On Apr 25, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 25.4.2012, at 17.20, David Warden wrote:
Apr 25 09:56:26 wardentest3 dovecot: service=indexer-worker user=warden rip= Error: open(/proc/self/io) failed: Permission .. Based on http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services#indexer-worker it seems like this is because the indexer-worker process is created as root but at the time of indexing the indexer-worker drops privs to the mail user. In /proc/<indexer-worker pid>/, io is mode 0400 and owned by root, so it makes sense that the mail user would be unable to read that file.
Does the attached patch fix it?
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The error is still logged, but is that intentional on your part? It looks like the patch logs the failure to open() when the error returned is anything other than ENOENT and in my case the error is EACCESS. Other than that it looks like it correctly disables accessing that file.
The strange thing is it looks like the stats are still collected (unless I am reading the output of the stats dump incorrectly):
[root@wardentest3 mailtest]# doveadm stats dump -s /var/run/dovecot/mailtest/stats command user=warden cmd args session user last_update user_cpu sys_cpu min_faults maj_faults vol_cs invol_cs disk_input disk_output read_count read_bytes write_count write_bytes mail_lookup_path mail_lookup_attr mail_read_count mail_read_bytes mail_cache_hits select inbox 27fb87218302984f084c0000ae899e04 warden 1335362182.950250 0.000000 0.000000 172 0 46 0 0 12288 13 7883 4 381 0 0 0 0 0 search text "warden" 27fb87218302984f084c0000ae899e04 warden 1335362186.588023 0.001000 0.000000 32 0 4 1 0 0 4 108 1 43 0 0 0 0 0 logout 27fb87218302984f084c0000ae899e04 warden 1335362189.161790 0.000000 0.000000 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 108 3 157 0 0 0 0 0
These are IMAP command statistics. The problem was only with indexer-worker.