Questions tagged [aix]
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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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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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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Blocking a specific port
I need to block specific ports temporarily on AIX 7.2 to simulate an application using this port. I am developing a workaround for an application ignoring the entries in /etc/services and using ...
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Transferring files via Binary mode in SFTP
While using FTP we can use the option bi to transfer files in binary mode however I am unable to find similar option in SFTP. Please find my code snippet below..
fileTransferToDEST()
{
echo "mput $4/$...
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Check if the file has been successfully transferred to the destination with SFTP
We have a daily process which moves file from 1 server to another via FTP using a script. Please find the snippet below:
fileTransferToDEST()
{
ftp -inv $DEST_IP 1>$2 <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER ...
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Align columns evenly without "column - t"
I have an output file created from a Korn shell script. I need to align the output with spaces evenly. Unfortunately column -t is not available on AIX.
Actual File:
X1vir1000 x1-DFB127 ...
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Removing characters with sed [duplicate]
I am working on AIX unix and trying to remove non-printable characters from file the data looks like Caucasian male lives in Arizona w/ fiancÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ in file when I view in Notepad++ using UTF-8 ...
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Why can I not see this "readable" directory?
Today, one of my coworkers ran into trouble setting up a new intern to work. An account was set up by our IT group for the intern, but we were not able to access it. When I investigated, I found:
$ ...
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Pdf to Text Converter in AIX
I need to convert PDF to Text files in AIX. How can I do that? I got the XPDF util for Linux and windows. But specifically looking for AIX server. Also any licensed version would work, we can buy.
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How to copy files on AIX from an FS to another FS?
We got a filesystem: /foo
And we got another filesystem: /bar
Q: How can I copy all the files from /foo to /bar?
We don't have space to compress them, only to copy them. But there could be ...
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AIX - use ksh builtins to free memory when fork not possible
Context: an AIX lpar with very low memory (no forking possible, so only shell's builtins (cd, echo, kill) will work). I can have a (hmc) console to it, but I need a better way to start freing memory ...
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Execution of a program called by a shell called by crontab returns code 127
I'm stuck with the following (simple) problem :
I want a script to be executed every 10 minutes. This script calls executable files. I use crontab and ksh on a AIX 5.3 system.
The script makes use of ...
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Why are some pts in AIX never reused?
In an AIX system (AIX p740 1 7) that is running for about several months, some pts aren't reused anymore.
This was noticed using the "who" command, with the following "awk" expression, running it ...
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Shell Script - Redirected output to a file and results are not as expected in first run
I have redirected the output of the command which returns some times 2 rows, 5 rows.. 100 rows etc in the file.. and i will use this file in if condition later to check some other conditions..
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How to get list of files with not having search string [duplicate]
I have a requirement to display all files in a directory which doesn't have CountOfFilesTransmitted=0 string in them.
If I give below command it gives only those files which has ...
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Replace or modify file contents at one shot
I have file where I need to modify some lines for every account.
The line which I need to modify looks like as below:
PstlInfo <some content> NNYYYN (Every account will have this line)
the ...
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What is making "at" in AIX add a "cd /some/path/here" prior to my explicit commands?
When I execute the following command:
cd /some/path/here
at -t 201409301100
ls -al
<CTRL-D>
at -lov
I get the following output:
========================
myusername.1411755840.a Mon Sep 30 ...
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Other than a kill command or a system kill(pid, signal) command, what can cause a SIGKILL to occur for a process?
My process is mysteriously getting a SIGKILL on AIX.
Running trace on the system indicated the process got a signal sent by itself via the kill(pid, SIGNAL) system call. I checked my code and I ...
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ldd: cannot find library for xl c compiled binary but could for gcc compiled binary on AIX
I have compile on AIX two version of proftpd one with gcc and one with the xl c compiler from IBM.
The command line to compile both version are almost the excat same, but when I do a ldd on the gcc ...
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Why PowerVM LPAR CPU utilization is negative
For a specific case I compute an PowerVM LPAR CPU utilization to be a large number less than zero.
I am fetching the lpar sample event using:
lslparutil -r lpar -m P750 --filter "lpar_names=i5lp5" -...
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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 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 ...
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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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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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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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Exclude last N lines that has been last modified from list and with file extension ending in .gz
I want to use the find command on AIX to exclude files ending in .gz, and it must also exclude the last 2 lines from the list. For example, inside the directory, I have:
shop14_0_Log0002019754.gz
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Dnf/Yum repository install on AIX 7.1 ImportError: 0509-022/0509-150 libcrypto
I am trying to create a Yum/Dnf Repository for an offline AIX 7.1 and I've downloaded all the repos by using the reposync on a linux machine that was connected to the internet.
I've installed the Dnf ...
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Command To Check If Users In /etc/passwd Exist In A Different File
Is it possible to query the /etc/passwd file to view all user UIDS less than 200 and to check if those users are within a file such as /etc/ftpusers?
