Bug#330220: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#330220: logcheck: Fails to obtain lockfile

[Todd Troxell]

Hi Mark,

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:17:40PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Every time locheck runs from cron on my system it generates a mail
> reporting:
> 
> | Failed to get lockfile: /var/lock/logcheck/logcheck.lock
> 
> This only appears to happen when running from cron.  Attempting to run
> logcheck or lockfile-create by hand seems to work as expected.  The
> permissions on the lock directory appear to be fine:
> 
> | $ ls -ld /var/lock/logcheck/
> | drwxr-xr-x  2 logcheck logcheck 4096 Sep 26 20:02 /var/lock/logcheck/
> 
> so I'm at a bit of a loss trying to explain this.  I've not done any
> configuration of logcheck, it's been doing this since it was installed.

This is pretty weird.  It would be useful to know if/why thelock is [really]
failing.

I can't seem to reproduce it on my machines.

Do you think you could try changing the lock line(595) to somehting like:
lockfile-create --retry 1 $LOCKFILE >> /tmp/logcheck_error  2>&1

Cheers,
-- 
Todd Troxell
http://rapidpacket.com/~xtat