On 19 March 2018 at 22:48, @lbutlr <kremels@kreme.com> wrote:

On 2018-03-19 (13:19 MDT), Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Plus, if dovecot is able to write to a file owned by root:wheel, then there is a BIG problem right there!!!

Logging is generally done by syslogd, not directly by the process. So no, dovecot is not writing to a file owned by root anymore than postfix is writing to mail.log which is also owned by root.

In my specific case, it is rsyslogd.

I have been running FreeBSD since 1997, so I know quite a lot about it!

I know about /etc/syslog.conf, but you do realize now that you are conflicting yourself?

You want to provide doveconf -n output and get help, or figure it out yourself.

I run dovecot and Exim (MTA) on FreeBSD. I don't use syslogd to do the logging as the same can be controlled within the respective daemons.

So, figure out what you have done to make Postfix want to write to /var/log/dovecot.log. In the meantime, you can chmod 1777 /var/log/dovecot.log as you figure things out!

Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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