Re: [Dovecot] Problem with running two dovecot instances on the same server

On 26.7.2012, at 5.27, Alexandr Sabitov wrote:

Jul 26 11:51:20 dovecot-test-1 dovecot: director: Error: Empty server list Jul 26 11:51:20 dovecot-test-1 dovecot: director: Fatal: Invalid value for director_mail_servers setting Jul 26 11:51:20 dovecot-test-1 dovecot: master: Error: service(director): command startup failed, throttling for 60 secs

Director process gets started for the backend installation where it of course isn't configured. My guess: doveadm (from some cronjob?) is attempting to connect to /var/run/dovecot/director-admin instead of /var/run/dovecot-proxy/director-admin.