UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all,

I carelessly remove the contents of /var/sadm/pkg. I do not have any backup of the folder. What can I do ? Thanks a lot.

I dont think that it will affect your daily working, but you won't be able to backout any patches and commands such as pkginfo may fail.

U sure? but it is not the /var/sadm/pkg/save folder, is the entire /var/sadm/pkg....

and how do you make those commands working again?? Thanks a lot

Blowtorch is correct - your commands to show packages and patches won't work but the system itself should be okay.

Since you don't have a backup, another option may be to reload the latest patch cluster - one of the ways of saving space in /var is to remove old patches in order and then loading the latest version of the patch - you have, in a way, already removed the old patch info so now adding the latest patches should rebuild your /var/sadm/pkg directory. (note that this option may not put everything back into place but without a listing of what you had, this will get you started.)

Otherwise, the only other option is to rebuild from scratch (since you state you have no backup).

Thanks RTM, however, when I tried to put in the latest patch cluster, it said that I do not have the latest dependcy patches on ths sytem and refused to add those patches on.. @_@

Quite rightly too... the patchadd command will check for existing dependencies using something like pkginfo, which will in turn check in the /var/sadm/pkg directory. Maybe a scheduled downtime and a complete reinstall is in order?