[Dovecot] failure to create lock
Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed: P ermission denied Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file / var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed: P ermission denied Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file / var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050b08 (0) Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3: I/O leak: 0x807c2b4 (1) Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3: Timeout leak: 0x8062520
id dovecot uid=97(dovecot) gid=12(mail) grupos=12(mail)
[root@dakota root]# su dovecot bash-2.05b$ touch /var/spool/mail/dakota.lock bash-2.05b$ ls -la /var/spool/mail/dakota.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 dovecot mail 0 jun 8 23:16 /var/spool/mail/dakota.lock bash-2.05b$
i have probed all options ... dovecot no create the lock, the user dovecot works, but no the program
i need help for this problem.. :(
regards
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- Javi Pardo (DAKOTA) <dakota@menta.net> (20040608 23:22):
As you can see from the log line, the pop3 process runs under the
dakota' identity, not the
dovecot' identity. The user dakota
cannot create a lock file.
What are the permissions of the /var/spool/mail directory?
-- olive
Hello Thanks Olivier for your help the permissions of /var/spool/mail
drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 4096 jun 9 14:52 mail
if change the third grup R-X to RWX works? is insecure this action?
regards
----- Original Message ----- From: "Olivier Tharan" <olive@pasteur.fr> To: "Javi Pardo (DAKOTA)" <dakota@menta.net> Cc: <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] failure to create lock
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