Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help

[Todd Troxell]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:34:19PM -0400, Todd Troxell wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:10:57PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 Oct 2005 02:13, Todd Troxell wrote:
> > > How does this make it clear that adduser is not the culprit?
> > >
> > 
> > If adduser was to be the culprit, it should have broken the installation of 
> > logcheck (the stable version) also.
> > 
> > > Obviously there is some difference between the installation if it now
> > > works. Can you still reproduce the breakage?
> > 
> > I can still reproduce it with the versions present in testing and unstable 
> > branch. I needed logcheck badly and the one in sarge works fine so I used 
> > that.
> > So if the version in sarge works and the versions in testing and unstable 
> > don't work, it makes it clear that there's some change in the pre/post 
> > installation script of logcheck which is breaking, not adduser because the 
> > same adduser works with logcheck from stable.
> 
> Ok, it looks like the adduser invocation changed underneath our feet.  Can
> you please remove the logcheck user and then compare the output of these two commands:
> 
> adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group --home /var/lib/logcheck
> logcheck
> 
> adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group logcheck

Pushing this change for today's release.  Please re-open this bug if you
still have the problem.

Cheers,
-- 
Todd Troxell
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