So I upgraded my Debian testing system, and mail stopped arriving. (I run my own mail server, using exim which is invoked via inetd.) Messages bounced with a relaying-denied error. On my machine, /var/log/daemon.log. had many entries like:
Mar 29 19:40:00 romana inetd[18733]: getpwnam: mail: No such user Mar 29 19:40:18 romana inetd[18734]: getpwnam: mail: No such user Mar 29 19:41:17 romana inetd[18735]: getpwnam: mail: No such user Mar 29 19:45:08 romana inetd[18749]: getpwnam: mail: No such user Mar 29 19:45:09 romana inetd[18750]: getpwnam: mail: No such user Mar 29 19:45:11 romana inetd[18751]: getpwnam: mail: No such user Mar 29 19:45:13 romana inetd[18752]: getpwnam: mail: No such user Mar 29 19:45:15 romana inetd[18753]: getpwnam: mail: No such user I restarted inetd, and all is now well. Did anyone elso experience hiccups like this when upgrading lately? I'd file a bug but I don't really know where to start! -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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