[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#477143: logrotate job refers to nonexistent user

Peter Eisentraut petere at debian.org
Mon Apr 21 11:19:19 UTC 2008


Package: firebird2.0-common
Version: 2.0.3.12981.ds1-6
Severity: normal

The logrotate job /etc/logrotate.d/firebird2.0 refers to the user firebird 
("create 640 firebird adm"), but the package does not create the user.  So now 
I get an error message sent from logrotate via cron once a day.

It would probably be the wrong fix to make the package add the user, because 
that would currently create a firebird user on every KDE desktop, which most 
people probably don't want.  Looking at PostgreSQL, there is a 
postgresql-common and a separate postgresql-client-common package.  Perhaps it 
would be an idea to split up firebird the same way and put the logrotation 
business in the server-side common package.





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