#470997 logcheck: allow running w/o locking

Package:
logcheck
Source:
logcheck
Submitter:
Frédéric Brière
Date:
2024-05-12 15:30:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#470997#5
Date:
2008-03-15 01:50:17 UTC
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To:
When testing a checked-out copy of the rulefiles against an old log copy
and sending the output to stdout, I still have to use sudo because
logcheck insists on creating a lockfile.  It'd be nice to provide an
option to skip that part.
#470997#10
Date:
2024-05-12 15:27:20 UTC
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To:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:50:17 -0400 =?utf-8?b?RnLDqWTDqXJpYyBCcmnDqHJl?= <

This is easy to solve by changing LOCKDIR to point to something you can access.
You presumably are setting a custom configuration file to run as
non-root (since you wont be able to read /etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf
without sudo), and then
that custom config file can change the location to /tmp or wherever.

I think this already works in the version in bookworm, so perhaps we
can close this bug