no mail.log on ubunutu 17.04

[Roelof Wobben]

Hello,

I installed postfix and send a test-mail.
To check if everything works fine I looked in /var/log to mail.log

But to my surprise there is no mail.log, mail.err

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[Roelof Wobben (r-wobben)]

When I change the permissions of the directory /var/log from 755 to 775 the mail.log is shown with the right things into it.

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

Hello and thank you for filing this bug report!

Did you manually change /var/log from 775 to 755? In a fresh cloud image (lxd), I see /var/log has 775 permissions:

drwxrwxr-x 6 root syslog 4.0K May 1 16:16 log

Thanks,
Nish

[Roelof Wobben (r-wobben)]

Wierd, I did a fresh install of the server dvd and did only install postfix.
And there the permission was 755 according to stat /var/log

Roelof

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

Thanks for the quick response! I will try to spin up a VM and verify that.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

I did a test with lxd container and a VM from a cloudimage (but no CD install yet).
In all cases it was 775 initially and still after postfix install.

Roelof - does this reproduce on you DVD install?
If so any options selected when configuring, what image exactly are you using zesty server iso?

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Also had a CD install running in the background, still 775 each time.
@Roelof - debugging begins with understanding why that was different in your case :-/

[Roelof Wobben (r-wobben)]

I did also a re-install of the dvd and now everything works fine.
Very wierd

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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