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.Dd May 5, 1998 .Dt CHKGRP 8 .Os FreeBSD .Sh NAME .Nm chkgrp .Nd check the syntax of the group file .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Ar groupfile .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility scans the given file or, failing that, the system-wide group file for errors. Specifically, it checks that every non-blank, non-comment entry is composed of four colon-separated fields, that none of them contains whitespace, and that the third field (the group ID) is numeric. .Sh FILES l -tag -width /etc/group -compact t Pa /etc/group group database file .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr getgrent 3 , .Xr group 5 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS For each error found, .Nm will print an error message containing the name of the file being scanned and the line number on which the error was found. Otherwise no output is produced.
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.Dd May 5, 1998 .Dt CHKGRP 8 .Os FreeBSD .Sh NAME .Nm chkgrp .Nd check the syntax of the group file .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Ar groupfile .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility scans the given file or, failing that, the system-wide group file for errors. Specifically, it checks that every non-blank, non-comment entry is composed of four colon-separated fields, that none of them contains whitespace, and that the third field (the group ID) is numeric. .Sh FILES l -tag -width /etc/group -compact t Pa /etc/group group database file .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr getgrent 3 , .Xr group 5 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS For each error found, .Nm will print an error message containing the name of the file being scanned and the line number on which the error was found. Otherwise no output is produced.
p The .Nm utility returns .Dv EX_DATAERR if errors were found in the group file, and .Dv EX_OK otherwise. .Sh HISTORY The .Nm utility appeared in .Fx 3.0 . .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm utility and this manual page were written by .An Dag-Erling Co\(:idan Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org . .Sh BUGS Should check fields more thoroughly for allowed/disallowed characters, and the range of the group ID.