In /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf:
service stats {
chroot = empty
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = stats
extra_groups =
fifo_listener stats-mail {
group =
mode = 0666
user =
}
fifo_listener stats-user {
group =
mode = 0666
user =
}
group =
idle_kill = 4294967295 secs
privileged_group =
process_limit = 1
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 0
type =
unix_listener stats {
group =
mode = 0666
user =
}
user = $default_internal_user
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
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Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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On 8/17/17, 11:04 AM, "dovecot on behalf of Matt Simpson"
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2017, at 9:19 AM, Matt Simpson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have an issue that surfaced when I tried to start using the new metrics
service, but it looks like it may be a more generic issue.
>
When I took a closer look at this, it might be a problem with the FreeBSD
packaging of dovecot, and not in dovecot itself.
I’m running FreeBSD 11, and installed dovecot as a package using standard
FreeBSD package utilities. The install process creates a start/stop script,
and that script is creating the /var/run/dovecot directory at startup and
removing it at shutdown.
The command which creates the directory is
/usr/bin/install -o root -g wheel -m 0755 -d ${base_dir}
which apparently just creates a directory with the specified owner and
group.
At this point, I’m a little confused about the best way to proceed. Any
other FreeBSD dovecot users here? Currently, it looks like the startup script
is creating /var/run/dovecot, owned by root. Then dovecot creates
/var/run/dovecot/stats-mail, also owned by root. I could possibly alter the
startup script to create /var/run/dovecot owned by dovecot instead of root, but
I don’t think that will change the ownership of stats-mail, which seems to be
created by dovecot running as root, and then attempted to write by dovecot
running as a different user. Does anybody know what’s going on here?
