Enda and Alan: In the future, make sure you do not do anything to /var/sadm/. We need both the pkg and install/contents in order for packaging and patching to work correctly.
Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: > Aaron wrote: >> I have a test system here to which, unfortunately, many people have root >> access. One of our software installs is failing because the showrev -p >> command fails. >> >> I ran truss on the showrev -p command and it looks as though it is trying to >> open the directory /var/sadm/pkg, which is completely missing. >> >> Long story short: is there any way to re-create the /var/sadm/pkg directory >> and all of its installed package information? >> >> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... >> >> -Aaron >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> install-discuss mailing list >> install-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > Hi > Unfortunately not that I'm aware of, this info is dynamically undated by > patch/pkg commands. > > Unfortunately a reinstall is all that will recreate me thinks. > Sorry for the bad news, best to limit root access in future though. > > > Enda > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
