Hmmm..Log Entry I Don't Understand

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05-18-2003, 06:16 PM	#1
Crashed_Again Senior Member Registered: Dec 2002 Location: Atlantic City, NJ Distribution: Ubuntu & Arch Posts: 3,503 Rep:	Hmmm..Log Entry I Don't Understand I keep getting these in my logs: May 18 18:35:20 damachine userhelper: pam_timestamp: `/var/' owner GID != 0 So /var's GID is not equal to zero? ???

05-19-2003, 03:25 AM	#2
acid_kewpie Moderator Registered: Jun 2001 Location: UK Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos Posts: 43,417 Rep:	well.. is it..? that's the owning group of that directory, which should always be root.

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