On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 10:16:13PM +0200, Richard wrote: > 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. Reread } May 13 20:55:37 mail postfix/local[2824184]: 95BCF1000A9: to=<u...@domain.de>, } } open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied ) Note postfix > Best > Richard Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse