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