martin f krafft wrote:
I am just stepping through this an notice that the sysklogd postinst does: for LOG in `syslogd-listfiles` `syslogd-listfiles --auth`; do if [ ! -f $LOG ]; then touch $LOG fi chown root:adm $LOG chmod 640 $LOG done
Nice race condition. Fortunately, unlike #282058 (which, AFAICT, is redundant, so not really a problem), this one only happens once, when the package is installed, which for sysklogd is normally before any users exist to take advantage of it.