[Adduser-devel] Bug#335894: Re: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#335894: logcheck: Program aborts with no permission to access "/var/log/syslog"

[Marc Haber]

tags #335894 unreproducible
thanks

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:03:35PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote:
> logcheck calls adduser in its postinst, relevant snippet:
>         # check for logcheck in adm group
> 	if ! getent group adm | grep logcheck > /dev/null; then
> 		adduser --quiet logcheck adm || true
> 	fi
> 
> usually that works as expected. 
> please post your /etc/group-,
> so that the adduser maintainer can investigate eventual breakage.

I cannot reproduce this in a clean sarge chroot environment. After
installin logcheck:

$ grep adm /etc/group
adm:x:4:Debian-console-log,mh,logcheck
$

So to me, everything is fine. Please give more information about the
system environment.

Greetings
Marc

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