Bug#4653: smail doesn't set owner/group/mode in savelog call
Package: smail
Version: 3.1.29.1-23
Oddly, /var/log/smail/logfile had zero length even though mail had been
processed on the system after the last savelog rotation (which is run by
/etc/cron.daily/smail) . The file had group "root". After changing the group
to "mail", smail again added logs to the file. I propose to add the patch
below to /etc/cron.daily/smail.
miles:/etc/cron.daily [root] # diff -u smail smail.orig
--- smail Mon Sep 30 08:55:23 1996
+++ smail.orig Wed Apr 24 20:07:00 1996
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@
set -e
cd /var/log/smail
-savelog -o root -g mail -m 644 -c 7 logfile paniclog >/dev/null
+savelog -c 7 logfile paniclog >/dev/null
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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