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PXUTIL Operation

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You can invoke the PXUTIL utility from a session or job. It requires SM capability. It is breakable except for the period during which either old database files are being purged or new ones are being saved.

The PXUTIL utility supports the following four commands:

UPDATE
HELP (H)
QUIT (Q)
EXIT (E)

Each of these commmands is explained on the following pages.

UPDATE

The UPDATE command provides a way of ensuring that your UID/GID databases accurately reflect the current directory structure. You may need to update the databases in response to particular error messages generated by various commands that could not properly update the databases as expected. UID/GIDs of existing users and accounts are preserved. If the databases do not exist, they are created from scratch, with UID values beginning at 100 and GID values also beginning at 100.

The UID database contains the following information:

login name

User name.account name. For example, MGR.SYS

uid

Integer initially allocated sequentially for each user.

Initial working directory

Home group. For example, /SYS/PUB.

Initial program to use as a shell

HFS form of the command interpreter (CI.PUB.SYS), which is:


  /SYS/PUB/CI

The GID database contains the following information:

group name: Group name. For example, SYS.
gid: Integer initially allocated sequentially for each group.

QUIT

Exits the utility.

EXIT

Exits the utility.

HELP

Displays the PXUTIL utility commands.

Examples

The operation from a session is illustrated below:


  RUN PXUTIL.PUB.SYS
  
  MPE/iX PXUTIL A.00.01 Copyright (C) Hewlett-Packard 1991.
    All Rights Reserved.
  PXUTIL> update
  
  User and group databases sucessfully created.
  PXUTIL> quit

Below is a typical invocation and operation of PXUTIL when the databases previously exist. Note that users that were added to the database are displayed. (Refer the commands section for more information on the UPDATE command.)


  MPE/iX PXUTIL A.00.01 Copyright (C) Hewlett-Packard 1991.
    All Rights Reserved.
  PXUTIL> update
  User  NEWUSER.POSIX with user id= 542 added to user database.
  User  TESTUSER.UI with user id= 543 added to user database.
  User and group databases synchronized with the directory.
  PXUTIL> e

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