From c5f8cfe848f1e466d6ba95e01ea7ff1a78da7c16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alessandro Ratti <alessandro.ratti@exoscale.ch>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 15:34:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] attempt to fix LP: #1991812

---
 debian/frr.postinst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/frr.postinst b/debian/frr.postinst
index 382edcb..79a2f96 100644
--- a/debian/frr.postinst
+++ b/debian/frr.postinst
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ done
 # fix logging for Ubuntu, which does not run rsyslog as root (LP: #1958162),
 # and upgrades from quagga (what the block above used to do also for /var/log)
 
+if (getent passwd syslog > /dev/null);then
 # frr user was created above, this really shouldn't fail
 frruid=`getent passwd frr | cut -d : -f 3`
 frrgid=`getent group frr | cut -d : -f 3`
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ find \
         chmod o-rwx "$filename"
     fi
 done
+fi
 
 # fix misconfigured vtysh.conf & frr.conf ownership caused by config save
 # mishandling in earlier FRR (and Quagga) versions
-- 
2.25.1