Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help

[Todd Troxell]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:10:57PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Thursday 06 Oct 2005 02:13, Todd Troxell wrote:
> > How does this make it clear that adduser is not the culprit?
> >
> 
> If adduser was to be the culprit, it should have broken the installation of 
> logcheck (the stable version) also.
> 
> > Obviously there is some difference between the installation if it now
> > works. Can you still reproduce the breakage?
> 
> I can still reproduce it with the versions present in testing and unstable 
> branch. I needed logcheck badly and the one in sarge works fine so I used 
> that.
> So if the version in sarge works and the versions in testing and unstable 
> don't work, it makes it clear that there's some change in the pre/post 
> installation script of logcheck which is breaking, not adduser because the 
> same adduser works with logcheck from stable.

Ok, it looks like the adduser invocation changed underneath our feet.  Can
you please remove the logcheck user and then compare the output of these two commands:

adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group --home /var/lib/logcheck
logcheck

adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group logcheck

Thanks,
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Todd Troxell
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