topic Re: /bin directory gone on 11.23 system in Operating System - HP-UX

/bin directory gone on 11.23 system

dictum9 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:12:02 GMT

It's a newly installed system via Ignite, 11.23

I am pretty sure /bin/true and other stuff in /bin was there yesterday, and today it's gone!

I am puzzled where /bin/went and how it got deleted.

How can I recreate it? Given that /bin a link to /usr/bin, Can I just recreate the link?

Re: /bin directory gone on 11.23 system

Joshua Scott — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:18:15 GMT

Here's bin on my 11.23 system:

lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 8 Sep 20 2007 bin -> /usr/bin

You should be able to just re-create it.

Re: /bin directory gone on 11.23 system

dictum9 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:22:57 GMT

I should mention the last thing I did was I installed the latest patch bundle, after running swainv.

And it rebooted. I wonder if that has something to do with it.

Re: /bin directory gone on 11.23 system

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:35:03 GMT

Hi:

Yes, '/bin' is really a symbolic link to '/usr/bin'. Strictly speaking it is a "transition link" (known by the presence of a "t" as if the file or directory has its "sticky" bit set). These links were going to vanish circa 11.23 as I recall. This isn't going to happen. They become regular symbolic links in 11.31. They appeared with in HP-UX 10.0 when the HP-UX filesystem layouts changed. You can recreate them with:

# /opt/upgrade/bin/tlinstall

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: /bin directory gone on 11.23 system

dictum9 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:40:11 GMT

You are saying that tlinstall will put the link back?

Re: /bin directory gone on 11.23 system

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:41:59 GMT

Yes, it should.

You really should start using /usr/bin though.

Re: /bin directory gone on 11.23 system

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:44:05 GMT

Hi (again):

> You are saying that tlinstall will put the link back?

Yes, and using it will set the sticky-bit to indicate that the symbolic link is categorized as one of the "transition" links (should you care).

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: /bin directory gone on 11.23 system

dictum9 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:24:36 GMT

Thank you, it put the links back.