On 2018-03-19 (13:19 MDT), Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:> > Plus, if dovecot is able to write to a file owned by root:wheel, then there is a BIG problem right there!!!Logging is generally done by syslogd, not directly by the process. So no, dovecot is not writing to a file owned by root anymore than postfix is writing to mail.log which is also owned by root. In my specific case, it is rsyslogd. -- "Woof bloody woof."
On 19 March 2018 at 22:48, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:> On 2018-03-19 (13:19 MDT), Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Plus, if dovecot is able to write to a file owned by root:wheel, then > there is a BIG problem right there!!! > > Logging is generally done by syslogd, not directly by the process. So no, > dovecot is not writing to a file owned by root anymore than postfix is > writing to mail.log which is also owned by root. > > In my specific case, it is rsyslogd. >I have been running FreeBSD since 1997, so I know quite a lot about it! I know about /etc/syslog.conf, but you do realize now that you are conflicting yourself? You want to provide doveconf -n output and get help, or figure it out yourself. I run dovecot and Exim (MTA) on FreeBSD. I don't use syslogd to do the logging as the same can be controlled within the respective daemons. So, figure out what you have done to make Postfix want to write to /var/log/dovecot.log. In the meantime, you can chmod 1777 /var/log/dovecot.log as you figure things out! -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20180319/e7d55e82/attachment.html>
On 2018-03-19 (14:20 MDT), Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:> > I have been running FreeBSD since 1997, so I know quite a lot about it! > I know about /etc/syslog.conf, but you do realize now that you are conflicting yourself?No, I am not, I pointed out that dovecot does not writ ether logs, but that is a task generally managed by syslogd. then I said that in my case it was rsyslogd.> You want to provide doveconf -n output and get help, or figure it out yourself.the only lines in doveconf -n that relate to logging are the two lines I posted. The rest of dovecot's logging properly shows up in /var/log/dovecot, only the bcc delivery seems to error out.> I run dovecot and Exim (MTA) on FreeBSD. I don't use syslogd to do the logging as the same can be controlled within the respective daemons. > So, figure out what you have done to make Postfix want to write to /var/log/dovecot.log.I never said postfix was writing to dovecot's log. What gave you that idea? # doveconf -n # 2.2.34 (874deae): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.22 (22940fb7) # OS: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 i386 # Hostname: mail.covisp.net auth_failure_delay = 5 secs auth_mechanisms = PLAIN LOGIN default_client_limit = 4096 default_process_limit = 1024 default_vsz_limit = 768 M disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 imap_id_log = * lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> %r %m %c mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_max_userip_connections = 90 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam username_filter = !*@* } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/dehydrated/certs/covisp.net/fullchain.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext default_fields = uid=vpopmail gid=vchkpw mail_location=/usr/local/virtual/%u mail=maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%u driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " virtual imap_sieve" } -- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered