Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
in my life that I have solved a problem in a linux box by rebooting. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
ing. SELinux is not installed, and since dovecot is able to write to the concerned directory when delivering mail, I do not think it is a permission problem. I think the error message is somehow wrong - I will install v1.2 and try again. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:51:11 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:40:00 you wrote: > > exec "strace -f -o /tmp/access.log -etrace=file -p " > > then try to access pop3 when fail occurs send us /tmp/access.log > > (gzipped) > > attached w

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:50:05 Timo Sirainen wrote: > > I also did a chmod o+r on /home, /home/vmail, /home/vmail/ > > example.com and > > /home/vmail/example.com/john > > chdir() wants +x, not +r. that doesn't work either -- regards Kenneth Gons

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:40:00 you wrote: > exec "strace -f -o /tmp/access.log -etrace=file -p " > then try to access pop3 when fail occurs send us /tmp/access.log > (gzipped) attached -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ access

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:15:12 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Wednesday 20 May 2009 18:49:25 Steffen Kaiser wrote: > > Well, there are lots of "permission denied" problems lately. > > > > Are you really absolutely sure that user with uid 5000 may chdir into &

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
lesystem? Or do you use a remote > filesystem, which permissions probably lie to the client. no - of course this is a VPS on a Gandi xen setup, but I do not see how anything is affected by this > > Are all files in /home/vmail/example.com/john owned by uid 5000 and r/w? yes > No dead sym links, etc.pp? no. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 16:58:22 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > no > > > Anyway that > > chdir() syscall really failed with that error message. The reason for > > that is less clear then.. v1.1+ would give a much nicer error message > > here telling exactly what i

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 01:20:37 you wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 13:35 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > May 19 09:16:10 greenchilly dovecot: chdir(/home/vmail/example.com/john) > > failed with uid 5000: Permission denied > > .. > > > I have looked at the arc

[Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-19 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/