Hi Mark, On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:17:40PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > Every time locheck runs from cron on my system it generates a mail > reporting: > > | Failed to get lockfile: /var/lock/logcheck/logcheck.lock > > This only appears to happen when running from cron. Attempting to run > logcheck or lockfile-create by hand seems to work as expected. The > permissions on the lock directory appear to be fine: > > | $ ls -ld /var/lock/logcheck/ > | drwxr-xr-x 2 logcheck logcheck 4096 Sep 26 20:02 /var/lock/logcheck/ > > so I'm at a bit of a loss trying to explain this. I've not done any > configuration of logcheck, it's been doing this since it was installed.
This is pretty weird. It would be useful to know if/why thelock is [really] failing. I can't seem to reproduce it on my machines. Do you think you could try changing the lock line(595) to somehting like: lockfile-create --retry 1 $LOCKFILE >> /tmp/logcheck_error 2>&1 Cheers, -- Todd Troxell http://rapidpacket.com/~xtat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
