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sysklogd package

  1. Bug #401056
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 401056

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Diego Schulz (dschulzg) wrote :

why not just TRY to delete de syslog user, and, if it fails due to rsyslog logged in as syslog (userdel returns 8 in this case) then just ignore as it's not a problem.

The point is, the post-removal script should exit successfully if userdel returns 8.