Bug#524784: lastlog: Failed to get the entry for UID 65534
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 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#524784: lastlog: Failed to get the entry for UID 65534
On 2009-05-08 at 00:01:39, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: This seems to be a local issue on your side. Do you have some kind of external user database? (LDAP, NIS...) No, I only have regular user accounts. In any case could you please send me the output of executing this: lastlog /dev/null Here it is: $ lastlog /dev/null lastlog: Failed to get the entry for UID 65534 It actually complains that it cannot retrieve the username for uid 65534. Which is weird because that user account does exist: $ grep x:65534 /etc/passwd nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/false Cheers, Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#524784: lastlog: Failed to get the entry for UID 65534
Package: tiger
Version: 1:3.2.2-8
Severity: normal
Everyday, tiger emails me this:
From: Cron Daemon r...@...
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:22:43 +1200
To: r...@...
Subject: Cron r...@...test -x /usr/sbin/tigercron { [ -r $DEFAULT
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$DEFAULT ; nice -n$NICETIGER /usr/sbin/tigercron -q ; }
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.
Is there any way of skipping that userid in this check?
Francois
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.1-grsec (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tiger depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bsdmainutils 6.1.10 collection of more utilities from
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii diff 2.8.1-12 File comparison utilities
ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii net-tools 1.60-23The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii ucf 3.0018 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages tiger recommends:
ii chkrootkit0.48-9 rootkit detector
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
pn john none (no description available)
Versions of packages tiger suggests:
ii lsof 4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files
-- debconf information:
* tiger/mail_rcpt: root
tiger/remove_mess: true
* tiger/policy_adapt:
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