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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 26.05.2014 01:01, schrieb Subscriptions:
> Yes, have checked the logs, but cannot find any issues/errors in
> relation to dovecot anywhere
> 
> Just to clarify, when I restart dovecot, I expect the socket to be
> created. Is this correct?

surely as you can see below and that works on 6 machines here for years
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service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
  mode                         = 0660
  user                         = postfix
  group                        = postfix
 }
}
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[root at testserver:~]$ stat /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
stat: cannot stat '/var/spool/postfix/private/auth': No such file or directory

[root at testserver:~]$ systemctl status dovecot
dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Proxy
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2014-05-26 01:05:21 CEST; 38s ago
  Process: 860 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot -F (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 860 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

[root at testserver:~]$ systemctl start dovecot.service

[root at testserver:~]$ stat /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
  File: '/var/spool/postfix/private/auth'
  Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   socket
Device: 811h/2065d      Inode: 253971      Links: 1
Access: (0660/srw-rw----)  Uid: (   89/ postfix)   Gid: (   89/ postfix)
Access: 2014-05-26 01:06:13.288893380 +0200
Modify: 2014-05-26 01:06:13.288893380 +0200
Change: 2014-05-26 01:06:13.288893380 +0200
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> On 25/05/14 18:18, Thomas Leuxner wrote:
>> * Subscriptions <llsubscr at zudiewiener.com> 2014.05.25 02:33:
> 
>> Have you checked that no security extension comes in play
>> preventing creation of sockets?
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features
> 
>> Should manifest itself in syslog somewhere if you grep for the path
>> in question...

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