[Dovecot] socket /var/spool/postfix/private/auth not created

[Subscriptions]

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ok. Obviously I'm no guru here, I'm just trying to figure out why this
socket is missing.

If I shut down postfix, the sockets in private are still there. They
are also all owned by postfix. If postfix is only the consumer then I
assume dovecot must have write access to private, which it doesn't

Thanks



On 25/05/14 08:28, Reindl Harald wrote:
> postfix can hardly create the socket because it is the *consumer*
> of it - so dovecot is responsible
> 
> as well as other sockets are *not* created at install but at start
> time - a socket is not a regular file and you can compare it to a
> listening TCP port
> 
> Am 25.05.2014 00:21, schrieb Subscriptions:
>> This may be a stupid question, but which process is supposed to
>> create the socket. All other (existing) sockets in
>> /var/spool/postfix/private are owned by Postfix, so am assuming
>> they were created when Postfix was installed.
>> 
>> On 24/05/14 22:00, Subscriptions wrote:
>>> Made the changes, so entries in 10-master.conf are now:
>>> 
>>> ------ service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { #mode = 0666 
>>> #user = #group = }
>>> 
>>> # Postfix smtp-auth unix_listener
>>> /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0660 user = postfix 
>>> group = postfix } # Auth process is run as this user. #user =
>>> $default_internal_user
>>> 
>>> }
>>> 
>>> Entries in 10-auth.conf are as follows (ass suggested by
>>> another post I found.
>>> 
>>> ------------ ... auth_mechanisms = plain login ...
>>> 
>>> -----------
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Output from dovecot -n
>>> 
>>> -------------- # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux
>>> 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ext4 auth_mechanisms
>>> = plain cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes base_dir =
>>> /var/run/dovecot/ info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info 
>>> log_path = /var/log/dovecot log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
>>> " mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n namespace { inbox =
>>> yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . } passdb { args =
>>> /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap
>>> pop3 service auth { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/auth user =
>>> root } service imap-login { chroot = login executable =
>>> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login user = dovecot } service imap { 
>>> executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap } service pop3-login { 
>>> chroot = login executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login user =
>>> dovecot }
>>> 
>>> ---------------------------
>>> 
>>> Did a reload.
>>> 
>>> Tail of Logs files is as follows ------------dovecot.info
>>> ----- 2014-05-24 21:53:49 imap-login: Info: Login: 
>>> user=<leo at zudiewiener.com>, method=CRAM-MD5,
>>> rip=110.20.34.128, lip=103.4.235.252, mpid=3469, TLS,
>>> session=<9m7L/yP6xgBuFCKA> 2014-05-24 21:53:55 imap-login:
>>> Info: Login: user=<inge at zudiewiener.com>, method=CRAM-MD5,
>>> rip=110.20.34.128, lip=103.4.235.252, mpid=3471, TLS,
>>> session=<c+ktACT6yABuFCKA> 2014-05-24 21:54:00 imap-login:
>>> Info: Login: user=<ilsubscr at zudiewiener.com>, method=CRAM-MD5,
>>> rip=110.20.34.128, lip=103.4.235.252, mpid=3473, TLS,
>>> session=<emh3ACT6zgBuFCKA> -------------------------------
>>> 
>>> -------- dovecot ------------- 2014-05-24 21:29:49 config:
>>> Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) 
>>> 2014-05-24 21:29:49 log: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by
>>> pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) 2014-05-24 21:29:49 master: Warning:
>>> Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) 2014-05-24
>>> 21:30:13 master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0
>>> code=kill) 2014-05-24 21:30:13 log: Warning: Killed with signal
>>> 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) 2014-05-24 21:41:41 master:
>>> Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration 
>>> ---------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Leo
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 24/05/14 20:48, Thomas Leuxner wrote:
>>>> * lister171254 <llsubscr at zudiewiener.com> 2014.05.24 11:56:
>>>> 
>>>>> No matter what I try, the listener is not created.
>>>>> 
>>>>> <http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/file/n48182/32.png>
>>>> 
>>>> Text does the trick as well and survives pictures in the
>>>> archives ;)
>>>> 
>>>>> # Postfix smtp-auth unix_listener
>>>>> /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0600 user =
>>>>> postfix group = postfix
>>>> 
>>>> The wiki quoted and my running config both use 'mode = 0660'.
>>>> Give that a try:
>>>> 
>>>> service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>>>> { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user =
>>>> doveauth }
>>>> 
>>>> You may leave out the extra doveauth user which is a
>>>> specific flavor of my configuration. If that still fails, you
>>>> should post some log excerpts from dovecot after a reload
>>>> which probably show the problem.
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