tag 812399 upstream fixed-upstream
severity 812399 minor
thanks

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:01:26PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: needrestart
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> needrestart tries to send mail to system accounts like
> Debian-console-log. It should not do so since not all system accounts
> do have their mail re-routed to root and root usually knows which
> services to restart.
> 
> system accounts can be detected as such by looking at their numerical
> UID.

ACK. I've changed the notification script
(/etc/needrestart/notify.d/600-mail) to ignore UID greater than 0 and
less than 1000. Will be part of needrestart 2.6.


HTH,
Thomas

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