Greetings, Am Montag, 24. Januar 2005 15:52 schrieb Colin Watson: > [Please continue to send mail to the bug rather than just privately to > me.]
sorry. > 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. No output. > Do you know what uid/gid numbers were assigned to mdom before > update-passwd removed it? No idea. Is there a way to look for it? Keep smiling yanosz
