[Dovecot] Dovecot service needs a second restart after boot - euid is not dir owner
Pelle Svensson
pelle2004 at hotmail.com
Sun Aug 28 12:50:55 EEST 2011
After reboot dovecot service need a restart.
dovecot service starts as S99dovecot with only S99rc-local coming up.
After boot following error is filled up in dovecot.log
Aug 28 11:33:12 imap(vuser): Error: open(/home/fetchmail/mailroot/map/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(vuser) egid=500(vuser) missing +r perm: /home/fetchmail/mailroot/map/dovecot.index.log, euid is not dir owner)
Aug 28 11:33:12 imap(vuser): Error: file_dotlock_create(/home/fetchmail/mailroot/map/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(fetchmail) egid=500(fetchmail) missing +w perm: /home/fetchmail/mailroot/map, euid is not dir owner)
Aug 28 11:33:12 imap(vuser): Error: open(/home/fetchmail/mailroot/map/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied
After Linux has booted you just issue
service dovecot restart
And everything is back to normal and no error.
Running on a Pentium 800MHz not too fast pc
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