[Dovecot] Fatal: Login process must not run as root

Hi all,

I am new to dovecot, i had installed dovecot in RH9 machine and when i tried to run( as root) it, i am getting the below message in the log file.

dovecot: Jun 11 18:57:16 Fatal: Login process must not run as root

I have done the installation as below ( as normal user):

./configure
make
sude make install

When i try to run as a normal user i am getting the error like

Error: Can't write to log directory /var/log: Permission denied

Can anybody tell me where i am doing mistake ?

Thanks in advance

Regards, Santhosh