• J Moore, 2006-08-01 07:49

At startup I get the following warning: "Warning: Fixing permissions of /var/dovecot to be world-readable."

Q: Is this something that I can/should fix, or can it be safely ignored?

You usually should only see this once, after that dovecot is supposed to fix it by itself, provided that it has sufficient privileges to do so. What user is dovecot running as, and what's the owner and permission settings of /var/dovecot?

BTW, while we're at it (this one's for Timo, I guess ;-) - is there a specific reason why this check is done via lstat() rather than via plain ol' stat() (see src/master/master-settings.c, line# 784)?

I'm using GNU stow, so /usr/local/var/run/dovecot is actually a symlink to /usr/local/stow/dovecot-data/var/run/dovecot - which, in fact, does have the proper permissions (dovecot:dovecot, 0755) already. Yet I'm still getting this warning everytime dovecot starts up, because lstat() returns the permissions of the symlink (0777) rather than those of the target (0755). "Fixing" it with chmod() in line# 798 doesn't actually fix it, of course, because chmod(), as opposed to lstat(), affects the link target rather than the link itself.

Just curious ...

Thomas

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