Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

[Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>]

David Wright wrote:

> FYI:
>
> I installed iwatch, and that immediately generated two messages from
> /etc/.etckeeper. Then I upgraded:
>
>   apt apt-doc apt-utils bind9-host curl dnsutils exim4
> exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
>   firefox-esr firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb gstreamer1.0-gl
> gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
>   gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
> gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio gstreamer1.0-x
>   libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libbind9-161 libcurl3-gnutls
> libcurl4 libdns-export1104 libdns1104
>   libgstreamer-gl1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
> libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libirs161
>   libisc-export1100 libisc1100 libisccc161 libisccfg163
> libjs-underscore libldb1 liblwres161
>   libopenjp2-7 openjdk-11-jre openjdk-11-jre-headless
> wpasupplicant xserver-common
>   xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-legacy
> 44 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> and got 387 more messages.
>
> I then added one new user, which generated 97 more, where
> /etc/.pwd.lock was the subject of four of them.
>
> Purging iwatch then generated a final three.
>
> So the OP's 2757 is no surprise with the
> default configuration.

Really, I was 100% it was something _I_ did...

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