Afer a reboot (and installation of postfix-3.4.5) I am getting the stat-writer permission denied error again.

from doveconf -n

service stats {
 unix_listener stats-reader {
   user = dovecot
 }
 unix_listener stats-writer {
   user = dovecot
 }
}

# ls -ls /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer
0 srw-rw----  1 dovecot  dovecot  0 Apr 20 04:34 /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer

Apr 20 04:45:00 mail postfix/pipe[80136]: 44mTxm3Mblzc3Td: to=<munged>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.06, delays=0.02/0.02/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service (lda(,munged,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permiss))


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