sam not available

[Jestin John Chacko]

I am not able to acess the sam ,while i am trying that its showing directory missing in /var/sam directory i checked it out but i didnt find a directory .also i searched for the samlog,that is also missing is there any way to recover my sam utility i am really worrying with this issue?

[TTr]

There are quite a few files and subdirectories in /var/sam. You should restore the contents, you can not recreate the files.

Is it possible that the entire /var was left unmounted? Or if it was deleted, you need to find out what else got deleted in /var.

[Bijeesh]

hai
did you accidently delete any files?
Anyway you need to restore these from your backup.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

sam is located in /usr/sbin/sam
There should be a /var/sam directory. Go ahead and create it with 555 permissions and bin:bin ownership. /var/sam normally contains the log so if it is gone, someone with root permissions has removed all the sam logs. Run this command to verify the sam installtion:

# swverify SystemAdmin.SAM

You'll need to follow the instructions at the end of the listing to run swjob and read the error messages.

[Jestin John Chacko]

Tanks fo the help to all in this critical solution.

Its because accidentally i deleted my SAM directory in /var

i tried to make the directory using the given permission now its showing /var/sam/lock directory missing can you suggest any solution

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi,

# cd /var/sam
# mkdir lock
# chmod 755 lock
# chown bin:bin lock

Try sam again.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Bijeesh]

hi
create the directory lock in /var/sam with 755 perm.
owner and group will be bin:bin

[UVK_1]

mkdir /var/sam/lock
chown bin:bin /var/sam/lock
chmod 755 /var/sam/lock
touch /var/sam/lock/lock_console

Try doing the above and see if it works

[Jestin John Chacko]

Tanks a lot to all who helped me in this issue now i am able to access my sam

again a big thanks to ITRC forum members

[Jestin John Chacko]

Thanks