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how to config NIM Server?: hi friends, I want to know about the NIM server. and how it works & configuration. Can any one guide me how to configure the NIM server on IMB AIX 5.3 server. below i have give the server detail. OS : AIX 5.3 RAM : 4 GB HDD : 10 GB, 25 GB scsi Model : F50 thank (...)
3 July 2009
Cloning an AIX system fails: I'm trying to clone an AIX installation. currently it's running on an H80, and I'm trying to clone it onto a p5-550 I boot from the AIX install CD, go to Maintentance Mode, Restore System Backup, point it to the mksysb image I've created on CD from the H80. It reads (...)
3 July 2009
Latest Dumps Pls?: Hi friends, I need the latest dumps for writing the online ibm certification on system p administrator. can any one give the latest dumps for the 223 exam. it will very helpful to me.
2 July 2009
Dump memoy: Hi All System : AIX 5.3 How to dump memory ? I checked below url, before dump, need to STOP the process. After dump, can kill -CONT continous the process again ? How to Dump the process image for AIX ? Also, when one of process have core dump, Can dd possible to dump memory ? (...)
2 July 2009
Two default gateway: Hi, AIX 6.1 I changed my AIX box from a VLAN to another VLAN. Seems OK, but after there are two default gateway, weird ? I did: and it is ok but lost after a reboot How can I get rid off the first default gateway permanently ? Thanks in (...)
1 July 2009
AIX, JFS 2, Snapshots and power loss: I have recently been tasked with improving the backup strategy of a legacy server supporting 150 users via a terminal based interface. The issue is currently that the server has a single backup taken at 2am, and due to the nature of the application suite and languages involved (each (...)
1 July 2009
Braces not expanding in shell script: We have migrated from hp-ux to aix. Some of the shell scripts are not working on AIX shell for example du -k /dir1/db*/data/*/*.type1,.typ e2,.type3 used to expand and produce du -k for each type of file this is not happening on AIX, Usage of braces looks different in aix. (...)
1 July 2009
Will a 3-B PCI 8port serial and a 16port remote async node (09P4096) work?: Hi, I've gathered two rather odd pieces separately and wonder if they will actually work together. One is a 16port serial interface box called "remote async node" - it seems it can be daisy-chained to hook up 128 terminal ports to a RS/ 6000 box. It came with AIX drivers and seems (...)
29 June 2009
ssh without password: Hi, You can login without password in ssh,here are the step follows 1.Login to the ssh server with your client. 2.Generate ssh key pairs navigate to link to more about the topic [link] Thanks smartproteam.com click here to join the group (...)
27 June 2009
Shell script to ping multiple hosts: Hi, you can find shell script to ping multiple hosts Script to ping multiple host . first step follows click below link to see the shell script [link] Thanks smartproteam.com click here to join the group [link]
27 June 2009
svmon command -O option does not work: Hi All, yet again I need the help of this talented aix group. Our WebLogic Server installation has failed, because it has run out of memory. Reading the official IBM AIX documentation I realized, that I can list those processes that are eating up the most memory (top 15 consumers): (...)
27 June 2009
Linker questions: I don't run AIX, but are looking to find out what flags would be used to build a shared library on AIX. 1) Do most people use the GNU linker, or IBM's linker? 2) Can someone post the output of 'man ld' 3) Does anyone know the IBM linkers equivalent of these GNU linker (...)
26 June 2009
What's the output of uname on AIX ?: I don't have a box running with AIX on it. If one was just to type 'uname', with no options, what would it return? I'm looking to check for an AIX system in a shell script.
26 June 2009
strange route issue in powerha 5.4?: hi all we upgraded hacmp(powerha) from 5.2 to 5.4 recently . during the failover testing, we found a strange network issue. after standby node took service ip address (172.15.100.8) online at standby NIC, we were able to log in the standby node by telnet 172.15.100.8 which stays at (...)
25 June 2009
AIX 6.1: Hi, Can someone provide me an URL to download AIX 6.1. Also, could you provide me supported PowerPC platforms of AIX 6.1. TIA, Prem
25 June 2009
Printing to a wireless label printer: Hello, We have a small wireless DYMO label printer hooked up (somehow) to a pingable JetDirect card on our network that I am trying to print to from AIX 5.3 to this wireless device. Has anyone been able to do this? I remember hearing a while back that somehow the job needed to be (...)
23 June 2009
Users Account Migration from AIX 5L to AIX 6.1: Hi to all, We have an older server and try to move the content to a new LPAR on another machine. We install all the necessary s/w to new server, and now it is time to copy the web content to the new server. However at this point, we want to keep the ownership, group, history information (...)
23 June 2009
What is latest full version for AIX xlC V8.0: Hi, What is latest full version for AIX xlC V8.0 ? IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX Version: 08.00.0000.???? Thanks Alex Vinokur
23 June 2009
monitoring performance: I am having an issue on an AIX 5.3 machine where in the middle of the night some times processes are taking to long to complete. I see that AIX has a tool called topas, which shows a lot of good information. Is there a way I can re-direct the topas output to a file (say a snap shot (...)
23 June 2009
Error message: 1540-0701 (S) The limit on nested template instantiations has been exceeded: AIX ilibm016 3 5 0004F43AD400 IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX Version: 08.00.0000.0000 Here is some program --- prog.cpp --- template int foo() return (foo() + 2); template <> int foo<0>() return 0; int main() int value = foo<300>(); (...)
22 June 2009
Undefined symbol of externs: Hi I met a problem of using xlC to compile a C++ program on AIX. During the link stage, ld complains: ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: prog_name ... This happened when a .cpp(supposing a.cpp) file is compiled&linked with a library(supposing libfoo.a). The symbol prog_name (...)
22 June 2009
command to know restart time?: Hi Friends, I am newbie to this aix world. i want to know, is they a command to find the server restart time. if so, then what is the command? can any one help me in this? Commands i want to know: How much time will take to restart the server? How long a server is running? How (...)
21 June 2009
FYI: AIX iSCSI Target - backend support for flat files.: With AIX 6.1 TL3 and AIX 5.3 TL10 AIX supports now flat files as target back ends for iSCSI initiators. This would allow us to use a cluster filesytem like GPFS as a storage for iSCSI boot disks ( flat files ). * Thus in a GPFS environment a few iSCSI Target / GPFS server could act as (...)
20 June 2009
/etc/rc.d directory: All: I have a script that starts a samba service. When my AIX 5.3 machine is re-booted I want to execute this script. Am I correct to assume that I can place my script in anyone of these directories (see below) and this will run my script? ./rc2.d ./rc3.d ./rc4.d ./rc5.d (...)
20 June 2009
P550 Crash - server stuck with B150F22A startup code...unable to boot from diag CD: Guys, I've done some research on this problem and it appears the B150F22A problem can be attributed to firmware and can possibly be resolved by applying a more up to date version. However on the serial console i'm unable to see any startup codes after i've told the server (...)
19 June 2009
Port already in use (1099): Hi, I tried to start an rmiregistry, that would like to use its standard 1099 port. But rmiregistry could not start, because this port was already in use. It seems, that an other process already used the same port (it might be Tivoli). My question: which is the best way to get to know (...)
19 June 2009
LED hang 0088 with nim mksysb install: I've been trying to take a mksysb image on an old p650 and restoring it to a p520 using the procedure in the NIM a-z redbook for AIX 5.3 "Cloning NIM clients using mksysb" and when the boot on the client p520 begins, and I see the % tasks completed screen, it hangs with a LED (...)
18 June 2009
Host ethernet adapter: Hi having a quad port HEA (ent0 - ent3) and try to change speed from auto_negotiation to 100_full_duplex, because one of the used switches are only able to work with this speed. smitty devices offers only auto_negotiation. Is it possible to change speed? To complete my confusion: (...)
18 June 2009
ent vs en: I am a little confused on the terminology IBM uses for interfaces. Many places the interfaces are known as en and at many they are called ent. What I want to know is , are these totally interchangeable ? Do the names mean same for the same number. Like ent0 is same as en0 . If so is (...)
17 June 2009
hello i'm new jeje: i want to know who can i install a browser, my aix dont have a browser and i dont have the cd installation, now how can i install mozilla for example, by the way de aix have internet.... Thanks for the help =)
16 June 2009
Change FC Adapter configuration: Hello there, Anybody knows how to change 'init_ink' parameter from "Auto" to "al" on a FC Adapter even though the parameter is set as "False"? OS=AIX 6.1 Thanks in advance bus_intr_lvl Bus interrupt level False bus_io_addr 0xff800 Bus I/O address (...)
