Old dovecot 1 init.d script is working well.
It's this one:
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: dovecot
# Required-Start:$local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $time
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Should-Start: postgresql mysql slapd winbind
# Should-Stop: postgresql mysql slapd winbind
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Dovecot init script
# Description: Init script for dovecot services
### END INIT INFO
# Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg .
# Modified for Debian GNU/Linux
# by Ian Murdock .
#
# Do NOT "set -e"
# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="IMAP/POP3 mail server"
NAME=dovecot
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/dovecot
DAEMON_ARGS=""
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$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 "$CONF" ] || exit 0
# Exit if explicitly told to
[ "$ENABLED" != "0" ] || exit 0
# Allow core dumps if requested
[ "$ALLOW_COREDUMPS" != "1" ] || ulimit -c unlimited
# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
# conf file readable?
if [ ! -r ${CONF} ]; then
log_daemon_msg "${CONF}: not readable" "$NAME" && log_end_msg 1;
exit 1;
fi
# dont check for inetd.conf if its not installed
if [ -f /etc/inetd.conf ]; then
# 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 = $q ]; then
exit 0
fi
done
done
fi
# determine the location of the PID file
# overide by setting base_dir in conf file or PIDBASE in /etc/defaults/$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
-- -c ${CONF} > /dev/null \
|| return 1
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- -c
${CONF} \
$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 HUP --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name
$NAME
return 0
}
case "$1" in
start)
log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
# Dovecot will kill itself if the system clock moves backwards
# while Dovecot is running, and this can happen if the hardware
# clock is severely out of sync at boot time, and then ntpd is
# used to synchronize the system clock. So, if the machine also
# runs ntpd, we call ntp-wait to make sure that ntpd has had a
# chance to synchronize the system clock before Dovecot is
# started.
test -x /usr/sbin/ntp-wait && ntp-wait -n 2 || true
do_start
case "$?" in
0|1) log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1) log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
reload|force-reload)
log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME