[Dovecot] Fatal: open() failed for /var/run/dovecot/login: Permission denied

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Mon Mar 15 11:21:06 EET 2010


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On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Andy Yen wrote:

> I keep getting this message when I try to start dovecot using the -F option.
> Fatal: open() failed for /var/run/dovecot/login: Permission denied

Remove /var/run/dovecot/login, it will be created upon start, but IMHO you 
need 0755 permission on /var/run/dovecot

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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