Bug#230826: htdig: 'cron.daily' job always terminates on `lockfile-touch'

[Teodor <mteodor@gmail.com>]

Package: htdig
Version: 1:3.2.0b6-6
Followup-For: Bug #230826

The daily cron job for 'htdig' does not complete and every day send a
message with this content:
/etc/cron.daily/htdig:
/etc/cron.daily/htdig: line 26:  8421 Terminated
lockfile-touch /var/run/htdig.cron

A manual execution shows this:
doru@inspire:~$ sh -x /etc/cron.daily/htdig
++ which lockfile-create
+ '[' '!' -x /usr/bin/rundig ']'
+ lockfile-create /var/run/htdig.cron
lockfile creation failed
+ exit 0
doru@inspire:~$ ls -l /var/run/htdig*
ls: cannot access /var/run/htdig*: No such file or directory

I'm having a reiserfs partition for /var.

Thanks


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages htdig depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.22            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.7-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-5         GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lockfile-progs         0.1.11-0.1        Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  perl                   5.10.0-11         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

htdig recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  htdig/run-rundig: false
  htdig/generate-databases: true