Maybe someone here knows how the ownership of these files for Dovecot needs to be in order to work, as various distributions of Dovecot packages seem to use different users: I'd like Dovecot not to log into syslog, but to dedicated files. Therefore I've created the directory /var/log/dovecot and told dovecot in 10-logging.conf to log info, debug and error messages to separate files. But I get error messages from postfix (weird):
May 13 20:55:37 mail postfix/local[2824184]: 95BCF1000A9: to=<u...@domain.de>, > relay=local, delay=3.2, delays=1.9/0.29/0/1.1, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred > (temporary failure. Command output: lda(user): Error: > net_connect_unix(/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied Can't > open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied ) This is the content of /var/log/dovecot: -rw-r--r-- 1 dovecot dovecot 0 13. Mai 20:50 debug.log -rw-r--r-- 1 dovecot dovecot 880 13. Mai 21:21 error.log -rw-r--r-- 1 dovecot dovecot 40K 13. Mai 21:20 info.log So why is Dovecot complaining? I only see processes owned by root, dovecot, dovenull and user processes of dovecot. And dovenull seems to be not relevant for this. Best Richard
