Like I said, the log files are created by Dovecot master process at
startup. The log service's user permissions don't matter because the
files are created before it runs. Changing this behavior wouldn't be
easy and I don't think it's worth the trouble.
There's anyway an easy workaround, start dove
Thanks for responding Timo,
So according to the page you sent,
User setting= Owner of the file. Defaults to 0 (root)
Would this be considered a bug in Dovecot, since it does not set the file
permissions to the set user for my configuration?
service log {
user = user
unix_listener log-err
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 14:43 -0400, Chris Lasater wrote:
> Hi,
> I just started using Dovecot and was trying to create separate logs
> instead of using syslog. Is there a way to get the file permission to be
> something other then root?
The log files are created by the master dovecot process a
Hi,
I just started using Dovecot and was trying to create separate logs
instead of using syslog. Is there a way to get the file permission to be
something other then root? I have tried the below configuration and it
does not seem to change anything. The log process does change to a new
user,
