Thanks, that worked great. I can't believe I've been sitting around with a broken cell for this long when the solution was so simple. Oh well...
-James On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:44:01 -0400 (EDT), Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, James Burns wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > I wrote back in May about the problems I was having with my server. It > > turned out that the that the prdb had been corrupted and there were no > > longer any users or groups, including system and admin. I asked then > > and I'm asking again, what should I do to recreate these basics so I > > can start to reconstruct the rest of the cell or recover the files off > > the volumes? I would settle for just recovering the files and deleting > > and reinstalling everything. Can anyone give me some advice or help > > with these options? I've been able to find files by file type within > > the AFSIDat using "file" but would prefer not to try to recover them > > in such a crude manner. Thanks for any help. > > you can recreate the prdb just as if you were building a new cell. remove > /usr/afs/db/prdb.* and go through the new cell steps for prdb (using > noauth) or use pt_util to create a new one. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
