Re: [Dovecot] 1.2.3 - fchown failed messages

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 16:46 -0400, Rob Mangiafico wrote:

Hello,

I installed 1.2.3 and we are seeing a few messages in the log files such as:

Aug 4 16:40:24 xyz dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown() failed with file /home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock: Operation not permitted Aug 4 16:40:24 xyz dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown() failed with file /home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted

This patch should give you a bit better error message that would explain the reason: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/8ea90a23ed74