On Tuesday 19 July 2005 17:48, maximilian attems wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Grahame White wrote: > <snipp> > > > I'm using exim4, and yes the change you suggested seems to have fixed > > the problem. > > > > > i guess so, as nobody uses that group the permission group setting > > > of /var/log/mail seems more like an accident. > > > > > > now that logcheck should run without troubles, can you confirm? > > > i guess we can close that bug. > > > > Yes, I'm fine with closing the bug > > thanks for your feedback, i'm happy to hear logcheck is running fine. :) > although this bug may need to be reassigned to the package, which > created that strange group ownership of /var/log/mail. > > exim4 usually logs to /var/log/exim4 on all of standard installs i see > around me. so what mail subsystem of yours is logging to aboves dir? > do you have some custom syslog (or syslog-ng) rules that direct > messages there? > > maybe we can grasp which packet added the smmsp user. > what does belows command on your box show: > egrep smmsp -r /var/lib/dpkg/info/
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.postrm: # Remove user/group smmsp /var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.postrm: deluser --quiet smmsp || true; /var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.postrm: userdel smmsp 2>/dev/null || true; /var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.postrm: groupdel smmsp 2>/dev/null || true; As you said earlier, it looks like a sendmail problem except that I don't have it installed. I don't recall having ever installed it previously either. Grahame -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
