[Logcheck-devel] Bug#561995: mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lock/logcheck': Permission denied

[Jayen Ashar]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.3.4
Severity: normal

I am running debian/testing and just upgraded to logcheck 1.3.4 and it 
started reporting the error:
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lock/logcheck': Permission denied

I created the directory and chown'd it to logcheck and it seems fine now.

Looking at the changelog, I see something was purposefully changed, so I 
imagine I wasn't supposed to be getting this error.
   [ Frédéric Brière ]
   * Dropped (now useless) ownership/permissions fixes on /var/lock/logcheck

--Jayen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (980, 'testing'), (960, 'stable'), (930, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser            3.111                 add and remove users and groups
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20090911cvs-2 simple mail user agent
ii  cron               3.0pl1-106            process scheduling daemon
ii  lockfile-progs     0.1.13                Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logtail            1.3.4                 Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx              1:20081101-2          Transitional package for mailx ren
ii  nullmailer [mail-t 1:1.04-1.1            simple relay-only mail transport a
ii  sysklogd [system-l 1.5-5                 System Logging Daemon

Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii  logcheck-database             1.3.4      database of system log rules for t

Versions of packages logcheck suggests:
pn  syslog-summary                <none>     (no description available)

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