Re: [CentOS] groupadd failure

2015-09-03 Thread isdtor
On 02/09/2015, Greg Lindahl wrote: > Sorry, I didn't read what you said carefully enough -- it's trying to > create a system group. Still, looking inside of /etc/group to see what > system groups already exist is probably a good idea. This is not exactly trivial to figure when

Re: [CentOS] groupadd failure

2015-09-03 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 03.09.2015 um 10:33 schrieb isdtor : > On 02/09/2015, Greg Lindahl wrote: >> Sorry, I didn't read what you said carefully enough -- it's trying to >> create a system group. Still, looking inside of /etc/group to see what >> system groups already exist is

Re: [CentOS] groupadd failure

2015-09-03 Thread mark
On 09/03/15 04:33, isdtor wrote: On 02/09/2015, Greg Lindahl wrote: Sorry, I didn't read what you said carefully enough -- it's trying to create a system group. Still, looking inside of /etc/group to see what system groups already exist is probably a good idea. This is not

Re: [CentOS] groupadd failure

2015-09-03 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 09/03/2015 01:07 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 03.09.2015 um 10:33 schrieb isdtor : On 02/09/2015, Greg Lindahl wrote: Sorry, I didn't read what you said carefully enough -- it's trying to create a system group. Still, looking inside of /etc/group to see

Re: [CentOS] groupadd failure

2015-09-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:58:30AM -0400, mark wrote: > GIDs < 1000 have been std in all Unices for a long, long time. For an > ordinary user, going above shouldn't be a problem. At work, a > couple of years ago, we went to 7-digit user & gids. > We have 8 and 9 digit UIDs now, however some

[CentOS] groupadd failure

2015-09-02 Thread isdtor
The munin rpms from EPEL failed to install correctly on a particular machine. This is why # /usr/sbin/groupadd -r munin groupadd: Can't get unique system GID (no more available GIDs) # but I don't understand why this happens. Even after checking the man pages for groupadd and login.defs, I have

Re: [CentOS] groupadd failure

2015-09-02 Thread Greg Lindahl
Sorry, I didn't read what you said carefully enough -- it's trying to create a system group. Still, looking inside of /etc/group to see what system groups already exist is probably a good idea. On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:19:51PM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > The groupadd manpage gives this clue: >

Re: [CentOS] groupadd failure

2015-09-02 Thread Greg Lindahl
The groupadd manpage gives this clue: The default is to use the smallest ID value greater than or equal to GID_MIN and greater than every other group. Maybe you have a group numbered GID_MAX or more already? 6, according to the manpage. On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:42:29PM +0100, isdtor