Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:29:20 -0600 From: Randy Rowe <rerowe@rerowe.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Groups 12 and 14 Message-ID: <1099772960.4099.42.camel@work.rerowe.com> In-Reply-To: <20041106194032.GA10809@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <1099768545.5209.9.camel@meteor.sequestor.lan> <20041106194032.GA10809@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 07:15:45PM +0000, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > > Can anyone tell me which groups 12 and 14 are, on a 4.10 system please. > > > > I keep getting this from 340.noid > > > > Check for files with an unknown user or group: > > /usr/compat/linux/var/lock > > /usr/compat/linux/var/spool/mail > > > > $ ls -ld /usr/compat/linux/var/lock /usr/compat/linux/var/spool/mail > > drwxrwxr-x 3 root 14 512B Apr 18 2004 /usr/compat/linux/var/lock > > drwxrwxr-x 2 root 12 512B Feb 6 1996 > > /usr/compat/linux/var/spool/mail > > > > FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #0: Fri Nov 5 21:32:19 GMT 2004 > > They aren't assigned to anything by default under FreeBSD. What you > are seeing are the default group assignments under Linux -- I believe > that GID 12 is 'mail', but I have no idea what gid 14 is for. On my > system, that file ends up as group 54: > > % find /usr/compat/ -nogroup -ls > 166930 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root 54 512 Nov 3 08:00 /usr/compat/linux/var/lock > 182529 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 12 512 Feb 6 1996 /usr/compat/linux/var/spool/mail > > Which might be a difference due to having a different version of > linux-base installed: > > % pkg_info -I linux\*base\* > linux_base-8-8.0_4 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (only for i386) > > As the /compat/linux stuff uses the base /etc/passwd data for it's UID > and GID information, those group ownerships are arguably incorrect; > however, I don't think that they really make any sort of difference. > You could try experimenting with changing the group ownership of those > files and see if anything breaks... > > Cheers, > > Matthew > On my Fedora 2 system they match as follows: mail:x:12:mail uucp:x:14:uucp lock:x:54:
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