# /usr/sbin/pwck -r user adm: directory /var/adm does not exist user lp: directory /var/spool/lpd does not exist user news: directory /usr/lib/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucppublic does not exist user at: directory /var/spool/cron/atjobs does not exist user squid: directory /var/cache/squid does not exist user gdm: directory /var/lib/gdm does not exist user xfs: directory /etc/X11/fs does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgresql does not exist user apache: directory /home/httpd does not exist user nut: directory /var/state/nut does not exist user cyrus: directory /usr/cyrus does not exist user vpopmail: directory /var/vpopmail does not exist user alias: directory /var/qmail/alias does not exist user qmaild: directory /var/qmail does not exist user qmaill: directory /var/qmail does not exist user qmailp: directory /var/qmail does not exist user qmailq: directory /var/qmail does not exist user qmailr: directory /var/qmail does not exist user qmails: directory /var/qmail does not exist user smmsp: directory /var/spool/mqueue does not exist user boinc: program /usr/sbin/nologin does not exist Reproducible: Always I don't have qmail installed, so why does it complain about qmail's users?
Sorry, I have absolutely no clue what installs pwck; kindly reopen with ebuild name, version and emerge --info output.
$ equery b /usr/sbin/pwck /usr/sbin/grpck [ Searching for file(s) /usr/sbin/pwck,/usr/sbin/grpck in *... ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.18.1 (/usr/sbin/pwck) sys-apps/shadow-4.0.18.1 (/usr/sbin/grpck) $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://193.190.198.20/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LANG="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="es" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://193.190.198.20/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aac acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg lcms libcaca libg++ libwww logrotate mad midi mikmod mmap mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl pic png posix pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session slang spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vorbis wxwindows x86 xcomposite xml xorg xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY BTW, emerge --info ignores EXTRA_ECONF="--with-gnu-ld" in /etc/make.conf, but I think this doesn't add any info to this bug.
the output from pwck is 100% correct *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 53269 ***