[Nix-dev] groupmod failing in nixos

Lluís Batlle i Rossell viric at viric.name
Mon Apr 2 23:44:48 CEST 2012


On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:41:32PM +0200, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 02/04/12 23:36, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> 
> > our activation script runs 'groupmod --gid num x' for the groups not maching the
> > gid expected by nixos. In my system, this command fails.
> > 
> > # grep dovecot2 /etc/group
> > dovecot2:x:45:
> 
> The numerical gid of dovecot2 must be 46 since r33346.

I understand. That's why the activation script runs groupmod. But groupmod fails
on my system to change it to 46. :)

Shouldn't it work and change it to 46?


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