/bin link missing

[Yvonne Butler]

The /bin link to /usr/bin appears to be missing on one of our servers. I've put the link back (using ln -s) but I can't change any permissions on the new link.

A process somewhere must also be removing this link at approximately 55 minutes past each hour. I've turned off cron processes at these times, but its still happening.

Any ideas anyone? I'm running out of patience with this one ;-)

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Yvonne
Look at this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xffcd12980463e24797ab1fdd8ed71fe0,00.html&admit=716493758+1066052317656+28353475

All the best
Victor

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Yvaonne,

You can use the tlinstall command to regenerate the /bin link.

# tlinstall

# ll | grep bin

Best regards,
Robert-Jan

[Yvonne Butler]

Robert you're a genius. Many many thanks.

[Yvonne Butler]

Although "tlinstall" puts the links back in and they work perfectly, I'm still getting the /bin link being completely removed at approximately 55 minutes past each hour. Does anyone know why this might be happening? I can't find any entries in the syslog.log and I've disabled cron entirely but it still happens...

[John Palmer]

It must be a process owned by root that's already running then.

Do you have some sort of application that removes files and may be misconfigured in some way?

Unless it's pretty obvious, it'll be a pig to find. Can you stop any processes to see if you can eliminate them?

Regards,
John

[Yvonne Butler]

The "tlinstall" command replaced all the missing links but a little while later they were removed by something. I set tlinstall running every 30 minutes via cron and after being replaced twice, they have now stayed. Don't know why but there you go!!

Thanks everyone.