French Install Anomaly...

Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:11:29 -0300
From: Sean Garagan <garagan@borg.cs.dal.ca>
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Hi David,

A couple things come to mind here.  Does the csuite group already exist on
the machine you are installing to, or does the install create it?  As well,
does the install create the csuite group with a specific GID or just whatever
the system assigns to it?

What appears to be happening is that the install tar file is looking to set
the group to csuite (which has a GID of 512 on the machine the tarball was
created).  If the csuite group does not exist, it sets the GID of the
installed files to the GID in the tar file.  I don't believe that the GID of
the two machines has to be the same, then again, it's been a long time since
I looked at this interesting little quirk of tar.

Sean

On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:44:26PM -0300, David Potter wrote:
> 
> We've noticed that after a French install on one of our Solaris machines,
> the directory group ownerships had been changed... eg from....
>  
> owner group
> http  csuite   1024 Oct 15 10:25 info/Help/Accounts/
> 
> to...
> 
> http     512   1024 Oct 15 11:03 info/Help/Accounts/
> .........^^^
> 
> This could prevent access to, or editing of, files in the affected
> dirctories.
> 
> The solution is to change the group ownership back... 
> 
> We'd appreciate hearing from anyone else who has experienced the same
> behaviour. It's only happened on one of our installs but it is a curious
> phenomena... ;-)
> 
> david potter

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