The number indicates that there was a group defined in /etc/group but is now
gone, you can check this behavior very easily. Create a dummy group in
/etc/group and create a dummy file changing the group to
the new group, now remove the entry from /etc/group and do an ls -al
you'll see the number come up.
Ed
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> group
>
> I just noticed something interesting, I have about 5000 users on an
> email server and some (about 300 of them) are not listed as being in the
> group that is the same as there user name, but the corresponding group
> is a 4 digit number such as 5710 and none of the numbers are repeated.
> such as the example below....
>
> drwx------ 2 twalsh 5713 1024 Oct 11 15:48 twalsh
> drwx------ 2 twyla twyla 1024 Oct 11 15:49 twyla
>
>
> anyone have any clues as to the reason for the number in the group
> column???
>
> (I will be looking for corresponding info in the password file)
>
>
> chris
>
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