On Monday 18 May 2009 21:38:21 Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > May 18 09:34:43 greenchilly dovecot: chdir(/home/vmail/example.com/john) > > failed with uid 5000: Permission denied > > May 18 09:34:43 greenchilly dovecot: child 24557 (pop3) returned error 89 > > Your log includes "example.com" in the chdir path, is this intentional?
yes - these are virtual domains, so for each domain a directory is set up using the domain name as it's name > > > the owner of /home/vmail/user is shown as vmail:vmail and the user with > > uid 5000 has read/write permissions. > > Check if uid:5000 has access to the full path, ie. the parent dirs as well. it has - dovecot is also being used by postfix as the LDA and uid 5000 has no difficulty in writing to that directory - indeed this is the most baffling error I have ever seen in linux in the last 14 years. -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
