DOVEADM-SERVICE-STATUS(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-SERVICE-STATUS(1)
NAME
doveadm-service-status - Show information about dovecot services
SYNOPSIS
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] service status [service [...]]
DESCRIPTION
doveadm service status produces a table with a line for each service,
containing the following details:
name
the name of the service
process_count
the number of processes actually running for the service
process_avail
the number of additional processes that can be spawned for the ser-
vice
process_limit
the maximum number of processes that can be active for the service
client_limit
the maximum number of connections that the service will handle si-
multaneously
throttle_secs
seconds to wait before launching another process when processes are
dying unexpectedly early for the service
exit_failure_last
timestamp when the last process was terminated abnormally for the
service
exit_failures_in_sec
number of abnormally terminated processes for the service in the
last second
last_drop_warning
timestamp when the last time a "dropping client connections" warning
was logged
listen_pending
if the master process is queuing connections that need to be dis-
patched
listening
if service is listening
doveadm_stop
if the service has been stopped by doveadm(1)
process_total
the total number of processes forked for the service since the ser-
vice start.
GLOBAL OPTIONS
Global doveadm(1)
-D
Enables verbosity and debug messages.
-O
Do not read any config file, just use defaults. The dovecot_stor-
age_version setting defaults to the latest version, but can be over-
ridden with
-k
Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just import_environment
setting.
-v
Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
-i instance-name
If using multiple Dovecot instances, choose the config file based on
this instance name.
See instance_name setting for more information.
-c config-file
Read configuration from the given config-file. By default it first
reads config socket, and then falls back to /etc/dovecot/dove-
cot.conf. You can also point this to config socket of some instance
running compatible version.
-o setting=value
Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override mul-
tiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times.
-f formatter
Specifies the formatter for formatting the output. Supported format-
ters are:
flow
prints each line with key=value pairs.
pager
prints each key: value pair on its own line and separates records
with form feed character (^L).
tab
prints a table header followed by tab separated value lines.
table
prints a table header followed by adjusted value lines.
ARGUMENTS
service (optional)
Filters the list according to the specified service or services. By
default, all dovecot services are listed.
EXAMPLES
doveadm service status
name: fs-auth
process_count: 0
process_avail: 0
process_limit: 1
client_limit: 1000
throttle_secs: 0
exit_failure_last: 0
exit_failures_in_sec: 0
last_drop_warning: 0
listen_pending: n
listening: y
doveadm_stop: n
process_total: 0
name: fs-server
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List
⟨dovecot@dovecot.org⟩. Information about reporting bugs is available at:
https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSO
doveadm(1), doveadm-process-status(1)
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