checkgid (8)

Leading comments

                                     Hey, EMACS: 
First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man8/checkgid.8".)

NAME

checkgid - checks the gid

SYNOPSIS

checkgid group

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the checkgid command.

checkgid is a program that checks whether it can setgid to the group specified. This is to see if it is a valid group for apache2 to use at runtime. If the user (should be run as superuser) is in that group, or can setgid to it, it will return 0.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, as the original did not have a manpage.