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...
For what it's worth, I recommend making regular backups of the prdb, because its contents are critical to the correct functioning of the ACL system. If you have to recreate the prdb from scratch, you may be able to reconstruct local users' ID's from other sources, but you are not going to be able to recover the ID's of groups, foreign users, and non-null instances (any of which may appear on ACL's) and you will not be able to recover group memberships.
The attached script (with modifications to reflect the location of your server binaries and databases) can be run out of cron or the bosserver to produce a prdb.dump each night. In the event of a corrupted prdb, the database can be reconstructed from scratch by feeding this file to pt_util.
It is also useful in the inevitable event than an admin accidentally deletes himself.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Research Systems Programmer School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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