On Sun, 18 Oct 2026, 12:33 Wolfgang Karall-Ahlborn, <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: logcheck
> Version: 1.4.5+deb13u1
> Followup-For: Bug #1151023
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Indeed, this change caught us by surprise after the upgrade to Debian
> 13, as Jeffrey already pointed out the previous behavior made a lot of
> sense, so it would be great to see it restored, i.e. by having another
> set of logcheck-on-boot.{service,timer} units using OnBootSec and the -R
> option when calling logcheck in the ExecStart.
>
> For the time being, as quick fix, removing
>
> [ ! -d /run/systemd/system ] &&
>
> from the @reboot line /etc/cron.d/logcheck, so it's again as before the
> upgrade to Debian 13
>
> @reboot logcheck if [ -x /usr/sbin/logcheck ]; then nice -n10
> /usr/sbin/logcheck -R; fi
>
> will also give you back the 'Reboot:'-prefixed mail messages.
>
thanks - i think we could add a second systemd timer. you might want to see
if you can also do "systemctl edit logcheck.timer" and add a second trigger
condition (alrhough maybe you cant choose to add the -R that way, im not
sure what systemd allows)
