As I said in my original note:

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. This second and different config file had different listen ports and a different base_dir. So what Gabriele Fergola and

Odhiambo Washington suggest has already been done.....

Gabriele Fergola wrote:

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 <mailto: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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Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York  12504
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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