[Dovecot] Something weird happening...

[Elisamuel Resto]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:44:25 +0200, Claudio Prono wrote:
> Hi to all,
> 
> I use Dovecot dovecot11-1.1.3-5.1 from OpenSuSE 11, when i send a mail
> from the logs i read:
> 
> Oct  8 10:36:31 mail postfix/pipe[17934]: A360A851:
> to=<mediatest at atpss.net>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.22,
> delays=0.18/0/0/0.04, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure.
> Command output: Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot-err.log: Permission
> denied )
> 
> But, log files seems ok:
> 
> -rw------- 1 777 root  56 Oct  8 10:35 dovecot-err.log
> -rw------- 1 777 root 302 Oct  8 10:35 dovecot-inf.log

According to the below output, the above output is wrong. User with UID 777 does
not exist, hence, the Permission denied.

You should chown dovecot /var/log/dovecot-*.log

> Also processess seems right:
> 
> root     17965  0.0  0.0   2052   584 ?        Ss   10:35   0:00
> /usr/sbin/dovecot
> root     17966  0.0  0.2   8564  2172 ?        S    10:35   0:00
> dovecot-auth
> root     17967  0.0  0.2   8564  2356 ?        S    10:35   0:00
> dovecot-auth -w
> dovecot  17969  0.0  0.1   3476  1572 ?        S    10:36   0:00 pop3-login
> dovecot  17970  0.0  0.1   3476  1572 ?        S    10:36   0:00 pop3-login
> dovecot  17971  0.0  0.1   3476  1572 ?        S    10:36   0:00 pop3-login
> dovecot  17972  0.0  0.1   3484  1584 ?        S    10:36   0:00 imap-login
> dovecot  17973  0.0  0.1   3484  1584 ?        S    10:36   0:00 imap-login
> dovecot  17974  0.0  0.1   3484  1584 ?        S    10:36   0:00 imap-login
> 

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Elisamuel Resto          | GPG: 18615F19
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