Summary: | /var/spool/mail mysteriously removed (maildrop emerge failure) | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Jeff Kowalczyk <jeff.kowalczyk> |
Component: | [OLD] Server | Assignee: | Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled> |
Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Jeff Kowalczyk
2004-12-15 15:53:06 UTC
I found that on the two servers that have emerged maildrop, the failing configuration line reads as follows: checking location of system mailboxes... /var/spool/mail I don't know how (or by what package) that directory got created on the two working servers. I also don't know if that is the *right* directory for my intended postfix, cyrus, dspam, maildrop configuration. On the non-working servers, creating that directory allows maildrop to be emerged, but the proper operation of maildrop emerged this way remains to be seen. # mkdir /var/spool/mail ; chgrp mail /var/spool/mail # ls -al /var/spool/ total 1 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 264 Dec 15 19:40 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 384 Nov 20 20:22 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 20:48 .keep drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 120 Jul 30 22:37 cron drwx------ 3 lp root 72 Feb 5 2004 cups drwxrwx--- 2 root mail 72 Dec 11 00:45 dspam drwxr-x--- 29 cyrus mail 720 Nov 27 13:16 imap drwxrw---- 2 jabber jabber 104 Oct 3 11:54 jabber drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 48 Dec 15 19:40 mail drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 408 Nov 2 04:20 postfix drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 72 Nov 20 20:18 samba There is a package remove /var/spool/mail during unmerge (don't know which one yet). Your workaround is re-emerge mailbase to recreate that directory. Adjusting summary, so this critter won't get lost. *** Bug 81137 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Tuan, any progress here? Closing this bug, as I couldn't find anything in portage tree that removes the spool dir. |