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Hi Sean... I very sure the csuite group is already in existance... The english files are installed first and the group is set correctly for these... the french part of the install comes later... Not all directories are changed... It looks like only directories into which there is actually a french document installed. Oddly enough, we've only seen this on the Solaris install on the old ccn (new phoenix machine) david potter On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Sean Garagan wrote: > 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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