[Dovecot] 1.2.alpha1: file_dotlock_open() failed with subscription file

[Frank Elsner]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:48:01 +0300 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 11:13 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
> > Sep 10 01:28:38 seymour dovecot: IMAP(steffen,192.168.28.31): fchown(/home/Mail/steffen/subscriptions.lock) failed: Operation not permitted
> 
> This'll improve the error message:
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/c22b7db8c173
> 
> > File permissions are:
> > 
> > -rw------- 1 steffen elsner 124 Aug 22 12:51 /home/Mail/steffen/subscriptions
> 
> What about /home/Mail/steffen directory's? It's probably trying to
> preserve its group. If so, either change the group or chmod g+s it or
> give mail process permission for that group.

# ls -dal /home/Mail/steffen
drwxr-x--- 19 steffen mail 4096 Sep 10 22:12 /home/Mail/steffen/


--Frank Elsner