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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What to do after a kernel panic on AIX?
There was a "kernel panic" - at least sort of.
errpt | head
IDENTIFIER TIMESTAMP T C RESOURCE_NAME DESCRIPTION
A6DF45AA 1205044411 I O RMCdaemon The daemon is started.
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Crash and exit code 721035
Where can I find what this exit code means?
I have process (A) that calls program (B) using clib system(). Sometimes program (B) returns with exit code 721035 and AIX kills process A. This is random ...
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Will a users password expire if I set the “maxexpired” to “-1”? [maxage not 0] - AIX
So under AIX 6, according to "lsuser" the user has the following settings:
maxexpired=-1
maxage=2
So this means that 2 weeks after the last password update of the user the password will expire, but ...
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Enabling multicast communication between 2 AIX JVM processes
I'm having trouble with multicast distribution on a single AIX machine between two JVM processes. Think ehcache or jgroups.
In order to enable on Mac OS X:
route add -net 224.0.0.0 -interface lo0
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Why does a user get prompted for password under AIX?
Users get prompted for password, and according to the lsuser -f username output:
expires=0
maxexpired=-1
maxage=13
users shouldn't be prompted for changing password.
Why does he has a change ...
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How to decrease the size of a logical volume/fs aix?
oslevel -s
6100-03-03-0943
IF I have a Logical Volume that I need to shrink, then how can I do it? [there could be several FileSystems on it...]. What is the process?
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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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How to shut down or reboot a machine? [on different OSes]
What parameters do the "shutdown" command [or other command?] NEED, TO BE SURE that the machine reboots or shuts down for SURE?
e.x.: version for Linux:
# cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux ...
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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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How to trace that what had “chmod 640”'ed the “/etc/passwd” file?
On AIX 6100-05-02-1034, something is frequently changing the permissions of the /etc/passwd file to 640. That's bad...
How could I trace that what is chmoding the file? There is no history 1000 | ...
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AIX synchronize directory
I am trying to copy a lot of folders to another directory. I used cp -R command to copy them from source to destination. After all the copying was finished, I found that when I was copying, some files ...
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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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NFS mount to a subdirectory of already mounted directory
We have a strange scenario (AIX 5.3) -
There is a directory /mnt to which an NFS share from windows server1 is mounted
Then there is another directory /mnt/subdir1 to which NFS share from windows ...
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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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AIX ftpd - how to set umask for a given user?
I know how can I change the umask settings for all the users using ftpd, but how can I change the umask for a given user using FTPD?
AIX/6100-05-02-1034
FTP server (Version 4.2)
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Human-readable ls output under AIX?
How can I get human-readable ls output under AIX? There is no -h parameter
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Does AIX really beat Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Our company plan to upgrade our servers, and at the same, we would use AIX over Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
I asked my boss the reason of choosing AIX, he said it is because AIX is more powerful. I ...
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ftp option to overwrite file if different size
There is a script (bsh) running in a AIX 7.1 machine. The script is to download some files via FTP from another machine. I need to stop it later because some guy need to have maintenace over the ...
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Missed get command of FTP
I am using AIX 7.1.
I made some shell scripts8 and called /bin/bsh.
Inside the script, I connect to a server via FTP and have many get commands because I would like to avoid the wildcard problem. I ...
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On AIX 6100-05-02-1034 how can I create custom umask for a specific directory?
On AIX 6100-05-02-1034 how can I create custom umask for a specific directory?
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How to strip multipe spaces to one using sed?
sed on AIX is not doing what I think it should.
I'm trying to replace multiple spaces with a single space in the output of IOSTAT:
# iostat
System configuration: lcpu=4 drives=8 paths=2 vdisks=0
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Can I have my own version control system?
In the linux/unix machine I am using, I am just a normal user. However, I want a version control system to manage my files to prevent accidental delete/rename/lost/modification. Obviously I don't have ...
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Why most unix don't have undelete function? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do we have an undo in Linux?
I just accidently deleted a file by writing a new file on a file.
I am using AIX 7.1.
It seems that there is no way to recover a deleted ...
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Problem while running “newgrp” command in script
I want to change the working group in my script. So I wrote a line newgrp test_grp1 in my script. But my script is automatically exited after running this line. Are there any solution to overcome this ...
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Ocaml compilation error in AIX 6.1
I meet the following error when I try to compile Ocaml on my server running AIX 6.1 :
"../Makefile.shared", line 39: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double colon operator.
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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 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
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What is the default shell for .sh in AIX?
I am fairly new to AIX machine. We would like to deploy some program into the AIX machine which is yet to come.
We have a short experience in AIX machine and after login using putty, we felt the ...
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General problem solving steps when print jobs hang in AIX?
What should I do if jobs are getting stuck in the print queue even after restarting spooling?
$ stopsrc -g spooler
$ startsrc -g spooler
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What could be the bottleneck on this AIX machine?
My kernel usage is running up to 54%. What could that mean? What could be eating resources on this AIX 6.1.0.0 machine?
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Tutorial about key maping in KSH in EMACS mode
Are there any good tutorial to learn about Key Maping in Korn Shell (AIX) in EMACS mode ?
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VMO Changes After Adding New RAM To AIX?
We have a server at a client site running AIX 5.3, which we just up the RAM to 32GB, from initially 16GB (if I'm not mistaken).
This server is our Application server running J2EE applications on top ...
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smitty like demo sites?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IBM_AIX_SMIT
I'm searching for a "demo" site for learning smitty (get the used commands by F6!)
Are there any? Like there are router demo sites:
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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 HMC - how to increase the memory on the fly?
How can I increase the memory on the fly with the hardware management console on AIX 5 & 6?
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how to troubleshoot intermittent no route to host error
I have a program that most of the time works, but every now and then it fails with a no route to host error.
The machine is running AIX 5 and has five network interfaces en1, en3, en5, en7 and en10.
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Qemu & AIX 6.1 - what am i missing?
I have a Fedora 14 i386 / T7100 C2D HP notebook. I need to run e.g.: AIX 6.1 on it for testing purposes.
I installed a VirtualBox on this Fedora machine. I installed a guest os in the VirtualBox. ...
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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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What could cause which to not show something in the path?
There is an executable in my path that I believe is a perl script.
>$scriptname
$outputofscript
but
>which $scriptname
which: 0652-141 There is no $scriptname in $path
and the path it ...
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Modify AIX print queue error notification
It seems the default behavior of the AIX print queue is to report queue errors to the user that submitted the print job. We have several hundred queues used by unattended scripts and cron jobs running ...
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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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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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Is PowerVM a full operating system? (And other clarifications.)
I have a few things that I was hoping someone with more experience could clarify in regards to using PowerVM (specifically to virtualise via LPARs AIX).
So here is what I think I understand regarding ...
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Resource needed to manage cert.db7 files for AIX
On AIX to get LDAP authentication working it has wanted to store the LDAP SSL certificate's trusted root in a cert.db7 file. Mozilla stopped supporting it in NSS (Netscape Security Services) a while ...
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What is the Linux equivalent of bootinfo command?
bootinfo for AIX:
...shows whether the hardware in use is 32-bit or 64-bit.
What command/utility for Linux would do this job?
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What is “System Memory ” displayed in nmon in AIX?
I have a host with AIX 6.1 (6100-04-02-1007) upgraded from AIX 5.1 with Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1.
Since the upgrade from AIX 5.3 to 6.1, Run vx services means a lots of memory consumed that I ...
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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 ...
