On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:34 -0500, Michael wrote: > Summary > ======= > After an unclean shutdown the file /var/run/dovecot/master.pid remained > behind. This prevented dovecot from starting, and gave a misleading error > message. > > To be more resilient and fault-tolerant, I recommend that dovecot also > check the validity of the PID in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid in order to > determine whether or not another dovecot process is running.
It does check if a process is running with that PID. Doing any further checks to make sure that the PID is a dovecot process would probably be more trouble than worth. > Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 1965 > (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) > Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf This "Invalid configuration" message is bad. Removed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/805d0831deb6
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