I'm sort of a newbie to Unix. Still learning new things everyday. My security personnel use a script to do various checks on my Solaris 9 servers. In this script they use the ls -l command for a long listing. Well my problem is I don't see a group name for the files. I've done some looking around and read over the man page and cannot seem to find a good answer for this. It's affecting the way their script runs and outputs its results. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Well I managed to find the problem. I looked at the ls binary and it had 600 permissions. Changed that to 555 and tried it to find out it was corrupted somehow. Copied over another and it works. Thanks for looking.

if you see the gid but not the group name --- this is usually caused by files transferred in with the all permissions retained from another system that had the gid listed with a group name in it's /etc/group file ... or a script that changed the group using the gid instead of a group name ...

if you see the only a long user name --- it is most likely that the username and the groupname had combined as there is a set amount of spaces allocated to print the file details in a long listing