Yes, a user uid has already been created in aLDAP server which does centralised authentication.
And these home directories were created on a clusetr server machine for students to work out theur assignments etc. --- On Wed, 8/20/08, Perry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Perry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: What is wrong with this script ?? To: "Mr. Shawn H. Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], beginners@perl.org Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 6:00 PM On Aug 20, 2008, at 7:20 AM, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: > 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`. You also are going to hit the same issue when you do chown. You have to create a user too. Just creating a home directory is not at all the same. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
