oslevel Error processing cache, return code 228

Stu

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Mar 29, 2007, 5:07:06 PM3/29/07

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I am running on an AIX 5.2 machine

uname -a
AIX devrs3 2 5 0008148A4C00

When I run the oslevel command as "root" it seems ot work and I get
back the following.

/tmp# oslevel
5.2.0.0

When I run it as a user other than "root" I get the following error:

$ oslevel
oslevel: Error processing cache, return code 228.
oslevel: Use the -f flag to rebuild cache.

I tried running oslevel -f as root in hopes of fixing the problem but
that did not work.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks to all who answer this post

Raff

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Mar 29, 2007, 7:21:46 PM3/29/07

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"Stu" <beefs...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does anybody have any ideas?

oslevel -r

R.

Christopher Petersen

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Mar 29, 2007, 7:55:22 PM3/29/07

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I'm working from memory at the moment, but I believe the various oslevel
commands use a cache of information located in /tmp. So, maybe look at
the protection of /tmp or the oslevel cache directory/files in it. If
you've got a much tighter umask on the root ID, that might create/maintain
the oslevel cache in a way that non-root users could not use it...

Just a thought!

-Chris

Stu

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Mar 30, 2007, 9:48:05 AM3/30/07

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On Mar 29, 7:55 pm, Christopher Petersen <cpeter...@crystallized-

software.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:07:06 -0700, Stu wrote:
> > I am running on an AIX 5.2 machine
>
> > uname -a
> > AIX devrs3 2 5 0008148A4C00
>

> > When I run theoslevelcommand as "root" it seems ot work and I get

> > back the following.
>
> > /tmp#oslevel
> > 5.2.0.0
>
> > When I run it as a user other than "root" I get the following error:
>
> > $oslevel
> >oslevel: Error processing cache, return code 228.
> >oslevel: Use the -f flag to rebuild cache.
>

> > I tried runningoslevel-f as root in hopes of fixing the problem but

> > that did not work.
>
> > Does anybody have any ideas?
>
> > Thanks to all who answer this post
>
> I'm working from memory at the moment, but I believe the variousoslevel
> commands use a cache of information located in /tmp. So, maybe look at

> the protection of /tmp or theoslevelcache directory/files in it. If

> you've got a much tighter umask on the root ID, that might create/maintain

> theoslevelcache in a way that non-root users could not use it...
>
> Just a thought!
>
> -Chris- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I even as went as far as to make everything 777 and that did not
appear to work.

ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 15 bin bin 24576 Mar 30 08:45 /tmp

# ls -ld /tmp/.oslevel.datafiles
drwxrwxrwx 2 root system 256 Mar 30 8:45 /
tmp/.oslevel.datafiles

find . -depth -exec ls -tl {} ";"
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 0 Mar 30
08:40 ./.oslevel.hold
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 31293 Mar 30
08:40 ./.oslevel.mlinfo.cache
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 908197 Mar 30
08:40 ./.oslevel.rml.cache
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 5 Mar 30
08:40 ./.oslevel.cache.sum
total 1848
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 5 Mar 30
08:40 .oslevel.cache.sum
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 908197 Mar 30
08:40 .oslevel.rml.cache
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 31293 Mar 30
08:40 .oslevel.mlinfo.cache
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root system 0 Mar 30 08:40 .oslevel.hold

Does anybody else have any more suggestions?

Thanks to all that answer

Mark Taylor

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Mar 30, 2007, 10:32:05 AM3/30/07

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ls -l /usr/bin/rm_mlcache_file

They should be -r-sr-xr-x

If not, then

chmod 4555 /usr/bin/rm_mlcache_file

Rgds
Mark taylor

Stu

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Mar 30, 2007, 11:27:43 AM3/30/07

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Mark,
Thanks, that fixed the problem