[Dovecot] Delivery failure about update to 1.2.4 (Debian)

[William Witteman]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 03:28:24PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
>On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:00:58 -0400
>Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:59 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:53 -0400, William Witteman wrote:
>> > > log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
>> 
>> > lda:
>> >   log_path: /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log
>> 
>> > > Oct  5 14:47:07 theta postfix/pipe[30972]: 451873B5B8:
>> > > to=<obfuscated>, relay=dovecot, delay=168521,
>> > > delays=168521/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary
>> > > failure)
>> > 
>> > What does deliver log to dovecot.log? If nothing, does it have
>> > enough permissions to write to it?
>> 
>> Oh, /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log of course. :)
>
>I just had a problem similar to this. I turned on all the debug
>(logging) in dovecot and discovered that I had to the default 0600
>permissions on auth-client and auth-master, as shown below. After
>restarting dovecot, all went well.
>
>srw-rw-rw-   1 root  wheel       0B Oct  4 15:43 auth-client=
>srw-rw-rw-   1 root  wheel       0B Oct  4 15:43 auth-master=

I am confused.  The permissions above look like 0666 to me.  Do I make
my file look like what is above, or set it to 0600?
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yours,

William
nerd.cx