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

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Jayen Ashar <j__n at yahoo.com> [2009.12.24.1614 +1300]:
> Hrm, /var/lock was 0755 and it looks like it's been like that for
> a while.  This installation has been tracking testing for 9 years.
> Any idea why I never had a problem before?

logcheck recently removed /var/lock/logcheck, which needs to be
created at runtime if it doesn't exist, by policy.

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