[Dovecot] [Fwd: mulitple instance run problem]

[Stewart Dean]

I hour and 14 minutes later (14:59:38) the "imap-login: Can't connect to 
auth server at default: Connection refused" messages started up again.
I am now doing a kill -7 and fully restarting the primary instance of 
dovecot

Stewart Dean wrote:
> As I explained, I want to be able to run a second instance of DC 
> through another port to do testing while not interrupting the users 
> using the primary instance in the the regular port.  I was instructed 
> to create a second config file with different listen ports and a 
> separate base_dir.  I did so and invoked dc with -c pointing to 
> dovecot2.conf.
>
> Jun  7 10:04:23 mercury mail:info dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.0 starting up
>
> I pointed my client at the non-SSL port, and everything worked 
> fine....until 3 hours later.  The client wasn't getting things 
> through, so I checked the syslog on the dc server where I saw rapidly 
> repeating errmsgs:...
>
> Jun  7 12:51:07 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: login: Authentication 
> process 10
> 89784 doesn't exist
> Jun  7 12:58:55 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: login: Authentication 
> process 10
> 89784 doesn't exist
> Jun  7 12:58:59 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: login: Authentication 
> process 10
> 89784 doesn't exist
> Jun  7 12:59:01 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: login: Authentication 
> process 10
> 89784 doesn't exist
> Jun  7 12:59:05 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: login: Authentication 
> process 10
> 89784 doesn't exist
>
> and many more, then......
>
> Jun  7 13:34:20 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: login: Authentication 
> process 10
> 89784 doesn't exist
> Jun  7 13:36:30 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: login: Authentication 
> process 10
> 89784 doesn't exist
> Jun  7 13:36:54 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: login: Authentication 
> process 10
> 89784 doesn't exist
>
> I kill the second instance.....but things don't clear up....rather I 
> now get a different errmsg....which must be from the primary dc 
> instance, since the 2nd instance and all of its children are gone (I 
> checked the ps)
>
> Jun  7 13:39:20 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: login: Authentication 
> process 10
> 89784 doesn't exist
> Jun  7 13:40:00 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: imap-login: Can't 
> connect to aut
> h server at default: Connection refused
> Jun  7 13:40:06 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: imap-login: Can't 
> connect to aut
> h server at default: Connection refused
> Jun  7 13:40:06 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: imap-login: Can't 
> connect to aut
> h server at default: Connection refused
>
> Finally I do a kill -1 of the primary instance and that cleans things up
>
> Jun  7 13:45:46 mercury mail:warn|warning dovecot: SIGHUP received - 
> reloading configuration
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong?  Have other people run two 
> instances without problem?  I tried starting the second instance and 
> killing it immediately thereafter....that wnet OK, but it hasn't been 
> 3 hours yet.
>

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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources 
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York  12504  
sdean at bard.edu  voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035