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Seriously, debian...
raindog308
Administrator, Veteran
...how could you install a package and not have an owner for the service?
# ps -ef | grep exim 107 32673 1 0 Jun04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
# ps -ef | grep exim 101 1417 1 0 Jun15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
That last one is straight after install from DVD.
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I had this issue in FreeBSD after a program (or possibly me) messed around with users/groups...
It sucked hard cause I had denied root login, and without groups working correctly, my sudo user could no long sudo to fix the issue!
Bizarrely, the binary is setuid root:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 758852 May 12 2011 /usr/sbin/exim4
/etc/init.d/exim4 restart doesn't change - still running as uid 101 on this VPS.
On closer examination, it appears there is a user 101...I think the problem is that its name is Debian-exim, and that column in ps output is not wide enough to show it.
can you add the -w to it? Or what is shown in top?
Good call: