[Logcheck-devel] Bug#391665: logcheck-database: Incorrect group ownership when installed after logcheck

[Philip Ross]

Package: logcheck-database
Version: 1.2.47
Severity: normal

When the logcheck and logcheck-database packages are installed at the
same time (e.g. with apt-get install logcheck logcheck-database), the
database files are created with the permissions 0640 and group
ownership by logcheck.

However, if the logcheck package is installed and then
logcheck-database is installed later, the database files are created
with the permissions 0640 and group ownership by root.  As a result,
logcheck running as the logcheck user is unable to read the files.

Perhaps the logcheck-database package could check for the existence of
a logcheck group during the installation and chgrp the files
appropriately?