Re: forcing web site mirror

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Darren O. Benham wrote:
> Huh?  The user was jt!

No..

joeyh@master:~>ls -l /debian2/web/update.mirrors
-rwsr-xr--   1 1167     debwww        234 Nov 25  1998 /debian2/web/update.mirrors*
joeyh@master:~>grep 1167 /etc/passwd*
/etc/passwd.safe:archvsync:x:1167:1167:Archive Sync
User,,,:/home/archvsync:/bin/bash
joeyh@master:~>ls -l /home/archvsync
ls: /home/archvsync: No such file or directory
joeyh@master:~>locate archivsync 
joeyh@master:~>locate archvsync
/debian/home/archvsync
...
joeyh@master:~>f archvsync         
Login: archvsync                        Name: Archive Replication
Directory: /debian/home/archvsync       Shell: /bin/bash
Never logged in.
No mail.
No Plan.

So the user has been removed from /etc/passwd for some reason (but is still
visible to finger, which makes me think NIS or something related), and the
home directory moved. I think.

-- 
see shy jo