[Dovecot] Fatal: Dovecot is already running

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 11:42 -0500, Jim wrote:
> 8/27/09 2:08:25 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[31] Fatal: Dovecot is  
> already running with PID 143 (read from /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/ 
> master.pid)
..
> 8/27/09 2:08:25 AM SystemStarter[31] dovecot (115) did not complete  
> successfully
> 
> When I checked the server and saw this, I simply started it via the  
> command line, and it came right up, but of course that was hours  
> later.  Since this script is only called at startup, would it be safe  
> to just delete master.pid before trying to start dovecot?

Yes. And actually you could just delete everything
under /usr/local/var/run/dovecot.
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