dnsmasq: unknown user or group nobody

[acmkonings]

I am experiencing above error when using lnxrouter -i eth0

on my Raspberry Pi 2B with raspbx 14 (stretch). The lnxrouter script cancels itself by consequence. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[garywill]

Maybe your system doesn't have nobody user.

Try deleting this https://github.com/garywill/linux-router/blob/5452234c081835715f035ca981225e7b3d5ae4f8/lnxrouter#L1427-L1428

[diveyez]

No No NO. Do not delete it, instead MAKE THE GROUP AND USER. nobody nobody should have been added, but it appears that raspbx likes to do things the retarded way.

[jcarius]

Same on Ubuntu 18.04. The workaround by @garywill

Maybe your system doesn't have nobody user.

Try deleting this

https://github.com/garywill/linux-router/blob/5452234c081835715f035ca981225e7b3d5ae4f8/lnxrouter#L1427-L1428

works.

[garywill]

Same on Ubuntu 18.04

That's strange. Ubuntu doesn't have nobody? Or is it other reason?

@jcarius Please check if your ubuntu have nobody user and group. It's needed for a completed Linux system.

As @diveyez said, nobody nobody should have been added. Workaround is just workaround.

[jcarius]

A quick google search turned out that for Debian flavors one needs to use nobody:nogroup, see this answer

[garywill]

Just added a group judge. You can try if it works.

[jcarius]

Works! I guess the issue can be closed.