On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 14:43 -0400, Chris Lasater wrote: > Hi, > I just started using Dovecot and was trying to create separate logs > instead of using syslog. Is there a way to get the file permission to be > something other then root?
The log files are created by the master dovecot process at startup, which typically runs as root, so it also creates the logs as root:root 0600. Once the logs are created, their permissions are no longer touched. So I usually simply change the permissions once with chown/chmod. > I have tried the below configuration and it > does not seem to change anything. The log process does change to a new > user, but it still creates and writes as root. Whenever I test a new > setting I delete all the current logs so they will have to be recreated to > make sure it does not just keep the previous permissions. Right, so that doesn't work.. > I also dont see much documentation on the service log. according to > dovecot -a there are a good number of options, but I dont see any > information about them. Those aren't specific to log service. There is common documentation for all services in http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services
