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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How to mass change password attributes in AIX uname -rv=3 5 for all users but root
I want to do a mass change on all users but root in AIX for the following "password attributes":
Weeks before password reuse: 15
Password min length: 6
Can it be done, or do I need to do them one ...
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AIX UNIX 64 bit connecting to Microsoft SQL server 2008R2 Server
I am having AIX 64 bit Unix machine and I need to connect to Microsoft SQL SERVER 2008 R2 database.
I dont have any Drivers and TDS installed in my machine.
What all tools I need to install including ...
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Del key in AIX ksh over PuTTY telnet
At the place where I work we're developing under AIX with ksh and connecting to it via telnet. Most people use ArcTel to connect, while I prefer PuTTY. The only problem I have with PuTTY is that the ...
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Using awk to parse AIX's lsuser output in stanza format
I'm creating a simple awk script to parse AIX's lsuser -f ALL output and return information in one line. A sample of the output is something like this.
root:
id=0
pgrp=something
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Xterm is not completely erasing field lines
We are running Windows Clients with Cygwin XServer that has a bash script application running on AIX Unix. We have a login script using expect to ssh into the server and then xterm to create the ...
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Immutable bit on AIX?
Under Linux I can:
chattr +i SOMEFILE
so that even root can't modify the SOMEFILE. Are there any similar solutions for AIX?
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Another account with same uid as root gets prompted to set new password for root, not itself
After upgrading the os from 5300-06 to 5300-11, this weird behaviour happened.
My system had another unix account, let's call it "abc", purposely configured its uid to 0 for working as a root with ...
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How to launch a program in text only mode if it support silent running
I have got a java program, which support text file input and auto running, can i put it in background running without GUI ?
It prompt cannot set display.
while there is no concern to view the ...
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How to blacklist an errpt entry? (so that it will now show up in errpt)
On an AIX 6.1 OS:
LABEL: CONSOLE
IDENTIFIER: 7F88E76D
If we need to blacklist these kind of errpt entries then how can we do it?
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AIX apache rpm dependencies
I am evaluating the Crowd SSO by Atlassian. Now to get apache to use CROWD for authentication, there is a connector available by the vendor.
Problem
Unfortunately they do not provide anything for ...
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Why is uname -M returning an empty string?
On the exact same machine (AIX 6.1), in 2 different login shells (both ksh), with different user IDs, I can do uname -M; in one shell I get the system model. In the other shell I get BLANK! The only ...
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Renaming WebSphere after disk cloning [closed]
I know it is not the correct ways, but since keeping other installed stuffs is needed. Does anyone have the steps of renaming a WebSphere Server after cloning at disk level ?
Any help are welcome.
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Installing ksh as the standard shell in Redhat: Foolhardy?
I'm not a system administrator, but my organization is considering replacing /bin/sh in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6+ with a hard link to /bin/ksh. How foolhardy would this be?
The background to this ...
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Getting size with du of files only
How can I get the size of all files and all files in its subdirectories using the du command.
I am trying the following command to get the size of all files (and files in subdirectories)
find . ...
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AIX install Mercurial no root
Is is possible to install Mercurial on AIX system without root? I'm an ordinary user of our colleges IBM cluster and in there I fond no version control software.
Could you show a brief guide of how ...
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How to search files where two different words exist?
I'm looking for a way to search files where two word instances exist in the same file. I've been using the following to perform my searches up to this point:
find . -exec grep -l "FIND ME" {} \;
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Why is file ownership inconsistent between two systems mounting the same NFS share?
I have one IBM AIX server (serverA) which is connected to the san storage. I have created a volume group and also file system (jfs2) and mounted to directory /profit.
After that I created a NFS ...
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Why rm command unrecognized w flag in AIX?
I have a bash script that retain the last 5 copies in AIX like this:
rm `ls -lt /path/the_file_* | tail -n +6`
But I get this error:
rm: Not a recognized flag: w
UPDATE
The ls command return ...
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Under AIX, how can I get the full path of a program bound to a port?
Under Linux I can use netstat -tulpnw and ps, like so:
# netstat -tulpnw | grep :53
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1482/named
udp ...
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How to use Extended ACL's on AIX?
Using AIX (6.1) FTPD, a user needs to log in and it should only reach 2 directories (read/write) in the system, ex.:
/foo/sth1
and
/foo2/sth2
Besised the users home directory it shouldn't reach ...
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How do you determine if AIX 5.3 has PERL installed?
Simply put, how do you determine if AIX 5.3 has PERL installed as non-root?
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Several groups can have the same groupID?
0:root@SERVER:/root # grep 300 /etc/group
ipsec:!:300:admgrp
0:root@SERVER:/root #
?? Several groups (ipsec/admgrp) can have the same groupID (300)?? how can this be? /AIX 6.1/
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AIX auditing for LDAP users
I've discovered a problem with the way AIX uses auditclasses to determine which system calls are audited. If a user is defined in LDAP, their auditclasses attribute is blank. I found an APAR which ...
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sshd process inoperative
I have an AIX server which suddenly stopped servicing SSH connections. When I try to start the service through startsrc -s sshd it says:
0513-059 The sshd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is ...
