Re: dba group already exists in linux

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 13:42 -0700, Jared Still wrote:
> 
> We are setting up a new linux box for Oracle, the following message
> appears when trying to create the dba group:
> 
>   [root]# groupadd -g 300 dba
>   groupadd: group dba exists
> 
> I've seen this before, but have no idea how this group was created.
> 
> Typically I create dba with an id of 500, but this default group is
> usually
> some other ID IIRC.
> 
> To answer some likely questions:
> 
> * no, oracle has never been installed on this box
> * dba does not appear in /etc/group
> 
> This is RH Linux EL4, kernel 2.6.9
> 
> Thanks,

Maybe it's in shadow, a group removed improperly.

Try grpck, and for good measure pwck.

GRPCK(8)                  System Management Commands
GRPCK(8)

NAME
       grpck - verify integrity of group files

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