[Dovecot] /var/run/dovecot mode 750 too tight

[Frank Cusack]

On November 29, 2009 9:31:22 PM -0500 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Frank Cusack wrote:
>
>> dovecot-1.2.8 creates /var/run/dovecot mode 750.
>
> No, it creates it with mode 0755. Did you compile from sources? Are you
> sure it's 0750 if you rm -rf the directory and start "dovecot" binary
> directly (instead of e.g. some init script creating it)?

You're right, thank you.  I am using 1.2.8 from source but my init
script still has the directory creation itself as well ... which sets
the wrong mode.

-frank