Hi all, I just did an apt-get upgrade on my unstable powerpc machine and it upgraded libc6.
shortly thereafter, I started getting this message in my syslog: May 28 22:10:05 localhost inetd[2673]: getpwnam: mail: No such user And my mail stopped being delivered. Thanks to the magic of google, I found this message from Colin Watson: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0009/msg01990.html> Quoting: > Going down to single-user mode and then back up to runlevel 2 seems to > have fixed most such problems. Sending a SIGHUP to inetd, as libc6's > postinst does via '/etc/init.d/inetd restart', is not enough - it needs > to be stopped and started again. So i went to runlevel 1 and then back to 2 and everything was back to normal. Just thought I'd mention it in case it happens to anyone else. Vinod -- _____________________________ Vinod Kurup, MD email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 617.277.2012 cell: 617.359.5990 http://www.kurup.com aim: vvkurup