16 June 2009
Problem with Intellistation 275: Hi, I've got an Intellistation 275 here that won't start up. When I connect a power cable, some fan begins to spin and the display shows two dots "moving" from left to right. I don't see any lights or any sign of "OK" on the display, just those dots. Pressing any buttons (...)
16 June 2009
getprocs64 on AIX 5.3 fix pack 10 isn't working as expected: Hello, My c skills are pretty weak so I'm looking for some assistance in what may be a simple mistake. I have an application that collect process data and it is core dumping on a single box that is at a higher fix pack then the other boxes I support. I've narrowed the problem (...)
16 June 2009
Problem of performance of I/O in AIX 6.1: Hello: First of all, sorry for my english. We have a performance problem about I/O over AIX 6.1 Our system in production, a Pseries 9117-570 (a power 5 host) , is faster than new one 9117-MMA (a power 6 host) when doing I/O working processes. The storage subsystems is the same in both (...)
16 June 2009
File systems don't MOUNT at sys restart in 5.3: I began having a problem that several file systems started NOT mounting after a system restart using AIX 5.3.0 How can I trouble shoot this issue. It will let me manually mount them after the system is restarted, but it is a (...)
16 June 2009
Enhanced C|oncurrent mode VG and importvg?: Guys Can an enhanced concurrent mode VG , present on a AIX 5.2/HACMP 5.2 be imported into an AIX 5.3 node ( which does not have any HACMP instlled)? Or hacmp is mandatory for importing an enhanced concurrent mode volume groups? Any (...)
14 June 2009
services start automatically in AIX: Hi, I'm a newbie in AIX 5.3 and I'm working to define the services that start automatically after a reboot. In RedHat, we can look in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d or /etc/rc.local or /etc/ inittab by example for level 5. But in AIX, I checked the content of /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and there are (...)
13 June 2009
NTP gotcha: silly me :) have a Management LPAR (NIM etc) and had this synchronising to an NTP service. The other LPAR's (about 15) sync' NTP via an internal management network to the Management LPAR. Normally this is not a problem. Except we lost power. Took a while to get on-site. The (...)
12 June 2009
Netperf 2.4.5 is released: Folks - It has been entirely too long, but I've finally declared the release of netperf 2.4.5. You can obtain the sources either via subversion from: [link] or you can obtain either a compressed tar or zip file from: [link] where you may chose from netperf-2.4.5.tar.bz2, (...)
12 June 2009
Difference between Interactive and Non Interactive user id's: Hi can someone let me know the difference between the Interactive and Non Interactive user id's? per my understanding, interactive id is something which require access to SHELL or execute from SHELL. Thanks, Naru
11 June 2009
__TIMESTAMP__ on xlC v8.0 indicates last compilation, not last modification: Hi, Macros __TIMESTAMP__ should indicate the date and time when the source file was last modified. AIX ep5710g 3 5 IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX Version: 08.00.0000.0014 However on v8.0 actually __TIMESTAMP indicates the date and time when the source file was last (...)
11 June 2009
Error code: To: comp.unix.aix Got an error code on my system p5 (9131-52A): BFE4C025 Sysplanar0 Undetermined error Systemboard fault? Any one have suggestions? Thanks. --- Synchronet 3.14a-Win32 NewsLink 1.85 [link] - telnet://tek1systems.com
10 June 2009
Compiling a program using perfstat API.: I have a C program that uses perfstat API. It is compiled on a PowerPC_POWER4 and runs on both POWER4 and POWER5 machines. Both on version 5.3. The POWER4 machine is dedicated capped partition. The POWER5 machine is uncapped shared SMT. The C compiler is only on the POWER4. I have (...)
10 June 2009
porting software to AIX - flow control: I'm working on adding AIX support to lcdproc, but have run into differences between how Linux, et al, support flow control (termios.h struct termios) vs how AIX does it (termiox.h struct termiox). This is a new area for me, so I was hoping someone could point me to a good resource (or (...)
9 June 2009
Unique solutions for backup/recovery and security: Hi If interested to read about some unique solutions involving AIX, linux , storage, have a look at my personal blogs: [link] Regards
9 June 2009
AIX as a NIS client to a Linux NIS master: Im having some problems here: I have recently added an AIX 5.3 machine to our existing NIS domain. ypcat passwd shows all the NIS users. From the aix box I can su to any of the accounts. When i try to remote into the box using a NIS account, I get 3004-007 You entered an invalid login (...)
9 June 2009
Trace auto reboot: Hi, We have a p650 server operating AIX 5.1. It auto reboots ifself occassionally (around 2 months time). I suspect there must be a process did it becasue the "last shutdown" command shows "~" sign in the second column. I intend to move away the shutdown command and create a shutdown (...)
9 June 2009
[retro] AIX 3.2.5 + automount ?: hello group, I have this 320H up and running under 3.2.5 (of 1994 vintage). When I try to start the onbord automount daemon /usr/sbin/automount -v -T -f /etc/auto.master it keeps telling me: nfs_mount: 109 error while mounting (pid8050@/s): Function not implemented Syslog says in (...)
7 June 2009
Linking with .so library without prefix: Hi (And sorry for my horrible english), I compile a foo.so shared library, without the lib prefix. Then I want to link it with a program (using aix ld/aix compiler). Today it is done by simply put foo.so on the command line, without using the -l option. As foo.so is in the current (...)
6 June 2009
AIX and printing: Is there a god resource for AIX printing on the net? I dont want to ( but will if I have to ) get into the internals of printing. I just want it to work. A predecessor set up the way we print but did not document the hows or the whys.... We have these overlays which are sent to our HP (...)
6 June 2009
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5 June 2009
How-to recover a harddisk: Hi, Let me explain my problem: - we have 2 Pserver P5 with AIX 5.3 (each have 2 disk with mirroing activated) - the motherboard of one of the server just goes out The question now: - i want to recover the contents of the harddisk - i want to put one of the disk in the other (...)
5 June 2009
What keyboard was shipped with the 6E3?: Hi, I picked up a nice used 6E3 for about $450, but the shipper sent a generic keyboard and mouse (the kind that's normally used with regular PCs). I haven't gotten this yet, but not sure it'll work optimally with AIX. Besides, I've always liked IBM's keyboards and (...)
4 June 2009
Problem using an NFS4 exported filesystem from AIX to Linux: I am using Redhat Linux client with kernel 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 , nfs- utils-lib-1.0.8-7.2.z2 nfs-utils-1.0.9-40.el5. AIX Server is on v5.3 (5300-09-01-0847.) I can mount an filesystem exported by NFS4 from the AIX Server onto the Linux machine but all user and group names show as (...)
4 June 2009
AIX 6.1 and JFS2 Snapshots: Hi all: Vital information, AIX 6.1 TL01 SP01, jfs2 accessing snapshots via the .snapshot directory, i.e. not a snapshot Logical Volume. I have been working on testing it out and looking at how to automate backing up the snapped file system. So far, Netbackup does not seem to allow (...)
4 June 2009
AIX lpr command: Hi All Today, I testing lpr command on AIX 5.2 and AIX 5.3. lpr -Pprinter file.txt In AIX 5.2 the header page , print FLAG Values Z=!, - Header page ok, but without form feed to next page. Part of page 1 print on header page In AIX 5.3 , the header page, print FLAG Value Z=+ - (...)
2 June 2009
Conflict between AIX-file syms.h and xerces-file Token.hpp: Hi, We have conflict between AIX-file syms.h and xerces-file Token.hpp. That conflict causes compilation error. AIX ep5710g 3 5 00C58FE04C00 Here is a piece of code from file /usr/include/syms.h on AIX /* Obsolete definitions--not defined for XCOFF64. */ /* * The fundamental type (...)
2 June 2009
RS/6000 3CT error: Hi, I've got an RS/6000 3CT that doesn't power up. It stops with a LED display of flashing 888. After a couple of reset presses I get the following LED sequence: 103-145-912-c01-100-200 can anybody tell me what's wrong with the box? thanks, (...)
1 June 2009
Issue with using STLport on AIX (XLC V9.0): Hi all, I'm porting a piece of code that uses STLport (http:// [link]) to AIX. I'm using IBM XL C/C++ compiler, V9.0. I get compilation errors when is included in the code. I tried to isolate the problem, and wrote a simple program which I've reproduced below: (...)
29 May 2009
setsockopt IP_DONTFRAG get EOPNOTSUPP: Hello, I want to set the IP header DF bit to 1, so I use setsockopt to set IP_DONTFRAG, but it return -1 and the errno = EOPNOTSUPP, but from the document of IBM, it seems can be set by setsockopt, so, what may I do wrong or it cant be set any way?? Thanks a (...)
