[Dovecot] what defines dovecot LOG perms?

[Mark Adams]

Is the dovecot daemon running as root? I would assume this is why it
would make the log root:testuser.

Instead of changing the perms you could chown the log to be
testuser:testuser - but this would be changed back to root if you have
any logrotate setup

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:21:52AM -0700, OpenMacNews wrote:
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> hi mark,
> 
> > Is it possible this would be created as root root
> 
> possible ... but
> 
> > and you have a SGID
> > on the folder above this one (.) that is assigned to the group
> > testuser?
> 
> yes, that's the case:
> 
> /var/MailServer/Logs/dovecot  > ls -al
>   total 8
>   drwxrwxr-x 3 testuser testuser  102 2006-09-11 07:55 ./
>   drwxrwxr-x 6 testuser testuser  204 2006-08-27 17:40 ../
>   -rw------- 1 root     testuser 4871 2006-09-11 08:12 dovecot.log
> 
> 
> my _current_ problem is, however, unless that dovecot.log is 0666, when 
> i try a local delivery via exim->dovecot_lda, w/:
> 
> 	exim -v -odf testuser at mail.testdomain.com
> 
> i get:
> 
> LOG: MAIN
>   <testuser at mail.testdomain.com>: dovecot_lda transport output: 
> deliver(testuser at mail.testdomain.com): Fatal: Can't open log file 
> /var/MailServer/Logs/dovecot/dovecot.log: Permission denied
> 
> in the *exim* log ...
> 
> if i change the log's perms to 0666, then THAT error goes away.
> 
> fwiw, EXIM runs as user 'testuser' ... NOT as root.
> 
> richard
> 
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