On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to fix my failed clam install, and, just noticed, when I list
> certain files, I get owner/group not as names, but, as numbers;
>
> what is that trying to tell me ?
>
>  # ls -al /var/log/clamav
> total 188
> drwxr-xr-x   2  104  105  4096 Sep  3 02:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x  16 root root  4096 Oct 19 04:12 ..
> -rw-r-----   1  104  105  3774 Jul 20 04:12 clamd.log.1
> -rw-r--r--   1  104  105     0 Jul 27 04:12 freshclam.log

The username associated with the UID which created/owned those files
is no longer listed in /etc/passwd. Nor the group in /etc/group.

grep 104 /etc/passwd

should return a line something like this

clamav:x:104:106:User for clamav:/var/run/hal:/bin/false

If it doesn't, then there's your issue.

DaZZa
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