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Re: The 'users' gid: sync, games, and man



On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:34:19PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> sync:
> 
>   FreeBSD appears not to have this user. All GNU/Linux systems I looked
>   at (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE) set its primary group to root. As far as
>   I know the only thing sync is ever used for is running /bin/sync,

what do you mean it is used for running sync?

 $ ls -l /bin/sync
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         9752 Feb  8 10:06 /bin/sync

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