[SunHELP] what is going on?

[Bob Ababurko]

Hello all-


  I am in need of a check.  I am trying to chown the group ownership of a 
file by:

# chown :sys /var/empty
chown: unknown user id: :sys

# ls -al /var
total 34
drwxr-xr-x  31 root          512 Feb 12 14:20 .
drwxr-xr-x  24 root         1024 Feb 13 16:39 ..
drwxrwxr-x   9 root          512 Feb  9 03:10 adm
drwxr-xr-x   8 root          512 Jan 17 01:52 apache
drwxr-xr-x   2 root          512 Jan 17 00:36 audit
drwxr-xr-x   3 root          512 Jan 17 01:43 crash
drwxr-xr-x   2 root          512 Jan 17 01:43 cron
drwxr-xr-x   5 root          512 Jan 17 01:23 dmi
drwxrwxr-x   6 root          512 Feb 12 19:31 dt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root          512 Feb 12 14:20 empty
drwxr-xr-x   2 root          512 Jan 17 00:36 inet
drwxr-xr-x   2 root          512 Jan 17 00:36 ld
drwxr-xr-x   2 root          512 Jan 17 01:15 ldap

# more /etc/group
root::0:root
other::1:
bin::2:root,bin,daemon
sys::3:root,bin,sys,adm
adm::4:root,adm,daemon
uucp::5:root,uucp
mail::6:root
tty::7:root,tty,adm
lp::8:root,lp,adm
nuucp::9:root,nuucp
staff::10:
daemon::12:root,daemon
sysadmin::14:
nobody::60001:
noaccess::60002:
nogroup::65534:
sshd::100:

When I do a ls -l, I do not see the group ownership of the files(as seen 
above).  What is going on?

/bob




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