Bug#251364: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#251364: logcheck: preinst has bashism, fails with dash and LANG != C

[Todd Troxell]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 01:16:35PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> BTW: I noticed the preinst inconditionally removes the logcheck user
> and creates it again, it would be cleaner not to touch it at all if a
> logcheck user with the proper features already exists.

A note about this:

Release 1.2.19 adds user logcheck, but 1.2.20+ adds user loghcheck with home
as /var/lib/logcheck, so we need to delete and re-add the user on
anything <= 19 to be sure the home gets set.  This is done in the .21 release
candidate.

Thanks,

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[   Todd J. Troxell                                         ,''`.
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