When my cron executes /etc/cron.daily/syslog.cron I get the following errors: /bin/chown: `root.adm': invalid user repeated several times. In /etc/cron.daily/syslog.cron there is the following line: /bin/chown root.adm $LOG which causes the problem. But according to the chown man-page the notation "root.adm" should be legal, but it's not. Changeing it to root:adm fixes it. But the man-page of chown says: "If the user name is followed by a colon or dot and a group name (or numeric group ID), with no spaces between them, the group ownership of the files is changed as well." So I don't know if this is a sysklogd bug or a chown (coreutils) bug. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP1900+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs notitles" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/ " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex svga tcltk java guile postgres X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl mozilla cdr apache2 doc emacs fbcon flash gtk2 maildir mbox tiff xml -gnome -arts -kde"
Created attachment 21084 [details, diff] Fixes the text in the manpage to match reality. Taken from the coreutils-5.0.91 tar-ball NEWS file: - chown: `.' is no longer recognized as a separator in the OWNER:GROUP specifier on POSIX 1003.1-2001 systems. If chown *was not* compiled on such a system, then it still accepts `.', by default. If chown was compiled on a POSIX 1003.1-2001 system, then you may enable the old behavior by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your environment. So it just seems like a new feature. So a change to the chown man-page in the required. I just noticed that the sysklogd.cron file is changed, so emergeing sysklogd againg fixed the problem with sysklogd.
Version bumped so everyone will get this fix.
