haines@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (Matt Haines) (04/13/91)
Hi all. I am having some problems with the "sa" accounting command. When I envoke the command, I get the following error message for each user ID in the paswd file: sa: 0551-097 The user id xxx is not recognized. It is ignored. Any clues why?? Thanks, as always. -- Matt Haines <haines@cs.colostate.edu> | "Why waste time learning when Colorado State University, CS Dept. | ignorance is instantaneous" 503 University Services Center | - Hobbes Ft. Collins, CO 80523 | (303) 491-1943 |
freese@dalvm41b.vnet.ibm.com ("Bradley T. Freese") (05/25/91)
haines@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (Matt Haines) writes: > Hi all. > I am having some problems with the "sa" accounting command. When I > envoke the command, I get the following error message for each user ID > in the paswd file: > sa: 0551-097 The user id xxx is not recognized. It is ignored. > Any clues why?? I set this up and got the same error message for only one user: "nobody". Nobody has a UID of 4294967294, which is (2**32 - 2). I suspect that 'sa' has difficulty with UIDs over 2**31, 2147483648, arising from whether to treat UIDs as signed or unsigned integers. The nobody UID is needed by NFS. If you are not running NFS, you could change UIDs over 2**31 to less than that (an ugly workaround, indeed). I contacted Defect Support and they opened an APAR against the error. You may want to contact Defect Support and inquire about APAR IX15968.