[Dovecot] dovecot-shared tries to fchown index+control files but fails

Adam McDougall mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu
Mon Jun 4 06:05:46 EEST 2007


On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:57:49AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:

  On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 18:59 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote:
  > May 24 18:45:35 hostname dovecot: IMAP(username): 
  > fchown(/home/username/Maildir/dovecot/public/control/org/.mailfolder/dovecot-uidlist) failed: 
  > Operation not permitted
  
  I'm not sure if you already figured this out, but these calls are used
  to change the file's group, not its owner.
  
Why would dovecot-shared affect files outside of the shared directory though?


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