On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:24:12 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 08:12:52AM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > > How do I find the name of the owner=52400 and group=24067? > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 52400 24067 20K Dec 13 2003 tbl_query_box.php > > By default, the name would be displayed. If it's not shown, it's > because the names aren't in /etc/passwd or /etc/group (or in ldap or > nis if you're using those). > > It can happen that the names used to exist but don't any more, or you're > in some sort of chroot'ed environment where you've been given > false/empty passwd or group accounts. > > I've seen this happen if you extract a tar file from another system > and the original owner/group information is used to create the file > on your system. > This happened from an install of phpMyAdmin from phpMyAdmin-2.5.6.tar.gz. After a tar xvzf phpMyAdmin-2.5.6.tar.gz the resulting directory and files have that owner and group even though they do not exist in the system. I was doing this as root in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386. drwxr-xr-x 7 52400 24067 4.0K Mar 1 2004 phpMyAdmin-2.5.6/ -rwxr--r-- 1 admin admin 1.8M Feb 2 11:34 phpMyAdmin- 2.5.6.tar.gz* How do I find out what the correct owner/group setting should be? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
