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Operating Systems HP-UX Problems after deleting /var/tmp Post 302993110 by bakunin on Tuesday 7th of March 2017 03:34:58 AM
Old 03-07-2017
drysdalks idea was a good one, but i think now is he time to resort to good old debugging techniques:

Quote:
Originally Posted by anaigini45
However, the scripts remained not executable.
What exactly do you mean by that? Obviously the execute-privilege of these were not changed, no? So, how did the fail? Error messages? Log entries? Exit codes? Smoking guns?

Quote:
Originally Posted by anaigini45
Is it possible that when I deleted /var/tmp, some symlinks were removed?
And therefore any of the problem scripts had some symlink from /var/tmp?
Yes, this might be possible, but yet again the opposite is equally possible. Instead of making wild guesses, you might want to analyse the problem - see above: try something, gather evidence, analyse it, then start over.

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Originally Posted by anaigini45
I cannot think of any other reason why there could be scripts which became not executable even after I had restored the directory.
This is the good thing about good debugging practice: you don't have to be overly creative in this regard. If a script you try to start fails with Error: failed to make the flurbishes grommicking it is quite obvious what happened.

If the script(s) you start fail to give any conclusive error message (in this case: shame on the programmers!) then look inside the scripts and search for the string "/var/tmp" to try to locate the places where it tries to access the directory in question.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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service(8)						      System Manager's Manual							service(8)

NAME

       service - run a System V init script

SYNOPSIS

       service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS]

       service --status-all

       service --help | -h | --version

DESCRIPTION

       service runs a System V init script in as predictable environment as possible, removing most environment variables and with current working
       directory set to /.

       The SCRIPT parameter specifies a System V init script, located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT.  The  supported  values  of  COMMAND  depend  on  the
       invoked	script,  service  passes  COMMAND and OPTIONS it to the init script unmodified.  All scripts should support at least the start and
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FILES

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