On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:33:42AM +1200, Francois Marier wrote: > Package: tiger > Version: 1:3.2.2-8 > Severity: normal > > Everyday, tiger emails me this:
This seems to be a local issue on your side. Do you have some kind of
external user database? (LDAP, NIS...)
In any case could you please send me the output of executing this:
lastlog >/dev/null
>
> lastlog: Failed to get the entry for UID 65534
>
> It seems to be complaining about the nobody user and this error is shown
> whether the shell of the nobody user is /bin/sh or /bin/false.
It actually complains that it cannot retrieve the username for uid 65534.
> Is there any way of skipping that userid in this check?
No, but the lastlog standard errors could be sent to /dev/null to prevent
these messages. I would like to try to understand first, however, why are they
showing up.
Regards
Javier
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