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Special Forums Cybersecurity Security Databases are corrupt. HELP!! Post 21710 by gseyforth on Tuesday 21st of May 2002 06:12:26 PM
Old 05-21-2002
Thanks.

I was in my SCO Admin Reference Guide and was looking at the very same reference as I received your post.

Long story short. The security databases were corrupt, however, when I restored them, SCO still prompted me to INIT: Single user mode. Running 'authck' took forever for only 50 or so users and did not correct any authentication errors. What I found was not only /etc/passwd and /etc/group were corrupt, so were the shadow files, etc.

OH! There was also no free space on hd(42). Mind you, a relatively new system! I found that our backup manager (ctar - i higly recommend it!) kept logs over 5 meg in size for every master backup, verify, & restore since Jan 01. We never set the ctar to purge old files after so many days.

Long story short..... and the part I really hate. Trying to correct the errors after hours & hours, I got out a master backup, made sure it worked, backed up prior days work, made sure that worked, did a fsck and a divvy (to create more space on the root drive).

Now, 48 hours later and semi-sleep deprevation setting in , i have an operable O/S.

Thanks for the reference!
Georgio S.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

backup-manager-purge

BACKUP-MANAGER-PURGE(8) 				       backup-manager-purge					   BACKUP-MANAGER-PURGE(8)

NAME

       backup-manager-purge - backup-manager's wrapper for outdating files

SYNOPSIS

       backup-manager-purge [TTL] <options>

DESCRIPTION

       backup-manager-purge is the only authorized entity that can say if an archive should be purged or not. Any tasks used by backup-manager may
       have to know if an archive is deprecated (eg: the purging phase of an upload method). This tool is here to fulfill that need.

       Given a time to live (TTL) and a list of archives, backup-manager-purge will return another list of archives, corresponding to the ones
       that are outdated by the TTL.

REQUIRED ARGS

       --ttl=time-to-live
	   Specify the time to live (in days) for the archives. Any archive that is older than ttl days will be outdated.

OPTIONAL ARGS

       --files-from=file
	   A file containing a list of archives to parse, one archive per line.  If this option is not used, STDIN will be used for catching the
	   files to parse.

RETURN

       backup-manager-purge will return the list of outdated files on STDOUT, one file per line.

ERROR CODES

       If an error occurs, it will print the error message on stderr and will exit with an error code greater than 0.

       Here are the possible error codes:

       bad command line (wrong arguments) : 10
       internal error (should be reported as a bug) : 20

SEE ALSO

       backup-manager(8) backup-manager-upload(8)

AUTHORS

       Concept and design by Alexis Sukrieh and Jan Metzger.

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