On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 21:37, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Fr, den 10.09.2004 schrieb Ow Mun Heng um 5:32: > > > #rpm -qa dovecot > > dovecot-0.99.10.9-2.1.fc2.dag > > That is no Fedora Core package. This is a Dag Wieers package. You are right > > > Error Description: > > Error: open(/var/mail/user.lock) failed: Permission denied > > Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/user: Permission denied > > > > Solution: > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/VarMailDotLock > > > > Since v0.99.10.9 it's possible to fix this by adding to config file: > > mail_extra_groups = mail > > Does not match the FC2 update package version. The current FC2 package > is dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2. Yeah.. > > > So.. in effect, Dovecot doesn't work out-of-the-box as I've read. For this package yes. > > Does that happen to occur with the Fedora Core package too? The Fedora > Core package has a patch to modify the default locking setting: > > @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ > # with is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using > both fcntl > # and flock. Some operating systems don't allow using both of them > # simultaneously, eg. BSDs. If dotlock is used, it's always created > first. > -#mbox_locks = dotlock fcntl > +mbox_locks = fcntl It does not happen with the FC2 official package. Even putting dotlock into it, it's still OK. I guess this is a new _feature_ in the new release -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 12:01:12 up 3:56, 9 users, load average: 0.55, 0.57, 0.65
