stats-writer failed: Permission denied

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Jakobus Schürz wrote:

> Since i compile my own dovecot (not using dovecot from debian), i get this 
> error on each startup dovecot with systemd
>
> Feb 07 11:16:35 aldebaran dovecot[7455]: imap: Error: 
> net_connect_unix(/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission 
> denied
> Feb 07 11:16:35 aldebaran dovecot[7455]: imap: Error: 
> net_connect_unix(/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission 
> denied
>
>
> I can change the owner and/or permissions of the file, than it works till the 
> next reboot.
>
> How can i set this correctly in my configs?

check out something like:

service stats {
   fifo_listener stats-mail {
     user = vmail
     mode = 0600
   }
}

https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services#unix_listeners_and_fifo_listeners

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Steffen Kaiser
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