fcopy problem

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

> The problem I can see is that within /usr/sbin/fcopy, the name2num
> subroutine does not properly return the gid for group logcheck because
> in the install system there isn't such a group - although it should
> better look in the target system. The result is that the file
> permissions are set, the owner (root) is set, but the group pertains to
> be root too, so logcheck won't be able to access the file, causing the
> exclusion to fail.

> Any ideas?

As a workaround you can do a "$ROOTCMD chgrp" afterwards... but:  please fill 
a bug in the debian BTS (bug tracking system, http://bugs.debian.org) to help 
Thomas _and_others_.


regards,
 Holger