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- From: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM (Frank Kraemer)
- Message-ID: <19930121.022855.865@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 11:27:07 CET
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re. What's with the file "/etc/vg/lvdd_kmid"
- Reply-To: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM
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- tim@introl.com (Tim Chase)
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- >While looking for dirt in the root directory this evening,
- I came
- >across the file "/etc/vg/lvdd_kmid". Anybody know why it e
- xists and,
- >more importantly, why it's world writable? I strongly susp
- ect it
- >exists because I've been adding & deleting & changing the s
- izes of some
- >logical volumes lately, but I'm wondering why this speck of
- >world-writable dirt got left behind? Can I delete it? Can
- I chmod
- >it to 664?
-
- You need this file if you use the Logical Volume Manager pro
- gramming
- interface: For more info see the LVM programming example in
- Info. Here
- are some lines of it.
-
- > #include <liblvm.h>
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- > #define SUCCESS 0 /* Successful return code. */
- > #define KMID 0x002BA4
- > /* Address of logical volume device driver entry
- > point. It can be found in /etc/vg/lvdd_kmid. */
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