dovecot - Jun 2007 - multiple dovecot invocations

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  
sdean at bard.edu  voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 14:57 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
> How do I correctly run multiple dc instances?
Change the base_dir. Although if you're also using SSL, there's still a
bug: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/f7c1b6f2947d

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