Bug#312412: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312412: logcheck: Fails to read files under /var/log/mail/

[Grahame White]

On Tuesday 19 July 2005 17:48, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Grahame White wrote:
> <snipp>
>
> > I'm using exim4, and yes the change you suggested seems to have fixed
> > the problem.
> >
> > > i guess so, as nobody uses that group the permission group setting
> > > of /var/log/mail seems more like an accident.
> > >
> > > now that logcheck should run without troubles, can you confirm?
> > > i guess we can close that bug.
> >
> > Yes, I'm fine with closing the bug
>
> thanks for your feedback, i'm happy to hear logcheck is running fine. :)
> although this bug may need to be reassigned to the package, which
> created that strange group ownership of /var/log/mail.
>
> exim4 usually logs to /var/log/exim4 on all of standard installs i see
> around me. so what mail subsystem of yours is logging to aboves dir?
> do you have some custom syslog (or syslog-ng) rules that direct
> messages there?
>
> maybe we can grasp which packet added the smmsp user.
> what does belows command on your box show:
> egrep smmsp -r /var/lib/dpkg/info/

/var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.postrm:             # Remove user/group smmsp
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.postrm:                     deluser --quiet 
smmsp || true;
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.postrm:             userdel  smmsp 2>/dev/null 
|| true;
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.postrm:             groupdel smmsp 2>/dev/null 
|| true;

As you said earlier, it looks like a sendmail problem except that I don't 
have it installed. I don't recall having ever installed it previously 
either.

Grahame