logcheck doesn't work anymore

Marco Beishuizen mbeis at xs4all.nl
Sun Sep 14 19:34:50 UTC 2008


On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:00:47 -0400
Greg Larkin <glarkin at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Finally, I'll add the members of the wheel group to the logcheck group
> so anyone in that group can still read the file as they could before:
>     --------------------------------------------------------------------
>     fbsd70# grep ^wheel: /etc/group
>     wheel:*:0:root,glarkin
>     fbsd70# grep ^wheel: /etc/group | awk -F : '{ print $4 }' | xargs
> \ -n1 pw groupmod logcheck -m
>     fbsd70# grep ^logcheck: /etc/group
>     logcheck:*:915:root,glarkin
>     --------------------------------------------------------------------

When trying to add root and marco to the logcheck group I get:

...
#grep ^wheel: /etc/group | awk -F : '{ print $4 }' | xargs \ -n1 pw
groupmod logcheck -m
#xargs:  -n1: No such file or directory
...

Should I add them manually to /etc/group? Or is this not enough to make
it work.

Regards,
Marco

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