[Logcheck-users] logcheck on ubuntu error

[François Puitg]

  > Folks!
  > 
  > I get this error on the report emailed to me:
  > 
  > Warning: If you are seeing this message, your log files may not have been
  > checked!
  > 
  > Details:
  > Failed to get lockfile: /var/lock/logcheck/logcheck.lock
  > 
  > Check temporary directory:
  > 
  > there is no logcheck.lock file present there
  > also already chown -R logcheck /var/lock/logcheck/
  > with no change
  > 
  > am trying to configure this with syslog-ng
  > as described here:
  > 
  > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/278
  > 
  > any ideas? Google only lead me to an old email on a Debian list but no
  > solution obtained
  > 
  > :(

Works for me (debian stable). Here are the perms for my
/var/lock/logcheck :

  drwxrwx---  2 root logcheck 1024 2006-01-13 12:05 /var/lock/logcheck

and a logcheck user must be added :

  #/etc/passwd
  logcheck:x:104:104::/var/lib/logcheck:/bin/bash

Here, I've put /bin/bash instead of /bin/false to be able to do some
testing.

-- Frnçs