On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 16:13 +0100, James Page wrote: > restarting dovecot regularly fails with version 2.0.13 on Ubuntu 11.10 > due to a running child process exiting after the main dovecot process. > > Oct 13 15:04:58 ubuntu dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): Socket > already exists: /var/run/dovecot/anvil
> This is an Ubuntu specific issue as we use upstart to manage dovecot > which monitors the status of the main dovecot process; the Debian init > script appears to make provision for this happening. http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/6894298ae5fd should apply to v2.0 as well, but since it's a bit large change I don't know if I should backport it, at least without some more testing.
