file link missing?

[aixlurker]

how do i know if the file's link was removed??

 

[DSMARWAY]

Is this an operating system file link or an application file link ?

If you have shell history set , have a look at the history file , search for an rm command in the history file.

HTH
laters

 

[aixlurker]

it's actually an OS file. I had a problem before when where the system could not give me a prompt. it happened while i was issuing an fsck against /var, /usr. when i reset the machine, it hanged at 553. after accessing the vg in maintenance mode, i issue an ln command, and the machine booted normally after rebooting.

 

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

That 'what happened to me recently when i have lost 3 system links from "/" ,and had to recreate them manualy.
The reason is still unknown - I'm running AIX 4.3.3 ML8.

However - it's normally possible due to a rootvg filesystems corruption.

fsck on rootvg FSs is the right thing. "Long live king Moshiach !"
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http://www.noahide.com/movement.htm

 

[aixmurderer]

I had the same problem when a vindictive person (resigned) logged in via dialup and deleted the symlinks in /. Thank goodness he want ingnorant enough and only went "rm *" and not "rm -r *". We should have changed the root password I hear you say, yes, unfortunately we were to trustworthy, but learned our lesson.

We booted into maintenance mode and mounted rootvg and manually recreated the symlinks. It helps if you have another box available to see what is missing to know what to recreate. Creation is easy enough using "ln -s", do a man ln to see samples. IBM Certified Confused - MQSeries
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