First of all Thank you to everyone who replied to my plea for help
The following I hope is the completed list of people who responded, if
I have missed any one out I am sorry:-
Rainer Freis <freis_at_santix.de>
Robert L. McMillin <rlm_at_syseca-us.com>
Alan Rollow <alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com>
Amy E. Skowronek <amy_at_aloha.nascom.nasa.gov>
Kevin Oberman <oberman_at_es.net>
matthias.johnson_at_mankato.msus.edu
rye <rye_at_jtasc.acom.mil>
sobrien_at_chemson.com
Lucio Chiappetti <lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it>
Thomas Leitner <tom_at_finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at>
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Intial Problem:
I now understand what happened but not why.
The inital problem was I installed a new version of ABAQUS on to a DEC
Alpha running Digitial Unix, V3.2. I ftped the files from a P.C up to
the RAID drive of the Alpha. It now appears that DEC needs a different
install script to set-up ABAQUS, the script appeared to run fine and
install the correct components as it went along.
Once the script finished the machine hung.
When rebooted, I recieved errors like
/usr/sbin/rcmgr: egrep: cannot execute
then the machine would stick at the
Digital Unix Version V3.2 (brunel.tay.ac.uk) console
Login:
(it would not ask for a password, just kept repeating the above)
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Solution:
1. The solution to this was to boot in to single user mode (boot -fl s)
2. run bcheckrc to mount the drives etc, this was not affected by the
script
3. Reset all the permissions,(chmod 775) in
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/X11, and other directories
These were none executable.
This problem has been resolved but I am not sure what other damage has
been done, so the group may hear from me in the future :)
So once again Thank you everyone for their help
Regards
Grant
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Grant K. Youngson
Research Officer
University of Abertay Dundee
e-mail:-cergky_at_tay.ac.uk
Received on Sat Jan 31 1998 - 13:26:07 NZDT