On F7, I get to where I have Postfix and Dovecot installed and configured,
postfix check runs fine, but when I try to start Dovecot I'm getting a
permission error. Here is the log entry:
Dec 29 21:54:06 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up
Dec 29 21:54:06 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: Generating Diffie-Hellman parameters for
the first time. This may take a while..
Dec 29 21:54:06 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: auth(default):
bind(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied
Dec 29 21:54:06 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: auth(default):
net_listen_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied
Here are the permissions on the filesystem:
# ls -ld /var/run/dovecot
drwxr-xr-x 3 root dovecot 4096 2007-12-29 22:07 /var/run/dovecot
And in the conf file there is this in the lda protocol:
socket listen {
master {
path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mode = 0600
user = vmail
}
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}
What should I change to straighten out these permissions?
I forgot to mention that when I try to start Dovecot that I get this message:
dovecot dead but subsys locked
I'm thinking it is just a side effect of the permissions issue.
Anyway I tried setting perms to 777 on /var/run/dovecot but this didn't help.
So still needing some hints.
A clue. I can start Dovecot as 'root':
# dovecot
# ps -ef
root 14164 1 0 00:07 ? 00:00:00 dovecot
root 14165 14164 0 00:07 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-auth
root 14166 14164 0 00:07 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-auth -w
dovecot 14168 14164 0 00:07 ? 00:00:00 pop3-login
dovecot 14169 14164 0 00:07 ? 00:00:00 pop3-login
dovecot 14170 14164 0 00:07 ? 00:00:00 pop3-login
dovecot 14171 14164 0 00:07 ? 00:00:00 imap-login
dovecot 14172 14164 0 00:07 ? 00:00:00 imap-login
dovecot 14173 14164 0 00:07 ? 00:00:00 imap-login
maillog:
Dec 30 00:07:40 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up
Dec 30 00:07:41 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to
127.0.0.1 (mailserver)
But if I try to start it using init.d:
# service dovecot start
dovecot dead but subsys locked
maillog:
Dec 30 00:12:49 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting
down
Dec 30 00:12:49 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: auth(default):
bind(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied
Dec 30 00:12:49 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: auth(default):
net_listen_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied
Dec 30 00:12:49 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: child 14301 (auth) returned error 89
????
Gerry
