Bug#275366: marked as done (exim4: Exim4 on Debian sid runs with the name "107" instead of "Debian-exim")

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From: Brad Sims <bsims@abnt.org>
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Subject: exim4: Exim4 on Debian sid runs with the name "107" instead of "Debian-exim"
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Package: exim4
Version: 4.34-6
Severity: minor

At first I thought I had a system break in but it
appears not to be the case.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.34 #1 built 11-Sep-2004 12:26:50
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (May 26, 2004)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'

dc_eximconfig_configtype='local'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
mailname:c933657-a

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  exim4-base                    4.34-6     EXperimental Internal Mailer -- a 
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.34-6     Lightweight version of the Exim (v

-- no debconf information

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From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#275366: exim4: Exim4 on Debian sid runs with the name "107" instead of "Debian-exim"
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On 2004-12-16 Brad Sims <bsims@abnt.org> wrote:
[...]
> When I say "runs with the name 107" I mean that 'ps auxf|grep exim' returns    
> 107      17374  0.0  0.0   4228   260 ?        <mind the wrap>
> Ss   Dec07   0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m

> pstree shows it correctly as exim4 however. It has done this consistently,
> for a while now.

> getent passwd Debian-exim returns:
> Debian-exim:x:107:107::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false
[...]
> Exim, and  dbus-daemon are the only packages that shows this behavior. 
> dbus-daemon displays the name 103 in ps auxf... 
[...]
> ps --version returns: 
> procps version 3.2.4

Hello,
This seems to be a new feature in ps Version 3.2.3 ("avoid truncating
long usernames").

If you think this to be a bug and not a feature in ps feel free to
open a wishlist bug against procps or to reopen and reassign this one.
               cu andreas
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