> Le 14 juil. 2019 à 11:58, Reio Remma <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> On 14.07.2019 10:10, Jean-Daniel via dovecot wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to monitor dovecot stats, and so I have an exporter process that run
>> with limited rights.
>> The monitoring user has only access to /var/run/dovecot/stats-reader and it
>> works fine.
>> Doveadm stats dump returns the list of all stats as expected.
>>
>> But each time I run doveadm stats dump, it logs the following error:
>>
>> Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission
>> denied
>>
>> So what is the purpose of the stats-writer socket, and why doveadm try to
>> open it to simply dump stats ?
>> Is it really something it needs and I should update my user permissions or
>> is it a doveadm bug ?
>>
>
> Hello!
>
> Depending on the system you're running on, there may be SELinux etc. doing
> its work.
>
I know why stats-writer is not accessible, this is on purpose (doveadm run with
a uid that explicitly don’t have access to stats-writer).
What I want to know is why does doveadm even try to open it to simply dump the
stats.
