Hi,
I'm running Dovecot 1.0.7 (with various patches) on CentOS 5.2.
The server has suffered a couple of power loss events. Dovecot is run
as a standalone server.
The problem is that dovecot refuses to start up at boot because the
PID file from before the power loss is left behind. The message is as
follows:
$ /sbin/service dovecot start
Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 10825
(read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid)
Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf
[FAILED]
(Note: there is nothing wrong in the configuration file so the error
message is somewhat misleading.)
I looked at the release notes of 1.0.xx releases and they didn't
mention this.
Is this already a known problem?
Should the start-up logic be made more robust (e.g. check whether a
process corresponding to the PID actually exists)?
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
