[Dovecot] Something weird happening...

[Timo Sirainen]

On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Bill Cole wrote:

> Claudio Prono wrote:
>> Very strange, i have tryied to chmod 666 all log files, like that:
>> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  681 Oct  8 11:08 dovecot-err.log
>> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1039 Oct  8 11:02 dovecot-inf.log
>> (Is terrible i know, but only a test)
>
> I think you should follow the suggestion already provided:
>
> >>> You should chown dovecot /var/log/dovecot-*.log

dovecot? In the preferred configuration only login processes run using  
dovecot user, and the dovecot user has access to nothing. Login  
processes don't need to access log files.

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