[ILUG] Commands have stopped working

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004, raoul duke wrote:

> sounds like your installation is completely messed up. just backup and
> reinstall. 

Hey, hang on there.  There's three packages broken.  Reinstall is hardly
called for yet.

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004, Darragh wrote:

> However after fixing them I noticed that my account was deleted when I
> reinstalled the setup-1.5.27 rpm.

Would it have over-written /etc/passwd and /etc/group with a fresh one per
chance?  Killing off your user, the sshd user and the smmsp user/group, and
the privoxy group.

> starting sshd:privlege separation user sshd does not exist  failed
> 
> starting sm-client: chown: 'smmsp:smmsp': invalid user
> 
> starting privoxY Jan 06 :16:50:01 privoxY (-1084809088) fatal error: group
> privoxY not set
> Jan 06 :16:50:01 privoxY (-1084809088) fatal error: group privoxY not set

You created yourself a new user.  Your UID may have changed.  Just check
that all files in your home directory belong to you with 'ls -l'.  If not
you'll need something like 

chown -R darragh.darragh /home/darragh

to regain ownership.  You can either create the users for those other
packages by hand or just reinstall the packages which will do it for you.

Gavin