On Wed, November 18, 2009 19:31, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:12 +0100, Jürgen Herrmann wrote: >> On Wed, November 18, 2009 17:29, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:17 +0100, Jürgen Herrmann wrote: >> >> 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: >> >> Permission denied (euid=2001 egid=2001 stat(/home/mail_virtual/2001) >> >> failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001) >> > >> > so "ls -dln /home/mail_virtual/2001" actually shows that the owner and >> > group is 2001? >> >> app3:~# ls -dln /home/mail_virtual/2001 >> drwx------ 4 2001 2001 4096 18. Nov 13:59 /home/mail_virtual/2001 > > What about /home and /home/mail_virtual's permissions? Is this on NFS or > local filesystem? > > In any case kernel is telling Dovecot that chdir() failed with > permission denied.. > setup was: /mnt is root.root 755 /mnt/nfs-backup1 is a mountpoint for nfs /home/mail_virtual is a symlink -> /mnt/nfs-backup1
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