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

[maximilian attems]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Marc Haber wrote:

> 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

agreeing, never saw this case.

kimon gazis please supply further info, 
also the output of the following command may help to narrow down breakage:
getent group
cat /etc/group
mount


 
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maks