[Dovecot] permissions warning on OpenBSD 3.9

Brad brad at comstyle.com
Tue Aug 1 19:31:41 EEST 2006


On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:52:29AM -0500, J Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:04:06AM -0400, the unit calling itself Brad wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:49:38AM -0500, J Moore wrote:
> > > At startup I get the following warning:
> > > "Warning: Fixing permissions of /var/dovecot to be world-readable."
> > > 
> > > Q: Is this something that I can/should fix, or can it be safely ignored?
> > > 
> > When Dovecot prints this message it has corrected the issue already.
> > The OpenBSD port was creating /var/doveocot with permissions of 0700
> > instead of 0755, as it should be. I fixed the port 3 days ago.
> 
> If 0755 is what it should be, then you are correct:
> 
> $ ls -l /var
> ...
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root     wheel       512 Aug  1 01:30 dovecot
> ...
> 
> 
> On a different topic: I also had an issue with the default file locks; I 
> had to change:
> From: #mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl
> To: mbox_write_locks = fcntl
> 
> I got this change from a blog that turned up in a Google search.

I also fixed the example config that is installed by the port to use fcntl
for the mbox write locking method.


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