Re: safe to delete 'old' archive logs?

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:55:35 +1000
Message-ID: <40a96d09$0$3032$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

Mark Bole wrote:

>
> Or just go into /etc/group (or NIS, or whatever you use) and change the
> symbolic name for the group from 'oinstall' to 'dba', or vice versa.
> Under Unix (all flavors since the epoch, AFAIK) the group is "defined"
> (stored in the filesystem) by the number (GID = group ID), not the name.
> The name is just a lookup. There is an option to the "ls" command (and
> many others as well) to use GID's instead of names.

All true, no doubt. And stuff I didn't know, so that's good.

But getting back to the thread. My point was that the group for the OPs archives, which you seemed to dislike on the grounds that they were 'oinstall', were actually correct, surely? Depending on what groups he specified at install time, of course.

That therefore suggesting he change their ownership is a bit of a blunderbuss technique. Possibly.

Regards
HJR Received on Mon May 17 2004 - 20:55:35 CDT