You might want to look into the AIX commands:
lppchk and/or tcbck
Thank you,
Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Steve Harris
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 1:15 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Getting unix permissions back from TSM
Hi All
One of my accounts has just had a unix admin tried to run something
like
chown -R something:something /home/fred/*
but he had an extra space in there and ran it from the root directory
chown -R something:something /home/fred/ *
This has destroyed the ownership of the operating system binaries and
trashed the system. Worse it was done using a distributed tool, so
quite a number of AIX lpars are affected including the TSM server.
Once we get the TSM Server back up, is there any way to restore just
the file permissions without restoring the data? I can't think of a
way. Maybe there is a testflag to do this? Even a listing of the file
and permissions for all active files would be enough to be able to fix
the problem.
TSM Server 5.5 AIX 5.3
Thanks
Steve
TSM Admin
Canberra Australia.
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