Re: Unit for getmail (was: daemontools)

Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2018, 17:20:20 CET schrieb Volker Wysk:
> Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2018, 17:06:00 CET schrieb Volker Wysk:
> > This is the unit file for daemontools, in /lib/systemd/system/daemontools.service :
> > (...)
> > Doesn't look complicated. Perhaps I will try this, when Deamontools couldn't be made to work.
> 
> I have to correct myself. I'ts quite complicated. See https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-systemd-units-and-unit-files for what seems like a good introduction into systemd and its unit files.

I correct myself again. The "IMAPS gateway with getmail and dovecot" article at https://joel.porquet.org/wiki/hacking/getmail_dovecot/ shows how it's done. It's simple. And there is the UbuntuUsers article about Systemd service units, at https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/systemd/Service_Units/. It's in German, I couldn't find an English version.

This is the unit file. It's all that's needed:

----snip----
[Unit]
Description=Getmail für [email protected]
Wants=dovecot.service
After=dovecot.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/getmail --getmaildir=/etc/getmail --rcfile=verteilerrc --idle INBOX
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
----snip----

This goes to /etc/systemd/system/getmail-verteiler.service. Then, it needs to be activated:

systemctl enable verteilerrc.service
systemctl start verteilerrc.service

That's it.

Bye
Volker