Logcheck devel - Sep 2005 - Bug#330220: logcheck: Fails to obtain lockfile

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.39
Severity: important

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.

Filing this with severity important since it has a major effect on
usability, though given that this is sarge I suspect the problem may
have already been addressed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.63                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-86               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.30.13               Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.8.4                   Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  exim4            4.50-8                  metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-hea 4.50-8                  exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.39                  A database of system log rules for
ii  logtail          1.2.39                  Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-17                System Logging Daemon

-- debconf information:
  logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note:

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

Your message dated Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:06:12 +0200
with message-id <20080903100612.GA8022 at edna.gwendoline.at>
and subject line Re: Bug#330220: logcheck: Fails to obtain lockfile
has caused the Debian Bug report #330220,
regarding logcheck: Fails to obtain lockfile
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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