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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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TCP connection timeouts that persist - listener queue backlog?

I have an app running on AIX 6.1 that has a single server process that listens for and polls tcp connections and simply forwards on messages to another process using an IPC message queue. It's been ...
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Mirroring on external SCSI and iSCSI disks inside same volume group

On IBM P5 505 (maint level 5300-07) servers there is a concurently accessed external storage, which is connected using external Ultra320 SCSI port (DAS). External storage is detected as hdisk2 which ...
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How can you set the SMTP envelope MAIL FROM in AIX 6.1 Sendmail?

We have new SMTP relay host and it requires that the sender's email address should be the company's official email domain instead of server hostname Already did masquerade using generetics table. ...
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Is this a viable way to perform a VIOS update and prepare for a quick back out at the same time?

Is the procedure below viable for performing a VIOS update and, at the same time, preparing for a quick back out if necessary? Assume that the existing VIOS is mirrored on hdisk0 and hdisk1. Therefore,...
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Changing the interface of a IPV6 route on AIX

My current IPV6 routing talbe: Route Tree for Protocol Family 24 (Internet v6): ::/96 0.0.0.0 UC 0 0 sit0 - - => default link#2 ...
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IBM WebSphere Application Server SSO does not set REMOTE_USER on Cognos BI 10.2.2

Very similar issue was posted here, I do not believe they are the same. IBM WebSphere Application Server SSO sets REMOTE_USER incorrectly We are running IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.2....
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Is it possible to check current value of device attribute in AIX 5.3?

In AIX, if i want to change device attribute, i can use 2 different ways: Change attribute and reconfigure device. Attribute will be changed immediately. But if devices is used ( for example, fs ...
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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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Python and mod_wsgi path issue

I have an AIX 6.1 system that I've compiled and installed: Apache 2.2.21 (into /usr/local/mercurial) Python 2.7.2 (into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib) mod_wsgi 3.3 (with the AIX fix #1 described ...
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How to know the source of certain TCP traffic on AIX

We have two AIX boxes, one for production system and another for testing. both systems are running ATM machine switches, where the ATM device is connected via TCP socket. we had an issue on ...
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Determine the full oslevel (incl build date) of a local AIX repository without patching / installing

In our environment, only one of our AIX servers is permitted to access the internet through the firewall. On this one server, I use suma to download all fixes for all base levels, technology levels ...
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AIX Samba user access getpwuid failed

I have installed Samba 4.12.10 via yum in AIX 7.2. I have also installed kerberos package to authenticate samba with kerberos. My objective is to allow users access of folders/files in AIX from their ...
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Slower response to AIX Virtual IP

Server_A is an AIX 5.3 server assigned 192.168.1.8. TNS Ping to it's Oracle 9i DB instance was 120 msec. A month later, Server_B with identical specs was built assigned 192.168.1.9. Virtual IP 192....
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What if AIX dynamic library imports one of symbols from wrong place

I have a legacy AIX ppc64 library mylib.so. Inspecting dump -Tv output, I noticed it expects that Foo symbol would be present in even older library oldfoo.so. However, it seems after new foo release, ...
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How to change the PVID of a device and still be able to import the Volume Group in AIX?

I have 3 disks that are copies of other disks so they have the same PVID's. I would like to change the PVID of those disks and import the volume group but as I understand the VGDA information on the ...
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What technical issues should I be aware of when re-mapping a LUN from one host to another?

I inherited an IBM System Storage DS4000 SAN with an AIX environment running Oracle RAC (3 nodes). One of the nodes crashed, so I got the system up and running with 2 nodes; however, the node that ...
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Error in AIX : 0516-040 : Unable to read the specified physical volume

Please provide me your valuable suggestions on the error beow in AIX. When I'm running the following command on the AIX server lsvg -l rootvg I'm getting this error: 0516-040 : Unable to read the ...
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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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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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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 dependencies:...
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How do I manually perform a password check using AIXpert?

One of the AIXpert tools is to perform a check of the root password against a dictionary (usually /etc/security/aixpert/dictionary/English). If I want to run this check manually, how would I do it? I'...
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Monitor Processes' Memory Usage

We have an IBM P series box running AIX 5.3. This is our application server, whereby our J2EE application is running in Oracle's Applications Server (version 10g r2). At around 11pm till the next day ...
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Unable to get defined path in 'source' type on AIX node

I am trying to create a set of users on my AIX node and trying to get their authorized_keys which are already hosted on my server with name like, 'myuser_id_dsa.pub'. Currently i am managing 2 nodes ...
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Printing RAW jobs from AIX 5.3 to Windows Server 2008 R2

We're trying to move a program from a legacy Windows 2003 print server over to a Windows 2008 R2 one. The program takes output sent from an AIX server and then processes it. It gets the data by way ...
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How to run smbpasswd as root on AIX?

I have Hitachi ID Password Manager (formerly p-synch) set up to change the password on (among other systems) an aix 6.1 server running samba. p-synch has the capability of executing additional ...
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crontab -l not showing previous job

Earlier we scheduled a job in crontab and jobs are running fine. One of my teammates executed the crontab command; now previously scheduled jobs are not listing when you execute the crontab -l ...
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AIX 7.1/ AIX 7.2 filesystem not persistently mounted across reboots and appears corrupted

OS: AIX 7.1 / AIX 7.2 Arch: ppc-64 I have created a custom (non-root) volume group homevg bash-5.1# lsvg homevg VOLUME GROUP: homevg VG IDENTIFIER: ...
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Can c11 compiler be installed on AIX 5.3?

