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

maximilian attems debian at sternwelten.at
Thu Sep 22 18:07:47 UTC 2005


reopen 312393
clone 312393 -1
retitle 312393 adduser fails to add logcheck user
stop


On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

> After you mentioned it being fixed, I tried installing the package again but 
> got the same problem. I wonder on what grounds you are closing this bug.

seems good to be a good ping, you didn't respond to my previous request,
nor was it clear that you could reproduce it so easily.
thought it only happened once. 
ok, i'll clone your bug as i still doubt that it is connected to the
previous bug.
 
> Setting up logcheck (1.2.41) ...
> adduser: The user `logcheck' does not exist.
> chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user
> chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user
 
please send the output of the following commands:
getent passwd logcheck
getent group logcheck
getent group adm
mount
ls -ld /var/lock/logcheck
ls -ld /etc/logcheck
 
> And here's the entries in syslog logged.
> 
> Sep 22 22:37:30 laptop useradd[19560]: new user: name=logcheck, uid=120, 
> gid=118, home=/var/lib/logcheck, shell=/bin/false
> Sep 22 22:37:30 laptop chage[19561]: changed password expiry for logcheck

thanks for your feedback.
 
--
maks






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