Name

checkgid

Synopsis

checkgid group_name...

Checks for the existence of the specified groups. If all groups exist, the return value is 0, and nothing is printed. If any groups don’t exist, the return value is 255, and the following is printed to standard error for each nonexistent group_name:

checkgid: group 'group_name' not found

checkgid should be run with superuser privileges.

This tool is part of the Apache distribution.

Options

group_name

Take a list of group names as arguments. It should also be able to take numeric GIDs as # groupID, but checkgid always returns successful for arguments of that form.

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