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Operating Systems Solaris Contents deleted from /var/sadm Post 303004265 by drysdalk on Thursday 28th of September 2017 04:03:17 PM
Old 09-28-2017
Hi,

Oh dear, that is...unfortunate. The primary purpose of the directory tree underneath /var/sadm on Solaris is to store information about all installed packages and patches. So basically, it's entirely system-dependent. No two servers will have the same contents in there, unless they've had exactly (and I really do mean exactly) the same life in terms of the OS install options, subsequently-added packages and applied patches all being 100% identical at every step of the way.

So in other words, unless this server happens to have a sibling system that has identical hardware, an identical patch level of the OS, and absolutely identical sets of installed software and patches, with literally no differences between the two systems in any way whatsoever, then the contents of /var/sadm are going to be different. It's not really a transplantable directory, sadly.

If it were me, and I had a system with a hosed /var/sadm and genuinely no backups, I'd most likely be looking at migrating services off of it on to another server, and re-installing the broken box. Unless you are happy never being able to install any packages or apply any patches (an unwise situation to be in, generally speaking), then that is probably your only way out of this without backups, I'm sorry to say.
 

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