On Tue, 06 Jan 2004, raoul duke wrote:
> sounds like your installation is completely messed up. just backup and
> reinstall.
Hey, hang on there. There's three packages broken. Reinstall is hardly
called for yet.
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004, Darragh wrote:
> However after fixing them I noticed that my account was deleted when I
> reinstalled the setup-1.5.27 rpm.
Would it have over-written /etc/passwd and /etc/group with a fresh one per
chance? Killing off your user, the sshd user and the smmsp user/group, and
the privoxy group.
> starting sshd:privlege separation user sshd does not exist failed
>> starting sm-client: chown: 'smmsp:smmsp': invalid user
>> starting privoxY Jan 06 :16:50:01 privoxY (-1084809088) fatal error: group
> privoxY not set
> Jan 06 :16:50:01 privoxY (-1084809088) fatal error: group privoxY not set
You created yourself a new user. Your UID may have changed. Just check
that all files in your home directory belong to you with 'ls -l'. If not
you'll need something like
chown -R darragh.darragh /home/darragh
to regain ownership. You can either create the users for those other
packages by hand or just reinstall the packages which will do it for you.
Gavin
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