27 May 2009
Removal of a volume group failing because of missing PV: Hello, I have a volume group on a test server that I want to get rid of and rebuild. The problem is that there was 3 PV's associated with this VG at one point, and one of the PV"s is now showing as missing. There is no data on the VG (thank God!). How can I blow away this VG ? (...)
24 May 2009
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23 May 2009
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23 May 2009
Hacmp max pv limitation reached: Hi, Please let know step by step procedure; when max PV limitation reached in HACMP cross mirrored environment. thanks in advance. ravdm
23 May 2009
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23 May 2009
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23 May 2009
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23 May 2009
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23 May 2009
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22 May 2009
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22 May 2009
about control m- scheduler: hello,.. i am an aix consultant i need a brief about control m- scheduler on sun solaris ,.. please help thank you in advance,...
22 May 2009
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22 May 2009
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22 May 2009
Migrating RAW logical volumes from DS43 to DS48: Guys We have purchased a new DS48K and want to migrate raw logical volumes ( Oracle RAC configuration with enhanced concurrent mode volume group) from DS43000 to DS48000. What would be best way of doing this kind of data migration "online". I am thinking about adding newly created (...)
21 May 2009
slhs.dev.obj: Where can I get this? Thanks, Tim
21 May 2009
Striped disks in AIX 5.3: Hi, I'm a newbie in AIX 5.3, I have 2 disks in a Pserver and I want to create a RAID 0 (not RAID10 and not mirroring) including 2 disks in a striped volume to gain more space. Can someone to help me to create this striping volume during the AIX installation or after installation? (...)
21 May 2009
raritan dominion kx ii no keyboard or mouse: We are using a Raritan Dominion KX II in our data center and today I added a AIX server (eServer P5). But after I start the server there is no Keyboard or Mouse. If I hook up a local kb and mouse everything works. Any (...)
19 May 2009
Print 50 files at a time: Can i use lp -d printername filename1(row1), filename2 (row2) ....filename50(row50) where the filenames are stored in a filenames.txt? What is the right command to print ? Thanks in advance.
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18 May 2009
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18 May 2009
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18 May 2009
NFS v4: Hi I have two machines AIX 6.1 when I mount a file system from a machine to the other, mount shows a NFS v3 mount How can I force NFS v4 between the machines ? Thanks in advance
17 May 2009
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16 May 2009
QUORUM LOST, VOLUME GROUP CLOSING: I'm running AIX 5.3 TL 9 on a P550 with a 2104-DU3 disk array that is raid 5 on the controller and appears as a single drive to the OS, hdisk4. A couple of weeks ago I lost the power supply to the 2104. After replacing the power supply, and putting in a second one, I had to (...)
15 May 2009
Equivalent of migratepv: Hi, Is there an equivalent of migratepv on linux ? (maybe half OT) Thanks in advance
15 May 2009
IBM Flashcopy and AIX Raw LVs: Guys I have a requirement of reducing oracle offline backup time from 6 hours to few minutes and for this i am planning to use IBM Flashcopy option on DS4800!! Currently two AIX 5.2 nodes running Oracle RAC with raw lvs configuration. Solution will include another new node with AIX (...)
14 May 2009
does AIX 6.1 support SSA adapters/disks?: Just upgraded from 5.2 to 6.1 and lost datavg disks. cfgmgr calls for missing filesets, devices.pci.ssa, etc.. IBM support cannot confirm or deny support for this hardware on 6.1. Cannot find any documentation other than 1 non IBM site telling me I'm SOL. I'm guessing I'll (...)
13 May 2009
Anybody using AIX and Datacore SANsymphony: Hi all, I'm curious if somebody else is using AIX with Datacore SANsymphony. I'm even more interested in how to setup HACMP with AIX and SANsymphony. Especially how to configure to break disk reservations. TIA (...)
13 May 2009
lpar migration: Hi During migration lpar (mobility) from host to another host I have following information: The migrating partition's virtual SCSI adapter 50 cannot be hosted by the existing virtual I/O server (VIOS) partitions on the destination managed system. To migrate the partition, set up (...)
13 May 2009
Processing XML files?: Hi -- I have a legacy app running on an AIX server. A major component of this app used to process payments creates a fixed-field flat file, which it sends to the payment processor, and then processes that same flat file when the processor sends it back with its results data. Well ... (...)
13 May 2009
prtconf and sysconf produce different numbers of processors: Hi, // --- OS --- AIX ep5710g 3 5 // --- Compiler --- IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX Version: 08.00.0000.0014 // --- Calling the prtconf command Number Of Processors: 16 // --- User program foo.cpp ---- int main() // ------------------------------ (...)
13 May 2009
AIX 6.1 and Acrobat Reader: Downloaded AdbeRd709-aix-enutar.gz from the Acrobat FTP site and on an attempted installation got " The chosen configuration will not run on your current platform ( AIX/6.1 ) . " I am running AIX 6100-02-02-849. Got onto Acrobat support and they advise " Adobe Reader 7.0.9 supported (...)
13 May 2009
Where are a fileset on CD's: Hi, When I have to install a fileset from CD is there a way to know on which CD it is ? (apart scanning each CD) Thanks in advance
8 May 2009
unix time: Is there a command that will give me the Unix time (seconds since 1/1/1970) without resorting to Perl or something? On Linux I'd use date +%s but that's not an option in AIX. Thanks, Tim
8 May 2009
Audio Playback on AIX 6.1: Hey everybody, I just got my Intellistation POWER 275 up and running AIX 6.1, and the first thing I noticed is that there's no audio. Well, specifically, / dev/paud0 exists, but XMMS displays weird values on its LCD when I play an mp3 file from it (plus I get no sound) and mpg123 (...)
7 May 2009
Visibility attribute: Dear all, I am new to AIX and I am using the Visual Age for C compiler. Is there any way to specify in the source code and on the compiler command line, the visibility attribute of an external symbol? In GCC I can use the __attribute__((visibility="hid den")) keyword. In Sun C, I can (...)
7 May 2009
Topas -P: Hello ! I really don't understand the result of topas -P. Documents on topas are not easy to understand. I would like to know the memory used by a specific process. Here is the result when i submit topas -P : DATA TEXT PAGE (...)
6 May 2009
changing net speed/duplex on Etherchannel: Hello, I have etherchannel adapter (working as primary/backup). Net switch is configured as Autoneg and primary adapter (according to entstat) is running as 1000 Mbs Full and backup is running on 100 Mb Half. Both are set to Autoneg Don't have any test environment here - I'm (...)
6 May 2009
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6 May 2009
Fastpath: Hi again, How can I find all the fastpath for smit ? Thanks in advance
5 May 2009
AIO on AIX 6.1: Hi, On AIX 6.1, smitty aio doen't how is managed AIO on AIX 6.1 ? Thanks in advance
5 May 2009
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p520, HMC Strangeness: Apologies - there may be a better group to post this in, but I'm hoping AIX folks will have seen this before. Just got brand new machines from Avnet/Sunquest: HMC and p520 (two of each). When atempting to use the HMC to manage the p520, ... ------------ *BEFORE* the o.s. boots (...)
5 May 2009
chrroted FTP in AIX: Hi, I want to setup chroot FTP in AIX 5.3 server. The created user "test" should access to this FTP server and should browse his home directory and not the other directories via the FTP client tool. I created this file /etc/ftpaccess.ctl and I added this lines: puseronly:test (...)
4 May 2009
utf-8 conversion for AIX 5.3: Hi All Any product can able to install on AIX 5.3 for unicode converison ? moonhkt
29 April 2009
version of X11: Hi, Is there a way i can find out the exact version of X11 libraries installed on AIX. I tried to find through smitty but it gave information only about the fileset which said 5.3.0.0 which mostly means AIX 5.3. thanks (...)
27 April 2009
lpphk -v reports missing filesets: PLEASE TREAT THIS AS HIGHLY URGENT Can someone assist Plz. Prior to applying OS Patches,lppchk -v reported the following missing filesets- lppchk: The following filesets need to be installed or corrected to bring the system to a consistent state: 1592b1952a1faa377100d6199009be c3 (...)
26 April 2009
Power 6 and shared ethernet: Hi, I have a POWER6 - what is the AIX minimum supported on this platform ? - I have to configure some LPAR with AIX 6.1 I have some problem with ethernet adapter I heard I can shared one ethernet adapter between the LPAR how can I do that ? Thanks in (...)
25 April 2009
odm syslog: hello all, has any experimented with using syslog and odm to log certain commands in AIX? Thanks pinoy
24 April 2009
1540-0274 (S) The name lookup for "getprocs" did not find a declaration: AIX 5.3 IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX Version: 08.00.0000.0014 From man getprocs ------------------------------ -- Technical Reference: Base Operating System and Extensions, Volume 1 getprocs Subroutine Purpose Gets process table entries. Library Standard C (...)
23 April 2009
Getting process time creation: AIX 5.3 Is there any system call to get process time creation? Thanks, Alex Vinokur
23 April 2009
Getting maximum/minimum shared-memory segment sizes: Hi, AIX 5.3 From man shmget() The following limits apply to shared memory: * Maximum shared-memory segment size is: * 256M bytes before AIX 4.3.1 * 2G bytes for AIX 4.3.1 through AIX 5.1 * 64G bytes for 64-bit applications for AIX 5.1 and (...)
22 April 2009
Changing virtual disk mappings on VIO ?: Guys I am using two servers with each server having dual VIO onto it.Partitions from both servers have been clustered togather through HACMP! All the disks from DS6000 have been assigned to VIOS1234 group. Disk mapping to AIX client partitions have been controlled on VIO servers (...)
22 April 2009
AIX online servers to practice: Hi, Is there any way to practice the AIX online . Because i am learning AIX and need some practice .
22 April 2009
Pre Login Screen: Is it possible to have the user press enter to acknowledge a message before typing in his or her login name and password? I need to add this functionality to the CDE login, ssh, and ibm 3151 console on AIX 5.3.
21 April 2009
add 2nd SEA in VIO ?: Hi, I tried to add a 2nd SEA to VIO but failed. Anyone has done this before ? The server is AIX P5-550, $ ioslevel 2.1.0.10-FP-20.1 currently 1 SEA (ent7) is created, physical interface is ent4, and Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter is ent6, and is running OK. $ lsmap -net -all (...)
19 April 2009
SMT: Hi, Is SMT available on POWER 4 Thanks
17 April 2009
syslog.conf question: I am needing to create a simple report on a monthly basis out of syslog and was wondering just what "rotate time 1m" really means as far as the "1m" ie. is it one month from today if I configure it and restart it today, like it is for "1d" as well as is it 28, 29, 30 or 31 days, or am (...)
16 April 2009
X11 Forwarding: Hi, I installed SSH on my AIX box (AIX 6.1) I put X11Forwarding yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config I configured putty for enable X11 forwarding env DISPLAY is correct but nothing appear on my screen Any clue ? Thanks in (...)
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AIX xterm issue: I am having some issues using xterm in aix. I have VNCserver installed and my /.vnc/xstartup has the xterm -geometry . . . . command. Yet when I connect to the server via tightVNC, all i see is a blank grey screen. No xterm window. When i look at the /.vnc/xxxx:1.log is shows: X Error: (...)
9 April 2009
NFS through Firewall: Hi, Is it possible to pass NFS through a firewall ? If yes how ? Thanks in advance
9 April 2009
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9 April 2009
pam_radius on AIX: Hi All I looking for information if is possible compile and run pam_radius on AIX 5.3?I need authenticate users to the aix trough radius server.Thanks a lot for help Slawek
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VIO Virtual Ethernet Security: Hello, I have some P570's where we are implementing virtual ethernet to join LPAR's to existing VLAN's through VIO server shared ethernet adapters, which are connected to external switches. In our environment those cisco switches provide security through ACL's which (...)
6 April 2009
Page faults over 2000, sometimes over 10000: Hi, I have inherited an old IBM pSeries 620 with 2GB memory running AIX 5.1 ML04. It has the OS mirrored over 2 disks in rootvg and the data and programs are mirrored with 6 disks n datavg. The users are forever complaining about slow performance when users from 2 time zones are (...)
6 April 2009
Disordered ethernet adapters after new installation: Hi together setting up new 55A I give all resources to the one and only lpar, have choose the correct adapter (having 2 x 4-port-adapter and 1 x 2-port-adapter[built-in]) for installation over a nim. Installation run fine, but after rebooting the machine isn't reachable over this (...)
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3 April 2009
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AIX if -f call gets slower over time...: So I have a small KSH program running on a mounted VG, jfs2 filesystem (mount is from a network appliance storage device) The filesystem contains our entire CAD vault (over 2million files, 3tb+ of data). AIX 5.3 TL08 The program goes like this (it's purpose to to deal with incoming (...)
31 March 2009
Intermittent Errors with AIX: Hi All!. I´m helping a friend. I don´t know AIX (Version 4) The question is: Short Time ago the domestic system fields are filled automatically with many "0" as possible. This occurs in a discontinuous manner. Sometimes the problem occurs compiling applications, only after (...)
30 March 2009
ls troubles: hi i have this problem when i run this sh i have this error : /usr/bin/ls: arg list too long The directory have 27000 files , but is very extrange that if i run ls from command line i have no problems thanks ...sorry if is a dummy question this is sh code : (...)
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28 March 2009
Where can MONO for AIX version: Does anybody know where can get MONO (I mean the .NET platform) for AIX version, I have looked for long time, but only has solaris , linux, version..
28 March 2009
nim mksysb restore on same network: I want to restore a nim mksysb of a server that is currently on my network. I am wanting to restore a duplicate of this server but I do not want it to cause an IP address conflict when it comes up. At the client, I boot into the SMS menu and put the IP of the nim master and the IP of (...)
27 March 2009
Download bos.perf.libperfstat: Hi, A customer of ours has an old AIX 5.1 server and have lost the installation media. I need to install bos.perf.libperfstat to enable the installation of "nmon". Is there anyway I can still get this bos.perf.libperfstat fileset with no official support in place? Thanks, (...)
26 March 2009
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26 March 2009
Only FTP: Hi, Is it possible to create a user only accessed by ftp in only one directory (only to get some files by ftp) Thanks in advance
26 March 2009
Error - 0403-006 Execute permission denied: Hello, I'm trying to assign a value to a variable in a script, I have: CDATE=`DATE +%Y%m%D` When I execute the script it fails at this line with: DATE: 0403-006 Execute permission denied I've changed the script to 777 but the error still occurs. Any suggestions on how I (...)
25 March 2009
AIX password expiration + notification: hello all i need to know, when an AIX password will be expired. Unfortunately i'm NOT root, and i will NEVER be root ..... so thinks like root@tsmmgmt02:/etc/security# pwdadm -q nagios nagios: lastupdate = 1181056135 <<<<<<<< last change of password (...)
25 March 2009
How can I access curproc/curthread in a kernel extension?: I tried 2 different things - 1. Using curproc or curthread - does not work since they seem not to be exported. Any code referencing them does not compile. 2. Using THREADPTR to retrieve the pvthread entry (and then the corresponding process/thread) #include <sys/thread.h> (...)
24 March 2009
Creating a shared library in AIX: Hi All, I have two queries a) I am creating a shared library on AIX 5.1 machine using gcc 4.0.0 with following command: gcc -shared -o libTEST.so a.o b.o c.o I am getting following error: ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ (...)
24 March 2009
How to find a process's list of pending signals - AIX 5/6: I'm trying to find a way to look at the list of a process's pending signals. In other OSes, this was easily done using the curproc pointer (different names on different systems, but could find it in Linux, Solaris, HPUX). It's not found in AIX5.1 and older (or if it is. I (...)
23 March 2009
9114-275 w/ second DASD-backplane?: Hello all, the Users Guide for the 9114-275 states that up to one DASD-back- plane is supported. Since the sysplanar has the connectors and the chassis is prepared for a second one, i tried putting one in. Un- fortunately disks connected to the second one don't seem to receive (...)
23 March 2009
Get running disk driver settings: Hi, Background: We need to change some hdisk settings ( dist_err_pcnt, dist_tw_width, hcheck_interval) using both MPIO disks [SDDPCM] and VSCSI disks. Since these values cannot be changed on running systems, we use "-P" option of chdev command and do change in ODM only. In (...)
21 March 2009
Socket error 68: We have a program that uses sockets that runs flawlessly on AIX 4.3.3, but on AIX 5.2 and above it immediately fails to bind to the socket with an error code 68. Any clues? /* Create server socket. */ sock= socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if (sock < 0) sprintf(message, (...)
20 March 2009
Zimbra on AIX or Linux/PPC: Has anybody successfully implemented Zimbra on AIX or on any version of Linux running on a PPC? If so, please contact me at: dfrench [at] mtxia [dot] com Dana French
19 March 2009
mplayer for AIX: Is there a mplayer port on aix which can be readily used ? Thanks & Regards Rakesh
19 March 2009
User with only ftp: Hi, Is it possible to create a user only accessed by ftp in only one directory (only to get some files by ftp) Thanks in advance
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AIX 6.1 Sendmail.cf: Does anyone know where to get a version 10 sendmail.cf for AIX 6.1 I installed 61 no problem. all works fine except when I try to send a test mail the sendmail system complains the .cf file is a version 9. Changed the disk and reloaded 61. onto new disk added all the latest maintenances (...)
18 March 2009
AIX 1.3 CDROM (again): Henry........ br--r--r-- 1 root system 25, 0 Dec 31 19:84 /dev/cdrom0 (activity light flashes on CDROM) /dev/rcdrom0 Magic number check: not an AIX FS My interpretation of this is that the connection to the CDROM is fine (as it was using DOS) and AIX 1.3 "knows" the CDROM (...)
18 March 2009
alerting contents of a file: I have a binary file for sending alerts to ITM server and the format it sends the alert is postzmsg -S server | -f configuration_file [-m message] [-r severity] [attribute=value...] class source It Posts an event to the event server using non-Tivoli communication My problem is .... (...)
17 March 2009
Difference between AIX 5.3 and 6.1 regarding run queue measurements: Hello, I recently deployed a new AIX 6.1 LPAR which will be taking over tasks from an older AIX 5.3 LPAR. The new LPAR seems to work fine, but I'm worried about a significant difference between runqueues lengths, as mentioned by topas or through SNMP: [link] Notice that the AIX (...)
17 March 2009
Working with AIX at home: How can a home user develop/test with AIX? There is no version of AIX available for Intel/PC or any non-IBM platforms (as far as I know) and systems like RS/6000 seem to be very expensive and not widely available second-hand. Any suggestions? (...)
16 March 2009
tracking command: Hi All I need tracking all or parts commands which are executed in system by users.How can I do it in AIX.thanks for information and help. Slawek
16 March 2009
phantom device configurations after failed alternate disk install: After doing a failed NIM initiated alternate disk mksysb migration - - I'm seeing duplicate device configurations for all my hardware (ie - - I've got 4 ethernet cards on this server - -but now I see 8, I've got 2 fibre cards, now I see 4, 1 proc - now I see 2 etc) Has (...)
16 March 2009
Migration to AIX6.1: Hi all, I've been trying to migrate from AIX53-07 and AIX53-09 and the results are the same. Everything is ok but after the last packet is processed it seems to be hanged showing the IPLcode 0c46. After waiting for many hours, I force the reboot and then it hangs again, but in this (...)
16 March 2009
OpenSSH for AIX 5.1 and problematic SSL RPM package: Hi group, does anyone know where a package openssl-0.9.7d-2.aix5.1.ppc.rp m can be downloaded? I have been trying to install OpenSSH on an old machine that runs AIX 5.1. I downloaded OpenSSH package for AIX 5.1 from [link]. Smit complains that it cannot install OpenSSH because the (...)
14 March 2009
Mounting a CDROM in AIX 1.3: Can someone supply the proper command for the above action? CT
14 March 2009
Method to disable mouting rootvg without passwd with boot from CD method: I'm looking for a way to prevent booting in Maint. mode from AIX CD/DVD and being able to mount rootvg without putting in root password. Is that possible? I had thought about trying to create some sort of wrapper for the mount command to prevent mounting, but that's really a (...)
14 March 2009
create file system without VG?: is there a way to create a file system on devices ( /dev/hdisk ) without creating a Volume group? I tried "mkfs -o log=INLINE -V jfs2 /dev/hdisk1, but when mounting the file system it keeps complaining "no plausible log device"... any workaround? here is the detail: $ (...)
12 March 2009
VIO-Clinet LPAR blocks if one disk in mirrored/dual VIO-setup is lost: hi, we are trying to set up an redundant p570-enviroment. - 2 SAN-storages connected to one SVC-cluster - one the SVC VDISK are made entirely from SAN1 or SAN2 - SVC maps VDISKs (e.g. SAN1_VDISK, SAN2_VDISK) to both VIO's (4 SVC fc-adapters connected to switch, each VIO is also (...)
12 March 2009
wget equivelent in AIX?: I want to download some files from the web (http), and I found out that AIX does not come with wget or curl without installing the Linux packages. Any commands that do the equivelent of wget/curl? Thanks!
12 March 2009
Ganglia v nmon: We have ganglia working just fine but it lacks a feature in the nmon RRDtool graphs, the top processes. Has anyone got this working for ganglia ? TIA
11 March 2009
Intellistation 285 management by serial port?: Hi all, i have a question about an INTELLISTATION 285: is it possible to manage the box in stand by mode, using serial port My hyperterminal screen (via RS232 cable) receives "things" but it doesn't make sense, like a bad parameter. I have no HMC, no ASMI and the box (...)
11 March 2009
PB with mkcd: Hi; When I do a mkcd on AIX 6.1 I get the following error I didn't find the fileset on CD's Is it a reel problem ? where can I find the filesets ? Thanks 0512-323 mkcd: The following files are required for the creation of the CD or DVD image and are not available on the (...)
10 March 2009
Fixing "stair-step" printing: A consultant upgraded us to AIX 5.3 awhile back. Since the upgrade, some output sent to a PCL printer have stair-step output. I have not been able to find the magic place to fix this. Even printing using the -x2 flag in QPRT does not seem to work. I can not see anuthing in the print (...)
10 March 2009
restrict port to use particular service: Hi to all i have a question.... how to restrict a port to use only particular service only.. i know little bit.. we must use /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf files.. but, i don't know the format.. i need three port's for db2 services... (...)
10 March 2009
Folks wanting to migrate AIX 5.3 ( with TCB Enabled) to AIX 6.1 and create WPAR: Greetings!!! Running AIX5.3 with TCB enabled and wanted to migrate to AIX6.1 to exploit AIX6.1 by creating WPAR was not possible. Here is a way to acheive that (if you are still on AIX5.3): 0. Modify PdAt for TCB_STATE (Make a copy of PdAt): i.e. odmget -q attribute=TCB_STATE PdAt | (...)
10 March 2009
Undefined initfini problem !!: Hi, We are building shared library in IBM AIX6.1 using GCC 4.2. While building , at the end, it says ERROR: Undefined initfini symbol: _GLOBAL__FI_libtest_so ld: 0711-328 ERROR: Undefined initfini symbol: _GLOBAL__FD_libtest_so I have no idea about this error. We are using g++ (...)
9 March 2009
Running out of memory while porting software: Hey all, I'm trying to port some software to AIX. Unfortunately, the Python-based build dies with a memory error. I managed to write the following program that exhibits the same behaviour: arrays = [] import sys for i in range(10000): print i arrays += range(1000)[:] This (...)
8 March 2009
Cannot access modem to dial out: Hello, I am trying to use a modem to dial out via cu, and there does not seem to be any communication between the system and the modem. This modem is the only device on a 16-port RAN, which is the only node connected to a 128-port PCI serial adapter on a p520 running AIX 5.3. The modem (...)
6 March 2009
create fake disk: Hi All I have question, if is possible create fake hdisk in AIX , How can I do it? Thanks for help SK
4 March 2009
sar sa2 files with headings and no data: Hi, I have set up the usual sar confif sa1 and sa2 under cron. however the daily ascii text file produced by sa2 shows all the headings but no figures present? Has anybody else come across this problem. This is a dev box with very low utilisation. Rgds (...)
3 March 2009
Weird tee command hang - Korn Shell: I have a small driver Korn Shell program that I use to call programs on my system. It is used to do certain basic things like create a log, check for users, etc. Things that I want done in several programs. I could put the code in each program, but why have redundant code at the (...)
2 March 2009
Multiple Questions/Queries....Please assist: Sorry to be posing multiple Questions in a single post- 1)I would like to get a basic understanding of AIO,CIO(rw,rbrw,cio etc) & other Performance related Options, 2)What command to do I use to check i/o waits on specific filesystems. Would it effectively mean checking the Disks (...)
2 March 2009
Appreciate what 0555 FSCK ERROR caused by.: Fired up 7044-170 AIX 5300-09-02-0849 with 2048 Mb of ram and got 0555 FSCK ERROR Turning to SG24-7199-00 and the routine on pages 105 to 112 and particularly the 5 steps on page 112. In the initial processes before getting to step 1 below, the screen said when importing VG rootvg (...)
2 March 2009
Power 6/AIX vs Xeon/Linux performance comparision: The configuration are: Power 6 3.5G 4core/2chip/SMT (LPAR on p550) AIX6.1, and XEON 5405 2G 8core/2chip(x3650) SUSE Linux 10.1(kernel 2.6.16). When running oracle 11g 64bit, Xeon shows much better performance. For the same workload, Xeon server has 80% cpu idle, while Power6 only 50% (...)
28 February 2009
MISSING REQUISITES Java5.sdk 5.0.0.0: my current oslevel -r = 5300-08 i have downloaded using suma the packages for 5300-09 the 'update_all' fails with error: MISSING REQUISITES Java5.sdk 5.0.0.0 i have looked on all of the original (8) AIX 5300 CDs and the expansion pack, and can not find java5.sdk packages any (...)
27 February 2009
Anyone had IBM storage to mirror Database data experience?: In order to set up a DR system ,I intend to use IBM DS storage system to copy data to another storage system. there are functions like FlashCopy,VolumeCopy in IBM DS storage system. Which function is better for DB server ? I plan to make a testification to examine the data integrirty (...)
26 February 2009
VIO with HACMP 5.4 and SVC: Hello all, We are preparing to add SAN (SVC) LUNS to various P570 LPARs through our VIO servers. Can anyone recommend any technical guides for accomplishing this? Is the SDD or MPIO software alread available within VIOS or is this something that needs to be installed? 2 of the LPARs (...)
26 February 2009
Rationalise number of consoles: My computer room is full of computer consoles. We have a variety of unix servers(AIX, Solaris, Linux) and currently each has a console screen. We would like to reduce the number of console screens? What are our options (hardware/software config) to for example have only one physical (...)
24 February 2009
AWK sorting (maybe SED?): I need some help with what I think may be possible in awk, but my skills in sed & awk are a bit lacking when it comes anything more advanced than searching and selecting a single line, or a basic search and replace. I have a list of entries that looks something like the data below. (...)
23 February 2009
i/o load of a rootvg: Hello, anybody out there who has a good idea how much i/o load a rootvg creates? I suspect the answer to be "depends", so I´ll add some information: We have a pair of p5-570s and a pair of p5-595s with about 80 LPAR in total. Storage is a pair of 2105-800 and a pair of (...)
23 February 2009
need link for AIX 6100-00?: hi any one has the link for AIX 6100-00 (TL 00 service pack 0). when i go to fix packs i got from service pack 1. i need tl 00 technology level. any ideas.... thanks
23 February 2009
umask for sftp in chroot jail: I'm trying to get a chroot jail userid to honor umask 007 when using sftp and have been unsuccessful with doing it - new files get created with the default system 022 umask. Outside the jail, the umask is recognized when using sftp and I get the 007 as I need. AIX 5300-06-03-0732 (...)
23 February 2009
How to identify whether the hard disk is from SAN ?: Hi I want to identify how many SAN disks are there in my system. I can run 1) lscfg | grep FC 2) lscfg| grep MPIO etc comamnd to get the disks which are from SAN, i am not sure whether it is a fool proof method. Is there any direct way of listing local disks and disks from SAN ? (...)
21 February 2009
FileSystem Share: Hi all! In my company I had to take a structural decision. We are looking for a filesystem shared for *nix boxes. After some analisys we have focued our interest on NFS and GPFS. In Your experiences what are the main issues related to these two systems in term of availability and (...)
20 February 2009
Switch server on remotely: Hi, We have our servers (type 7026 and 7038 running AIX 5.1) installed remotely. Can both servers be switched on and off remotely? Thanks in advance.
20 February 2009
NIM scrpt: running on demand? On multiple LPARs?: Hello All, I've written a rather complicated script that I don't want to distribute to all NIM-managed LPARs, but rather prefere to maintain a single copy on master. Can I run this script on a client LPAR via NIM? Can I select multiple LPARs at once to run this script? (...)
19 February 2009
Sed : identify a pattern and append a word at the end of a line: Hello to all, On aix, I want to identify a term on a line in a file and then add a word at the end of the line identified. I do not want the word to be added when the line contains the symbol "#". original file 1 # 1 2 3 file processed 1 # 1;chmod 644 2 3 I (...)
19 February 2009
Removing then adding an HDISK: If a HDISK is removed using RMDEV for a disk with a number in the middle of the range (ie, remove HDISK12 when HDISK 0-15 exist), and a HDISK is later added, what number will CFGMGR assign? Will it be the first unused number is finds (ie HDISK12), or will it assign it at the end (...)
18 February 2009
scripting help: hi to all is anybody has any idea.... --> PGRP=$(echo "$@" |cut -f2 -d'=') if the user use the pgroup option the above syntax works fine. if the user don't use the pgroup option the above syntax is failing. if they don't use the pgroup option it should go (...)
18 February 2009
6GB free memory, but paging: Hello, we have a strong effect on one of our LPARs on the p590. There is Oracle 10g and a customer-specific Java-Application running with 48GB RAM. Seems to be ok, but there are always around 6GB free (shown with nmon, topas etc.) Sometimes it starts to page a little (up till 10% of (...)
17 February 2009
Steps to replace small disk with bigger disk ?: Hi folks, I am working on a p520 (AIX 5.3.7) and I have to replace a set of pdisks (6x73 Go RAID5) by a a set of bigger pdisks(6x300 Go in RAID 5 too). I plan to do the following steps to preserve the vg. 1) savevg on a tape :) 2) exportvg 3) shutdown the OS 4) replace the disk (...)
17 February 2009
message queues and poll(): I just ran into a problem when we upgraded our development AIX box to version 5.3. I was using the AIX-specific feature of the poll() function to poll for a message queue along with my sockets, and it stopped working. As soon ad I recompiled my server, poll() would always return an (...)
16 February 2009
Determing listening port, process id, exe-file name and location: Hi, I am using HP-UX 'HP-UX g1028029 B.11.00 A 9000/800 1279364181 two-user license' I would like to identify all the process that are listening on different ports. I would like to know the following information about each process. 1. pid 2. Exe-file name 3. Listening (...)
16 February 2009
restore command and Press the Enter key to continue: I run a Shell script to check about 50 savevg's run via the NIM server trouble is it hangs when 1 corrupted savevg s being checked -rwxr-xr-x 3012 3027 15 May 2008 2223 ./was/ sopct1ws/AppServer/profiles/so pct1ws/config/templates/system /pme- resource-provider-templates.xm l (...)
15 February 2009
how to edit the most updaing log file: Hi I want to know any command or script to read the most updating log file in AIX machine. The log file keep refreshing per second. Thanks a lot.
15 February 2009
Questions LPAR support for snapshot and hibernation: I am new to Aix and LPAR world. I would like to know certain things 1: Does LPAR support snapshot and hibernation(suspend + resume ) at the 'guest os level' like some of the vmware's products ? 2: Also is there any API that LPAR supports that third party application can use (...)
13 February 2009
Problem: MulticastSocket can not receive broadcast packet on AIX 6.1, IBM JDK5.: Recently our Java application is upgraded to AIX 6.1.0.0, and IBM JDK5 (IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 AIX ppc-32 j9vmap3223-20071007 (JIT enabled)). I found that the Java application can not receive broadcast messages from other machines. but use 'tcpdump ip (...)
13 February 2009
AIX/php and timezone issue solved: Many thanks to Curtis Dyer who finally resolved this for me. I checked the phpinfo() and for some reason it was pointing to /usr/local/lib. My php.ini resided in /usr/local/apache2/conf. I copied it over and voila!! Problem fixed. See below if you are unsure what this is about. (...)
13 February 2009
Linux NIC bonding with dual VIO: Hello, not quite AIX related, but maybe someone around here has an idea: I've got one Debian/PPC LPAR running on one of our p570. Like the AIX LPARs it gets virtual NICs from two VIOS. The AIXen use NIB for net- work redundancy, on Linux i tried interface bonding in (...)
12 February 2009
sshd: Hi, Where I can find sshd for AIX 5.3 and 6.1 ? Thanks in advance
12 February 2009
memory use on oracle db server: Hi, on p570 aix 5.3 with 8 cpus and 35 GB RAM, we use oracle 9.2, with SGA 18GB and PGA 2GB. When I look at nmon I have numperm ( FS Cache ) 20%, Process 40% and system 40%. Vmo is set up like this: lru_file_repage = 0 maxclient% = 90 maxperm% = 90 minperm% = 5 If I look at (...)
12 February 2009
Adding Persistent Routes to the AIX Routing Table: Guys, I have conflicting procedures on Adding Persistent Routes to the AIX Routing Table Can someone post the exact FAILPROOF procedure for the same Please. The backup teams are complaining that the routes dont stay persistent across reboots & hence causing productivity issues. (...)
12 February 2009
memory usage per process: Hello, I'm thinking about some very simple thing - I was assuming it would be simple. But it's not that simple. I'm talking about memory usage, real memory usage for PID and for all machines PIDs. Let's say I'm looking at nmon output, and see something like this: (...)
11 February 2009
Encryption Key Manager start up.: I have an AIX LPAR that runs EKM. I have a startup script for the EKM but while it runs fine (as root) when I try to have it run at start up I never seem to get it to go. Do I need something special to start it up?
11 February 2009
help need in script writing: Hi i run the command... "command_name argv1 option=xxxxx" example --- useradd username group=xxxxxx. when i ran this command it point to some other script (say script1). in the script1 i need only xxxxx value. anyone have idea how to pass value to the script. (...)
11 February 2009
Bash background process/wait script problem: Hi, I made a little script to do multiple jobs at the same time. The problem I am having with it is that I want to manipulate a global variable and for I don't know what reason, this global variable is not affected by my getOutput() function. Anyone have an idea? Is it because (...)
10 February 2009
display users in group: hi to all i have a strange question... i copied passwd file to temp file. from the temp file i need to get group id of each user. then i need to convert the group id to group name. then i will give the condition like if group == xxxx, it should display only users in the group. any (...)
10 February 2009
At my wits end - AIX/php: So I'm running AIX 5.2 with Apache, mysql * Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) PHP/5.2.8 * MySQL client version: 5.1.30 * PHP extension: mysql I keep getting this error when I run phpmyadmin or any canned php application (I've tried a few cms systems all with the same error): Warning: (...)
10 February 2009
HACMP-Question: Hi together I have a 10-node HACMP-cluster (exactly 5 x 2 nodes). Now I add additional pair of start/stop-script, which were only needed on 2 of the 10 nodes. But the automatic distribution of scripts between all nodes distributes these scripts to all 10 nodes. I suppose the other nodes (...)
8 February 2009
enabling Jumbo Frames: Hi I'm trying to setup Jumbo Frames between two LPARs for the first time. These two LPARS are on different hardware and are served by different VIO servers. All the network ports involved on the cisco switch have been set to an MTU 9216 On both the client LPARs, AIX 5.3 TL9, (...)
6 February 2009
Command to View the Hex Dump of BLV: I forgot the command to View the Hex Dump of BLV. Can someone post please. TRied googling a bit,but only returns bosboot
6 February 2009
Maximum number LUN's on DS4800: Hi I looking for information how is maximum number LUN which i can create on DS4800, How can I calculate this number?Thanks for help Slawek
5 February 2009
automounter subsystem problem: Hello All; I'm using AIX 5300-07-07-0846 all filesets are installed. So when I'm starting services portmap and group nfs but automounter doesnt start rpc.statd and rpc.mountd are in inoperative state there is also no error printed on console ( I've decide to trace it (...)
4 February 2009
Upgrading from 5.3 to 6: Hi, just curious if many people here had upgraded yet. Did you have any issues with compatability? (ie, ConnectDirect?)? Any changes or gotchas? Sorry if there's already been discussion on this, I wasn't able to find it though. Thanks! (...)
3 February 2009
Passwordless ssh not working: I think this is an easy one.But we get very few requests(in the form of exceptions,since this is viewed as a Security Violation) & I hvnt worked on them much. My question is- Passwordless ssh is working from Node B to Node A But not from Node A to Node B. Its a service acct (...)
3 February 2009
Mirror data lv queries - Newbie: Hi, We have a p650 IBM server running AIX 5.1. We have just added some new disks and would like to retire the old disk. I plan to mirror the existing data LV to the new disk. After mirror data synchronization completed, remove the old disk by splitting the mirror. As this is my 1st (...)
31 January 2009
Specifying the "From" email address in mail? Options: After trying many of the suggestions in the group to fix this problem, a call to IBM finally solved the problem. Below are the changes I made to sendmail.cf to get the FROM email address domain correct. Until these changes were made I was able to change the domain but only was able to (...)
31 January 2009
ConfiMinds==QA Project Manager==San Francisco,CA==6 Months: Please send me suitable profiles. Job Title: QA Project Manager Job Location: San Francisco, CA Job Length: 6 Months Required Skills Candidates will be evaluated considering the type of services required and the complexity of the project, with special consideration for the (...)
30 January 2009
gcc/g++: Does anyone know where to get a gcc including g++ pre-built binaries for AIX 4.3.3? Thanks!
30 January 2009
Raw LVS and Flashcopy/mklvcopy?: Guys Have anybody tried using flashcopy with enhanced concurrent mode VG ( raw lvs ). I do have two nodes oracle 9i RAC ( enhanced concurrent mode vg with raw lvs ) and want to take flashcopy and will mount this target flashcopy on any one of these two nodes? AIX 5.2 is environment (...)
29 January 2009
duplicated symbols: Hi all When I was using AIX 5.3 TL 7 SP3: $ uname -a AIX <old hostname> 3 5 00<xxxxxx>D600 with compiler: $ /usr/vac/bin/xlc -qversion IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX Version: 08.00.0000.0000 and linker: $ /bin/ld -V /bin/ld: LD 1.65 (04/06/2005) (...)
29 January 2009
AIX Filter issues: Hi, I want to print from AIX using 'pr' preprocessing filter and 'PCL' print file type. Steps: 1. Smitty 2. Print Spooling 3. Create a print queue(remote->Generic) 4. change the attributes for that print queue. 5. Change print file type to PCL and (...)
29 January 2009
Should we change lru_file_repage to zero?: Environment: AIX5.3 (oslevel: 5300-08-03-0831) P55A 25,165,824K of memory 12gb Paging Space 4gb Paging Space Used (i.e. 35% Used from lsps - a) DB2 Version 9.1 Apache 2.0.52
27 January 2009
Escape character in a file name: I have a file containing a list of file names. Some of these file names contain the escape character ( \ ) as part of their name. Example: /data1/A-PC/XREF-AGT-DELPHI?\A GENT/DATA.30 I have a script that reads these file names in and then will issue a copy or move command to another (...)
26 January 2009
Command to display Operator Panel Codes whenever working with Managed Systems/Partitions in HMC: Can someone provide the Command Line Equivalent to display Operator Panel Codes whenever working with Managed Systems/Partitions in HMC. I do Managed System PowerDown/Off,Boot up into Standby & also De/ Activating Partitions & it is sickening to wait for the WebSM GUI to load up (...)
25 January 2009
for storage guys - disk and disk array calculator: Hi, Lately I've prepared a disk and disk array calculator. It's a simple tool to calculate storage performance and capacity. I find it useful and I'd like to share it with you - [link]. Enyoy it!. Any feedback I will appreciate. /Marek wmarow at (...)
24 January 2009
how to connect database and application servers: Hi anyone can explain me how to connect between database and application servers. both are linux servers. as per my knowledge listeners can do. is there any other tools needed like tcp/ip's. i know, we need web servrs tools to connect application and web server. like this do (...)
24 January 2009
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true other options: Hi, To overcome the exception throwing problem when getHostName() is called we had to add -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=tru e in our vm arguments. Is there any other way that we can do this globally without changing the vm arguments. I get proper hostname when running on root however I (...)
23 January 2009
AIX 4.3 Life Cycle: I'm trying to find out if AIX 4.3 is still an active operating system as far as IBM is concerned. I've looked around the IBM site but can't find a definitive answer on the status of this version. Any assistance is (...)
22 January 2009
0512-016 mksysb: Attempt to create a bootable tape failed:bosboot -d /dev/rmt0.1 -a failed with return code 48.: Hi to all. when i tried to run mksysb to tape drive, i am getting error message. please see below... Creating information file (/image.data) for rootvg... Creating tape boot image........... bosboot: Boot image is 35921 512 byte blocks. 0301-161 bosboot: dd failed to copy (...)
22 January 2009
cannot add users to a group: I want to add some users to a group on an AIX 5.3 machine. I can see these users by command id, lsuser, or smitty, but when I try to add the users to a group using chgrpmem, I got the error: chgrpmem -m + user1 group1 3004-687 User "user1" does not exist. I noticed one (...)
21 January 2009
nim script and SIGHUP: I'm running a variety of Shell scripts via NIM with no problems except those that need to send a signal, a HUP in particular. I updated the / etc/syslog.conf on all the NIM clients OK, but when I tried to "refresh -s syslogd" the NIM script just does nothing. I'm (...)
20 January 2009
AIX 5.3: I'm installing bos.rte.diag 5.3.0.60 on my system. the current version installed on the system is bos.rte.diag 5.3.0.50 which seem to have a bug in it. [link] Few questions for this... 1. Should I go for upgrade to bos.rte.diag 5.3.0.60 or could I (...)
20 January 2009
Funky options to get working threads in Bind ?: Hi I am unable to get a compiled version of Bind with threads enabled that works. It compiles ok, but uses a lot cpu as soon as it starts. We are running AIX 5.3.x with GCC compilers. Are the anyone out there with a working receipt to make this work ? Are there any performance (...)
