[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1b2: Enet_connect_unix(/usr/local/dovecot-1.1/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Permission denied

[David Jonas]

On startup of dovecot 1.1b2 I seem to have some permission trouble.

Dovecot was configured with --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-1.1 for testing
purposes while dovecot 1.0.2 is in production.

# cd /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/sbin/

# ./dovecot -F -c ../etc/dovecot.conf
Enet_connect_unix(/usr/local/dovecot-1.1/var/run/dovecot/dict-server)
failed: Permission denied

# ls -la /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/var/run/dovecot/dict-server
srwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 Oct  2 12:18
/usr/local/dovecot-1.1/var/run/dovecot/dict-server

# tail -f /var/log/maillog.err
Oct  2 12:23:25 kelly-a dovecot: auth(default):
net_connect_unix(/usr/local/dovecot-1.1/var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.12891)
failed: Permission denied
Oct  2 12:23:25 kelly-a dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down
Oct  2 12:23:25 kelly-a dovecot: child 12891 (auth) returned error 89


Changing base_dir and setting the path in the plugin params doesn't seem
to make a difference either.

Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks,

David

# ./dovecot -c ../etc/dovecot.conf -n
# 1.1.beta2: ../etc/dovecot.conf
protocols: imap pop3
listen(default): *:9143
listen(imap): *:9143
listen(pop3): *:9110
ssl_disable: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot-1.1/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_greeting: postoffice.no-ip.com (1.1)
login_log_format_elements: user=<%u@%d> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c
login_process_per_connection: no
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 89
mail_uid: vmail
mail_gid: vmail
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota
mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota
mail_plugins(pop3): quota
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u)[%p]:
pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %f
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5
  user: nobody
  username_translation: %@
  username_format: %Lu
  verbose: yes
  passdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
  userdb:
    driver: prefetch
plugin:
  quota: dict:user::proxy::quota
dict:
  quota: mysql:/usr/local/dovecot-1.1/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf