On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Gabor Gombas wrote:
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 12:31:41PM -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote:Since things are still going after the change, this probably shouldn't be that high a priority issue... it shouldn't abort - a syslog note would be much nicer :)No message should be generated. Pointing multiple user names to the same UID is perfectly legal.
I would've thought so as well... and indeed have been running that way
for a few years. The recent GLIBC update, however now breaks that
in some circumstances.
It wasn't fun to find, and fortunately, I lost no mail because of it - I
did however have a huge backlog of locally generated mail because of the
nscd aborts (my non-system users are all in LDAP).
--
Rick Nelson
<robert> i understand there are some reasonable limits to free speech in
america, for example I cannot scream Fire into a crowded theatre
.. But can i scream fire into a theatre with only 5 or 6 poeple
in it ?