I need to have multiple invocations of dovecot running, one for productions and then one or more for test/dev, doing things like trying different authentication methods, getting quota working, etc. I knew how to do this with inetd, but I have been convinced that direct invocation is preferable, so I need to know how to do multiple invocations of dovecot.

I had thought that perhaps I could do this: dovecot -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot2.conf where dovecot2.conf has different different listen port parms. This I did, and while it does seem to work, I get this error in the syslog:

Jun 5 14:42:43 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: Socket already exists: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server Jun 5 14:42:43 mercury mail:crit dovecot: execv(/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dict) failed: No such file or directo ry Jun 5 14:42:43 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: child 1437914 (dict) returned error 84 (exec() failed) How do I correctly run multiple dc instances?

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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
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