Brian A. Henning wrote: > Also by default, FC2 doesn't load dovecot at startup. Add a symbolic link > to /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot in each rcN.d for the runlevels in which you > want dovecot to be started, called S??dovecot, where ?? is the ordinal for > when to launch the program in the startup sequence. That is a confusing > paragraph that means this: > For example, if you boot to runlevel 5 by default (X is running): > # su > root# cd /etc/rc5.d > root# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot S70dovecot > > The number after the S is not terribly important, as long as it is greater > than the numbers of the links that start your network services, firewall, > etc. I chose 70 because it is between xinetd (S56xinetd) and sendmail > (S80sendmail).
Check out the chkconfig program. It's designed by Red Hat to manage what services are started in specific runlevels. root# chkconfig dovecot on turns on the dovecot service in the default runlevels specified by config information at the top of /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot. --[Lance] -- Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
