Bug#2397: sysklog - Problem with 'postinst'

["brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca>]

Package: syslogd
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
Version: 1.2-19

The 'postinst' script tries to create the directory "/var/logs/news",
which fails because there is no directory /var/logs.  Later, it tries
to access the same directory as /var/log/news.

The offending lines are:

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# This was an error caused by a typo...
#
if [ -d /var/logs/news ]; then
  if [ ! -d /var/log/news ]; then
    mv -f /var/logs/news /var/log/news
#  else
#    echo Old files found in /var/logs/news
  fi
fi

if [ ! -d /var/log/news ]; then
  mkdir /var/logs/news                  <---------
  chmod 2755 /var/log/news
  chown news.news /var/log/news
fi
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Apparently, a fix was made for this typo, but the typo itself was not
fixed.

                                        Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@bnr.ca )

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