topic VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT in Operating System - OpenVMS

VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT

Jefferson Humber — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 15:27:53 GMT

A collegue of mine has an Alpha (v.7.3) which is missing it's VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT file.

Found it missing by trying to run AUTOGEN.

Nobody will own up to deleting it.....

Can this be easily regenerated ? Or copied from another v.7.3 system ? Does this file change through applying ECO's ?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help, points will be awarded for this one !

Jeff

Re: VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT

Ian Miller. — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 16:16:40 GMT

On my V7.3-2 system VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT appears untouched since the original installation therefore copy it from other system or installation CD. Then run AUTOGEN to create VMSIMAGES.DAT

Re: VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT

John Gillings — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:40:27 GMT

Jeff,

It's not modified by anything, so no problems replacing it from installation media, backup or a system with the same version (see attachment, assuming it survives the internet). Run AUTOGEN to regenerate VMSIMAGES.DAT

However, I'd be concerned about what else might be missing? Maybe put an AUDIT ACE on it, ACCESS=W+D+S+F, so that if anyone does it again, you'll have evidence.

Re: VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT

Cass Witkowski — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:16:35 GMT

We had a system where the System Administartor was overly zealous in cleaning up the system disk. Deleting all the *.dat files. (Cringe)

First tried cut and pasting the file from one system to another. Type it out on one screen, cut and paste to another screen. It worked except that the entry for loginout.exe got truncated. Not all the privileges were set. Caused nasty hard to find problem. Fixed it by FTP'ing file from one site to another

So short answer is yes you can copy from another system.

Cass

Re: VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT

Jan van den Ende — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:40:14 GMT

... and if you follow John's advise, then make sure you will not find "SYSTEM" or any other privileged account that multiple users know the password of!

In other words, those anonymous privileged accounts that are sometimes necessary for such things as booting, or database maintenance, etc, should be set /NOinteractive !

hth,

Jan