[systemd-devel] Unit dovecot.service has failed

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, 06:24 Masaru Kitajima <thirstytraveler at mac.com> wrote:

> Mr. Harald
>
> Thank you so much for the detailed information. I tried two commands which
> you kindly suggested. The results are as below.
>
>     [root at vhost /var/log]# stat /var/run
>     File: `/var/run' -> `../run'
>     Size: 6             Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
>     Device: 9094h/37012d        Inode: 74932926    Links: 1
>     Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/
> root)
>     Access: 2019-10-02 19:50:39.000000000 +0900
>     Modify: 2019-02-20 18:21:23.000000000 +0900
>     Change: 2019-02-20 18:21:23.000000000 +0900
>     Birth: -
>
>     [root at vhost /var/log]# stat /var/run/dovecot
>     File: `/var/run/dovecot'
>     Size: 740           Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
>     Device: 9169h/37225d        Inode: 4136984558  Links: 5
>     Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (   97/
> dovecot)
>     Access: 2019-10-02 17:20:18.243640196 +0900
>     Modify: 2019-10-02 16:50:44.268614218 +0900
>     Change: 2019-10-02 16:50:44.268614218 +0900
>     Birth: -
>
> I wonder why“British”are not set.
>

Until very recently, there was no Linux API through which the file's birth
time could be retrieved, and `stat` had to always show an empty field.
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