Ok...a bit of a problem here. This morning I was making some changes to the system. I added a user, made a home directory for it, copied some files into the directory. I also made some changes to the /etc/services file, and did a dbexport of one of our informix databases. I then logged in as the new user, made sure everything was setup correctly, and everything seemed fine. Then, this system was the first to be put onto a new network--some sort of production VLAN or something (ask the network guys--I don't have any idea). The only thing I had to change was the default gateway, the ip address of one of the network cards, and the /etc/hosts file. Seemed simple enough, but the network got hung up, so I booted the machine. After that, the new network was working just fine. It could ping all the other servers, and they could ping this one. Then I went to log in as the new user I had just created, and it said "no directory". I looked, and sure enough--the directory I had created and successfully logged into was gone!! The user was there, but the directory was gone. the changes I made to the /etc/services file remained, but the export I created was gone as well. Can anyone explain what might have happened? I can't understand how changing the network, and rebooting could make a couple of directories disappear like that. Everything else in these filesystems remains intact as far as I can tell. It's not that anything important is gone...it's just really confusing. TIA
Jonathan Williams
UNIX Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
Received on Wed Aug 29 2001 - 19:05:06 NZST