VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT

[Jefferson Humber]

A collegue of mine has an Alpha (v.7.3) which is missing it's VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT file.

Found it missing by trying to run AUTOGEN.

Nobody will own up to deleting it.....

Can this be easily regenerated ? Or copied from another v.7.3 system ? Does this file change through applying ECO's ?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help, points will be awarded for this one !

Jeff

[Ian Miller.]

On my V7.3-2 system VMS$IMAGES_MASTER.DAT appears untouched since the original installation therefore copy it from other system or installation CD. Then run AUTOGEN to create VMSIMAGES.DAT

[John Gillings · Accepted solution]

Jeff,

It's not modified by anything, so no problems replacing it from installation media, backup or a system with the same version (see attachment, assuming it survives the internet). Run AUTOGEN to regenerate VMSIMAGES.DAT

However, I'd be concerned about what else might be missing? Maybe put an AUDIT ACE on it, ACCESS=W+D+S+F, so that if anyone does it again, you'll have evidence.

[Cass Witkowski]

We had a system where the System Administartor was overly zealous in cleaning up the system disk. Deleting all the *.dat files. (Cringe)

First tried cut and pasting the file from one system to another. Type it out on one screen, cut and paste to another screen. It worked except that the entry for loginout.exe got truncated. Not all the privileges were set. Caused nasty hard to find problem. Fixed it by FTP'ing file from one site to another

So short answer is yes you can copy from another system.

Cass

[Jan van den Ende]

... and if you follow John's advise, then make sure you will not find "SYSTEM" or any other privileged account that multiple users know the password of!

In other words, those anonymous privileged accounts that are sometimes necessary for such things as booting, or database maintenance, etc, should be set /NOinteractive !

hth,


Jan