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If I do 'ls -l' as root, I get both owners and groups displayed verbally.

If I do 'ls -l' as a user, I get groups displayed as GID numbers.

Works the same in tcsh, bash and ksh.
RH6.1

BTW, I have several RH6.1 installations, but this phenomena only occurs on
one of them.

I would appreciate any ideas - perhaps I am overlooking something too
obvious :-)

Thanks

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Quote:>Have you checked the permissions of the /etc/group (or wherever it is in
RH)
>file ? If other users than root do not have read permission, ls cannot
look up
>which group name belongs to which ID for them.
>ls -l /etc/group should give  -rw-r--r-- .

One of my housekeeping scripts, that checks on /etc/group had a typo in it
- darn!

Thanks

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