Pkg exim4 users - May 2010 - Failed to get user name for uid 1000 in paniclog

Hi,

Google searches aren''t helping much here.  I originally created a
couple users without specifying the UID.  I have the same usernames on another
machine (a mac).  On the mac, they''re 500 and 501, but Debian created
them with 1000 and 1001.  When I rsync files, I had a problem because user 1000
couldn''t read user 500''s files even though they were the same
user (to me).  So I ran usermod on both accounts to switch the UIDs and
everything looked great.  Permissions were happy and life was grand.

However, now I''m getting errors in the exim4 paniclog like this:
Failed to get user name for uid 1000

I''ve checked filesystem permissions everywhere I can think of. 
I''ve grepped through /etc/exim4 for my usernames and for 1000 and no
luck.  I''ve restarted exim4 and I''ve also run dpkg-reconfigure
exim4.config

I looked at some of the source code and it looks like exim4 runs as the user
it''s trying to deliver for or something.  What makes it run as user
1000?

Thanks,
-Brian

Brian Mauter wrote:
> However, now I''m getting errors in the exim4 paniclog like this:
> Failed to get user name for uid 1000
> 
> I''ve checked filesystem permissions everywhere I can think of. 
I''ve grepped through /etc/exim4 for my usernames and for 1000 and no
luck.  I''ve restarted exim4 and I''ve also run dpkg-reconfigure
exim4.config
On Debian the standard user for exim is "Debian-exim" with uid 102. So
anything above 500 is fine.

What does "cat /etc/passwd |grep exim" tell you?

-- 
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Thanks for replying Jeroen.  I think the exim user is fine.  I think the problem
lies with the user for which it''s trying to deliver mail.

At any rate:
brian at minimac:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
5.0.4
brian at minimac:~$ dpkg -p exim4
Package: exim4
Priority: standard
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 72
Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers <pkg-exim4-maintainers at
lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 4.69-9
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, debconf (>= 1.4.69) | cdebconf
(>= 0.39), exim4-base (>= 4.69), exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy |
exim4-daemon-custom
Size: 7478
Description: metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) installation
 Exim (v4) is a mail transport agent. exim4 is the metapackage depending
 on the essential components for a basic exim4 installation.
 .
 The Debian exim4 packages have their own web page,
 http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/. There is also a Debian-specific
 FAQ list. Information about the way the Debian packages are
 configured can be found in
 /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz, which additionally contains
 information about the way the Debian binary packages are built. The
 very extensive upstream documentation is shipped in
 /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz. To repeat the debconf-driven
 configuration process in a standard setup, invoke dpkg-reconfigure
 exim4-config. There is a Debian-centered mailing list,
 pkg-exim4-users at lists.alioth.debian.org. Please ask Debian-specific
 questions there, and only write to the upstream exim-users mailing
 list if you are sure that your question is not Debian-specific. You
 can find the subscription web page on
 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users
 .
  Homepage: http://www.exim.org/
Homepage: http://www.exim.org/
brian at minimac:~$ ps -eaf | grep exim4
101      12652     1  0 16:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
brian    13102 12964  0 20:12 pts/0    00:00:00 grep exim4
brian at minimac:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep exim4
Debian-exim:x:101:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false


On May 26, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Brian Mauter wrote:
>> However, now I''m getting errors in the exim4 paniclog like
this:
>> Failed to get user name for uid 1000
>> I''ve checked filesystem permissions everywhere I can think of.
I''ve grepped through /etc/exim4 for my usernames and for 1000 and no
luck.  I''ve restarted exim4 and I''ve also run dpkg-reconfigure
exim4.config
> 
> On Debian the standard user for exim is "Debian-exim" with uid
102. So anything above 500 is fine.
> 
> What does "cat /etc/passwd |grep exim" tell you?
> 
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> http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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