debugging file permissions wrong

[Laura Steynes]

Hi,
Yes, lda writes to deliver.log just fine, will give type syslog a try, was
just hoping to put it into a debug file so when we sort out the issue we
can delete the file without losing correct metadata entries


On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 3:26 PM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:

>
> > On 01/06/2021 02:35 Laura Steynes <laura.steynes72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > In trying to debug a strange error where client can't login, I enabled
> all the usual debug settings, this is all good, it works for imap and pop3
> fine, but the problem is when used with dovecot's LDA there is a nasty
> issue.
> >
> > the file created by debug_log_path in this case
> /var/log/dovecot/debug.log , this file created as root, again this is fine
> for nice logging of imap and pop3, but this causes postfix not to deliver
> mail, for write permission denied, LDA runs as vmail, all my sub sections
> like *_listener also = vmail and all my uid/gid settings are also to
> user/group vmail
> >
> > obviously you wont main log files to not be owned by vmail for case of
> security, so is there a way to set the ownership of the debug file - apart
> from the obvious of remembering 40 minutes later when you get alert of high
> mailq level to chown the file :)
> >
> > If there is no way, may the developers take this as a feature request
> please.
> > Thanks
> > Loz
>
> dovecot-lda should be using log process to write logs, as i'm sure you are
> getting the non-debug kind of logs just fine from lda, right?
>
> One way to workaround this would be to use debug_log_path=syslog to write
> logs via syslog socket.
>
> Aki
>
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