Comment 2 for bug 854866
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| Mark Mims (mark-mims) wrote Re: [Bug 854866] Re: some ganglia packages won't install because of useradd | #2 |
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On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 02:01 +0000, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I tried your fix. I think you may need to add "-g ganglia" to your new
> useradd(8) invocation, as otherwise I still get a "useradd: group
> ganglia exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use -g"
> error.
Hmmm, ok, I'll add it in.
Wow, I pushed the previous fix up to a ppa and have been using it a
quite a bit on oneiric ec2 instances without any problems. I'll dig to
see what the deal is... evidently some incorrect assumptions about the
default behavior of useradd in different circumstances.
Thanks!
Mark
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