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- From: u1k56@space.link.com (Jeffrey R Lang)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: sendmail locked, sync:no such user
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.170055.25989@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 17:00:55 GMT
- References: <1352000003@igc.apc.org>
- Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System)
- Organization: CAE-Link, Houston, TX
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- In article <1352000003@igc.apc.org> Charlie Rosenberg <crosenberg@igc.apc.org> writes:
- >
- >I noticed a load on the system and found sendmail running five
- >different times. syslog shows many of the locked messages listed
- >below. If I bring TCP/IP down, it will kill sendmail of course and
- >when it starts it back up again things are back to normal.
- >
- >I also wondered what causes the inetd error listed below.
- >
- ><23>Aug 17 11:37:31 sendmail[12453]: AA12265: locked
- ><27>Aug 17 11:38:14 inetd[12454]: getpwnam: sync: No such user
- >
- >Sorry to be such a pest here!
- >
-
- I ran into this probablem just last week. Verify that your password file
- does not have any errors.
-
- One of the system admins here updated that passowrd file and made an error
- on a user entry, causing the fields to be off by one. Correcting the
- passowrd file and restarting sendmail fixed the problem.
-
- Jeff lang
- System Admin, CAE-Link
- jlang@space.link.com
-