What to do if /bin is deleted? 1

[solid7]

It seems that I accidentally moved /bin when trying to move a file. When I attempted to replace /bin, originally, it was there. Now, it's not.

What do I do to get /bin back where it belongs? Do I need to do a preservation install?

Thanks in advance.


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[RMGBELGIUM]

if you have made an mksysb recently, then you can do a install from mksysb.

greetz

R.

 

[p5wizard]

/bin is a symlink to /usr/bin on AIX

# ls -ld bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 8 Mar 18 2004 bin -> /usr/bin

ln -s /usr/bin /bin


(assuming /usr/bin is still there...)

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[solid7]

OK, so I got /bin back, but it belongs to root system. Shouldn't it belong to bin bin?

chown bin.bin /bin does not change the ownership.

Does this matter?


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[p5wizard]

no - it is a symlink, permissions are lrwxrwxrwx

permissions on /usr/bin are used instead

if you really want it to say bin bin

then (as root)

unlink /bin
su bin
ln -s /usr/bin /bin
exit

I would also reboot the box if that is possible

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[solid7]

That does help. Thank you very much.


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[solid7]

OOPs!

su bin results in a message that states: "3004-505 Cannot set process environment"

Doesn't that make sense, if you unlink /bin?


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[KenCunningham]

Why are you suing to bin?

 

[KenCunningham]

Have you tried su - bin to pick up bin's environment?

 

[p5wizard]

well then

make the link (as root)
su bin (subshell 1: bin)
su (subshell 2: root)
unlink
exit (back to subshell 1:bin)
make the link again
exit (back to original shell: root)

but it is only cosmetic. ownership/perms of a symlink have no value whatsoever.

HTH,

p5wizard