Default group doesn't exist on ubuntu bionic

[viraptor]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 5.5.10
• Ruby: 2.4.4
• Distribution: Ubuntu Bionic
• Module version: 3.4.-

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

Any use

What are you seeing

/etc/logrotate.conf gets created with su root syslog. This does not exist in Ubuntu Bionic (as provided by AWS images anyway)

What behaviour did you expect instead

Use an existing group instead.

[MindTooth]

This is still an issue. Did you ever find a solution?

[kjetilho]

I think someone needs to submit a PR :)

Although according to my research, the problem is with Focal and up: it switches to "su root adm", while Bionic still uses "su root syslog".

In Bionic, it looks like the syslog group is created by the rsyslog package:

./info/rsyslog.postinst:	adduser --system --group --no-create-home --quiet syslog || true

in Focal and above, I don't think rsyslog is installed by default, since journald is sufficient for many installations. more exact research is probably needed.