
all about the same file, /etc/init.d/dovecot. What I would like to see
is that dovecot starts instantly (in less then a second) printing only
one line (when everything is OK, of course):
Starting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecot.
That is what all other packages do, so why would dovecot be so different?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=hr_HR (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dovecot-common depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library
ii libdb4.7 4.7.25-6 Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libk5crypto3 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii libkrb5-3 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.15-1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.77-1 MySQL database client library
ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-9 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpq5 8.3.7-1 PostgreSQL C client library
ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.12-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-16 SSL shared libraries
ii openssl 0.9.8g-16 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii ucf 3.0018 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
dovecot-common recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dovecot-common suggests:
ii ntp 1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1 Network Time Protocol daemon and u
ii ntpdate 1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1 client for setting system time fro
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: dovecot
Source-Version: 1:1.2.7-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dovecot, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
dovecot-common_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb
to main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb
dovecot-dev_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb
to main/d/dovecot/dovecot-dev_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb
dovecot-imapd_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb
to main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb
dovecot-pop3d_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb
to main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb
dovecot_1.2.7-1.diff.gz
to main/d/dovecot/dovecot_1.2.7-1.diff.gz
dovecot_1.2.7-1.dsc
to main/d/dovecot/dovecot_1.2.7-1.dsc
dovecot_1.2.7.orig.tar.gz
to main/d/dovecot/dovecot_1.2.7.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Fabio Tranchitella <[email protected]> (supplier of updated dovecot package)
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:28:33 +0100
Source: dovecot
Binary: dovecot-common dovecot-dev dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1:1.2.7-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dovecot Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Fabio Tranchitella <[email protected]>
Description:
dovecot-common - secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes
dovecot-dev - header files for the dovecot mail server
dovecot-imapd - secure IMAP server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes
dovecot-pop3d - secure POP3 server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes
Closes: 523810 549944
Changes:
dovecot (1:1.2.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release.
* debian/dovecot-common.init:
- use $CONF when starting the daemon. (Closes: #549944)
- always output start/stop messages. (Closes: #523810)
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