AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced "a i ex") is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.
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invalid SID's on files created/copied from NFS
I have been working on getting the AIX servers to talk to a Windows share. We have them talking, but I’m having problems when I mount a windows-hosted NFS share on AIX and then write/copy files to ...
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Mounting a mainframe file system on Unix (or vice versa)
We have a data conversion project where the overall process works this way:
Mainframe legacy application will extract out their data into flat text files.
Our application (running on AIX) will FTP ...
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How to optimize SVN backup process in bash script?
I have a shell script running in AIX that will do the backup for each SVN repository every night. The execution is as follow:
Download the each repository save as a dump file:
svnrdump on repo_A
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AIX 6.1 - CUPS 'unsupported document-format' when printing
I have a Zebra printer that I'm trying to send a PDF of a label to. I was reading on Zebra's website that CUPS is an optional print server/spooler that can be used for exactly what I need. So I went ...
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How to stop growing the Apache access_log file?
While setting up the Apache HTTP server in AIX, I never realize there is a log file, access_log, located at /var/log/httpd. This file is keep growing until 600+ MB, I am not able to keep track of its ...
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List environment variables of a running process on AIX without character limit
Today I was trying to debug an issue where a process was not picking up the correct environmental variable. It took us hours before we realized that it wasn't picking up the correct variable.
I tried ...
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Apache Ant setup in Aix
I want to install Apache Ant on my AIX 6.1 Server and I'm facing some issues.
When I visit the link http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html I did not understand the installation step for the files ...
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How to get memory util of LPARs from HMC?
I know I can get CPU utilizations with lslparutil from the HMC. But is there a way to get memory utilization stats of LPARs from the HMC? The metrics I found seems to be all configuration-related ...
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AIX 6.1 SUMA - udate agent perl module is broken
I am trying to run "suma" - this fails with the error Can't locate LibExt/CatGetS.pm in @INC.
I checked the package perl.libext and it appears to be be installed and committed.
lslpp -f ...
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AIX 7.1 .kshrc ignored
I've created .kshrc file in my home directory, but all my custom settings are ignored. ENV variable is not set. How can I force ksh to read .kshrc?
Here is my .kshrc:
set -o emacs
export ...
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same file different size in Linux and AIX
we have file in Linux and copied to AIX. same file smaller size in AIX.
Linux - ext3 file system
AIX - jfs2 file system
both file systems in same block size 4k
size in Linux
du -sk ...
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Monitoring memory of AIX 5.3 LPARs
I'm currently administrating an IBM Power 740 server via an HMC. We have four LPARs running, two VIOS LPARs, one application LPAR and one database LPAR. We have implemented lpar2rrd to monitor CPU ...
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Future Scope for AIX System Administrator? [closed]
I am based in India.
I already have less than 1 year professional experience in Linux and I am active in various open source communities contributing in various ways since past 4 years. I know enough ...
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GIT issue in AIX 6.1
I recently installed GIT 1.8.1 on my AIX 6.1 machine and am facing a few issues with it.
Now if I login as root and issue git commands like git --version I get the response as shown :
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Cannot get exclusive lock on rpm database in Unix
I was trying to install a python rpm on AIX 6.1 and it was taking too long and so I had to close ther terminal.
Later when I tried to install the same rpm as root I am getting the problem as :
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Installing Open SSL on UNIX
I want to install openssl-1.0.1c-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm on IBM AIX 6.1 server machine and when I try to install the same as :
rpm -ivh openssl-1.0.1c-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm .
I get the error saying that it needs ...
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AIX CPU Utilization behavior
We are facing a strange (for us) situation regarding the CPU utilization management. We have an lpar with 2 up to 4 online cores. While the application workload peaks, CPU usage is 100% (70% user + ...
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Logging commands executed by remote shell scripts
I've noticed that when running a script that connects to a number of our servers (to essentially run batch commands) that the commands aren't logged in the user's .sh_history or .bash_history files. ...
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Port seems to be in use although the corresponding process has already terminated on AIX 6.1
While running some kind of automated tests on our AIX 6.1 machine we are facing the problem that a port seems to be in use although the corresponding process has already terminated.
E.g. if we kill a ...
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JBoss 5 on AIX 5.3
I am a very newbie for AIX and system monitoring. Actually our application currently run production on jboss 5.1 in AIX 5.3. Please check below configuration & system settings.
AIX system ...
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While loop read multiple lines from a grep
I'm writing a script in AIX 5.3 that will loop through the output of a df and check each volume against another config file. If the volume appears in the config file, it will set a flag which is ...
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How to disable login into AIX using password for any means
Is there any way to disable login to AIX using password?
I know that for SSH login I can update sshd_config and set PasswordAuthentication to no.
But what about other ways of login into AIX, like ...
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Hypervisors that support AIX as a guest OS?
I am trying to find out what hypervisors are out there that can support running AIX guests. I know that IBM PowerVM can do it, but I would like to explore other options.
There is also AIX WPARs ...
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Preventing AIX mount point from writing to root file system
Is there a way to make the mount point unwritable? I can't write a script or anything to check, but thought there might be a way to do this via permissions. On Linux you could make it immutable. The ...
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High CPU usage on production server. Idle & wait % on topas are zero
This is my first question here and i may not be very well versed with AIX too. But neverthless i am trying to solve the problem at hand and this is what i am stuck with.
We have an AIX 6.1 machine up ...
