Try turning off Apparmor. When I did the same OpenSuSE upgrade, Apparmor messed up my dovecot installation with similar errors. I disabled Apparmor and the permissions issues disappeared. BTW, I gave up trying to re-configure Apparmor and have left it disabled with no issues.
On 27/07/2015 9:32 PM, josh schooler wrote:
both of my other servers its owned by exim, the permissions in the other two servers are 644, and dovecot starts just fine on those, I don't know what happened I updated my server from opensuse 12.1 to 13.2 and now dovecot is refusing to start.> From: alvin.sm@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com> Subject: Re: help, permissions issues> To: dovecot@dovecot.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:47:14 -0700> CC: alvin.sm@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com> > > hi> > > Hey everyone I've tried changing the permissions with the file it is telling me is giving me the issue, restarted exim and the computer, but still can't get dovecot to start.> > > > 2.2.13> > > dovecot -F> > doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 14: ssl_cert: Can't open file /etc/exim/openssl/exim.crt: Permission denied> > wag ...> > chown root.root /etc/exim/openssl> chmod 750 /etc/exim/openssl> > chown root.root /etc/exim/openssl/exim.*> chmod 400 /etc/exim/openssl/exim.*> > OpenSSL certs should always be read only by root> > you might want to check the docs regarding uid/gid running dovecot > and uid/gid of dovenull> and permissions for the dovecot dir tree /etc/dovecot*> > wag ... i think it should not be owned by exim> > ...> > > ssl_cert = > ssl_key = > pixie dust> alvin> - http://NetworkNightmare.net/OpenSSL> - http://DDos-Mitigator.net