Logcheck devel - Aug 2006 - Bug#382858: logcheck reports "Could not run logtail or save output"

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.39

logcheck sends the following email, without the expected log data:

Warning: If you are seeing this message, your log files may not have been
checked!

Details:
Could not run logtail or save output

Check temporary directory: /tmp/logcheck.Fu54WY

declare -x HOME="/var/lib/logcheck"
declare -x LANG="en_US"
declare -x LANGUAGE="en_NL:en_US:en_GB:en"
declare -x LOGNAME="logcheck"
declare -x MAILTO="root"
declare -x OLDPWD
declare -x
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
declare -x PWD="/var/lib/logcheck"
declare -x SHELL="/bin/sh"
declare -x SHLVL="2"


This looks like an earlier bug with version 1.2.28 of logcheck (bug  
277782). However,
# ls -l -d /var/lib/logcheck
gives
drwxr-xr-x  2 logcheck logcheck 4096 2005-04-19 17:58 /var/lib/logcheck


System information:
Debian Sarge
Kernel 2.6.8-3-686-smp