On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:45:42AM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 13:22 -0800, Enyc wrote:

> > So far as I can tell that replacement will have similar problems
> >    if you have a group-name on the system that starts with 'stats'.
> > E.g. if there is a group called 'statsrem' then the check will
> >    still incorrectly not-create-the-stats-group !

> Indeed.

> > What about:-
> > stats=`grep ^stats: /etc/group 2>/dev/null`
> >    instead?

> I agree !

You probably want 'getent group stats' instead...

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