Shorewall users - Jan 2004 - 1.4.9 rpm update warnings

Hello,

 

I just started updating my RH9 Linux servers with Shorewall 1.4.9.  I had
Shorewall 1.4.8 installed on the server before I updated it.  I installed it
using the following command:

 

rpm -Uvh Shorewall-1.4.9-1.noarch.rpm

 

I got the normal rpm "Preparing." message and then it displayed the
following message five times before listing expected warnings of creating
rpmnew files:

 

warning: user teastep does not exist - using root

 

I don''t expect that this is a problem, but I haven''t seen this
warning
before.  I searched the list archives and site for this message and
didn''t
come up with anything.  So, hopefully I''m not reporting something that
has
already been discussed last week.

 

sj

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Scott Jibben wrote:
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>
> rpm -Uvh Shorewall-1.4.9-1.noarch.rpm
>
>
>
> I got the normal rpm "Preparing." message and then it displayed
the
> following message five times before listing expected warnings of creating
> rpmnew files:
>
>
>
> warning: user teastep does not exist - using root
>
This harmless message occurs when the files archived in an RPM are owned
by a user that doesn''t exist on your system. I apparently neglected to
change their ownership to root before creating the rpm.

-Tom
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