GNU coreutils funny

Just had a look at the basename man page and found this:

AUTHOR
      Written by FIXME unknown.

But they still claim to have the Copyright. Funny maybe the original author didn't approve with this.

Ubuntu is really helping Linux

I have been reading the core-utils mailing list for some time now and once in a while someone posts something that has nothing to do with core-utils. I don't know how they come to this specific list but they do. But this one just made me laugh out loud:

Oreste Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Reply-To: oregferra@yahoo.it
To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org, coreutils@gnu-org

I am new to Linux. 20 day ago I installed Ubuntu 8.04 and enjoyed it. 3 days ago I downloaded the recommended updates (120 Mega), after that I also installed Wine, a version found on a magazine I think it was 1.01 or similar).
Now when I start ubuntu, after the request of inserting name and password I receive the following message:
"user's $Home/.dmrc file being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's $Home directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users".

When I press OK, after a few seconds a second message appears:
"The Gnome session manager was unable to lock the file '/home/oreste/.Iceauthority! Please report this as a gnome bug"

And after that everything goes back to the request of name and password. I tried different sessions but with no result. Of course I do not know how to use the line commands.
Please Help
Oreste

I love quite a few things with this mail. But clearly the best are

• Of course I do not know how to use the line commands
• Please report this as a gnome bug
• Please Help

Who helped me when I got into these problems when I started Linux. I started learning the command line. There was no other way. I really don't like how these Windows users are changing to Linux to be different and then don't want to put in the work to learn it. I also don't like these people from Ubuntu acting like Linux is Windows. It's not. If you want to be different from the Linux crowd buy a Mac. And wait 24 hours for your home dir to be deleted. (See next post)

By the way here is a solution for your problem http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=727677
or google is your friend.

id -G funny group

I don't know if this is really a bug. But I would like to request some comments

On a system with afs, if you run

$ id -G
500 1102830893

you will get this very big number at the end.

$ id -G `whoami`
500

will not show this number. This is due to afs creating a group in
memory that is not in /etc/group . This of course becomes more
interesting if you run :

$ id -Gn
me id: cannot find name for group ID 1102830893
1102830893

groups behaves in the same way :
$ groups
me id: cannot find name for group ID 1102830893
1102830893

If you look into the id.c you can see why this is happening:
if (argc - optind == 1)
{
struct passwd *pwd = getpwnam (argv[optind]); /* Will go of to
/etc/nsswitch.conf and appropriate*/
if (pwd == NULL)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("%s: No such user"), argv[optind]);
ruid = euid = pwd->pw_uid;
rgid = egid = pwd->pw_gid;
}
else
{
euid = geteuid (); /* glibc will do this */
ruid = getuid ();
egid = getegid ();
rgid = getgid ();
}

This is very easy to fix. I have already done this and it works.

I am aware that this is actually a problem of afs and not coreutils.

Hope this might help someone who is confused about that group :)