January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
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Name
checkgid
Synopsis
checkgid group_name
Checks for the existence of the specified groups. If all groups exist, the return value is 0 and nothing is printed. If any groups do not exist, the return value is 255 and the following is printed to standard error for each nonexistent group_name:
checkgid: group 'group_name' not found
checkgid should be run with root privileges.
This tool is part of the Apache distribution.
Options
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group_name Takes a list of group names as arguments. It should also be able to take numeric group IDs as #groupID, but
checkgidalways returns successful for arguments of that form.