lsof: no pwd entry for UID

[Rainer von Bongartz]

Running lsof as root gives me about 50 lines saying:

lsof: no pwd entry for UID 1162

Beside this lsof work fine.

Any ideas what lsof trys telling me ????


Regards
Rainer

[RAC_1]

what is the user name for that uid?

what lsof -u "user_name of 1162" gives? Post results.

[Michael Tully]

Hi Rainer,

I've not seen this error before, but have you tried to see if there is files on your system owned by uid 1162 and there is no user with this uid?

HTH
Michael

[Christian Gebhardt · Accepted solution]

Hi

I have tried this:

- creating a user
- login with this user and create and open a file with vi
- remove this user from /etc/passwd manually
- running lsof

result:
a lot of

lsof: no pwd entry for UID 550
lsof: no pwd entry for UID 550
lsof: no pwd entry for UID 550
lsof: no pwd entry for UID 550
lsof: no pwd entry for UID 550
lsof: no pwd entry for UID 550


Chris

[Rainer von Bongartz]

Thanks folks,

My error:

I removed an old user from passwd
but the squid proxy server was running under this ID.

Stopping squid and starting it under a different ID solved the problem

Regards
Rainer