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

[Kimon Gazis]

i wouldn't have posted it if it were something usual. so here's cat
group ('getent group' produces the same) :

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root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:logcheck,kimon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
man:x:12:
proxy:x:13:
kmem:x:15:
dialout:x:20:kimon
fax:x:21:
voice:x:22:
cdrom:x:24:kimon,hal,vdr
floppy:x:25:kimon,hal
tape:x:26:
sudo:x:27:
audio:x:29:kimon
dip:x:30:
www-data:x:33:
backup:x:34:
operator:x:37:
list:x:38:
irc:x:39:
src:x:40:
gnats:x:41:
shadow:x:42:
utmp:x:43:telnetd
video:x:44:kimon,vdr
sasl:x:45:
plugdev:x:46:kimon
staff:x:50:kimon
games:x:60:
users:x:100:kimon
nogroup:x:65534:
crontab:x:101:
Debian-exim:x:102:
kimon:x:1000:
ssh:x:103:
telnetd:x:104:
mysql:x:105:
logcheck:x:106:
dirmngr:x:107:
camera:x:108:
scanner:x:109:
saned:x:110:
bind:x:111:
helike:x:1001:
gdm:x:112:
messagebus:x:113:
hal:x:114:
ntop:x:115:
vdradmin:x:116:
vdr:x:117:kimon
svn:x:1002:kimon,www-data
snort:x:118:

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and that's group-

root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:logcheck:kimon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
man:x:12:
proxy:x:13:
kmem:x:15:
dialout:x:20:kimon
fax:x:21:
voice:x:22:
cdrom:x:24:kimon,hal,vdr
floppy:x:25:kimon,hal
tape:x:26:
sudo:x:27:
audio:x:29:kimon
dip:x:30:
www-data:x:33:
backup:x:34:
operator:x:37:
list:x:38:
irc:x:39:
src:x:40:
gnats:x:41:
shadow:x:42:
utmp:x:43:telnetd
video:x:44:kimon,vdr
sasl:x:45:
plugdev:x:46:kimon
staff:x:50:kimon
games:x:60:
users:x:100:kimon
nogroup:x:65534:
crontab:x:101:
Debian-exim:x:102:
kimon:x:1000:
ssh:x:103:
telnetd:x:104:
mysql:x:105:
logcheck:x:106:
dirmngr:x:107:
camera:x:108:
scanner:x:109:
saned:x:110:
bind:x:111:
helike:x:1001:
gdm:x:112:
messagebus:x:113:
hal:x:114:
ntop:x:115:
vdradmin:x:116:
vdr:x:117:kimon
svn:x:1002:kimon,www-data

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On second thought I must confess that this was not the first
installation of logcheck. I uninstalled it some day in the past when
removing the logrotate package which has dependencies to this I think.
Sorry, don't remember well that one. However the behaviour described
here is definitely linked to the installation of the logcheck package.

Please don't hesitate contacting me if you need more info. In this case
I am not quite sure what else could be meaningful. Marc, what system
info exactly do you need?

regards
kimon


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