Re: Question about nobody.

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@ntcorp.com>]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> 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
> [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:

you might try:
sendmail -bv -d nobody

this will give you a long list of debugging output from sendmail, that
includes all the alias translation for nobody - it might help you figure
out why the message isn't going to /dev/null

you might also try simply sending a mail message to 'nobody' and see if it
ends up in /var/spool/nobody

>
> [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]#

well, you need to keep that - since there are files kicking around taht
are owned by 'nobody'

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