> On Aug 17, 2017, at 9:19 AM, Matt Simpson <dcl...@list.jmatt.net> wrote:
>
> I have an issue that surfaced when I tried to start using the new metrics
> service, but it looks like it may be a more generic issue.
>
When I took a closer look at this, it might be a problem with the FreeBSD
packaging of dovecot, and not in dovecot itself.
I’m running FreeBSD 11, and installed dovecot as a package using standard
FreeBSD package utilities. The install process creates a start/stop script,
and that script is creating the /var/run/dovecot directory at startup and
removing it at shutdown.
The command which creates the directory is
/usr/bin/install -o root -g wheel -m 0755 -d ${base_dir}
which apparently just creates a directory with the specified owner and group.
At this point, I’m a little confused about the best way to proceed. Any other
FreeBSD dovecot users here? Currently, it looks like the startup script is
creating /var/run/dovecot, owned by root. Then dovecot creates
/var/run/dovecot/stats-mail, also owned by root. I could possibly alter the
startup script to create /var/run/dovecot owned by dovecot instead of root, but
I don’t think that will change the ownership of stats-mail, which seems to be
created by dovecot running as root, and then attempted to write by dovecot
running as a different user. Does anybody know what’s going on here?
