On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 04:48:09PM -0700, Jeremiah Rothschild wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 07:13:18PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Is the 'lost file' problem reproducible? > > Yes, the time gap is a red herring. First the issue was noticed in > production then I tested with this VM.
To triple check my sanity, I created a brand new VM and confirmed the behavior. So anyone should be able to easily reproduce this. * Fresh CentOS 8.4 install * Choose "Minimal" base environment * Defaults for everything else # yum -y update # yum -y install postfix mailx # systemctl start postfix # echo "somealias: /tmp/somefile" >> /etc/aliases && newaliases # echo "test" | mail somealias@localhost # ls /tmp/somefile j