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Re: [cobalt-users] Invalid argument?



On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Jackie Surtees wrote:
> I created some sub-domains a few days ago and since then have
> occasionally received the following log entries:
>
> Feb 12 09:40:18 ns proftpd[24959]: 217.199.174.123
> (dial-62-64-172-12.access.uk.tiscali.com[62.64.172.12]) - USER admin: Login successful.
> Feb 12 09:34:10 ns proftpd[24481]: 217.199.174.123
> (dial-62-64-172-12.access.uk.tiscali.com[62.64.172.12]) - error: unable to set groups:
> Invalid argument

http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/docs/faq/linked/faq-ch4.html#AEN539

The setting of the group privileges for a process uses the setgroups(2)
system call. This call will fail with the above error message for one of
two reasons: there is a negative GID value for one of the groups, or the
maximum number of groups for a single user has been exceeded

Possibly as admin you have more than 31 sites.?

Gerald
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