Groups 12 and 14

[Matthew Seaman]

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


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