[Dovecot] auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Permission denied

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:18 +0100, mailing at securitylabs.it wrote:
> Hello, just upgraded one of my testing machine from dovecot 1.2.15 to 
> 2.0.7. After some trouble with permissions now all seems working, but 
> when I stop dovecot I have these errors in log:
> 
> Nov  9 17:08:07 in dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by 
> pid=20362 uid=0 code=kill)
> Nov  9 17:08:07 in dovecot: pop3-login: Error: read(anvil) failed: EOF

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/67fbf09d3fa5 fixes these.

> Nov  9 17:08:07 in dovecot: auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) 
> failed: EOF
> Nov  9 17:08:07 in dovecot: auth: Error: 
> net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Permission denied

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/3e4a65a74c40 fixes this so that if
anvil actually does die too early, auth process kills itself.