MPE/iX System Utilities Reference Manual (32650-90908)

Chapter 19
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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.