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lsof: no pwd entry for UID

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:53 am
by donnie
What is this all about?
when checking lsof allot of
"lsof: no pwd entry for UID 60536"
lines apears.
later on allot of scalix files with this UID apears..
Something wrong?

...
lsof: no pwd entry for UID 60536
in.imap41 4018 60536 mem REG 9,0 14716 1175395 /opt/scalix/lib/libom_ak.so
in.imap41 4018 60536 mem REG 9,0 57660 1175404 /opt/scalix/lib/libom_cl.so
in.imap41 4018 60536 mem REG 9,0 35804 1175492 /opt/scalix/lib/libom_rtfl.so
...

Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:14 am
by ls-al
Dont worry. That should be o.k.

Scalix users/mailboxes have a system id which is not controlled by /etc/passwd. So lsof can not get a pwd entry for these processes.

To find out more about the Scalix ID-Pool see the man page for omadmidp.

You can see the corresponding user (for your example) with:
omshowu -U 60536

lsof will suppress these (and other) warnings with the -w switch.