Am 26.05.2014 01:01, schrieb Subscriptions:
Yes, have checked the logs, but cannot find any issues/errors in relation to dovecot anywhere
Just to clarify, when I restart dovecot, I expect the socket to be created. Is this correct?
surely as you can see below and that works on 6 machines here for years
service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } }
[root@testserver:~]$ stat /var/spool/postfix/private/auth stat: cannot stat '/var/spool/postfix/private/auth': No such file or directory
[root@testserver:~]$ systemctl status dovecot dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Proxy Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2014-05-26 01:05:21 CEST; 38s ago Process: 860 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot -F (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 860 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
[root@testserver:~]$ systemctl start dovecot.service
[root@testserver:~]$ stat /var/spool/postfix/private/auth File: '/var/spool/postfix/private/auth' Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 socket Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 253971 Links: 1 Access: (0660/srw-rw----) Uid: ( 89/ postfix) Gid: ( 89/ postfix) Access: 2014-05-26 01:06:13.288893380 +0200 Modify: 2014-05-26 01:06:13.288893380 +0200 Change: 2014-05-26 01:06:13.288893380 +0200 Birth: -
On 25/05/14 18:18, Thomas Leuxner wrote:
- Subscriptions <llsubscr@zudiewiener.com> 2014.05.25 02:33:
Have you checked that no security extension comes in play preventing creation of sockets? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features
Should manifest itself in syslog somewhere if you grep for the path in question...