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Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs



But why is postfix even holding a lock on it? And how do I prevent that? I never asked it to.
At least, I don't think there should be a different process holding a lock on it.

Am Mi., 15. Mai 2024 um 18:45 Uhr schrieb Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com>:
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 12:23:35PM +0200, Richard wrote:
>
[...]

> But that's still not that helpful for the main issue. Why on earth is
> postfix throwing issues about the log files, even when they are
> world-readable and -writable? It's not that dovecot doesn't log to them,
> but it's also not the case that it's an error message that can just be
> ignored, as it brings mail delivery to a halt.
>

Maybe because you write directly to the logfile. One process trying to write
t it while a different already holds a lock to it.

-H

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