topic Re: System Library Files in Operating System - HP-UX

System Library Files

Galen Benson — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:14:55 GMT

I'm running some security processes against our servers and one of them is suggesting to maintain baseline backups of all device files, suid files, sgid files and system library files. Unfortunately, I'm not able to find a listing or description of what would be considered system library files. I'm sure this is a quick answer for you gurus and am hoping you could help me. Thanks in advance for your time.

Galen

Re: System Library Files

Dennis Handly — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:08:31 GMT

I assume you are using HP-UX, which version? (This is the wrong board for that.)

You might want to take an Ignite back of of all files on vg00.

By "System Library" do you mean shared libs?

Re: System Library Files

Galen Benson — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:53:28 GMT

Thanks for your reply Dennis. To answer your question, we're running HPUX 11.11, 11.23 & 11.31 and the Security Documentation specifically says 'System Library Files'. We regularly run Make_recoveries. I just want to make sure I'm not missing any files that I should be grabbing.

Re: System Library Files

Dennis Handly — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:07:40 GMT

>the Security Documentation specifically says 'System Library Files'.

This sounds more like a Windows oriented term.

> We regularly run Make_recoveries.

This sounds like you got it covered from the data loss standpoint. Unless the point was more to recovering after having them corrupted by a virus? But the ignite backup can be used for that too.

Re: System Library Files

Galen Benson — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:25:22 GMT

The security documentation is actually a STIG for UNIX, but probably just worded incorrectly. Thanks for the reassurance & have a nice weekend.