Re: Really! strange uid value

1999-02-27 Thread Jim Bloom
I believe that (uid_t)-2 has a lot to do with the user nobody. That was the historical reason why the uid 65534 for chosen for nobody back when uid_t was only 16 bits. I would recommend that the default mapped uid for root be defined as 65534 instead of (uid_t)-2. This seems to make the most sen

Re: Really! strange uid value

1999-02-27 Thread Bruce Evans
>> >> =1 drwxr-xr-x 3 4294967294 wheel - 512 Feb 15 21:09 aout/ >> >> = >> >> =funny, the same value. There is something left out very fundamentally >> >> =somewhere. >> >> >> >> Just FYI. This number is 0xFFFE in hex... A search for this number >> >> through the sources does not bring anyt

Re: Really! strange uid value

1999-02-27 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > On 27-Feb-99 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > >> Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai once stated: > >> > >> => -rw-r--r--1 4294967294 wheel 389120 Feb 14 23:54 > >> pdksh.core.xclink > >> > >> =this is exactly what I got when I tried to compile some things

Re: Really! strange uid value

1999-02-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > this is exactly what I got when I tried to compile some things over NFS. > The created directory and files were also like this: > > 1 drwxr-xr-x 3 4294967294 wheel - 512 Feb 15 21:09 aout/ > > funny, the same value. There is something left out very fundamenta

Re: Really! strange uid value

1999-02-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 27-Feb-99 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: >> Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai once stated: >> >> => -rw-r--r--1 4294967294 wheel 389120 Feb 14 23:54 >> pdksh.core.xclink >> >> =this is exactly what I got when I tried to compile some things over >> NFS. >> =The created directory and files were also like t

Re: Really! strange uid value

1999-02-27 Thread sthaug
> Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai once stated: > > => -rw-r--r--1 4294967294 wheel 389120 Feb 14 23:54 pdksh.core.xclink > > =this is exactly what I got when I tried to compile some things over NFS. > =The created directory and files were also like this: > = > =1 drwxr-xr-x 3 4294967294 wheel - 5

Re: Really! strange uid value

1999-02-27 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai once stated: => -rw-r--r--1 4294967294 wheel 389120 Feb 14 23:54 pdksh.core.xclink =this is exactly what I got when I tried to compile some things over NFS. =The created directory and files were also like this: = =1 drwxr-xr-x 3 4294967294 wheel - 512 Feb 15 21:09

RE: Really! strange uid value

1999-02-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 26-Feb-99 John W. DeBoskey wrote: > Hi, > >I have some machines running 3.0-19981209-SNAP. I have seen > some core dumps from pdksh (which I haven't figured out yet) > that have some really strange uid values. > > -rw-r--r--1 4294967294 wheel 389120 Feb 14 23:54 pdksh.core.xclink Wh

Re: Really! strange uid value

1999-02-25 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999, John W. DeBoskey put this into my mailbox: > Hi, > >I have some machines running 3.0-19981209-SNAP. I have seen > some core dumps from pdksh (which I haven't figured out yet) > that have some really strange uid values. > > -rw-r--r--1 4294967294 wheel 389120 Feb 14

Really! strange uid value

1999-02-25 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I have some machines running 3.0-19981209-SNAP. I have seen some core dumps from pdksh (which I haven't figured out yet) that have some really strange uid values. -rw-r--r--1 4294967294 wheel 389120 Feb 14 23:54 pdksh.core.xclink Well, I must say I'm impressed that FreeBSD can su