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Bug 34148

Summary: sysklogd daily cron script has bad chown
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Daath <charon>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Daath 2003-11-22 18:05:49 UTC
Line 24 of /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd.cron reads:

      /bin/chown root.adm $LOG

It should read:

      /bin/chown root:adm $LOG

Otherwise the job fails with "bad user", and you get a mail from cron.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.20-gentoo-r5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /var/qmail/control
/var/qmail/alias"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
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="oss foomaticdb mad xmms tcltk esd x86 -3dnow -apm -arts avi berkdb crypt
cups curl encode firebird gd gdbm gif gpm gtk imap imlib java jpeg -kde -gnome
-libg++ libwww mcal -mikmod maildir -mbox mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls
oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png python perl qt -quicktime readline -sdl slang
-spell ssl svga tcpd truetype -X xml xml2 -xv zlib"
Comment 1 Daath 2003-11-22 18:37:27 UTC
Just saw that there was a fix :P Sorry for the inconvenience