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 Regards. -- S. Anthony Sequeira ++ I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent. -- Ashleigh Brilliant ++ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l