Sendmail not creating /var/spool/mail/root file after 11/19 install

[Jim Cornette]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> I have problems related to the root account mail. The mail does not 
> spool or whatever it is supposed to do. Also when using 'su -' in 
> gnome-terminal, it fails to change to /root and presents an error 
> message. If you do 'cd' in the gnome-terminal shell you are changed to 
> the directory /root .
> 
> I'm sure that there are many more bugs encountered with clean 
> installations. These are just bugs that I noticed since the clean 
> install of rawhide. The /var/spool/mail/user file was successfully created.
> I have no mail coming in from root or user.
> 
> Jim
> 

It turns out to be an SELinux problem with fresh installs. The below bug 
was submitted if similar problems happen to others.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173957

Jim