If you delete your administrator login name, and have no other administrator login to use, you can run arreload - no user to validate to. I've never trashed my Groups form, but suspect that it would behave the same way (Administrator group no longer valid, therefore no members).
arcache can be used to create an administrator group as well as to create an administrator login name if necessary in the cached copy of Group and/or User. As of ARS 6.x, it's documented in Configuring AR System in AR System server components and external utilities (External Utilities section). Stephen - if Groups was corrupted, wouldn't arsignal simply reproduce the corruption? In other words, what does the "-g" option for arsignal actually read? I've always thought it was similar to arreload for Groups. Mike White Office: 813-978-2192 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Heider, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > cc: Sent by: "Action Subject: Re: Deleted Groups Request System discussion list(ARSList)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG> 07/27/2006 09:09 Please respond to arslist ** Kathy, This won't help you now, but it may for the future. Create an escalation that runs nightly which uses runmacro to export the data from User and Groups. Then if anything like this happens again you could empty the Groups form, import all the groups, followed by running the arsignal command. HTH. Stephen From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathy Morris Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:01 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Deleted Groups ** Hi, someone (not I), imported the groups 3 times into the group form in the update mode. The result was multiple duplicate groups within the Group form (ie. multiple administrator groups, customize group, etc...) Now the application is hanging when we try to do anything with the group form. Any ideas on how to fix this. I deleted the duplicate entries within the group form. Restarted the server. The application still hangs. __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org