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Subject: Question about nobody.
From: "Steven W. Orr" <steveo@syslang.net>
Organization: SysLang Inc.
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:38:59 -0400 (EDT)
To: Majordomo-users <majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM>

I just discovered that all my majordomo traffic is getting copied to 
/var/spool/nobody This makes no sense to me:

[root@saturn etc]# grep nobody aliases
owner-majordomo: steveo,nobody
nobody:         /dev/null
mjtest-owner:   steveo@syslang.net,nobody
        == /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l mjtest 
mjtest-outgoing,nobody'"
mjtest-digest-outgoing: 
:include:/usr/lib/majordomo/lists/mjtest-digest,nobody"
owner-man-bytes-dog:    steveo,nobody
owner-danforthfarms:    steveo,nobody
frambors-owner: steveo@syslang.net,nobody,
frambors:               "|/usr/lib/majordomo/demime  '== 
/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l frambors frambors-outgoing,nobody'"
frambors-digest-outgoing: 
:include:/usr/lib/majordomo/lists/frambors-digest,nobody"
owner-maynardrodandgun: steveo,nobody
owner-patchell-olson:   steveo,nobody
owner-p1tmm:    steveo,nobody
tmm-owner:      steveo@syslang.net,nobody,
tmm:            "|/usr/lib/majordomo/demime  '== 
/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l tmm tmm-outgoing,nobody'"
tmm-digest-outgoing: :include:/usr/lib/majordomo/lists/tmm-digest,nobody"
owner-tmms-cc:  steveo,nobody
ftpa-sc-owner:  steveo@syslang.net,nobody,
ftpa-sc:                "|/usr/lib/majordomo/demime  '== 
/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l ftpa-sc ftpa-sc-outgoing,nobody'"
ftpa-sc-digest-outgoing: 
:include:/usr/lib/majordomo/lists/ftpa-sc-digest,nobody"
[root@saturn etc]# 

As you can see, nobody hooks off into /dev/null. Anyone know what's going 
on here? I do happen to have (under Red Hat) an entry in my passwd file:

[root@saturn etc]# grep nobody /etc/passwd
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
nfsnobody:x:65534:65534:Anonymous NFS User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin
[root@saturn etc]# 

Should I change all ref in my aliases file from nobody to noone?

I'm confused. :-(

-- 
-Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have -
-happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ
-Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all-
-individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net


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