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From: nieusma@eclipse.colorado.edu (Jeff Nieusma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: mkfs bug
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 30 Oct 90 23:10:00 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 352, message 2
X-Original-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 90 09:45:12 -0600

Does anyone have any idea why SunOS 4.1 mkfs does a chgrp 3 /dev/rsd??
when you newfs a filesystem?  Sun ships /etc/group with

    bin:*:3:
    operator:*:5:

This just doesn't seem productive.  If sun wanted to assume something,
doesn't it make more sense to assume group operator ???  Has anyone else
run into this "feature" ?

    - computer% sudo chgrp operator /dev/rsd1a
    - computer% ls -lag /dev/rsd1a
    crw-r-----  1 root     operator  17,   8 Oct  9 09:17 /dev/rsd1a

    - computer% sudo newfs /dev/rsd1a
    [ ... output removed ... ]

    - computer% ls -lag /dev/rsd1a
    crw-r-----  1 root     bin       17,   8 Oct  9 09:21 /dev/rsd1a