Thanks for this Brian, I've patched logcheck as you suggested and left it running overnight to see what happens. There is no change in its behaviour, so later on I'll reboot and see if that fixes it.
Thanks again Sharon. On 3 January 2013 18:13, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu 03 Jan 2013 at 17:27:56 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > I am seeing lots of emails like this from logcheck '/usr/sbin/logcheck: > > line 100: kill: (10554) - No such process' which is bug #657641, and > there > > is a patch provided. How do I apply that patch please to my 'logcheck' in > > wheezy please? > > Open /sbin/logcheck in an editor. Find > > if [ -n "$LOCK" ]; then > debug "cleanup: Killing lockfile-touch - $LOCK" > kill "$LOCK" && unset LOCK > fi > > Replace the third line with > > kill -0 $LOCK && kill "$LOCK" && unset LOCK > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130103181305.GE32121@desktop > > -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian Wheezy, LXDE 2 LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 Registered Linux user 334501