Re: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:56:34 +0100 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:18:03PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Should this be there? I'm pretty sure there should be there. $ dpkg -S /var/lib/mysql mysql-server: /var/lib/mysql Actually, the msql entry also seems suspicious: $ dpkg -S /var/lib/msql dpkg: /var/lib/msql not found. What is it doing there? I haven't mini SQL installed, I couldn't even find mini SQL in the Debian packages... Should it be safe to remove msql from passwd/shadow? If you have mysql-server installed (and I bet you do since you have the 'mysql' user) then that directory might have been lost in the crash. I shouldn't have mysql installed. $ dpkg -l 'mysql*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- un mysql none (no description available) un mysql-base none (no description available) pn mysql-client none (no description available) ii mysql-common 3.23.52-2 mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql un mysql-dev none (no description available) un mysql-develnone (no description available) pn mysql-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-clie none (no description available) un mysql-gpl-dev none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-manual none (no description available) pn mysql-navigato none (no description available) pn mysql-server none (no description available) pn mysqltcl none (no description available) Hmm, bit of a mess here... Why do I have a few mysql packages in a Desired=Unknown state? How could I upgrade the to a Desired=Purged state? Anyway, the avalanche of files reported by tiger surely cannot be totally explained by this mysql breakage... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:56:34 +0100 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:18:03PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Should this be there? I'm pretty sure there should be there. $ dpkg -S /var/lib/mysql mysql-server: /var/lib/mysql Actually, the msql entry also seems suspicious: $ dpkg -S /var/lib/msql dpkg: /var/lib/msql not found. What is it doing there? I haven't mini SQL installed, I couldn't even find mini SQL in the Debian packages... Should it be safe to remove msql from passwd/shadow? If you have mysql-server installed (and I bet you do since you have the 'mysql' user) then that directory might have been lost in the crash. I shouldn't have mysql installed. $ dpkg -l 'mysql*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- un mysql none (no description available) un mysql-base none (no description available) pn mysql-client none (no description available) ii mysql-common 3.23.52-2 mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql un mysql-dev none (no description available) un mysql-develnone (no description available) pn mysql-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-clie none (no description available) un mysql-gpl-dev none (no description available) pn mysql-gpl-doc none (no description available) pn mysql-manual none (no description available) pn mysql-navigato none (no description available) pn mysql-server none (no description available) pn mysqltcl none (no description available) Hmm, bit of a mess here... Why do I have a few mysql packages in a Desired=Unknown state? How could I upgrade the to a Desired=Purged state? Anyway, the avalanche of files reported by tiger surely cannot be totally explained by this mysql breakage... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/
RE: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
Thanks for your replies. On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:30:43 +1300 Corrin Lakeland wrote: When was the last time you fscked the partition? Your reply had me go fsck both my partitions, / and /home. The / partition had no errors, but the /home partition had a few, which could account for about 1% of the 12187 files reported by tiger. The other 99% are still unaccounted for, though. On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:19:05 -0600 (CST) Mike Barushok wrote: It might be that something corrupted the /etc/passwd file in such a way that one or more entries were either not 'readable' or had a duplicate entry. You might want to try running pwck. # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Although I'd rather not get any messages from any checking program, these seem to be harmless and unrelated to the issue. Visual inspection of passwd and shadow doesn't help, both look OK. Any more thoughts? -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
Thanks for your replies. On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:30:43 +1300 Corrin Lakeland wrote: When was the last time you fscked the partition? Your reply had me go fsck both my partitions, / and /home. The / partition had no errors, but the /home partition had a few, which could account for about 1% of the 12187 files reported by tiger. The other 99% are still unaccounted for, though. On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:19:05 -0600 (CST) Mike Barushok wrote: It might be that something corrupted the /etc/passwd file in such a way that one or more entries were either not 'readable' or had a duplicate entry. You might want to try running pwck. # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Although I'd rather not get any messages from any checking program, these seem to be harmless and unrelated to the issue. Visual inspection of passwd and shadow doesn't help, both look OK. Any more thoughts? -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/
tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
Posted this message yesterday to debian-user. Since I got no replies, and following the directions in the tiger package, I'm reposting this here. Woke up this morning to find a 400K tiger message in my mailbox, reporting over 12000 files in my system as having undefined groups ownership. A quick check revealed this to be untrue. I could find no pattern in the files reported. They are owned by various users and groups, and are of various types: 3237 Block-Device 921 Character-Device 21 Directory 119 Regular-File 7889 Symbolic-Link But now I'm worried. What's confusing tiger? Could this be a symptom of a more subtle problem? I've googled and read the docs on my system, but couldn't find any lead. Thanks for any help. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership
Posted this message yesterday to debian-user. Since I got no replies, and following the directions in the tiger package, I'm reposting this here. Woke up this morning to find a 400K tiger message in my mailbox, reporting over 12000 files in my system as having undefined groups ownership. A quick check revealed this to be untrue. I could find no pattern in the files reported. They are owned by various users and groups, and are of various types: 3237 Block-Device 921 Character-Device 21 Directory 119 Regular-File 7889 Symbolic-Link But now I'm worried. What's confusing tiger? Could this be a symptom of a more subtle problem? I've googled and read the docs on my system, but couldn't find any lead. Thanks for any help. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/
