[install-discuss] /var/sadm/pkg missing??

[mary ding]

Enda and Alan:

  In the future, make sure you do not do anything to /var/sadm/.  We 
need both the pkg and  install/contents in order for packaging and 
patching to work correctly.



Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote:
> Aaron wrote:
>> I have a test system here to which, unfortunately, many people have root access.  One of our software installs is failing because the showrev -p command fails.
>>
>> I ran truss on the showrev -p command and it looks as though it is trying to open the directory /var/sadm/pkg, which is completely missing.
>>
>> Long story short: is there any way to re-create the /var/sadm/pkg directory and all of its installed package information?
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
>>
>> -Aaron
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> Hi
> Unfortunately not that I'm aware of, this info is dynamically undated by 
> patch/pkg commands.
> 
> Unfortunately a reinstall is all that will recreate me thinks.
> Sorry for the bad news, best to limit root access in future though.
> 
> 
> Enda
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