Bug#284788: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#284788: logcheck: Installs cron.d file before creating user causing cron to complain

[Todd Troxell]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:20:44PM -0600, Eric Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:42:21AM -0500, Todd Troxell muttered these words:
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:32:49AM -0800, Jefferson Cowart wrote:
> > > After installing logcheck on my system last night I did not recieve any
> > > reports. Upon checking the logs I found that the logcheck file had been
> > > copied into /etc/cron.d before adduser had been run. Cron picked up the
> > > new file and then complained that the user was invalid. Relevant log
> > > lines below. I just restarted cron which I believe has fixed the issue.
> > > Perhaps this can be fixed by copying the file in postinst after the user
> > > has been created.
> > 
> > Thanks for the report.
> > 
> > The cron jobs are now commented by default, and postinst enables them.  This
> > should solve your problem.
> > 
> > The fix is in CVS.
> 
> /etc/cron.d/logcheck is a conffile, are we allowed, (read: policy), to
> modify it during post-install? 
> 
> This seems similar to what happened with bugs #222240 and #226937, (now 
> archived), that requested the ability to select a cron interval via 
> debconf. I committed code to do just that before someone pointed out that
> is was a conffile and shouldn't be modified by the maintainer scripts, 
> (we subsequently rolled it back out).

Crap, I forgot about this.  The other solution is to pre-depend on adduser
and adduser in preinst, but this requires consent from -devel.  I guess I'll
ask around if there are no other ideas.

Thanks for the reminder.

-- 
[   Todd J. Troxell                                         ,''`.
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