MPE/iX System Utilities Reference Manual (32650-90882)

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19 PXUTIL

The system manager uses the PXUTIL utility to perform operations related to the UID and

GID databases. These include:

• creating the UID and GID databases

• synchronizing existing UID and GID database ﬁles with the current directory

PXUTIL requires exclusive access to the databases. This means that any command that

needs to modify these ﬁles (such as NEWACCT, ALTUSER, and so on) fails during PXUTIL

operations. For this reason, no activities that access the databases (NEWACCT, ALTACCT,

PURGEACCT, LISTACCT, NEWUSER, ALTUSER, PURGEUSER, LISTUSER, and logon commands)

should be attempted on the system while PXUTIL is in operation.

NOTE

If you press BREAK and the process is aborted, MPE/iX resolves the

incomplete operation by closing the existing ﬁles (without updating them)

and by deleting the new ﬁles that it opened.