On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:49:46PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote: > Todd Troxell wrote: > > > >The deal with this is that we can't use gid logcheck in > >dh_installlogcheck because the logcheck user doesn't exist until > >logcheck gets installed. > > > >It is annoying, but I've not come up with a solution to this yet. > > Ah, good point. I hadn't thought of that. A bit of egg on my face, as > I've reported bugs against a few packages because of that. :)
No worries <:
> Two suggestions:
> 1) Logcheck is pervasive enough on Debian systems that you could argue
> for uid/gid logcheck being added to the 0-99 range in base-passwd (see
> policy 9.2.2). That's not likely to happen in Sarge, though. Probably
> a good thing to do immediately after Sarge ships for Etch, I'd guess.
I will propose this for Etch and see what peole think. It would certainly
be convenient.
> 2) Document this clearly, so I don't go filing stupid non-bugs. :)
Done!
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