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

[Mark Brown]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.39
Severity: important

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.

Filing this with severity important since it has a major effect on
usability, though given that this is sarge I suspect the problem may
have already been addressed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.63                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-86               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.30.13               Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.8.4                   Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  exim4            4.50-8                  metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-hea 4.50-8                  exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.39                  A database of system log rules for
ii  logtail          1.2.39                  Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-17                System Logging Daemon

-- debconf information:
  logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note: