root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz) (10/11/89)
I wonder if IBM overlooked a severe bug in AIX 2.2.1. When I tried to use SCCS one of these days, the machine told me that my user ID could not be found in the passwd file and that I should contact my Administrator. After contacting myself :-) (after all, I *AM* the administrator), I tried the same thing under the root account, with the result that this time I got "Memory fault - core dumped". That intrigued me enough to make some further tests. It seems that the SCCS commands (admin in particular) try to access /etc/security/passwd, which of course fails for "normal" users. Once i open /etc/security for the public, they too get the "Memory fault". (Whew. What a relief :-) That still doesn't solve the problem, though. It just gives you the idea that someone at IBM didn't test these things before they were shipped. But then again I might be wrong. I looked all over the manual and found nothing unusual. So here's my question: Does SCCS under AIX 2.2.1 need any kind of special setup? Or have I stumbled onto a bug? If so, is this a known bug of 2.2.1? I would appreciate any hints ... -- Christian Motz uucp: ...!uunet!mcvax!unido!nadia!dialog!root "Trust me, I know what I'm doing!" -- Sledge Hammer Bix: cmotz
karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (10/12/89)
In article <1286@dialog.UUCP> root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz) wrote: >I wonder if IBM overlooked a severe bug in AIX 2.2.1. When I tried to >use SCCS one of these days, the machine told me that my user ID could >not be found in the passwd file... >It seems that the SCCS commands (admin in >particular) try to access /etc/security/passwd, which of course fails >for "normal" users. Once i open /etc/security for the public, they too >get the "Memory fault". (Whew. What a relief :-) >Does SCCS under AIX 2.2.1 need any kind of special setup? Or have I >stumbled onto a bug? If so, is this a known bug of 2.2.1? I would appreciate >any hints ... I haven't seen this behavior. We have a large SCCS archive that's accessed several hundred times a week, always by ordinary users, some from the source server (2.2.1) system and some by NFS from other 2.2.1, 2.2, and non-IBM systems. This sounds like a file permission problem. I have no idea which file(s), but probably not the SCCS utilities. They have ordinary permissions on our systems (user bin, group bin, a=rx). Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com (415) 493-9000 karish@forel.stanford.edu
jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) (10/13/89)
In article <5796@portia.Stanford.EDU> karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes: >In article <1286@dialog.UUCP> root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz) wrote: >>Does SCCS under AIX 2.2.1 need any kind of special setup? Or have I >>stumbled onto a bug? If so, is this a known bug of 2.2.1? I would appreciate >>any hints ... > >I haven't seen this behavior. We have a large SCCS archive that's >accessed several hundred times a week, always by ordinary users, >some from the source server (2.2.1) system and some by NFS from other >2.2.1, 2.2, and non-IBM systems. At AWD all of the AIX sources are kept under SCCS. This stuff is accessed thousands of times a day and I've never heard of any trouble, other than an RT runs slow if you put more than 100 people on it ;-) Your s-files may be corrupt. You might want to examine your data files by hand and see if the contents are correct. -- John F. Haugh II +-Things you didn't want to know:------ VoiceNet: (512) 832-8832 Data: -8835 | The real meaning of MACH is ... InterNet: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org | ... Messages Are Crufty Hacks. UUCPNet: {texbell|bigtex}!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------
root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz) (10/15/89)
In <17130@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes: > >At AWD all of the AIX sources are kept under SCCS. This stuff is >accessed thousands of times a day and I've never heard of any trouble, >other than an RT runs slow if you put more than 100 people on it ;-) > >Your s-files may be corrupt. You might want to examine your data files >by hand and see if the contents are correct. The problem is that I am unable to create an SCCS archive in the first place. If I try to create one using admin -itest.c s.test.c I get the memory fault. I haven't tried archives from other systems yet, but I will do that RSN. -- Christian Motz uucp: ...!uunet!mcvax!unido!nadia!dialog!root "Trust me, I know what I'm doing!" -- Sledge Hammer Bix: cmotz