[Dovecot] fchown error on tmp files

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Jul 12 21:52:49 EEST 2009


On Jul 12, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Kim Bisgaard wrote:

> After upgrading to 1.2 I started getting fchown errors in the log.  
> They look like:
> Jul 12 18:32:54 jukebox dovecot: deliver(kim): fchown(/data/mail/ 
> kim/.lists.mythtv-users/tmp/ 
> 1247416373.M857540P19162.jukebox.alleroedderne.adsl.dk, -1, 500(k
> im)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=12(mail), group based on / 
> data/mail/kim/.lists.mythtv-users)

.lists.mythtv-users directory's group is "kim", but the only group  
deliver belongs to is "mail". So either:

a) Change .lists.mythtv-users group to "mail"

b) chmod .lists.mythtv-users to 0700



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