On Wednesday 07 Sep 2005 09:04, Todd Troxell wrote: > I have tested the following scenarios and have been unable to reproduce > this. > > -fresh install on unstable > -dist-upgrade from stable version > -dist-upgrade from woody version > > It will be helpful to know if your adduser is functioning correctly.
Please don't top post. This is what my adduser program's description says: Description: Add and remove users and groups Are there other adduesr program also ? There messages might help now. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # apt-get remove --purge logcheck logcheck-database logtail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: logcheck* logcheck-database* logtail* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 294 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1020kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 241152 files and directories currently installed.) Removing logcheck ... Purging configuration files for logcheck ... Removing logcheck-database ... Purging configuration files for logcheck-database ... Removing logtail ... This is what syslog logged at the same time. Sep 7 14:07:35 laptop userdel[28158]: delete user `logcheck' Sep 7 14:07:35 laptop userdel[28158]: removed group `logcheck' owned by `logcheck' Sep 7 14:07:35 laptop userdel[28168]: delete user `logcheck' Sep 7 14:07:35 laptop userdel[28168]: removed group `logcheck' owned by `logcheck' Now I do the installation again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # apt-get install logcheck Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: logcheck-database logtail Suggested packages: syslog-summary The following NEW packages will be installed: logcheck logcheck-database logtail 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 294 not upgraded. Need to get 145kB of archives. After unpacking 1020kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logtail 1.2.41 [29.8kB] Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logcheck-database 1.2.41 [67.5kB] Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logcheck 1.2.41 [47.9kB] Fetched 145kB in 22s (6529B/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package logtail. (Reading database ... 240988 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking logtail (from .../logtail_1.2.41_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package logcheck-database. Unpacking logcheck-database (from .../logcheck-database_1.2.41_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package logcheck. Unpacking logcheck (from .../logcheck_1.2.41_all.deb) ... Setting up logtail (1.2.41) ... Setting up logcheck-database (1.2.41) ... Setting up logcheck (1.2.41) ... useradd: unknown group logcheck adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/logcheck -g logcheck -s /bin/false -u 118 logcheck' returned error code 6. Aborting. Cleaning up. Removing user `logcheck'. userdel: user logcheck does not exist Removing group `logcheck'. groupdel: group logcheck does not exist adduser: The user `logcheck' does not exist. chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user chgrp: invalid group name `logcheck' chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user And this is the syslog entry at this time. Sep 7 14:14:36 laptop groupadd[28457]: new group: name=logcheck, gid=118 Maybe all this can help you guys rrs -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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