[Dovecot] Major CPU spike for SSL parameters?

[Peter Chiu]

I tried to set the guid, howerver dovecot reset it back to the way it
was. Did I do something wrong?

foxmulder:dovecot# ll
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel    512 Jan 23 01:03 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel    512 Jan 18 05:13 ..
srw-------  1 root  wheel      0 Jan 23 01:03 auth-worker.54141
drwxr-x---  2 root  dovecot  512 Jan 23 01:54 login
-rw-------  1 root  wheel      6 Jan 23 01:03 master.pid

foxmulder:dovecot# chmod 2750 login
foxmulder:dovecot# ll
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel    512 Jan 23 01:03 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel    512 Jan 18 05:13 ..
srw-------  1 root  wheel      0 Jan 23 01:03 auth-worker.54141
drwxr-s---  2 root  dovecot  512 Jan 23 01:54 login
-rw-------  1 root  wheel      6 Jan 23 01:03 master.pid

foxmulder:dovecot# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/210.dovecot.sh start
Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /var/run/dovecot//login

foxmulder:dovecot# ll
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel    512 Jan 23 01:58 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel    512 Jan 18 05:13 ..
srw-------  1 root  wheel      0 Jan 23 01:57 auth-worker.64310
drwxr-x---  2 root  dovecot  512 Jan 23 01:58 login
-rw-------  1 root  wheel      6 Jan 23 01:57 master.pid

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 01:07 -0500, Peter Chiu wrote:
>> Jan 23 00:38:03 foxmulder dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta2 starting up
>> Jan 23 00:38:03 foxmulder dovecot: 1137994456 + 172800 (1138167256) <
>> 1137994683, size=230, uid=0 vs 0, gid=87 vs 0
>
> So, the GID is wrong. Does your /var/run/dovecot/login directory (or
> wherever the ssl-parameters file exists) have setgid-bit set?
>
> Maybe I should make it change the group just in case anyway.
>