Hello all,
I'm not sure if this question is better posed to a Fedora group because
I have only had this problem since I upgraded from F9 to F11, but I
figured that the specialised knowledge here might help me more...
I have been getting these entries in syslog since upgrading. Today for
instance I got:
**Unmatched Entries**
dovecot: Dovecot v1.2.0 starting up (core dumps disabled): 1 Time(s)
dovecot: IMAP(mark): fchown() failed with file
/home/mark/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock: Operation not permitted:
1 Time(s)
dovecot: IMAP(mark): fchown() failed with file
/home/mark/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted: 1
Time(s)
and yesterday I had:
**Unmatched Entries**
dovecot: IMAP(helena): fchown() failed with file
/home/wife/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted: 1
Time(s)
dovecot: IMAP(toby): fchown() failed with file
/home/son/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock: Operation not permitted: 1
Time(s)
dovecot: IMAP(toby): fchown() failed with file
/home/son/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock: Operation not permitted: 1
Time(s)
dovecot: IMAP(toby): fchown() failed with file
/home/son/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted: 3 Time(s)
The permissions are as follows:
ls -la /home/mark/Mail/.imap/INBOX/
total 328
drwx------. 2 mark mark 4096 2009-08-18 15:32 .
drwx------. 84 mark mark 4096 2009-03-05 21:53 ..
-rw-------. 1 mark mark 7472 2009-08-18 15:32 dovecot.index
-rw-------. 1 mark mark 286720 2009-08-19 11:46 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-------. 1 mark mark 5380 2009-08-19 12:43 dovecot.index.log
Those of wife and son are similar.
As I access my mailbox several times a day (and certainly did yesterday)
from several different mail clients I am surprised that the error count
is only 1 for most the above entries. Is this being caused by some sort
of cron job (logrotate perhaps)?
Any ideas?
All help / suggestions gratefully received...
Thanks
Mark
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On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 13:18 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:> dovecot: Dovecot v1.2.0 starting up (core dumps disabled): 1 Time(s) > dovecot: IMAP(mark): fchown() failed with file /home/mark/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock: Operation not permitted: 1 Time(s)v1.2.3+ would have given a bit better error message here. Anyway the issue is that nowadays Dovecot tries to preserve mailbox's permissions so that shared mailboxes work properly. What permissions do you have in the actual INBOX file? My guess is that you have 0660 permissions of /var/mail/$USER so Dovecot tries to preserve the group. Easiest fix that also makes your system more secure is to chmod 0600 it.> As I access my mailbox several times a day (and certainly did yesterday) > from several different mail clients I am surprised that the error count > is only 1 for most the above entries. Is this being caused by some sort > of cron job (logrotate perhaps)?It happens only when index files are being created/rotated, which happens automatically "every once in a while". -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090824/5db19e22/attachment-0002.bin>