Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-19 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 19 May 2024 11:11 -0400, from monn...@iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier): >> If you have read permission on a directory but *not* execute permissions, >> then the only thing you can do is read the contents of that directory -- >> the filenames and their inode numbers. You cannot stat() the files

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 05:15:40PM +0200, Richard wrote: > Then where does the combination rwx come in here? With read the app knows > the file is there, with write it writes to the file. Question is, where the > necessity would be to know the owner of the file or even the kind. The > logger is sup

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-19 Thread Richard
Then where does the combination rwx come in here? With read the app knows the file is there, with write it writes to the file. Question is, where the necessity would be to know the owner of the file or even the kind. The logger is supposed to just append text to a file. If it were trying to append

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If you have read permission on a directory but *not* execute permissions, > then the only thing you can do is read the contents of that directory -- > the filenames and their inode numbers. You cannot stat() the files, > so you can't see who owns them or even what kind of files they are. > Just

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 04:55:09PM +0200, Richard wrote: > Dovecot expects execution permissions on the directory it writes the logs > to. Because "Standard POSIX permissions for a non-root process to enter a > directory." How on earth is that even a thing? That's how Unix permissions have always

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-19 Thread Richard
So, I've just written to the Dovecot mailing list, the reality why Dovecot is complaining is so much worse than anything I could have imagined. While everything indicates Dovecot is able to write to the log files, it seems Dovecot expects execution permissions on the directory it writes the logs to

Re: Quickemu Problem

2024-05-19 Thread Florent Rougon
Le 19/05/2024, Timothy M Butterworth a écrit: > sudo sync && sh -c "/usr/bin/echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" --w--- 1 root root 0 19 mai 13:11 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches The redirection won't work unless the person is already root—there was a thread about this here just a few days ago. :

Re: Quickemu Problem

2024-05-19 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 5:53 PM Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have just installed installed Quickemu v-6.1.4. > > quickget windows 11 ran as it should without any errors or warnings. > However: > (base) comp@Abanormal:~/VM$ quickemu --vm windows-10.conf > ~/VM ~/VM > Q