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PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2002 5:26 pm    Post subject: Could someone please tell me the uid/shell/etc info for mail Reply with quote

I deleted the user mail by accident, and i need to recreate it. what does the mail user line in /etc/passwd look like? and what groups does it belong to in /etc/group? is there a mail group as well? thanks in advance!
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PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2002 5:51 pm    Post subject: Like this: Reply with quote

/etc/group:
Code:
mail::12:mail

/etc/passwd
Code:
mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false

Keep a backup of your /etc folder, it's too important to lose ;-)
Someone submitted a script to the Tips'n'Tricks section for that very purpose.
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PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2002 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thankya,

I actually cleaned out my /etc/passwd file of all unused users earlier, and now it seems the new version of exim i am trying to emerge needs mail whereas the old one did not.

Anyhow, works fine now!
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PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2002 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The lat script posted there for this is sweet. It backs up 3 generations or /etc and when the 4th is reached the 1st is overwritten so that you don't end up with more than 3 in the /etc backup folder. The backp is done apon booting into gentoo.
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