Re: AIX 5.3 disaster recovery fro AIX newbie

From: Kovetsky, Dmitry (Dmitry.Kovetsky_at_ENCANA.COM)
Date: 09/26/05

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    Date:         Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:20:21 -0600
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    >are you in the server in maint mode?
    No.
    > how do you know the file is ZERO length?
    I know just because I cannot get in and examined the script it ran.
    Script would result 0 /etc/passwd file. Too late though.

            -----Original Message-----
            From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On
    Behalf Of Lindsey, James
            Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:05 AM
            To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
            Subject: Re: AIX 5.3 disaster recovery fro AIX newbie
            
            
            how do you know the file is ZERO length? are you in the server
    in maint mode?

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    [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of Kovetsky, Dmitry
                    Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:28 PM
                    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
                    Subject: AIX 5.3 disaster recovery fro AIX newbie
                    
                    

                    Good morning everyone
                    Now I've got a chance to practice AIX disaster recovery:
    one of the scripts smoked /etc/passwd file, to zero. Machine is
    micropartition, freshly installed but due to some reasons rebuild is not
    an option. Could you please advise how to I recover from this situation?
    (Way to boot to single user? Mount rootvg and restore passwd from other
    machine?)

                    Thanks in advance

                    Dmitry

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