[Logcheck-devel] Bug#252597: logcheck: user logchecks mails should be delivered to root

Christoph Martin martin at uni-mainz.de
Fri Jun 4 09:54:46 UTC 2004


Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.20a
Severity: important

Since logcheck changed to run as user logcheck, the error mails of the cron
daemon end up in /var/mail/logcheck where nobody reads them. Mails for
logcheck should be aliased to root like all the other mails of system
accounts.

I was searching for a long time what was wrong with my logcheck not 
delivering any mails. The lock directory was not world writable and a 
logfile was not readable by group adm.

Please add the alias to the alias file or add a .forward file.

Christoph

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mbww-www.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE 2.4.20 #1 SMP Thu Jul 17 10:26:40 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.47                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-72               management of regular background p
ii  debconf          1.4.25                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.25                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.8.2                   Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.9                   Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.20a                 A database of system log rules for
ii  logtail          1.2.20a                 Returns parts of logfiles that hav
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20020411cvs-1 A simple mail user agent.
ii  sendmail [mail-t 8.12.3-6.6              A powerful, efficient, and scalabl
ii  sysklogd         1.4.1-10                System Logging Daemon
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-10                System Logging Daemon






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