[Pkg-exim4-users] User running Debian-exim

[José de Jesús Gutiérrez Ramírez]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Metzler" <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>
To: <pkg-exim4-users at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Pkg-exim4-users] User running Debian-exim


José de Jesús Gutiérrez Ramírez <jgtez at previtep.com> wrote:
> I'm not able to receive mails on a pc running exim, I think could be
> a permissions problem.
> when I run ps -ef command I see the next text

> 1004     10116     1  0 09:14 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> root     10141  9937  0 09:19 pts/0    00:00:00 grep exim

> Usually instead of 1004 should appears the name of user running
> exim, that is Debian-exim, looking in my /etc/passwd file I see that
> 1004 is the number of the user Debian-exim. Why does appears the
> number of the user and not the name?
[...]

http://bugs.debian.org/405063

ps intentionally displays the numerical user id instead of the
corresponding names if the name is longer than 8 characters.

cu andreas

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But what can be wrong? Where do I have to still searching?

I look at the logs, exim4/mainlog and /var/log/syslog and I can't find any 
clue to solve this problem.

TIA

Jesus