On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 01:00:09AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:35:17PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > > 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 > > $ grep sync /etc/passwd > sync:x:4:100:sync:/bin:/bin/sync sorry for my ignorance, but im still not following. -- gram
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