On Saturday, Jul 12, 2003, at 11:13 Europe/Helsinki, Jaime Medrano wrote:
That's the problem. The home dir is exported by nfs. Chdirs should be done as the user, not as root.
Right.. Well, I'll just ignore that error then: Index: mail-process.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/master/mail-process.c,v retrieving revision 1.25 retrieving revision 1.26 diff -u -r1.25 -r1.26 --- mail-process.c 10 Jul 2003 03:04:07 -0000 1.25 +++ mail-process.c 12 Jul 2003 15:45:19 -0000 1.26 @@ -168,7 +168,9 @@ if (*home_dir != '\0') { full_home_dir = *chroot_dir == '\0' ? home_dir : t_strconcat(chroot_dir, "/", home_dir, NULL); - if (chdir(full_home_dir) < 0) + /* NOTE: if home directory is NFS-mounted, we might not + have access to it as root. Ignore such errors. */ + if (chdir(full_home_dir) < 0 && errno != EACCES) i_fatal("chdir(%s) failed: %m", full_home_dir); }