A105@UWOCC1.BITNET (Brent Sterner) (02/04/86)
I've got a strange problem. I have an account with uic=[1,4] on
which I run daily midnight jobs (1 a day) and also am doing development
on. Today I decided to PURGE test.com and it failed. Investigation
led me to notice that 4 of the files had a "strange" uic. The uic was
valid, but was not [1,4]. Further, the most recent midnight.log files
also had a strange uic, but not the same as the other strange uic.
This is an 8600 in a cluster with an hsc (nothing else) and 3 ra81
disks. I called TSC. After a long walk-through (I am a beginner) it
was recommended that I guarantee future "corruption" not be simply due
to another uic having access to the directory. So I set the directory
protection for the directory root to (o,g,w); only the system can play
there now. (DEC: the TSC call number is C860204367)
Further, I did a brief listing of the UAF file, and searched it for
non-normal entries. Nothing unexpected showed up.
As a beginner, a lot goes by this net without it registering. But
I think I saw a similar complaint recently. Did I? Anyone seen or heard
of this before? I'm new to VMS, but I've been around other systems long
enough to know that the LAST thing I need is a corrupted file system.
The false UICs have been corrected to prevent future confusion; I
don't know any way to verify the rest of my structure.
Brent Sterner
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