Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 5.97-5 > Severity: important > > Actually a critical bug as it prevents bootup. On the other hand, > it probably don't affect that many people yet. > > The problem is that this command: > chmod 0:0 filename
Surely, you mean "chown", not chmod. > will do a completely unnecessary call into the name service switch. > This is unnecessary as the user and group is provided numerically. > It is of course necessary with "chmod username:groupname file" > but that is a different case. Sorry, but chown has to perform the DB look-up even for numeric user- and group names. This is long-standing practice, as well as a POSIX requirement. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