Is it feasible to install c11 c-compiler on AIX 5.3? IBM documentation only refers to AIX 7.1 and higher being supported... but would it work if I attempt to install?
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Duplicate ACK and TCP Retransmissions

I'm doing some scp transfers between an AIX and a Linux in two separated LAN (I have a VPN between them). Sometimes the connection ends well, so I get 50MB/s. In many other cases, instead, the ...
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Samba 3.6 on AIX 7.1 - Windows 10 Access to AIX file shares using Active Directory authentication

I am running AIX 7.1 and currently we have samba 3.6.25 installed on the server. As it stands some AIX folders are shared that can be accessed by certain Windows users. Kerberos is not installed on ...
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Restricting ssh access for local user with exception

I have a local user in AIX system now my management want to restrict ssh access for that local user except two servers. I tried many options in ssh configuration by creating AllowUsers, DenyUsers, ...
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How do I add a persistent static ARP entry to an AIX server?

How do I add a persistent static ARP entry to an AIX server? /> uname -a AIX CBDIS 3 5 000B8886D700 /> uname -v 5 /> uname -r 3 />
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sendmail: rewrite part of envelope sender address

I'm is configuring sendmail on aix server and I need to rewrite part of envelope sender address. from this: [email protected] to this: [email protected] As you can see what I need is rewrite ...
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Install Tensorflow on Oracle Application Server with AIX

I would like to install python and Tensorflow on the Oracle Application Server operating on IBM AIX. I have not been able to find any documentation for installing python on AIX, much less on Oracle ...
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While running oracle DBD::Oacle installation am getting this "Cannot find or open file: /lib32/crt0_64.o"

While installing DBD::Oracle in AIX , I am getting the following error. The oracle client version is 11.2 , I am not sure where I would missed this. Running Mkbootstrap for DBD::Oracle () ...
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HTTPD + OpenSSL - Long time to connnect to port 443 then ssl_handshake_failure

I know that ssl_handshake_failure is a generic error, however this is my last resort, since I've been investigating this issue for three weeks. I'm deploying Apache HTTPD server on an AIX Server. AIX ...
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not getting last Password change time on AIX by default lsuser command

I need all attributes for all users from AIX system for this I am using "lsuser -f ALL command" this gives me all attributes but not giving lastupdate attribute which used to indicate last password ...
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crontab doesn't work when time is specified

In my AIX server, the cron job runs fine when specified to run every minute. * * * * * echo "test" >> /home/myUser/testLog.log But it doesn't work when a specific time is given. * 16 * * * ...
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non computational memory in aix reaches zero value

i'm using AIX 6.1 on a database server,i'm having a problem where the non computational memory reaches 0 at some point, which causes the system to swap i guess and therefore the system becomes really ...
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NFS share from Windows Server 2008 to AIX 6 client

Google doesn't brings up a solution for it! That's why we are asking. Maybe no one had this before? Q: How can we share a directory from a Windows Server 2008 via NFS to an AIX 6 client? (the two ...
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Missing or skipped ICMP_Seq In AIX Ping

I noticed an intermittent slow response on the ping from my application server to my database server. So to diagnose, I tested using a standard ping and Telnet tests. For the telnet tests, it was ...
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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1 for AIX yields a lot of 500 Internal Server Errors

I am using IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1 on WebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.37 for AIX 7.1.3.45 TL03. Every time my system undergoes a heavy usage period, which currently happens pretty ...
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How to display password repository of user on Solaris 11?

Is there a convenient way to find out which password repository (ldap or files) user is using for atuhentication on Solaris 11.2? I myself have AIX administration background and there is lsuser ...
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What is causing visudo to fail with: "visudo: can't stat <filename>: Bad file number"?

We use the #include feature in the sudoers file for organizing our sudo rules on a per-application basis. Our sudoers set up looks kinda like this: /etc/sudoers -> #include /usr/local/etc/sudo/...
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IBM WebSphere Application Server SSO sets REMOTE_USER incorrectly on Cognos BI 10.2.1

I am running IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.2.1 (no other extra software products) on WebSphere Application Server 7, both softwares on an AIX server. I am trying to configure LTPA SSO ...
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AIX hdisk creation

I am new to networking and am trying to implement power HA in an AIX environment. As a pre requisite I need my rootvg which is hdisk0 and another 3 additional hdisks, which will be hdisk1, hdisk2 &...
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Is it possible to break out of a "trap 1 2 3" secured terminal session by using SIGSEGV?

The title says it mostly. I'm auditing the security of a terminal-based application on AIX, and the way you use it is to connect to it remotely through telnet, where the ".profile" of the telnet user ...
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AIX P740 Server need to be upgrade SDDPCM version

I am try to upgrade SDDPCM version, when i trying to install means below error will occur. #installp -aXY devices.sddpcm.61.rte Out of memory, malloc() failed. 0503-003 installp: The specified ...
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Web request unable to enter Server

I have a website hosted on AIX server on Tomcat. It receives its requests from another server with Apche installed on it and the server with Apache on it sets on request header as well. Recently I ...
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Password Rules histsize Ineffective for Some Users

We're trying to deploy a tightened password policy on an AIX 5.3: Users are not allowed to reused last 24 passwords. So, I change histsize from the previous value from 5 to 24 in /etc/security/user, ...
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