dovecot - May 2006 - "fchown() failed with file" and Operation not permitted with indexes

Dear all,

Getting lots of these errors in our maillog with the INDEX changed:

dovecot: IMAP(ghenry): fchown() failed with file
/home/ghenry/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not
permitted

For .log and .cache as well.

We have:

location
maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/index

I looked in safe-mkdir.c and saw:

fchown() failed for (line 42)

to change the owner first, so don't know why we are getting this error?

Thanks,

Gavin.

-- 
Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
Managing Director.

T +44 (0) 1224 279484
M +44 (0) 7930 323266
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E ghenry at suretecsystems.com

Open Source. Open Solutions(tm).

http://www.suretecsystems.com/

finally the server is running :)


hey pple my computer starting to work again alone

dont know sing like the server was with something
but i started to do the files backup

and i deleted a few old backups files and move to other computer on the net

and guess what=?

the dovecot imap server is running again

hehehe
anyway im going to finish the backups

regards
luis

On 5/3/06, Gavin Henry <ghenry at suretecsystems.com>
wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Getting lots of these errors in our maillog with the INDEX changed:
>
> dovecot: IMAP(ghenry): fchown() failed with file
> /home/ghenry/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not
> permitted
>
> For .log and .cache as well.
>
> We have:
>
> location >
maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/index
>
> I looked in safe-mkdir.c and saw:
>
> fchown() failed for (line 42)
>
> to change the owner first, so don't know why we are getting this error?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gavin.
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
>
> Gavin Henry.
> Managing Director.
>
> T +44 (0) 1224 279484
> M +44 (0) 7930 323266
> F +44 (0) 1224 742001
> E ghenry at suretecsystems.com
>
> Open Source. Open Solutions(tm).
>
> http://www.suretecsystems.com/
>
>
>
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On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 21:49 +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Getting lots of these errors in our maillog with the INDEX changed:
> 
> dovecot: IMAP(ghenry): fchown() failed with file
> /home/ghenry/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not
> permitted
You've created dovecot-shared file with a group that the user doesn't
have permission to use?

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