Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 10:16:13PM +0200, Richard wrote:
> Maybe someone here knows how the ownership of these files for Dovecot needs
> to be in order to work, as various distributions of Dovecot packages seem
> to use different users:
> I'd like Dovecot not to log into syslog, but to dedicated files. Therefore
> I've created the directory /var/log/dovecot and told dovecot in
> 10-logging.conf to log info, debug and error messages to separate files.
> But I get error messages from postfix (weird):
> 
> May 13 20:55:37 mail postfix/local[2824184]: 95BCF1000A9: to=<user@domain.de>,
> > relay=local, delay=3.2, delays=1.9/0.29/0/1.1, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred
> > (temporary failure. Command output: lda(user): Error:
> > net_connect_unix(/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied Can't
> > open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied )
> 
> This is the content of /var/log/dovecot:
> -rw-r--r--  1 dovecot dovecot    0 13. Mai 20:50 debug.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 dovecot dovecot  880 13. Mai 21:21 error.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 dovecot dovecot  40K 13. Mai 21:20 info.log
> 
> So why is Dovecot complaining?

    :-)


> I only see processes owned by root, dovecot,
> dovenull and user processes of dovecot. And dovenull seems to be not
> relevant for this.


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} May 13 20:55:37 mail postfix/local[2824184]: 95BCF1000A9: to=<user@domain.de>,
} } open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied )

Note  postfix

 
> Best
> Richard


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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