[Dovecot] failure to create lock

[Javi]

Hello
Thanks Olivier for your help
the permissions of /var/spool/mail

drwxrwxr-x   3 root   mail   4096 jun  9 14:52 mail

if change the third grup R-X to RWX works?
is insecure this action?

regards


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olivier Tharan" <olive at pasteur.fr>
To: "Javi Pardo (DAKOTA)" <dakota at menta.net>
Cc: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] failure to create lock


> * Javi Pardo (DAKOTA) <dakota at menta.net> (20040608 23:22):
> > Jun  8 23:14:09 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock)
failed: P
> > ermission denied
> [ ... ]
> > i have probed all options ... dovecot no create the lock, the user
dovecot works, but no the program
>
> As you can see from the log line, the pop3 process runs under the
> `dakota' identity, not the `dovecot' identity. The user dakota
> cannot create a lock file.
>
> What are the permissions of the /var/spool/mail directory?
>
> -- 
> olive