reassign 759740 adduser
retitle 759740 --system --quiet ... still produces warnings and bad exit code
thanks
Hallo,
* Andrew Patterson [Tue, Sep 02 2014, 03:24:10PM]:
> I guess I don't understand. The current account seem perfectly valid, i.e.,
> uid = 108. Why is the configure scripts trying to re-add the user if it
> already exists? I can re-add the user, but what ID should I use?
>
> I tried running adduser by hand and got what I think are the expected results:
>
> # adduser --quiet --system --group --no-create-home --home
> /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng apt-cacher-ng
> adduser: The user `apt-cacher-ng' already exists. Exiting.
Nope, those are not the expected results:
Add a system user
If called with one non-option argument and the --system option, adduser
will add a
system user. If a user with the same name already exists in the
system uid range
(or, if the uid is specified, if a user with that uid already exists),
adduser will
exit with a warning. This warning can be suppressed by adding "--quiet".
Now I am also wondering what is going on. The last year's bug was clearly
reproducible with UID being outside of the system UID range. Your problem
apparently has a different reason, therefore I am reassigning this BR.
> I am guessing I could delete the user, then rerun the configure script
> everything would fine.
Yes and no... you would need to change the ownership of the the logdir/cachedir
contents (chown -R...) but appart from that it should do the job.
Thanks,
Eduard.
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