Oddments

[Thomas Jordan]

Hello,

I have noticed something quite odd when I inspect the ownership of local
files (not afs) and directories and wonder if others have seen the behavior
or can reproduce it.

OSX 10.1.4
Arla 0.35.pre9

The oddity is the user "32514". My system has no such user and he seems to
be taking over some directories. I know that this sounds unrelated to arla
but I noted that this user owns everything in the /usr/arla directory and
bits and pieces of other directories around the system.

I doubt that this "user" is real and think that somehow my systems are
confused.....

I don¹t believe in coincidences. The fact that 32514 owns everything in
/usr/arla on _two systems_ must mean something!


Voila:
    [owen-meany:/usr/arla] jordant% ls -l
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x  18 32514  wheel   568 Feb  1 14:36 bin
    drwx------  37 32514  wheel  1214 May 28 10:50 cache
    drwxr-xr-x  13 32514  wheel   398 May 24 13:05 etc
    drwxr-xr-x  43 32514  wheel  1418 Feb  1 14:36 include
    drwxr-xr-x   3 32514  wheel   264 Feb  1 14:36 info
    drwxr-xr-x  25 32514  wheel   806 Feb  1 14:36 lib
    drwxr-xr-x   3 32514  wheel   264 Feb  1 14:36 libexec
    drwxr-xr-x   6 32514  wheel   264 Feb  1 14:36 man
    drwxr-xr-x   8 32514  wheel   264 Feb  1 14:36 sbin
    [owen-meany:/usr/arla] jordant%

The oddity is the user "32514". My system has no such user and he seems to
be taking over some other directories: (I trimmed out some of the paths but
left in all those owned by 32514.)

    [owen-meany:/] jordant% ls -l
    total 10957
    drwxr-xr-x  41 jordant  wheel       1350 Feb  1 14:46 Applications
    .
    .
    .
    drwxr-xr-x  28 32514    wheel        908 Feb  1 14:46 Library
    drwxr-xr-x   6 root     wheel        264 Mar 27 17:01 Network
    .
    .
    .
    drwxr-xr-x   1 root     wheel       2048 Dec 31  1969 afs
    dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     wheel        512 May 28 14:10 automount
    drwxr-xr-x  33 root     wheel       1078 Mar 27 17:14 bin
    lrwxr-xr-x   1 32514    wheel         13 May 28 10:51 cores ->
private/cores
    dr-xr-xr-x   2 root     wheel        512 May 28 10:51 dev
    lrwxr-xr-x   1 32514    wheel         11 May 28 10:51 etc -> private/etc
    lrwxr-xr-x   1 32514    wheel          9 May 28 10:51 mach -> /mach.sym
    .
    .
    .       
    drwxr-xr-x  59 root     wheel       1962 Mar 27 17:14 sbin
    lrwxr-xr-x   1 32514    wheel         11 May 28 10:51 tmp -> private/tmp
    drwxr-xr-x  11 32514    wheel        330 Feb  1 14:46 usr
    lrwxr-xr-x   1 32514    wheel         11 May 28 10:51 var -> private/var
    [owen-meany:/] jordant%


Thomas Jordan
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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