shutdown group missing

[normntwrk]

I have another server on 4.3.3 and need to upgrade it to 5.2. While going through the prep work I noticed the "shutdown" group is missing. Any ideas if this will give me any problems with the upgrade? If so do i just create a group called "shutdown" ?

Norm

 

[markus38]

Norm,

An interesting question. What is the shutdown group for? I ran the following script on my AIX box running 5200-05 and found no users belong to this group, although it did exist...

for i in $(cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1)^Jdo^Jlsuser $i^Jdone | grep shutdown

I then ran I find to see if I could find any files in this group...

find / -group shutdown

Both turned up nothing, I must assume the answer to your question is no need to create a shutdown group, nobody belongs to it, and it nothing is set to it.

 

[markus38]

**** STOP PRESS ****

I spoke too soon... these guys belong to it.

/usr/sbin/exec_shutdown
/usr/sbin/reboot
/usr/sbin/fastboot
/usr/sbin/shutdown

But hey this really isn't going to be an issue, if the upgrade needs the group it will create it..

 

[normntwrk]

Thanks for the reply, guess I won't worry about it

Norm

 

[hfaix]

I wouldn't worry about it.

As far as I know ( I run 4.1.5, 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 ) it's not an AIX default group. I don't have a "shutdown" group on any machine.