swverify to fix filesystem errors

[dictum9]

A script accidently changed some of the filesystem permissions on this Itanium 11.23

I ran:

swverify OS-Core.UX-CORE

and got a list of files with incorrect permissions, etc.

Now I would like to know how to fix it, is there an option to swverify to automatically repair these damaged files.

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Recommendations:

ignite restore
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1039569

swlist -l file -a mode | more
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=743734

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# swverify -F OS-Core.UX-Core

Regards!

...JRF...

[dictum9]

-F switch fixed most of them, thank you.

Now I have left a bunch of mtime errors, am I correct in thinking that they are not important? And why would that be reported as an error versus a warning?

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
JRF's was the one to go for!
Lesson for me : Always read the man pages first.

Regarding mtime please see:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1065357

Unless you suspect anything, they can be ignored.

[dictum9]

Everything appears to be working good.

I saw the -F switch in the man pages, but it said something about the vendor fix scripts and wasn't sure it was applicable.

[Bill Hassell]

The man pages for the software distributor were originally written with the idea that the world would embrace SD and all vendors would package their HP-UX products in SD format, thus the vendor specific reference. In reality, the vendor is HP and virtually all HP products have a fixup script in the package. This why the /var/adm/sw directory is so important (and large).