On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 05:16 -0700, Jyotishmaan Ray wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I have a input file containing all the rolnos of 400 studenst. I have written 
> a small perl script to create their home directories in the cluster server. 
> 
> everything worked fine except for the reason that, it shows up error message 
> indicating that the following messages for example: 
> 
> when my input file rr.txt contains the following roll nos.:-
> 
> 
> s08-1-5-095
> s08-1-5-096
> s08-1-5-097
> 
> the error messages displayed are :-
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl]# perl h20.pl
> chgrp: invalid group `s08-1-5-095'
> chgrp: invalid group `s08-1-5-096'
> chgrp: invalid group `s08-1-5-097'

You have to create a group before you can change a file to it.  See `man
5 group`.


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  Shawn

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