Can't set GID

Kris Kopicki krisk at WALFORD.ASN.AU
Thu Mar 17 08:19:02 GMT 2005


You are correct I was using sudo -s. However these still give the same
result. Also gid 27 looks fine in /etc/groups to me. My perl is a
little rusty, so I'm not entirely sure what that function is doing.

Cheers,

Kris

On 17/03/2005, at 6:24 PM, Julian Field wrote:

> I would suggest you either aren't running as root properly (do "sudo su
> -" and not just "sudo su") or GID 27 doesn't exist in /etc/group.
>
> Kris Kopicki wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to setup MailScanner under Mac OS X 10.3.x Server (ie with
>> postfix). I get the following when running check_mailscanner:
>>
>> ps: illegal option -- f
>> usage: ps [-aChjlmMrSTuvwx] [-O|o fmt] [-p pid] [-t tty] [-U user]
>>           [-N system] [-W swap]
>>        ps [-L]
>> Starting MailScanner...
>> Can't set GID 27 at /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner line 862.
>>
>> The first message I fixed by adding "Darwin" to the UNAME checks with
>> the same configuration as BSD in check_mailscanner.
>>
>> The second error I'm not sure about. Can't seem to find any info about
>> it. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
>>
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Kris Kopicki
Network Manager
Walford Anglican School for Girls Inc.
316 Unley Road, Hyde Park
SA 5061 Australia

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