Eugene Coetzee
Jp Calderone wrote:
Your logged in shell is running with more permissions than your system is configured to allow you to have. Perhaps someone recently edited your /etc/groups file or something similar. Logging all the way out and back in should give you an environment in which twistd will start up for you.
Thank you for the clue. Indeed that appears to be the problem. I looked at my /etc/passwd entry and I am in my own "personal" group. My site has linux clients that authenticate against AFS. Every user has their own group to minimize the exposure allowing unanticipated access to local (non-AFS) directories and files. Anyway, back to the main topic... I executed the id command and noticed I am in groups not listed in /etc/passwd. Also, I shouldn't be in these groups because they are "personal" groups for other users. Hence, I have sent an email to our internal support org.
Don't know if it is a bug - or something todo with shell privileges. I have seen the same thing migrating recently from Slackware 9.1 to Slackware 10.0.
Since I'm using the same version of Twisted and Python on both versions of Slack (9.1 and 10.0) - logic seems to point in the direction of the distro or some GNU library related issue.
The id command may shed some light to what is different, at least it did for me. Thanks for the feedback. -Garrett Rolfs