Quota warning executable can not log to /dev/stdout

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Sat Oct 28 12:43:34 EEST 2017


Try adding

service quota-warning {
  chroot =
}

It won't chroot it then, but I'm not sure if that has a huge security impact.

Aki

> On October 28, 2017 at 12:13 PM Michael Härtl <haertl.mike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm running dovecot 2.2.27 in a alpine based docker container and want 
> to log to /dev/stdout. I therefore added this setting:
> 
>      log_path = /dev/stdout
> 
> Logging works fine so far.
> 
> Now I've added a quota-warning script. With the log_path setting above 
> the script creates warnings like:
> 
> Oct 28 10:27:01 quota-warning: Error: Can't open log file /dev/stdout: 
> No such device or address
> Oct 28 10:27:01 quota-warning: Fatal: master: service(quota-warning): 
> child 460 returned error 75
> 
> 
> When I change log_path to something like /tmp/dovecot.log everything 
> works fine.
> 
> Dovecot itself is started via s6 with a run script like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/sbin/dovecot -F -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> 
> 
> What could cause this issue and how could I fix it?
> 
> 
> 
> For the record here's my doveconf -n output:
> 
> 
> # 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 4.4.27-x86_64-jb1 x86_64  ext4
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> auth_verbose = yes
> first_valid_uid = 100
> log_path = /dev/stdout
> mail_gid = dovecot
> mail_home = /var/mail/domains/%d/%n
> mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/domains/%d/%n
> mail_max_userip_connections = 160
> mail_plugins = " quota"
> mail_privileged_group = dovecot
> mail_uid = vmail
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope 
> encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric 
> relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify 
> environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext
> namespace inbox {
>    inbox = yes
>    location =
>    mailbox Drafts {
>      auto = subscribe
>      special_use = \Drafts
>    }
>    mailbox Junk {
>      auto = subscribe
>      special_use = \Junk
>    }
>    mailbox Sent {
>      auto = subscribe
>      special_use = \Sent
>    }
>    mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>      special_use = \Sent
>    }
>    mailbox Trash {
>      auto = subscribe
>      special_use = \Trash
>    }
>    prefix =
>    separator = .
> }
> passdb {
>    args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf.ext
>    driver = sql
> }
> plugin {
>    quota = maildir:User quota
>    quota_exceeded_message = Storage quota for user %u exceeded (Benutzer 
> %u hat sein Speichervolumen ueberschritten)
>    quota_grace = 10%%
>    quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M
>    quota_status_nouser = DUNNO
>    quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full
>    quota_status_success = DUNNO
>    quota_warning = storage=85%% quota-warning 80 %u %d
> }
> protocols = imap lmtp sieve
> service auth {
>    unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>      group = postfix
>      mode = 0666
>      user = postfix
>    }
>    unix_listener auth-userdb {
>      mode = 0777
>    }
> }
> service lmtp {
>    unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
>      group = postfix
>      mode = 0600
>      user = postfix
>    }
> }
> service quota-status {
>    client_limit = 1
>    executable = quota-status -p postfix
>    inet_listener {
>      port = 10001
>    }
> }
> service quota-warning {
>    executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
>    group = dovecot
>    unix_listener quota-warning {
>      mode = 0666
>      user = dovecot
>    }
>    user = vmail
> }
> ssl_cert = </certs/fullchain.pem
> ssl_key =  # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3
> userdb {
>    args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf.ext
>    driver = sql
> }
> protocol imap {
>    mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota"
> }
> protocol lmtp {
>    mail_plugins = " quota sieve"
> }


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