[Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

[Romer Ventura]

I had to chmod 777 for it to work..


Thanks
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Romer Ventura

On May 10, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Phil Howard wrote:

> I'm getting this ...
>
> May 10 12:45:01 eth0 postfix/local[3416]: A788D685F7: to=<
> xxxxxxxx at xxxxxxxx.net>, relay=local, delay=13, delays=13/0/0/0.03,
> dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output:  
> Can't open
> log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied )
>
> So I'm looking at http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA to see what I can do  
> about
> it.  I would have hoped some comments in the example config file  
> would have
> mentioned this and suggested a default practice solution.  Is this  
> something
> few people or many people encounter (among those using dovecot/ 
> deliver from
> Postfix)?
>
> If I do as the wiki describes and make separate log files for
> dovecot/deliver to use, do I just make them owned by Postfix?  It  
> would seem
> to me a different directory might be more helpful (absent log files  
> could be
> created by having the directory permissions.  I'm also thinking in  
> terms of
> log rotations, too ... and I prefer to do log rotations by date  
> stamping
> rather than pushing sequence numbers (the legacy log rotation).
>
> Any chance there are %-style variables I can use in log file/path  
> names to
> make log files automatically named by the date (and maybe time) ...  
> kind of
> like in a shell script I would do: `date +/path/to/tree/%Y/%m/% 
> d.log` or
> such.