So far, I have managed to craft the command below ...
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AIX 7 - Command To Check Histsize Is Set Correctly For All Users
I am checking to see if the minimum password history setting is set to 6.
Using the command below, I am able to check the default stanza:
lssec -f /etc/security/user -s default -a histsize
Can this ...
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AIX - Using Sed To Replace A String In A File
On RHEL, I am able to utilize the sed -i command to replace a string within a file, however, on AIX, it seems like the same -i parameter cannot be used.
I have a file called abc.xml that contains the ...
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Alternatives to cURL/wget for remote API calls
I'm on IBM AIX 7.1 where cURL and wget are not available. Also, I'm not in a position to install either.
Are there alternatives that would be available that would enable remote API calls using GET/...
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AIX 6.1 copying files with non-standard characters in file names [closed]
I have a big problem with some non-standard characters while trying to copy (for the sake of backup) some files in AIX 6.1. What I need to do is have the backup archive with exactly same file names in ...
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Is there a way to send a string to the STDIN of an existing PID in AIX?
To give you some context, there's a ksh script running in AIX that contained a rm file.txt instruction - the problem is that the file, being owned by a shared group but by other user, made the script'...
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When a script runs in background on AIX, it is creating a copy in /tmp directory during bg runtime, how to change this behaviour?
When a script runs in background that is creating copy of it with the parent process id in /tmp directory, ofcourse this copy is getting removed soon after the process is done, however during this run ...
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AIX - redirect hostname in other subnet via route
I have two servers: one application and one database. They are both connected over two interfaces. One is frontend LAN with 100 Mbit and one is in the backbone LAN with 1 Gbit.
Well, planned is that ...
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Script to send email alert only when process change state
Below script checks whether MStrsvr process is running or not . The issue I'm facing is if i schedule a cron tab to run this script for every 1 hour it will throw email alert every 1hr that "MSTRSvr ...
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Remove first and last character if present
I need to remove the first two characters of every line in a file ( always the same ) and the last "/" if it is present.
Input is, in the file F1 :
^./inst/oracle/
^./tmp/
^./inst/maj/
^./mkcd
^./...
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How can I see history of the "at" command in AIX?
I'm experiencing a strange problem where occasionally the at command appears to not be running the command I've configured it to run.
For example:
at -t 201510071042
runsomescript
<Ctrl-D>
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Encoding problem on aix system when logging using log4j2
I am using log4j2 to log message on aix system. In log when I use command less I can see:
...|LU?N
...|NOV�K
...|ZEM�NEK
when I copy same file on my ubunty system and use same program I can see:
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Stopping find command after finding files in one directory
I have a command in a Korn script which is like as written below,
find <path1> <path2> <path3> -name filename
After this, it stores the output in a txt file. Using this txt file it ...
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mknfsmnt fails with "System call error number -1"
This system is part of a cluster and the other node mounts the nfs share successfully. This is currently the active node which means it has a secondary service ip address. I think this is related to ...
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Mailx with multiple uuencode attachments and body
I am sending multiple files using following line in my script
find . -type f -name "Sum*pdf*"|while read name; do uuencode "$name" "${name##*/}"; done | mailx -s "North Bus Correction" $RECIP
Now I ...
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Start a service at boot and automatically respawn it if it dies under AIX
I'm trying to write a script that can set a service to:
automatically restart after killed
automatically start during boot up
I can do this by using /etc/inittab but some of the AIX server that ...
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Find files older than x amount of time in specific directory with ignoring subdirectories
My setup is as following:
folder structure
dir
|--correctfile1
|--correctfile2
|--correctfile3
|--subdir1
|--wrongfile1
|--wrongfile2
|--wrongfile3
|--subdir2
|--subdir3
I need to ...
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Perl fails to set locale on AIX 7.1
After setting user language to Chinese with GB18030 encoding in SMIT, the
following env variable were added to the user's .profile:
LANG=Zh_CN
LC_MESSAGE=%l.%c
NLSPATH=/usr/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N:/usr/lib/...
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How Do I install DB2 Remotely?
I have been trying to install IBM DB2 10.5.0.1 on AIX 7.1.0.0 from a Windows 8-64bit using a Remote connection. It has been 3 days and I haven't been able to succeed; Here is a list of everything I've ...
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Process status on AIX
I want to get process status on AIX like we get it on Linux from /proc/<PID>/stat,
I did not find the status in /proc/<PID>/status file. There was some encrypted text there. Which file ...
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How to resolve ssh connection refused on AIX?
I am no longer successfully able to connect to my AIX LPAR.
ssh -v user@<ip>
OpenSSH_6.2p2, OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to &...
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PowerVM lpar specific cpu/mem info
I want to get the CPU and memory allocation information from lpars of PowerVM through HMC.
I have used
lshwres -r proc -m <ms> --level lpar
lssyscfg -r proc -m <ms>
The fields of ...