/opt/perl/bin/perl size became zero

[sekar sundaram]

Hi,

just yesterday, looks like someone did a simple mistake and somehow /opt/perl/bin/perl filesize became zero.

root@fair> ll /opt/perl/bin/perl
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 0 Sep 29 04:24 /opt/perl/bin/perl

any idea where is the perl log file available?
now, only we have to install perl again or any other methods available?

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

I'd say get /opt/perl back from your backup

Otherwise you indeed have to (force) re-install it. To do so, you might have to uninstall it first.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[sekar sundaram]

thanks for the reply...
any idea how to find out what happened?

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

Hi,
it is not related with Perl error while Perl running or initializing, but your issue's root cause probably from system ,so refer to system logs, and root mail.

[Pete Randall]

My guess would be that someone logged in as root did something like

> perl

or

> /opt/perl/bin/perl

but that type of thing will not appear in any log file. That's why we run backups!


Pete

[Dennis Handly]

>any idea how to find out what happened?

Only if you had auditing turned on.
But you know of course, root did it. You could look at /var/adm/sulog or run last(1) to see who was root at 04:24.

[Dave Johnson_1]

If you use a history file, perhaps you can look back through that to see some command like the ones suggesting some output was redirected to perl instead of piping to it.

Good luck,
-Dave

[Jim Walls]

It might also be in some faulty script... in which case you may have the same problem again if that script is run! In which case, after restoring /opt/perl from backup (or by re-installing the package) you might want to take a local backup of /opt/perl, using tar, until you have tracked down the root cause.