Re: oslevel Error processing cache, return code 228

On Mar 29, 7:55 pm, Christopher Petersen <cpeter...@crystallized-
software.com> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:07:06 -0700, Stu wrote:
I am running on an AIX 5.2 machine

uname -a
AIX devrs3 2 5 0008148A4C00

When I run theoslevelcommand as "root" it seems ot work and I get
back the following.

/tmp#oslevel
5.2.0.0

When I run it as a user other than "root" I get the following error:

$oslevel
oslevel: Error processing cache, return code 228.
oslevel: Use the -f flag to rebuild cache.

I tried runningoslevel-f as root in hopes of fixing the problem but
that did not work.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks to all who answer this post

I'm working from memory at the moment, but I believe the variousoslevel
commands use a cache of information located in /tmp. So, maybe look at
the protection of /tmp or theoslevelcache directory/files in it. If
you've got a much tighter umask on the root ID, that might create/maintain
theoslevelcache in a way that non-root users could not use it...

Just a thought!

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I even as went as far as to make everything 777 and that did not
appear to work.

ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 15 bin bin 24576 Mar 30 08:45 /tmp

# ls -ld /tmp/.oslevel.datafiles
drwxrwxrwx 2 root system 256 Mar 30 8:45 /
tmp/.oslevel.datafiles

find . -depth -exec ls -tl {} ";"
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 0 Mar 30
08:40 ./.oslevel.hold
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 31293 Mar 30
08:40 ./.oslevel.mlinfo.cache
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 908197 Mar 30
08:40 ./.oslevel.rml.cache
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 5 Mar 30
08:40 ./.oslevel.cache.sum
total 1848
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 5 Mar 30
08:40 .oslevel.cache.sum
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 908197 Mar 30
08:40 .oslevel.rml.cache
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 31293 Mar 30
08:40 .oslevel.mlinfo.cache
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 0 Mar 30 08:40 .oslevel.hold

Does anybody else have any more suggestions?

Thanks to all that answer


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