Re: Testing + logcheck

[Ric Otte <ric@otte.ucsc.edu>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:38:48AM +0000, Gabriel Granger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I use logcheck on many of my debian servers, using stable.  I have 1 
> machine running testing, for some reason testing ignores all my custom 
> exceptions, on stable I used a file called local to store all my person 
> exceptions.  Is anyone using testing and logcheck and if so you having 
> any problems or aware of any issues with testing version of logcheck.  
> I've tested my exceptions by using egrep and they work fine.  I've 
> tried reinstalling logcheck, a friend i know who also uses testing and 
> logcheck is also having the same problem.   I can not for the life of 
> me work out why my exceptions are being ignored, any help with this 
> issue would be great.
> 
Gabe,

I had the same problem and finally found a simple fix.  I checked the
permissions of the file 'local' and found it was owned by root with
group root.  I changed the group to 'logcheck' and things began
working perfectly.

Hope that helps,

Ric