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Re: setgid crontab



On 02-Aug-03, 16:25 (CDT), Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de> wrote: 
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:53:00PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > To ship the setgid program, I need to have the group 'cron' on the
> > build system.
> 
> i think this is covered by fakeroot.

No, 'chgrp cron foo' fails if group cron doesn't exist, because it can't
convert the name to a gid.

Steve

-- 
Steve Greenland
    The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world.       -- seen on the net



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