On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 16:46 -0400, Rob Mangiafico wrote:
Hello,
I installed 1.2.3 and we are seeing a few messages in the log files such
as:
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Aug 4 16:40:24 xyz dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown() failed with file
/home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock: Operation not permitted
Aug 4 16:40:24 xyz dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown() failed with file
/home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted
This patch should give you a bit better error message that would explain
the reason: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/8ea90a23ed74
The log file now shows:
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Aug 4 19:10:10 rezclick dovecot: IMAP(john):
fchown(/home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 12(mail)) failed:
Operation not permitted (egid=509(johngrp), group based on
/var/spool/mail/john)
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/var/spool/mail/john has a group of "mail", whereas the home directory has
their own "group". In 1.1.x we did not get these errors. Is this a fix in
1.2? I assume we have to make the group match from their home dir and
/var/spool/mail to get rid of the error? Any downside to allowing this
error to continue? Thanks.
Rob