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Max password size in AIX 6.1
I found on the AIX documentation some rules to set about passwords length :
minlen Defines the minimum length of a password. The value is a decimal integer string. The default is a value of 0, ...
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Package manager for AIX
While installing Subversion on AIX (version 7.1) from the official site, there are dependencies I need to resolve first before I can proceed to install the subversion package. While installing the ...
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How to kill a stuck print job under AIX?
0:root@SERVER:/ # uname
AIX
0:root@SERVER:/ # oslevel
6.1.0.0
0:root@SERVER:/ # switch.prt -d
#printsubsystem
AIX
0:root@SERVER:/ # lpstat -oQUEUENAME
Queue Dev Status Job Files ...
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What logs would be written if file system is full in UNIX?
I am working on a unix server and I guess during some time in past the file system had been full. However, I need some solid data to prove it. Will there be any OS logs or something of that sort to ...
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sudo: script launched from another script won't redirect standard output
I'm using AIX 5.3 with sudo 1.6.9p23. Sudoers file grants user fcomartin permission to run any command as user oas:
fcomarti ALL=(oas) ALL
User oas has a bash script called menu, which launches ...
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How to run the most recent command on AIX?
How can I run the most recent command again from history in AIX Server? And how to edit the most recent command and run it again in AIX?
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How to check that a user/password is expired in AIX?
I can check that the user is expired or not with:
lsuser -f USERNAME | fgrep expires
But how can I check that the user's password is expired or not? Are there any other "expiring" things that can ...
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Skip first 3 byte of a file
I am using AIX 6.1 ksh shell
I want to use one liner to do something like this
cat A_FILE | skip-first-3-bytes-of-the-file
I want to skip the first 3 bytes of the first line, is there a way to ...
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How to change timezone to UTC without rebooting AIX
# oslevel
6.1.0.0
From smitty it say's it needs a reboot, but I don't want to reboot. How can I change the TimeZone to UTC without rebooting?
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How to install Mono in AIX?
I don't have root access to an AIX 5.2 machine and want to run Mono programs in it.
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Find when a hard disk was first installed
What's the command in AIX to find the first time a given hard disk was installed?
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How to run a fresh version of AIX in a Virtual Machine with a Linux host?
I need to learn about AIX, and I only have a laptop with Fedora 14/VirtualBox on it. Is there any chance that I could run an AIX guest in my VirtualBox?
My laptop has an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU ...
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Validate AIX Password for root from script
Looking for a way in a shell script to validate the password for for root on an (AIX) matches a standardized plain text password. This query is similar to another one on this site. I have access to ...
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Why does this password fail AIX and Solaris rules
Had to reset my password on a couple of client servers today, and despite following the rules I get the message "Your password failed to meet: minimum of 2 non-alphabetic characters" back from the ...
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AIX 6.1 JFS2 Oracle files system, not using much files system cache
I am running Oracle database on AIX 6.1, Oracle using JFS2 file systems. Maxperm is set to 90%. This is busy database server, but it is not using the file system cache (less then 2%). The system has ...
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Validate Password for user account from shell script
Application is for a multiple server standardization script
Looking for a way in a shell script to check if the password for an OS account (AIX) matches a standardized plain text password.
The ...
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How to disable live shell session command history under AIX 5-6?
It's okay that there are history files logging the commands that has been used. That't not the problem. The problem is that when 2 admins are logged in to an AIX server then it could be bad:
If ...
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Redirect terminal output to image file
I need to programmatically run some unix commands and get the output in a image file, the format could be png or jpeg (jpg).
The commands are run in an AIX (IBM *nix) machine. I don't have ...
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copy logical volume from one volume group to another
I want to copy a logical volume from one volume group to another on AIX. How can I do this? Is copyvg the right command?
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Which AIX command's output is this?
Disk Path P Location adapter LUN SN Type Size LSS Vol Rank C/A S Connection port RaidMode
------- ----- - ----------- ------ ----------- ...
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Can I write control characters to someone else's terminal?
A lot of people log into the same AIX 6.1 server as I do with a terminal emulator that automatically interprets and runs code encapsulated by certain control characters as VBA script instead of ...
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AIX 6.1 starting xhost + from inittab at the boot time
Everytime after restarting the servers, I have to run xhost + from console prompt.
Does anyone have any idea about enabling xhost + from inittab file?
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Is it a good idea to supplement shell script with perl purely for use of regex?
I'm looking for a simple way to utilize regex in a UNIX shell script where not every system will have perl extensions built into grep. What is really helpful about perl regex here is back/forward ...
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Search for file permisions other than 755
In AIX really, how can I search in several directories and those below it, for files that are not of the specific permissions of 755.
So I want to search /path/to/, /path/to/mydir, ...
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FTP over SSL in AIX (UNIX)
Folks over at SO couldn't answer this, so I am posting over here.
I need to do an FTP over SSL to a FileZilla Server running on a Windows server from an AIX Unix clien. I have the Host name of the ...
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how to troubleshoot a network adapter on an AIX 4.3.3 machine
I'm trying to brush up my skills on AIX. I have an ancient RS/6000 43P-133 which I'm trying to resurrect before investing in anything more sophisticated. I used to do automation and scripting on AIX ...
