Am 26.05.2014 01:01, schrieb Subscriptions: > Yes, have checked the logs, but cannot find any issues/errors in > relation to dovecot anywhere > > Just to clarify, when I restart dovecot, I expect the socket to be > created. Is this correct?
surely as you can see below and that works on 6 machines here for years
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service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}
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[root@testserver:~]$ stat /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
stat: cannot stat '/var/spool/postfix/private/auth': No such file or directory
[root@testserver:~]$ systemctl status dovecot
dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Proxy
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2014-05-26 01:05:21 CEST; 38s ago
Process: 860 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot -F (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 860 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
[root@testserver:~]$ systemctl start dovecot.service
[root@testserver:~]$ stat /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
File: '/var/spool/postfix/private/auth'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 socket
Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 253971 Links: 1
Access: (0660/srw-rw----) Uid: ( 89/ postfix) Gid: ( 89/ postfix)
Access: 2014-05-26 01:06:13.288893380 +0200
Modify: 2014-05-26 01:06:13.288893380 +0200
Change: 2014-05-26 01:06:13.288893380 +0200
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> On 25/05/14 18:18, Thomas Leuxner wrote:
>> * Subscriptions <llsub...@zudiewiener.com> 2014.05.25 02:33:
>
>> Have you checked that no security extension comes in play
>> preventing creation of sockets?
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features
>
>> Should manifest itself in syslog somewhere if you grep for the path
>> in question...
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