• Wojciech Matys mcom@koba.pl [2008-04-17 15:43]:

Is there any possiblity to run more than one instance of dovecot in gentoo (I was trying to run second instance but I don't know how to force it to use other pid file than /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) I'm using dovecot from portage dovecot-1.0.13-r1.

Hi,

I am currently maintaining Dovecot at Gentoo. I've just committed dovecot-1.1_rc4-r1 which supports running multiple instances.

To set up a new instance, just do this:

# cp /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot/dovecot.special.conf # sed -i -e 's#/var/run/dovecot#/var/run/dovecot.special#g'
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.special.conf # install -d -o root -g root -m 0755 /var/run/dovecot.special # vim /etc/dovecot/dovecot.special.conf # <-- adjust IPs etc. # ln -s dovecot /etc/init.d/dovecot.special # /etc/init.d/dovecot.special start # rc-update add dovecot.special default # echo hooray

You may of course just copy over the new init script /usr/portage/net-mail/dovecot/files/dovecot.init-r1 to make your 1.0 installation support multiple instances.

Please note you have to wait some time for the changes to make it to your favorite rsync mirror.

Have fun! :)

Regards, Wolfram Schlich wschlich@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/