[Dovecot] [Fwd: mulitple instance run problem]

[Gabriele Fergola]

Hi Stewart,
i'm veeeeeery new and noob about doveccot so i suppose a solution or where
is the problem.
i think the problem is auth daemon....

 3671 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot
 3672 ?        S      0:00 dovecot-auth
 5756 ?        S      0:00 dovecot-auth -w
u can see dovecot start dovecot and dovecot-auth.

The realy problem u can have is with dovecot-auth because all 2 istance use
the same port(socket) for the login.

i don't know how to solve the problem in second istance but for test i
prefer use a virtual machine make with VirtualBox.

Best reguards
Gabriele Fergola



On 6/7/07, Stewart Dean <sdean at bard.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
>
> --
> ====
> 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
>
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