net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied

[Aki Tuomi]

Hi!

You can ignore it, or you can change the socket permissions to 0666.

service stats {
   unix_listener stats-writer {
      mode = 0666
   }
}

Aki


> On 23/10/2020 17:52 mj <lists at merit.unu.edu> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi,
> 
> Nobody?
> 
> It happens so rarely, and the system appears to be running fine 
> otherwise, should I just ignore it?
> 
> Still makes me wonder way it would happen at all..?
> 
> MJ
> 
> On 10/22/20 12:53 PM, mj wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We are getting very occasional messags from dovecot:
> > 
> >> net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied
> > 
> > Over the last week, the message appeared five times. (on a mail server 
> > with over 100 users, to that's basically almost never)
> > 
> > doveconf -n below
> > 
> >> # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> >> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 ()
> >> # OS: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.6 xfs
> > 
> > snip...
> > 
> >> service stats {
> >>   unix_listener stats-reader {
> >>     group = vmail
> >>     mode = 0660
> >>     user = vmail
> >>   }
> >>   unix_listener stats-writer {
> >>     group = vmail
> >>     mode = 0660
> >>     user = vmail
> >>   }
> >> }
> > 
> > and the on-disk permissions are:
> > 
> >> root at dovecot:~# ls -l /var/run/dovecot/*stat*
> >> srw------- 1 root  root  0 Oct  6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats
> >> prw------- 1 root  root  0 Oct  6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats-mail
> >> prw------- 1 root  root  0 Oct  6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats-user
> >> srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct  6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/stats-reader
> >> srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct  6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer
> > 
> > We're not sure what makes the Permission denied error happen...
> > 
> > Anyone with an idea?
> > 
> > MJ