[Dovecot] old master.pid prevents dovecot startup

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:34 -0500, Michael wrote:
> Summary
> =======
> After an unclean shutdown the file /var/run/dovecot/master.pid remained
> behind. This prevented dovecot from starting, and gave a misleading error
> message.
> 
> To be more resilient and fault-tolerant, I recommend that dovecot also
> check the validity of the PID in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid in order to
> determine whether or not another dovecot process is running.

It does check if a process is running with that PID. Doing any further
checks to make sure that the PID is a dovecot process would probably be
more trouble than worth.

> Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 1965
> (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid)
> Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf

This "Invalid configuration" message is bad. Removed:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/805d0831deb6

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