Logcheck devel - Jul 2004 - Bug#260096: logcheck still creates /var/state/

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.23
Severity: normal

/var/state and /var/state/logcheck are still being created by
logcheck, although I assume they are not used.

See archived Bug#108227

tags #260096 pending
thanks

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Lee Maguire wrote:
> Package: logcheck
> Version: 1.2.23
> Severity: normal
> 
> /var/state and /var/state/logcheck are still being created by
> logcheck, although I assume they are not used.
> 
> See archived Bug#108227
good catch, corrected in cvs.
/var/state/logcheck will get removed conditionaly for next upgrade.
a++ maks

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Package: logcheck
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/var/state and /var/state/logcheck are still being created by
logcheck, although I assume they are not used.

See archived Bug#108227



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Source: logcheck
Source-Version: 1.2.24

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
logcheck, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

logcheck-database_1.2.24_all.deb
  to pool/main/l/logcheck/logcheck-database_1.2.24_all.deb
logcheck_1.2.24.dsc
  to pool/main/l/logcheck/logcheck_1.2.24.dsc
logcheck_1.2.24.tar.gz
  to pool/main/l/logcheck/logcheck_1.2.24.tar.gz
logcheck_1.2.24_all.deb
  to pool/main/l/logcheck/logcheck_1.2.24_all.deb
logtail_1.2.24_all.deb
  to pool/main/l/logcheck/logtail_1.2.24_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Friday, 23 Jul 2004 21:39:19 -0500
Source: logcheck
Binary: logcheck logtail logcheck-database
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.2.24
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian logcheck Team <logcheck-devel at
lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Todd Troxell <ttroxell at debian.org>
Description: 
 logcheck   - Mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the administrator
 logcheck-database - A database of system log rules for the use of log checkers
 logtail    - Print log file lines that have not been read
Closes: 206495 213711 257874 258735 258759 259092 259094 259371 259466 260096
260102 260103 260105 260330 260382 260810
Changes: 
 logcheck (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   eevans:
   * Added violations ignore rule for squid (Closes: #257874)
   maks
   * Added dhcpd-client, kernel, ntp, postfix rules. (Closes: #259094)
   * Added lots of postfix rules at level workstation for those,
     who wants to include /var/log/mail.log. (Closes: #206495)
   * Generalize "nobody" to "[_[:alnum:]-]+" for su rule.
   * Update rules ignore.d.paranoid/cron, ignore.d.paranoid/postfix.
     New courier rules merged and simplified from imap, impd-ssl and pop3d-ssl.
     thanks to Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org>. (Closes: #258759)
   * Fix pid regex in cyrus rules. (Closes: #259092)
   * Added cyrus rules for notifyd. (Closes: #259466)
   * Make sure logtail gets a logfile to read, if not exit soon.
     Documented -o switch in logtail(8). (Closes: #259371)
   * Added logcheck-devel mail to logtail(8) and copyright.
   * Added userv rules. (Closes: #260105)
   * Generalize user match in spamd rule. (Closes: #260103)
   * Added a ippl rule at level workstation. (Closes: #260102)
   * Updated logcheck help message to all existent switches.
     Corrected logcheck command line parsing, -T needs no args.
     Use 6 'X' for mktemp(1) template. Better lock handling. (Closes:
#260330)
   * Do not create unused /var/state/logcheck and really get rid of it.
     (Closes: #260096)
   * Added cs Translation. thanks Jan Outrata. (Closes: #260382)
   * Remove duplicate postfix rules, fix for remote string add lmtp rule.
     (Closes: #260810)
   todd:
   * Added 2 kernel rules for sparc workstations.
   * Added nearly 50 squid rules. (Closes: #213711)
   * Fix anacron Normal exit rule.
   * Move adduser from preinst to postinst (Closes: #258735)
   * Update pump and dhclient rules.
Files: 
 b12f7f6e9f7ee1c1ab93c11d06197436 670 admin optional logcheck_1.2.24.dsc
 fac761afff4056f62d05e0b0a49a8941 78439 admin optional logcheck_1.2.24.tar.gz
 b42736deefef2c9cbb27e596fe3453ca 38306 admin optional logcheck_1.2.24_all.deb
 544fe294c31535dae713ca94746030c4 45540 admin optional
logcheck-database_1.2.24_all.deb
 ab277c25932c9ef600581ebb1aa8f68c 22412 admin optional logtail_1.2.24_all.deb

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logcheck (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
   [snip]
    * Do not create unused /var/state/logcheck and really get rid of it.
        (Closes: #260096)

Still appears to be in the package.

$ dpkg -c logcheck_1.2.24_all.deb | grep state
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-24 02:41:00 ./var/state/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-24 02:41:00 ./var/state/logcheck/

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Lee Maguire wrote:
>    logcheck (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
>    [snip]
>     * Do not create unused /var/state/logcheck and really get rid of it.
>         (Closes: #260096)
> 
> Still appears to be in the package.
> 
> $ dpkg -c logcheck_1.2.24_all.deb | grep state
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-24 02:41:00 ./var/state/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-07-24 02:41:00 ./var/state/logcheck/
> 
thx for the check, corrected in latest cvs (release prepared for sarge):
$ dpkg -c logcheck_1.2.24+1.2.25rc1_all.deb | grep state
gives nothing.

a++ maks

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