AIX

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know if can access
Objective:
The timezone on the server was changed by someone to another timezone, so I want to check what is the old timezone was ?
I have an old SNAP file.

Does anyone if it stores Timezone in the snapfile and/or if the old timezone is stored somewhere in the AIX OS files ?

Thanks

Hi,

The "snap" files that I have seen tended to be written using pax so you could try;

Code:

pax < filename

The above should list the contents of the file, if you run pax -r < filename it should extract in the current directory.

Regards

Gull04

Thanks gull04,
but which file inside SNAP contains /etc/environment or timezone details ?

Hi,

The TZ variable is usually set in the /etc/environment file, I would imagine that this is held in the first part of the file however;

When you look at the snap file what do you see when you run;

Code:

pax < filename

The snap utility can be run with a number of switches, one of these invokes split if this has been done you should see a number of files like below.

Code:

filename.aaa
filename.aab
filename.aac
filename.aad

In order to read these it may be necessary to use cat to concatenate the files and the pipe the output to pax.

Code:

cat filename.aaa filename.aab filename.aac filename.aad | pax

Regards

Gull04

I found it
it is under

Code:

/tmp/ibmsupt/general> general.snap

this file is there regardless of

Code:

snap -a

or

Code:

snap -g