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From: steve@cohort.UUCP (Steve Bird)
Newsgroups: can.usrgroup
Subject: Is this a BUG or FEATURE
Message-ID: <8911091132.AA02190@cohort.uucp>
Date: 9 Nov 89 16:32:42 GMT
Expires: Thu, 23 Nov 89
Reply-To: Steve Bird <steve@cohort.UUCP>
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Operating System : Xenix 2.3.1
Machine : Olivetti M380 - 386

  I've had some curious results from using newgrp which I cannot explain. We
have a user called joan whose group I want to change while she is doing word-   processing. If I go newgrp wordpro [ the name of the group ] it returns
Sorry. If I do the game thing myself I get the new group. 
   Joans default group is group
   My default group is admin.
I can find no other significant difference in our environments, but
obviously I'm overlooking something. Here is some important data that may
show what the problem really is:

/etc/group   

group::50:steve,evan,alan,dave,rob,marion,fran,don,sonya,susie,angi,joan,sandra,lily,vic,adam,theresa,jack,doug,mark,rick,craig,carsten,ted,tom,bill,Doug,kevin,chris,keith,mike,hans,drew,peter,pierre,joe,word
admin::304:alan,steve,dave,evan
wordpro::305:joan,sandra,steve
 
My environment :

DATADIR=/usr/data/appl
DEVDIR=/u/appl
HOME=/u/users/steve
HZ=50
IFS= 	

LOGNAME=steve
MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/steve
MAILCHECK=600
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/u/users/steve/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/lib:.
PROLIB=/usr/lib/pro
SBTCOMPANY=00
SHELL=/bin/sh
TERM=ansi
TERMCAP=li|ansi:al=\E[L:am:bs:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[2J\E[H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=\E[B:bt=\E[Z:ei=:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:im=:li#25:nd=\E[C:pt:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:kb=^h:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:eo:sf=\E[S:sr=\E[T:mb=\E[5m:me=\E[m:GS=\E[12m:GE=\E[10m:GV=\63:GH=D:GC=E:GL=\64:GR=C:RT=^J:G1=?:G2=Z:G3=@:G4=Y:GU=A:GD=B:CW=\E[M:NU=\E[N:RF=\E[O:RC=\E[P:WL=\E[S:WR=\E[T:CL=\E[U:CR=\E[V:HM=\E[H:EN=\E[F:PU=\E[I:PD=\E[G
TZ=EST5EDT
WPTERM=scocons

Joan's environment.

DATADIR=/usr/data/appl
DEVDIR=/u/appl
HOME=/u/users/joan
IFS= 	

LOGNAME=joan
MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/root
MAILCHECK=600
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/u/users/joan/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/lib:.
PROLIB=/usr/lib/pro
PS1=$ 
PS2=> 
SBTCOMPANY=00
TERM=ansi
TERMCAP=li|ansi:al=\E[L:am:bs:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[2J\E[H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=\E[B:bt=\E[Z:ei=:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:im=:li#25:nd=\E[C:pt:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:kb=^h:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:eo:sf=\E[S:sr=\E[T:mb=\E[5m:me=\E[m:GS=\E[12m:GE=\E[10m:GV=\63:GH=D:GC=E:GL=\64:GR=C:RT=^J:G1=?:G2=Z:G3=@:G4=Y:GU=A:GD=B:CW=\E[M:NU=\E[N:RF=\E[O:RC=\E[P:WL=\E[S:WR=\E[T:CL=\E[U:CR=\E[V:HM=\E[H:EN=\E[F:PU=\E[I:PD=\E[G
TZ=EST5EDT
WPTERM=scocons
 
I want to add, that sandra in the wordpro group has the same problem. This
problem has chewed up so much of my time already, that I'll buy a beer for
the first guy whose got the answer. 

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