hi graham, On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:12:59PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > Upon upgrading from multi-package version of fetchmail to the > latest version, fetchmail-common is removed from the system, and removes > the fetchmail user as well. This leaves the newest fetchmail package > without a user to run as. > > What is the best way to fix this? This only way I can think of (as was > suggested in #268228) is to check in the init script whether the user > exists, and, if not, to create it. > > Is this a good solution to the problem? If not, what should I do? how about putting code in your maintainer scripts that determine if it's upgrading from the multi-package version, and if so, re-creates the user? sean
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