[Logcheck-devel] Bug#253998: logcheck: line 551: unary operator expected

[Todd Troxell]

Hi Sean,

Yes, running logcheck as root would create those offset files such that only
root could access them.

Thanks for this report.  I will add an if-root-exit  type of thing to the
script.

-Todd

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:18:48PM +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have had the same problem
> 
> ls -l /var/lib/logcheck/
> total 8
> -rw-------  1 root root 13 2004-07-31 17:29 offset.var.log.auth.log
> -rw-------  1 root root 12 2004-07-31 17:29 offset.var.log.syslog
> 
> ls -ld /var/lib/logcheck/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 logcheck logcheck 4096 2004-07-31 11:42 /var/lib/logcheck/
> 
> I read that
> "Also, do you know what version of logcheck you were running previously?
> Logcheck has been running unprivileged since 1.2.19 and should take 
> ownership of these files upon upgrade."
> 
> I am running logcheck 1.2.23 - and have not run any earlier version on 
> this machine
> 
> I have now run:
> 
> chown logcheck.logcheck /var/lib/logcheck/offset.var.log.*
> 
> and hope this will fix the problem.
> 
> 
> One thing I did which may have caused the problem is that immedialtly 
> after installing logcheck I ran it (as root) to test it was working.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sean Burlington
> Website/Database Developer
> 020 7339 8564
> 
> please include the web address of any web page you wish to discuss
> 
> 

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