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Operating Systems HP-UX Critical files in /etc overwritten EMPTY! Post 302238340 by avronius on Friday 19th of September 2008 03:51:28 PM
Old 09-19-2008
I was under the impression that, while deprecated, SAM was still available...

Knowing the date/time that the file was cleared should help you to pinpoint when the corruption took place. I'd recommend going through your cron and at logs, etc. to see if something was running at the time that the files were cleared.

You could search all file systems mounted on the host for scripts that might have included the words "inittab", "inetd.conf" and "MANPATH". Once you have the list of possible hits - check to see if any of them had the syntax to clear the files.

You should also check your authlog to see if someone (or some script) initiated a connection at that time, and repeat the search there.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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