I'm not sure if this is a bug in dovecot or start-stop-daemon, but here's what I have to do after I re-emerge net-mail/dovecot-1.0* or upgrade to a new version: # /etc/init.d/dovecot stop * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Stopping dovecot ... No /usr/sbin/dovecot found running; none killed. [ !! ] # ps aux|grep dovecot|grep -v grep root 16159 0.0 0.1 1880 528 ? Ss Jun14 2:10 /usr/sbin/dovecot root 16160 0.0 0.2 5208 1536 ? S Jun14 0:10 dovecot-auth dovecot 32675 0.0 0.2 3124 1448 ? S Jun15 0:10 imap-login dovecot 13988 0.0 0.2 3124 1448 ? S 15:12 0:00 imap-login dovecot 14006 0.0 0.2 3124 1448 ? S 15:15 0:00 imap-login # killall dovecot # /etc/init.d/dovecot zap * Manually resetting dovecot to stopped state. # /etc/init.d/dovecot start * Starting dovecot ... [ ok ]
Weird. Does it work ok if you upgrade to baselayout-1.12.1?
Seems to be OK in baselayout-1.12.1. :)
Closed then :)