the script '/usr/bin/logger'. In a brand new Ubuntu 8.04 installation this is actually an ELF executable. But on my old Ubuntu 8.04 (but regularly updated) OS is was a shell script.
I simply inserted on the first line the command 'exit' to avoid the script to run its bugs. It solved the problem.
Finally I copied the executable from another and fresher Ubuntu 8.04 installation.
Yet I don't know why '/usr/bin/logger' hadn't been updated correctly...
I finally found waht the problem is:
the script '/usr/bin/logger'. In a brand new Ubuntu 8.04 installation this is actually an ELF executable. But on my old Ubuntu 8.04 (but regularly updated) OS is was a shell script.
I simply inserted on the first line the command 'exit' to avoid the script to run its bugs. It solved the problem.
Finally I copied the executable from another and fresher Ubuntu 8.04 installation.
Yet I don't know why '/usr/bin/logger' hadn't been updated correctly...