On 9.3.2010, at 23.00, Erick Perez wrote: > Mar 09 15:50:23 POP3(cwchbodega): Error: > fchown(/home/cwchbodega/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, > 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=653(cwchbodega), group based > on /var/mail/cwchbodega) .. > As I check the perms on the files, i see that: > /var/mail/cwchbodega > -rw-rw---- 1 cwchbodega mail
Most likely you don't really need this file to be group-rw by mail. It's most likely just a potential security hole. The error goes away with: chmod 0600 /var/mail/* Maybe I just start bugging again those shadow-utils people to make 0600 the default instead of 0660.
