NAME

Meta::Utils::File::Group - library to handle group possessions.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Group.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.11

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::File::Group qw();
        my($group)=Meta::Utils::File::Group::get_group("/etc/passwd");
        # $group should now be "root"

DESCRIPTION

This package can check and fix the group settings on files within your change.

FUNCTIONS

        group2gid($)
        gid2group($)
        get_gid($)
        get_group($)
        check_gid($$)
        check_group($$)
        check_hash_gid($$)
        check_hash_group($$)
        TEST($);

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

grou2gid($)

This function receives a group name and converts it to the group id.

gid2group($)

This function receives a group id and returns the group name associated with that id.

get_gid($)

This routine receives a file name and returns the group id ownership of that file. The function dies if the file does not exist. The function uses the standard "stat" function to get the relevant information.

get_group($)

This routine receives a file name and returns the group name of that file. The function throws an exception if anything goes wrong.

check_gid($$)

This routine receives a file and a group id. It makes sure that the file is of the appointed group. It will throw an exception if it is not.

check_group($$)

This method receives a file and a group name. It makes sure that the file is of the appointed group. It will throw an exception if it is not.

check_hash_gid($$$)

The function receives a hash reference, a group id and a verbose flag. This routine runs a check on all the files in the hash that they are indeed of the designated group received.

check_hash_group($$$)

This does exactly as the above function check_hash_gid except it receives a group name and not an absolute id, and then translates it to an absolute id in order to make the check and simple calls: check_hash_gid.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module. The test suite could be called individually or by a higher level script to perform regression testing for this class as part of a bigger class collection. This test suite currently does nothing.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV perl reorganization
        0.01 MV perl packaging
        0.02 MV md5 project
        0.03 MV database
        0.04 MV perl module versions in files
        0.05 MV movies and small fixes
        0.06 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.07 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.08 MV website construction
        0.09 MV web site automation
        0.10 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.11 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.