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

[Mike Gerdts]

On 8/7/07, Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
<Enda.Oconnor at sun.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately a reinstall is all that will recreate me thinks.
> Sorry for the bad news, best to limit root access in future though.

FWIW, I was recently trying to customize a wanboot miniroot and in the
process of "pkgrm -R /mnt ..." of some non-SUNW packages (FJSV*, I
think).  During this time /var/sadm (possibly all of /var, I forget
for sure) was lost.  I haven't had a chance to dig into the cause or
repeatability of it.  I just thought I would mention it in case there
have been other instances of /var/sadm getting lost.  This was when
working with a wanboot image created by setup_install_server on S10
11/06.

On the other hand, limiting root is also good advice.  I can somewhat
easily see this as being a target for someone trying to free up space.

Mike

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