On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:13:02PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Colin> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 07:06:05PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking > Colin> System wrote: > >> Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> > >> > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version > >> 2.10.7 > reassign 444370 base-passwd Bug#444370: ntp won't > >> reconfigure (ntp group gone) Bug reassigned from package `ntp' to > >> `base-passwd'. > > Colin> The ntp group has never been managed by base-passwd, so I don't > Colin> see why a base-passwd upgrade would have removed it unless it > Colin> had an incorrect ID. What ID did it have before base-passwd > Colin> removed it? (Look in the /etc/group.org backup file.) > > 104
base-passwd shouldn't have touched that at all, then; only uids 0-99 and 65534 are touched. Can I have a copy of /etc/group.org, please? > Colin> Perhaps the ntp package would be well-advised to ensure that > Colin> the ntp group exists as well as the ntp user (it only > Colin> explicitly creates the latter, and relies on adduser to create > Colin> both, but adduser won't create the group if it got removed > Colin> separately). > > Yes. But it's complicated having several packages managing > the same file. As above, that's not supposed to happen. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
