permission problem!!!
 

when i try to create a file or folder by standing as root and after that when i check its permission then the gid of root is always the value 500!!
for eg
i first logged in as root
and i created a file named "pq" in /
like this....
[root@server /]# touch pq
[root@server /]# ls -ld pq
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 500 4096 Sep 30 00:49 pq

why that gid is always 500 for me!!!

i have no idea to do anything with that..pls help!!

Post the output of /etc/passwd

Wait a second, maybe it is the "d" parameter. Try:

ls -l

I think the d is for a directory specifically.

WHAT

what are you doing ??
loging into the gui as root ?
or using one of these two
" su " or " su -" in the terminal ?

if i had to bet ?? it is su WITHOUT the -

please post EXACTLY what you are doing to make that folder in /

The fact that touch will create a directory instead of a file make me suspect that something is wrong with the root filesystem.

Step 1 is to make sure your file system is ok.

First check on which partition your rootdir is mounted
Reboot your system from a liveCD en do a fsck of de root partition.
If everything checks out okay, reboot your system in single user mode. Mostly indicated as recovery in the grub menu's.

Log in as root
Now check your root uid/gid with
This will tell you what the defaults for your uid/gid are and which groups you are a member of.

After that we can take it further.

___________________
Gerrard

Plese give us the output of

and

also try creating a file using cat or vi instead of touch and let us know the permissions