[Dovecot] Log files

[Chris Lasater]

Thanks for responding Timo,

    So according to the page you sent,
User setting= Owner of the file. Defaults to 0 (root)

Would this be considered a bug in Dovecot, since it does not set the file
permissions to the set user for my configuration?

service log {
  user = user
  unix_listener log-errors {
    group = user2
    mode = 0620
    user = user
  }
}


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 14:43 -0400, Chris Lasater wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I just started using Dovecot and was trying to create separate logs
> > instead of using syslog.  Is there a way to get the file permission to be
> > something other then root?
>
> The log files are created by the master dovecot process at startup,
> which typically runs as root, so it also creates the logs as root:root
> 0600. Once the logs are created, their permissions are no longer
> touched. So I usually simply change the permissions once with
> chown/chmod.
>
> >   I have tried the below configuration and it
> > does not seem to change anything. The log process does change to a new
> > user, but it still creates and writes as root.  Whenever I test a new
> > setting I delete all the current logs so they will have to be recreated
> to
> > make sure it does not just keep the previous permissions.
>
> Right, so that doesn't work..
>
> >    I also dont see much documentation on the service log.  according to
> > dovecot -a there are a good number of options, but I dont see any
> > information about them.
>
> Those aren't specific to log service. There is common documentation for
> all services in http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services
>
>