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Operating Systems AIX Unix root directory owner wrong AIX 5.3 Post 302580828 by methyl on Friday 9th of December 2011 08:32:24 PM

12-09-2011

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What was your current directory and what EXACT command did you execute?
What user were you at the time? If it was "root", please tell us.

If you have command history enabled, please retrieve the EXACT command.

(Sorry to shout).

What is you backup status?

Ps. The tail end of your post is "ksh: 1167506 Quit(coredump)". This is ominous. Please be prepared for a full system restore from last good backup. In the meantime DO NOT LOG OUT until you have gathered all the information you need.

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The a chown was done and instead of using ./ a / was used and root ownership files got changed.

Sorry to be overcritical but this is just too vague (but I get the gist that a chown command was typed for the root directory when it should have been relative to the current directory). What was actually typed and what was the current directory at the time? Were you logged in as "root"?

Last edited by methyl; 12-09-2011 at 10:24 PM.. Reason: Layout, content, typos. Stress "do not log out".

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