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AIX: is it somehow possible to get a ForeignAddress/PID pair like we are able to get in Linux with netstat?
In Linux (RHEL), we are able to get a ForeignAddress/PID pair with "netstat -ntp" command:
[root@rhel ~]# netstat -ntp
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address ...
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Cannot set target directory when extracting an archive using tar
I'm trying to extract a tar archive to a specific directory. I've tried using -C flag but it doesn't work as expected. Here is the commandline I'm using
tar xvf myarchive.tar -C mydirectory/
This ...
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Unable to access site hosted in AIX using IPv6 address [closed]
I am trying to access to a site hosted in IPv6 enabled AIX server from another Windows machine on the same network using the IPv6 global address and the site is not working.
I figured out that the ...
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Safe to delete .lastcomm
I have a .lastcomm file that is >2GB is it safe to delete it? It's taking up a lot of room on the server and I can't find any documentation online related to it's log file.
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Questions about AIX passwd file
I'm a beginner in AIX and I have 2 questions on AIX's passwd file.
If there is a hash (#) symbol in front of a username, what does
this mean?
Correct me if I'm wrong. On the password field, if a
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Perl script error: byteloader version mismatch
I have perl script for TSM reporting which was working fine in AIX version 5. After upgrading AIX to version 6, the script is not working. I'm getting this error:
byteloader version mismatch expected ...
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Print to File in AIX 5.3
As the title says, I'm trying to print to a file in AIX 5.3
Creating a file print queue lets me sent output to a device (eg, /dev/fileprint) but it just sits there appending every job to itself.
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Du tells me it can't find the current directory?
I'm on AIX, and in some directories I can't use the du command. I get the follow error message:
du: 0653-175 Cannot find the current directory.
Obviously the current directory exists, and I ...
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Bind telnetd to specific IP on AIX 5.3?
Is it possible to bind telnetd to a specific IP on AIX 5.3? I know telnet is evil. Unfortunately, we have to have it listening on one interface for a specific application, but I want to make sure ...
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Whats the output format of “df -ki” in AIX?
I just wanna know the output format (the order of columns) when running the command df -ki in an AIX system. I dont have access to an AIX system , and since it doesnt run on x86 machines , i cant try ...
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Run munin and all dependencies in userspace on AIX 6.1
Summary: I would like to have a portable munin in user space without installing anything at all on the client system, (like portable Firefox, without root tasks).
I've downloaded all the ...
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Delete key not working when PuTTYed in to AIX box using Korn shell
I manage an AIX box at work using PuTTY. I'm using ksh in vi-mode. When I press the Delete key (not backspace) the case of following characters is toggled instead of the character under the cursor ...
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Upgrading memory on an IBM Power 710 Express (8231-E2B)
We have a Power 710 Express server that was loaded with 4x4 GB memory on a single riser card. I have replaced the 4 chips with 4x8GB and put in another riser card and loaded it with 4x8GB more for a ...
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How to rename libc.a back
I am working on AIX 6.1 and inadvertently renamed /usr/lib/libc.a to usr/lib/libc.a_ Just as I renamed I realized my stupid mistake. Almost all of the commands mv, cp, ftp etc ( except cd ) have ...
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boot IBM p series 650 from 3580-L23 LTO-2 tape
We have a p series 650 that has a dds4 tape drive built-in. In the past, recover has been as simple as putting a mksysb tape into the drive and booting the machine. During boot, the machine detects ...
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How to tell if a file is older than 30 minutes on AIX?
I'd like to write a shell script in ksh or bash which exits with 1 if a specific file is older than 30 minutes. (Last modification time is older than half hour).
It would be easy on a Linux or a ...
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How to determine when/if maximum memory was allocated to an AIX LPAR
I recently had an LPAR on a Power7 system seemingly run out of memory. While it was up, I was unable to run any commands, so I was forced to perform an OS restart. It's minimum, desired, and maximum ...
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Executing shellscript in Sendmail aliases (AIX)
I have my aliases set as ariba: "|/ariba/uat/downstream/Server/bin/redirectemail.sh "
However the script is not getting executed. My echo statements in the shell script are not getting printed in the ...
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AIX - rename oldest file in a directory
I have a situation where several files may accumulate a folder for some processing and the processing routine can only handle one file at a time, and it must have a specific filename.
I need to be ...
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Expect Script, timeouts and error checking
I was hoping to get a little insight into an expect script that I've written.
Basically we have this expect script to perform an sftp upload, key authentication is not an option, and sftp is the only ...
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What is the most similar AIX-like linux/unix OS available? [closed]
The question tells everything :)
What is the most similar AIX-like linux/unix that is free and also capable to be installed on a VM so that i can do some practice?
I need to do some testing before ...
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AIX Remote Connect Fail With “No more multiple IP addresses to connect” Error
We have a production server at a client site running AIX. And recently when users are trying to connect to it via telnet, it prompts "No more multiple IP addresses to connect".
Can I know what does ...
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Kill .so file process
I have a program, I cannot change the code.
It calls some .so file's function, but don't delete the object in the end.
When the owner of the program tries to update the program he kills it and send ...
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chcore command not taking effect
I am trying to change the behaviour of where core dump files get written to, as described here:
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How can I recursively delete old files and prune resulting empty directories?
We're using an AIX server to house thousands and thousands of little files in a nested directory structure. I'm trying to write a script that will recursively delete old files, and then delete the ...
