[Please continue to send mail to the bug rather than just privately to me.]
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:18:00PM +0100, Jan L�hr wrote: > Am Montag, 24. Januar 2005 11:25 schrieben Sie: > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 05:53:03PM +0100, Jan L�hr wrote: > > > A few weeks ago I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my sarge server (i386). > > > For some reason update-basswd wanted to delete the user:group mdom:mdom. > > > I thought I won't be necessary to keep 'em, so I let update-passwd go > > > one. Later one, I noticed that my UUCP System was unable to send mail, > > > because It had no rights to call the sendmail-placeholder (exim). > > > Recreating mdom:mdom solved the problem. > > > > What is this mdom user/group? What package created it? > > I don't know exactly. Perhaps UUCP or exim or something related to that. The > user is needed by uucp to call the sendmail placeholder, so exim (v3) or uucp > might be responsible. > Is there an efficient way to find out, which package created the user? 'grep -r mdom /var/lib/dpkg/info' should do it. Do you know what uid/gid numbers were assigned to mdom before update-passwd removed it? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
