topic Re: /opt/VRTSob in Operating System - HP-UX

/opt/VRTSob

Fred Martin_1 — Tue, 18 May 2004 09:19:52 GMT

Just noticed these files on my system, are 'nouser' ... currently own by UID 4484 GID 119 ... what should the ownerships really be, am I missing a passwd entry or should they be owned by someone else?

/opt/VRTSob/jre/bin/.start_xfs
/opt/VRTSob/jre/bin/java
/opt/VRTSob/jre/bin/keytool
/opt/VRTSob/jre/bin/policytool
/opt/VRTSob/jre/bin/rmid
/opt/VRTSob/jre/bin/rmiregistry
/opt/VRTSob/jre/bin/tnameserv
/opt/VRTSob/jre/lib/PA_RISC/hotspot
/opt/VRTSob/jre/lib/PA_RISC/libmawt.sl
/opt/VRTSob/jre/lib/PA_RISC2.0/hotspot
/opt/VRTSob/jre/lib/PA_RISC2.0/libmawt.sl

Re: /opt/VRTSob

John Poff — Tue, 18 May 2004 09:24:17 GMT

Hi,

Looks like they could be some files belonging to Veritas Enterprise Manager. Do you have that installed on your system?

JP

Re: /opt/VRTSob

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 18 May 2004 09:28:04 GMT

VRTSobâ VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Service

I don't have it on my HP's but I do have it on my sun's with the owner bin:bin.

Regards,
Robert-

Re: /opt/VRTSob

Fred Martin_1 — Tue, 18 May 2004 09:28:05 GMT

Only if it came installed with HP-UX 11i, Progress DB, or an NxTrend product. That's about all I've got on this server. I've heard of it but not familiar with it.

Re: /opt/VRTSob

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 18 May 2004 09:35:23 GMT

If you notice in the 'll' output for the items with the uid of 4484 as the owner, they are ALL links to another file. In this case, I wouldn't worry too much. I've got the same issue on my 11.11 machine.

# cd /opt/VRTSob
# find . -user 4484 -exec ll -d {} \;
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 13 Nov 13 2003 ./bin/.start_xfs -> .java_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 13 Nov 13 2003 ./bin/java -> .java_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 13 Nov 13 2003 ./bin/keytool -> .java_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 13 Nov 13 2003 ./bin/policytool -> .java_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 13 Nov 13 2003 ./bin/rmid -> .java_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 13 Nov 13 2003 ./bin/rmiregistry -> .java_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 13 Nov 13 2003 ./bin/tnameserv -> .java_wrapper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 6 Nov 13 2003 ./lib/PA_RISC/hotspot -> server
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 18 Nov 13 2003 ./lib/PA_RISC/libmawt.sl -> motif21/libmawt.sl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 6 Nov 13 2003 ./lib/PA_RISC2.0/hotspot -> server
lrwxrwxrwx 1 4484 119 18 Nov 13 2003 ./lib/PA_RISC2.0/libmawt.sl -> motif21/libmawt.sl

Re: /opt/VRTSob

Fred Martin_1 — Tue, 18 May 2004 10:59:43 GMT

Ah, so they are. The fact that you have the same UID as me, is an indication that it's right from the install that way. Since they're links anyway and permissioned wide open I'm guessing that, for the sake of cleaning up, chowning them to root:sys wouldn't hurt.

Re: /opt/VRTSob

Victor_5 — Tue, 18 May 2004 11:57:25 GMT

Hi Fred:

I got the same result on my 11.i server, since it is created by installation by default, I don't suggest you to change them.

Actually, VRTSob is for Veritas VxVM GUI interface, on the server side, you need VRTSob, VRTSvmpro and VRTSfspro to make it work, but a lot of companies don't allow VEA GUI for security reason, if you don't need it, you can simply stop the service on the server side:

#vxsvc -k

Just my two cents.

Re: /opt/VRTSob

Fred Martin_1 — Tue, 18 May 2004 12:46:23 GMT

Thanks Victor, in fact I don't do anything GUI on this server, stopping it is a good idea.

Re: /opt/VRTSob

Fred Martin_1 — Tue, 18 May 2004 12:56:12 GMT

It appears that this software is started at boot by the script /sbin/rc2.d/S999isisd.

What is the proper way to prevent this from starting up at all?

Re: /opt/VRTSob

Pete Randall — Tue, 18 May 2004 13:05:46 GMT

Fred,

Normally, there would be a file in /etc/rc.config.d/ called isisd. You would edit this file and tell it that you didn't want the daemon to start. Since Veritas chose not to play by the rules and supply this standard configuration file, I think the only way to prevent start up is to rm the link from /sbin/rc2.d/S999isisd to /sbin/init.d/isisd. You should also rm the corresponding kill link: /sbin/rc1.d/K999isisd.

Pete

Re: /opt/VRTSob

Victor_5 — Wed, 19 May 2004 09:11:01 GMT

Hi Fred,

Sorry I overlooked your reply and I noticed that you got the correct reply already. Yes, I agree with Pete, if you want to keep those software, probably that is the only way I can think of.

Another point I can think of, since you don't need GUI on that particular server, you can swremove those packages, and when you need them in the future, you can swinstall them from depot (if you made depot already) or from CD. Hope it can helps.

Re: /opt/VRTSob

Fred Martin_1 — Thu, 20 May 2004 15:53:16 GMT

Well, I conquered a few fears and decided to chown the thing. Tried one:

# chown root:sys /opt/VRTSob/jre/bin/.start_xfs

And the link is still owned by 4484:119, so I guess the chown command follows the link and chowns the file, not the link. (it was already root:sys anyway)

I guess I could remove and re-add the link, but haven't conquered that fear, yet.

I'm only making this fuss because some of my orginal admin trainers told me never to leave a file unowned on a unix system.