Wall is gone!

[Ron Brown_2]

Wall is gone from an L1000 running HP-UX 11.00 and does not appear on any backup tapes. Thoughts on how to replace it?

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Install CDs or copy it from another 11.00 machine?

Was it ever there?

If so who removed it??

I would hang them out by their fuzzy bits !!!


Paula

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Ron:

Here's two choices:

(1) recover it from your Ignite 'make_tape_recovery' backup:

# mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
# tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0m /usr/sbin/wall

(2) Download and install patch PHCO_28718 which is an updated 'wall' binary.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Darren Prior · Accepted solution]

Hi,

wall should live in /usr/sbin; there should also be a man page for it.

Does the man page still exist?

Was wall on this system previously?

Have you got a make_tape_recovery or make_net_recovery of the system, if so it could be retrieved from there. Otherwise you could see take a copy from another 11.00 system if you have one.

regards,

Darren.

[John Meissner]

Paula... quite violent today... need to get some agressions out? (but I secretly agree with you).... oh... did I just say that out loud?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Are ceil() and floor() missing as well?

[S.K. Chan]

Does the man page for wall existed at the first place ?
/usr/share/man/man1m.Z/wall.1m
or simply ..
# man wall
If it does the wall executable should be in /usr/sbin (perm=-r-xr-sr-x owner=bin:tty). If it's not there you might want to find out if it has been deleted on purpose. To replace it you can copy from an existing 11.0 machine.

[Steven E. Protter]

Here is mine.

32 Bit HP-UX 11.00 off a D380

SEP

[Ron Brown_2]

It was there, but I use it so infrequently that I never noticed. I suspect I know who did it, but he's my boss...

[Steven E. Protter]

I don't think you want to use that. I thought it was a text file. Its a binary. Take it from a 64 bit system running 11.00

SEP

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

John

One thing that does anoy me is someone not admitting that they made a mistake, making a mess of trying to fix it or just not saying anything.

I do not bite, so if the told me I would give them assistance and guidance.

But if the don't then they must suffer the wrath of Princess Paula and fuzzy bits are in danger.


LOL

Paula

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

Since you have lost your binary, do yourself a favor and download the latest patch I suggested for 11.0 (PHCO_28718). It fixes a potential security (DOS attach) issue anyway!

Regards!

...JRF...

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Ron

Even if he is your boss a removal of a system command is a serious matter.

If you are the sysadmin then tell him you are improving security and give him just basic rights, to pacify him ensure that he can get higher rights(even root) by going to the safe and signing out the system root lever passwords envelope (this should be there anyway.

Paula

[Ron Brown_2]

Excellent suggestions, all! Thank you all very much, especially Paula and James.

I'll get the patch. Unfortunately, the only other machine we have running HP-UX is an E45 that I just rebuilt. We're a pretty small shop...

As for the non-technical comments...Politics is a funny and dangerous animal. We'll have a closed-door session this afternoon.

Pints all around!