Hey Rob, I figured this one out. The bug is associated with the default run/dovecot base_dir. If you move both instances to a different location then (or at least the one named dovecot) it works fine and I can control both instances properly. Chris
On 09/26/2013 09:02 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:45:01AM -0400, Chris Lasater wrote:
I am trying to use 2 instances of Dovecot on the same server so I can have a Director managing my connections, everything appears to be working, but I can not use doveadm to control my 2nd instance, but doveconf seems to work fine. I have noticed the same thing. It seems that doveadm ignores -i. "dovecot" works with -c /path/to/other/dovecot.conf, but it too ignores -i.
We got the idea to try -i
from http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Instance , but "doveadm help" itself does not show a -i. I have stopped and started both my instances so the config running is what is in the config file, but when I use -i Director with doveadm it uses the other instances config. And this is a big problem for trying to use "doveadm director" commands when the director instance uses the nonstandard paths. I haven't found a way to do that yet! "-c /path/to/other/dovecot.conf" didn't work.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Director
Currently on 2.2.5, about to switch to 2.2.6 EE. It seemed like it worked back in 2.0.9 before upgrading.