Exim Failed

[goodness0001]

Exim failed by itself, in the exim_paniclog file I find:

2005-09-08 21:14:08 cannot run initgroups(): no passwd entry for uid=47
2005-09-08 21:14:43 cannot run initgroups(): no passwd entry for uid=47
2005-09-08 21:14:43 cannot run initgroups(): no passwd entry for uid=47


What happened?

I tried all the:

/scripts/eximup --force

to no avail. I also moved from stable to the release branch.

Please help!

[amathew]

Looks like mailnull user is missing from the server. You need to run the follwing command..

useradd -s /sbin/nologin -u 47 -d /var/spool/mqueue mailnull

[chirpy]

Or running the following ought to sort it out:

/scripts/eximup --force

[goodness0001]

I tried the /scripts/eximup already to no avail,

I also have a mailnull user:

mailnull:x:32018:100::/home/users/mailnull:/bin/bash

[goodness0001]

I also tried removing the user mailnull and add it back with:



useradd -s /sbin/nologin -u 47 -d /var/spool/mqueue mailnull

and I still get the same messages in my exim_paniclog file.

[amathew]

remove your existing mailnull user and group, and add them again using the following command.

groupadd -g 47 mailnull
useradd -s /sbin/nologin -u 47 -g mailnull -d /var/spool/mqueue mailnull

now, restart exim service..