Chris wrote: > I just upgrade from 4.1-current to 4.2-current on i386. Apache failed > to start saying "bad username nobody". There is no mention of user > "nobody" in /etc/passwd or httpd.conf file. The user/group apache > starts as is www and both of them exist in /etc/group, passwd file. > Apache was working fine before but now it's not after the upgrade.
there SHOULD be a user "nobody". There always has been (at least, since 1995). Take a look in cvsweb, or better yet, check your backups. Something deleted it. That's not good. > Also, typing "newaliases" gives a segmentation fault (core dumped) > error and creates a new file - mailwrapper.core. > > Not sure if these two problems are related but any help would be much > appreciated. Thanks. I'd assume they were related. Something hosed your system badly, and it wasn't the upgrade process. You didn't overwrite the nobody user, something deleted it. Maybe just a slip of the finger, or maybe someone did it for an ungood reason. Take a really close look at your /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd files and see if there are other things "odd" about the file (compare to the file in etc42.tgz). Look at the logs, look at "last" and "who", etc. I can think of lots of errors that might mess up libraries and such, but not much that can actually DELETE a user... Nick.
