HPUX files become zero size

[kenny chia]

Hi
I have a HPUX11.23 Itanium system.
I have a very strange problem lately. Some of my files became zero size at the same time. The incident occurred at Dec 2 10:44

In /usr/sbin these are the following files
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 0 Dec 2 10:44 ifconfig
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvchange
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvcreate
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvdisplay
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvextend
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvlnboot
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvmerge
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvreduce
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvremove
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvrmboot
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvsplit
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 lvsync
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 nomwcsyncd
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 pvchange
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 pvck
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 pvcreate
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 pvdisplay
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 pvmove
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 pvremove
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 0 Dec 2 10:44 setprivgrp
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgcfgbackup
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgcfgrestore
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgchange
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgchgid
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgcreate
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgdisplay
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgexport
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgextend
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgimport
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgmodify
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgreduce
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgremove
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgscan
-r-sr-xr-x 32 root sys 0 Dec 2 10:44 vgsync

In /etc/skel
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 0 Dec 2 10:44 .exrc
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 0 Dec 2 10:44 .login
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 0 Dec 2 10:44 .profile

What could be the cause of this problem?? Some forum members complained of a similiar problem but the cause of the problem is not mentioned..

Thanks for any feedback..

[Dennis Handly]

Most of those 32 files are all hardlinks to the same file. Can you get the modification time to the nearest second to see which of the 5 files was done first.