Re: H E L P ! ! !

From: Wesley Joyce (Wesley.Joyce@UVI.EDU)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 16:00:35 EDT


Can you use RSH or RCP from another host? Can you add /usr/ccs.new to the
path? Just ideas, I'm not an AIX guru yet. Do any local commands work?

At 03:49 PM 8/12/2002, Bill Thompson wrote:

>AIX Gurus...
>
>I have a server where I just layed down a new copy of AIX 4.3.3 ML 10.
>
>I had a backup of rootvg on another disk so I could get to any file I need
>asap.
>
>One of the Oracle people were complaining about missing something in
>/usr/ccs/bin so I thought I'd try to copy contents of the old /usr/ccs
>directory to see if that would fix his problem.
>
>First however, I renamed /usr/ccs to /usr/ccs.new.
>
>Now NOTHING WORKS!
>
>I did not realize libc.a was in /usr/ccs/lib!!!!
>
>I'm still logged onto the system as root and I can echo the contents of
>/usr/ccs.new (e.g.: echo /usr/ccs/lib/*) but I cannot run any command that
>would allow me to fix this: ls, cp, mv, tar, nothing seems to work.
>
>I need to get this system back as soon as possible. Does anybody have any
>ideas??
>
>Bill Thompson
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