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

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PXUTIL

Operation

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:

. 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.