masqmail does not work with /var/log on a tmpfs -- log dir must be owned by mail:mail

[Ben Bacarisse]

This may not be a bug, and I doubt it's anything to do with Ubuntu's package, but it seems worth reporting.

When starting masqmail, if the log_dir (/var/log/masqmail by default) does not exist or is not owned by mail, the service fails saying:

could not open log '/var/log/masqmail//masqmail.log': Permission denied
could not open log file

Run 'sudo mkdir -p /var/log/masqmail' followed by 'sudo chowm mail:mail /var/log/masqmail' as all is well.

I recently moved /var/log onto tmpfs, and masqmail seems to be the only service that is not happy.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: masqmail 0.3.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 17 15:05:52 2013
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: masqmail
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)