Logcheck users - Dec 2015 - logcheck-test incompatibility on OSX

Hi,

On OSX mktemp does not take the '--tmpdir' argument, which makes the
logcheck-test command choke:

  CLEANRULE="$(mktemp --tmpdir logcheck-test.XXXXXXXXXX)"

I am not well versed in debian development land, would like to ask the
package maintainers whether they are open to making logcheck-test work
on OSX.

There is an open pull request for homebrew/logcheck in which a patch
for mktemp is applied - it would be nice if this patch would land
upstream:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/46663


Thanks,

Jan-Jaap

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 08:19:57AM +0100, Jan-Jaap Driessen
wrote:
> On OSX mktemp does not take the '--tmpdir' argument, which makes
the
> logcheck-test command choke:
> 
>   CLEANRULE="$(mktemp --tmpdir logcheck-test.XXXXXXXXXX)"
> 
> I am not well versed in debian development land, would like to ask the
> package maintainers whether they are open to making logcheck-test work
> on OSX.
Sure.

Would

   CLEANRULE="$(mktemp
"${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/logcheck-test.XXXXXXXXXX")"

work on OSX?

Best regards

Hannes

On 10 December 2015 at 19:43, Hannes von Haugwitz
<hannes at vonhaugwitz.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 08:19:57AM +0100, Jan-Jaap Driessen wrote:
>> On OSX mktemp does not take the '--tmpdir' argument, which
makes the
>> logcheck-test command choke:
>>
>>   CLEANRULE="$(mktemp --tmpdir logcheck-test.XXXXXXXXXX)"
>>
>> I am not well versed in debian development land, would like to ask the
>> package maintainers whether they are open to making logcheck-test work
>> on OSX.
>
> Sure.
>
> Would
>
>    CLEANRULE="$(mktemp
"${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/logcheck-test.XXXXXXXXXX")"
>
> work on OSX?
Hi Hannes,

Thank you for your time. Using your CLEANRULE definition works like a
charm on OSX.

Cheers,

Jan-Jaap