[Dovecot] Dovecot under daemontools
John Peacock
jpeacock at rowman.com
Thu Aug 10 17:41:07 EEST 2006
dale gallagher wrote:
> Firstly, I cannot run dovecot as an unprivileged user, as the OS moans
> that the user doesn't have permission to write to /dev/stderr. I've had
> a similar issue running Clamav, but a patch to Clamav resolved this?
> This seems to be related to referencing /dev/stderr directly. Any ideas?
...snip...
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot
...snip...
You aren't using the correct log_path; it should be:
log_path = /dev/stderr
which *can* be written to by an unprivileged user.
> I also noticed the posts re daemontools some time ago, yet they do not
> include any setup solutions etc - I'd appreciate details from those of
> you who've succeeded in this regard.
Google is your friend:
http://www.thedjbway.org/imap/dovecot.html
I use the run file listed on that page without change and it works just
fine.
John
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