[Logcheck-devel] Re: [Logcheck-commits] CVS logcheck/debian

[maximilian attems]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, CVS User ttroxell wrote:

> @@ -29,16 +29,21 @@
>      configure)
>  	# Add logcheck user
>  	# check for logcheck user or bad version without home
> +	# touch cron job on updating accounts to fix #284788
>  	if ! getent passwd logcheck > /dev/null; then
>  	  adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group \
>  	      --home /var/lib/logcheck logcheck || true
> +	  touch /etc/cron.d/logcheck || true
>      	elif dpkg --compare-versions "$2" eq 1.2.19; then
>  	   usermod -d /var/lib/logcheck logcheck > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
> +	   touch /etc/cron.d/logcheck || true
>  	fi
>  	# check for logcheck in adm group
>  	if ! getent group adm | grep logcheck > /dev/null; then
>  	  adduser --quiet logcheck adm || true
> +	  touch /etc/cron.d/logcheck || true
>  	fi  
> +
/me thinks only the first touch is needed,
as soon logcheck user exists, cron can't complain.

i agreee that atm logcheck is not yet fully operable,
but that's no a big concern, as permissions have yet to be set and so on..
on a slow machine we may risk to restart cron 3x with aboves ;-)

anyway good place to conditionalise
regards 

--
maks