Dapper: Dovecot mutters sthg about correcting /var/run permissions

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun May 7 02:30:06 UTC 2006


David M wrote:

> 
> Upon booting my system today, it decided it needed to fsck one of my
> partitions, so it dropped out of the bootscreen and continued with a
> text boot [1].
> 
> I noticed among the messages scrolling past, dovecot muttering something
> about needing to correct permissions in /var/run. Is this related to
> whatever new magick (varrun, varlock) seems to have appeared in the
> filesystem?
> 
> (I've searched in /var/log but can't see the message logged anywhere.
> Where might it be?)
> 
> Is this significant? 

I shouldn't think so.  I've been meaning to report this for weeks...  It
would appear that it creates a file with one set of permissions, then later
decides they're wrong.  It's just an inconsistency, but it doesn't seem
serious.

-- 
derek





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