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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One of my clients had a hardware related crash
today (SCO Unix). After we got the machine up and running again, there were
a few indices that had to be rebuilt, which was ok, but one of our crucial files
gave us an error when we tried to access it through filePro.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I went in as root to look at the file, but when I
tried to change to that directory in /appl/filepro, the operating system gave me
a permission error saying permission refused. This when I was logged in as
root. I did not think there was ever a situation in which root would be
refused permission to view the contents of a directory. This file is one
an operator was working in at the time of the crash. I am able to list the
directory, using "l -d filename", and I noticed that the owner, which is usually
filepro, had been changed to "103". Since "103" is not on the /etc/passwd
file, there was a number rather than a name in the display.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am assuming that the operating system was doing
something to that file when the system crashed, and that it was locked somehow
during the operation and never got unlocked. I don't know who user "103"
is, but it must be operating system related, and it is a user that even locks
out root.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is the display that I get when I issue "l -d
stoor*"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2># l -d stoor*<BR>drwxrwxrwx 2
filepro group 1024 Apr 16 04:00
stoordda<BR>drwxrwxrwx 2 103
group 1024 Apr 17 2008
stoorddt<BR>drwxrwxrwx 2 filepro
group 512 Apr 16 09:34
stoordia<BR>drwxrwxrwx 2 filepro
sys 2048 Apr 16 09:34
stoordra<BR>drwxrwxrwx 2 filepro
group 4096 Apr 16 18:23
stoordre<BR>drwxrwxrwx 2 filepro
group 1024 Apr 16 04:00
stoorloa<BR>drwxrwxrwx 2 filepro
group 1024 Apr 16 09:06
stoorlot<BR>drwxrwxrwx 2 filepro
group 512 Aug 4 2001
stoortyp<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Notice the owner "103" on the file
stoorddt.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I try to change the ownership, I get a
permission error as follows:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2># chown filepro stoorddt<BR>chown: cannot change
owner ID of stoorddt: Permission denied (error 13)<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I try to list the contents of stoorddt, I get
the following:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2># l stoorddt<BR>l: can not access directory
stoorddt: Permission denied (error 13)<BR>total 2</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is denying permission to root. We are
totally locked out of the directory, and so is filePro.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am not sure what the "total 2" is in the above
response, as I have never seen this before. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can anybody shed light on what is going on
here? I have never seen anything like it before, and the file is one of
the most important in the system. Furthermore, the user does not have a
recent backup because his tape drive failed and he was in the process of getting
a new one.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Del Neroni</DIV>
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