[cobalt-users] Re: [Cobalt] [RAQ2] Strange groups/owners

[Mark Granfors <mark@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 04:52:35PM -0600, Tony Patti wrote:
> 
> Running gzip to unpack various scripts or installing CPAN perl modules I've
> been
> seeing these group/owner combos on some of the directories:
> 
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 1000     1000
> and
> drwxr-xr-x   5 501      502
> and
> drwxr-xr-x   9 500      500
> 
> Any clue as to what user/group this would be?
> 
> Nothing in the group file goes that high.
> 
> I'm used to seeing root/root as the group/owner on these types of files.
> 

Those are probably the original user/groups for the system on which the
module was created.  Red Hat (& other linux distros) usually starts ordinary
user & group # at 500.  If you unpacked using the -p option, then the
original user/groups would be preserved.

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