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): I think this Dovecot's LDA (the local delivery agent) [1], which is invoked by the MTA (Postfix) and is, therefore, most probably running as postfix. [...] > > (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 message actually is an indicator against the chroot theory posed elsewhere in this thread (in a chroot, you would get "no such file or directory", I guess). > > 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 Try to set the log file's group to mail (or whatever group Postfix is running as) and make them group writable. Cheers -- t
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