Hi, I'm seeing the same, but I think it's every time the lda is called to deliver mail to a mailbox. Postfix runs it as vmail:vmail.
My socket is owned by root:dovecot (on Debian buster).
Should I add vmail to the dovecot group to enable it to write? Or is changing the socket to 0666 safer?
I'm also a little confused, because according to https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/stats/ no statistics are logged by default, and I have no mentions of 'metric' anywhere in my config, so why is the write even attempted? (dovecot 2.3.4)
Cheers, Richard
On 24/10/20 4:46 am, Aki Tuomi wrote:
Hi!
You can ignore it, or you can change the socket permissions to 0666.
service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { mode = 0666 } }
Aki
On 23/10/2020 17:52 mj lists@merit.unu.edu wrote:
Hi,
Nobody?
It happens so rarely, and the system appears to be running fine otherwise, should I just ignore it?
Still makes me wonder way it would happen at all..?
MJ
On 10/22/20 12:53 PM, mj wrote:
Hi,
We are getting very occasional messags from dovecot:
net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied
Over the last week, the message appeared five times. (on a mail server with over 100 users, to that's basically almost never)
doveconf -n below
# 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () # OS: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.6 xfs
snip...
service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } }
and the on-disk permissions are:
root@dovecot:~# ls -l /var/run/dovecot/*stat* srw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats prw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats-mail prw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats-user srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/stats-reader srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer
We're not sure what makes the Permission denied error happen...
Anyone with an idea?
MJ