Hi! You can ignore it, or you can change the socket permissions to 0666.
service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { mode = 0666 } } Aki > On 23/10/2020 17:52 mj <li...@merit.unu.edu> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Nobody? > > It happens so rarely, and the system appears to be running fine > otherwise, should I just ignore it? > > Still makes me wonder way it would happen at all..? > > MJ > > On 10/22/20 12:53 PM, mj wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are getting very occasional messags from dovecot: > > > >> net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied > > > > Over the last week, the message appeared five times. (on a mail server > > with over 100 users, to that's basically almost never) > > > > doveconf -n below > > > >> # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > >> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () > >> # OS: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.6 xfs > > > > snip... > > > >> service stats { > >> unix_listener stats-reader { > >> group = vmail > >> mode = 0660 > >> user = vmail > >> } > >> unix_listener stats-writer { > >> group = vmail > >> mode = 0660 > >> user = vmail > >> } > >> } > > > > and the on-disk permissions are: > > > >> root@dovecot:~# ls -l /var/run/dovecot/*stat* > >> srw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats > >> prw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats-mail > >> prw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats-user > >> srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/stats-reader > >> srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer > > > > We're not sure what makes the Permission denied error happen... > > > > Anyone with an idea? > > > > MJ