Description of problem: This bug report was created as clone of bug #192850. As far as I know, RHEL and Fedora bugs always should be kept separate in Bugzilla. /var/log/mail is not owned by any package, but should be owned by sendmail, as the sendmail rpm package is delivering its content. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sendmail-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5 How reproducible: rpm -qf /var/log/mail Expected results: Please apply the following patch (or better): --- snipp --- --- sendmail.spec 2006-03-25 21:29:02.000000000 +0100 +++ sendmail.spec.rsc 2006-05-23 18:22:57.000000000 +0200 @@ -533,6 +533,7 @@ %attr(0644,root,root) %ghost /etc/aliases.db %attr(0770,smmsp,smmsp) %dir /var/spool/clientmqueue %attr(0700,root,mail) %dir /var/spool/mqueue +%dir %{stdir} %dir /etc/smrsh %dir /etc/mail --- snapp ---
Shouldn't this go into syslog since that defines where the data will end up? regards, Florian La Roche
Hu, did I miss something? Where does syslog define /var/log/mail/statistics? IIRC /var/log/maillog is, where data from syslog ends. And the statistics file is owned by the sendmail package, so the parent directory should be owned by sendmail, too.
Ok, that makes sense. regards, Florian La Roche
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/var/spool/mail should not belong to a mailer. Maybe another mailer is used and sendmail is not installed at all.