[Logcheck-devel] Bug#260330: logcheck: error recovery tries to kill LOCK twice

[Erich Schubert]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.23
Severity: wishlist

Hi,
i'm having troubles with logcheck not working on selinux here.
During that i got error messages like "could not kill xyz".
Enabling debug showed the following:

D: [1090274523] Running logtail: /var/log/syslog
D: [1090274523] error: Killing lockfile-touch - 29766
D: [1090274523] error: Removing lockfile: /var/lock/logcheck.lock
D: [1090274523] Error: Could not run logtail or save output
D: [1090274523] cleanup: Killing lockfile-touch - 29766
/usr/sbin/logcheck: line 84: kill: (29766) - No such process

apparenty logcheck tries to kill the same process twice.
Maybe the variable could just be unset after successfully killing the
process or the kill could only be made if the process does
actually still run.

Greetings,
Erich
(Back at searching why logcheck doesn't work here...)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 at euro

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.57                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-83               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.29                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.8.4                   Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.23                  A database of system log rules for
ii  logtail          1.2.23                  Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii  perl             5.8.4-2                 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  postfix [mail-tr 2.1.4-1                 A high-performance mail transport 
ii  socklog-run [sys 1.5.0-2                 system and kernel logging services

-- debconf information excluded