On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 22:06:46 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Feb 21 01:06:30 souterrain inetd[3638]: getpwnam: root: No such user > > Feb 21 00:45:02 souterrain inetd[159]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 > > Feb 21 00:45:02 souterrain inetd[1240]: getpwnam: backup: No such user
> That's trying to look up users in your /etc/passwd file. getpwnam for > root failing is very strange, I suggest you make sure your /etc/passwd > is not messed up. Thanks for that. It turned out that my password file was okay. Your suggestion did make me think in a different direction. A restart of 'inetd' did solve my problem. Not sure now if this can be seen as an omission in the upgrade process and therefore a bug? Thanks again & best regards! -- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
