Mike Gerdts wrote:
>On 8/7/07, Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
><Enda.Oconnor at sun.com> wrote:
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>>Unfortunately a reinstall is all that will recreate me thinks.
>>Sorry for the bad news, best to limit root access in future though.
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>FWIW, I was recently trying to customize a wanboot miniroot and in the
>process of "pkgrm -R /mnt ..." of some non-SUNW packages (FJSV*, I
>think). During this time /var/sadm (possibly all of /var, I forget
>for sure) was lost. I haven't had a chance to dig into the cause or
>repeatability of it. I just thought I would mention it in case there
>have been other instances of /var/sadm getting lost. This was when
>working with a wanboot image created by setup_install_server on S10
>11/06.
>
>On the other hand, limiting root is also good advice. I can somewhat
>easily see this as being a target for someone trying to free up space.
>
>Mike
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so a pkgrm -R removed /var/sadm, or part of it, hmm, clearly not good
I'll have a look into this, suspect a dodgy package script messing with
part of /var, but it's just a guess.
I'll try and see if the fujitsu packages have anything suspicious.
Enda.
