[Dovecot] Occasional fchown errors?

Knute Johnson dovecot at knutejohnson.com
Fri Nov 12 20:41:48 EET 2010


On 11/10/2010 9:07 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 10:53 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:34 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> Nov 10 08:32:59 rabbitbrush dovecot: IMAP(bob):
>>> fchown(/home/bob/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail))
>>> failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(bob), group based on
>>> /var/mail/bob)
>>
>> chmod 0600 /var/mail/*
>>
>> Normal installations don't need them to be 0660.
>>
>
> Thanks, I'll try that.
>
> knute...

That seems to have fixed it.

Thanks,

knute...


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