20 January 2009
aix 5.4 TL7 iostat statististics problem: Hi guys, I have a problem with continuously stat for disk i/o. Topas ended with "Unable to read Disk statistics" some details: 5300-07 iostat true Continuously maintain DISK I/O history True lslpp -la| grep bos.perf.tools bos.perf.tools 5.3.0.60 COMMITTED Base (...)
16 January 2009
How to get a printer device name: All, I am trying to figure out how to get a printers device name programmatically with KSH. For example, if I lpstat -W -pMDNTW385_385 on my system I get: Queue Dev Status Job Files User PP % Blks Cp Rnk -------------------- -------------- --------- (...)
16 January 2009
chfs problem: Hi, I got a bad problem with a simple chfs, I got two luns I need to get rid of (hdisk10, hdisk11) so I check existing filesystems, need to shrink them, move out from pv and remove pv. The problem is I get stuck with chfs, that takes ages... PHYSICAL VOLUME: hdisk10 VOLUME GROUP: (...)
15 January 2009
Tape encryption: Hi, is it possible to read/write plain data from/to a tape (e.g. using AIX backup command), after activating the encryption-mode on an LTO4 tape device (e.g. TS3100) ? TIA Chris
15 January 2009
how virtual hosting in AIX?: I need to access CLIENT request from [link] AS [link] how to configure AIX for this ?
15 January 2009
Urgent Need: AIX Engineer (ONLY LOCAL and ONLY GC and CITIZENS) - MD: Hi, Position: Mid/Senior AIX eng Location: Baltimore, MD Duration: 6 months minimum with long extension strongly possible Rate: Open I need a Mid/Senior AIX eng. for Secure Flight O&M (24x7) Environment.Candidate must have security clearance or be able to go through the (...)
14 January 2009
Any XL C/C++'s option to determine the compiler's predefined macros: Hi, AIX 5.3 $ xlc++ -qversion IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX Version: 08.00.0000.0014 Is there any XL C/C++'s option to determine the compiler's predefined macros? Alex Vinokur
14 January 2009
Cache line size for L1, L2, L3: Hi, AIX 5.3 How can we know what is cache line size (length) for L1, L2, L3? Alex Vinokur
14 January 2009
Does vi support utf-8 codepage ?: Hi All AIX , OS 5.2 Does vi support utf-8 codepage ? if yes, how to paste Japanese "る機能の一覧を以下に示します" in vi ? or chinese "留言" ? (...)
14 January 2009
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13 January 2009
sync hangs in aix4.3.2: Hello All, I need your help regarding the issue noticed on aix 4.3.2 machine. Syncd daemon frequency was already customised to 2 secs from the default value of 60 secs. I noticed that sync was taking a lot of CPU time when compared to normal scenarios. Now what I notice is when sync (...)
13 January 2009
Firefox 3.0.5 for AIX5L, Help wanted: I have a patch for compiling of Firefox 3.0.5 on AIX 5.1 ML9 with VisualAge 6 or XLC++ 7 The resulting build kindof works, some strange font rendering errors and reproducable core dumps. So I'm not providing the result to public. The state is best described as "debuggable" (...)
12 January 2009
Trying to find file:- devices.sddpcm.53.rte: 9114-275 Intellistation AIX 6100-02-02-0849 gives following error on running Creating list of files to back up.. Backing up 53848 files......................... ..... 36677 of 53848 files (68%)......... 53848 of 53848 files (100%) 0512-038 mksysb: Backup Completed Successfully. (...)
11 January 2009
nim backup: hello all, i keep getting the error message everytime i want to create a mksysb backup through nim: Creating information file (/image.data) for rootvg. Creating list of files to back up.. Backing up 88210 files................ 0512-005 savevg: Backup Completed. The backup command (...)
11 January 2009
Determining number of processors in a virtualized system: We have an LPAR defined to use .6 processors. The number of processors assigned to the LPAR had a DESIRED value of 3. We tried to run a software package licensed for 2 CPUs, and it failed since it detected 3 CPUs. 1. How does software determine the number of CPUs available? 2. Is (...)
8 January 2009
restore mksysb from bigger disk to smaller disk: Hi, Some on could tel me how can i do to restore mksysb from server with 2 disk 18 GO mirrored onto an other server with 2 disk 9 GO not mirrored ? Thank's
8 January 2009
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7 January 2009
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7 January 2009
Usb support and nmon: nmon is now part of AIX 5.3 TL2 and AIX 6.1 TL2 $ lslpp -w /usr/bin/nmon File Fileset Type ------------------------------ ---------------- /usr/bin/nmon bos.perf.tools File Also it looks like that AIX has now USB flash disk (...)
7 January 2009
Exam 223 for AIX study preparation / and interpreting vmstat output: I'm looking for more resources for studying for IBM's 223 Exam on AIX. Here is what I've found: 1) pass4sure.com 2) testking.com (you get many more questions than pass4sure for the price) 3) IBM's $10 pretest Is there any other resource? Many of the white pages on (...)
6 January 2009
AIX Security: Hello there! I would like to know which security solution are you using to enforce security policies on AIX. Basically I would like to be able to easily: - replace/retire sudo (RBAC on 6.1 seems to be a solution for this one) - Audit and centrally manage audit/logs information (any (...)
6 January 2009
DLPAR through a Firewall: Hi, I need to do Dynamic LPAR (transfer cdrom) from LPAR1 to LPAR2 but the LPAR2 is in a DMZ DLPAR doesn't work what port I need to open on the FW ? HMC 6.1.3 AIX 5.3TL08 Thanks in advance
5 January 2009
Check ODM: Hi, We tried to upgrade PowerPath (EMC product) on AIX 5.2 but after the upgrade no powerpath device found (hdiskpowerXXX) we suppose a corruption in the ODM ... How can we check the ODM ? and get it right Thanks in (...)
2 January 2009
Force RPC to use a specific port range: There is a requirement for 1 of our Clients that they want the Application,could be login or communication to happen,only via a specific port range (4000-4100) using RPC services. The same was done for windows & this is what the Windows Guy put in "Customer is not able to login (...)
1 January 2009
Need help: AIX 5.1 network connection to internet behind router: Hi, I have only minimal AIX knowledge but am slowly learning. What I want to do is get an internet connection on the AIX box. I have an IBM 43P Model 140 running AIX 5.1. I have it plugged into my home network. I have cable internet (Rogers, Canada) and therefore use a cable modem (...)
31 December 2008
how to remove second copy from LV: AIX running is 5.3 Two PVs hdisk0 and hdisk1 One VG which is rootvg, When OS was initially setup, all the LVs had 2 copies one on hdisk0 and one on hdisk1 But lately the consumption grows fast suddenly and is nearly full. So for temporary measure, would like to make some of the (...)
29 December 2008
AIX SUDO - LDAP authentication: Hi All ! Did anyone try getting "sudo" authenticate against a LDAP server. All user accounts in server, AIX 5.3 have been migrated to SUN LDAP server, afterwhich "sudo <command> authentication fails ---- local (non-ldap) user account authentication (with updated /etc/ (...)
29 December 2008
Auto start VNC: Hi, Is it possible to auto start vnc after system rebooted? If so, how to go about it? Thanks in advance.
26 December 2008
RSInfo: I'm trying to find a current version of RSInfo. The one at IBM ([link] RSinfo.pdf?version=1) seems to be corrupt and only gets ~600 pages with all the browsers, downloaders, and various networks I've tried. I have the one from 2004 which is 1237 pages already. The corrupt (...)
23 December 2008
Switch disk names ?: Hello, I have the following problem: My HACMP is configured to use certain disk name (hdisk12) for heartbeat function, it uses name, not PVID for that. And now after some reconfiguration my heartbeat disk changed it's name - now it's hdisk11, and hdisk12 is taken by another (...)
23 December 2008
queue_depth value for HDS USP-V Storage: Hi there Does anybody have experience with queue_depth value for HDS USP-V? My environment is: - a Oracle 10g + Application Server with 10-20 DB instances - each DB has its own VG with approx. 20 x 200GB Disks - HDLM version 5.6 - AIX 5.3 TL07 AIO Parameters: minservers = 50 (...)
22 December 2008
USENIX '09 Call For Papers Deadline Approaching: On behalf of the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference program committee, we would like to remind you that the deadlines for your submissions of refereed papers and proposals for invited talks and workshops are quickly approaching. Authors are invited to submit original and innovative (...)
19 December 2008
Power6 0/2 core chips - how many processors visible in HMC?: We had an installation of a power6 9117-MMA (p570) yesterday, and order summary has 8 x FC 5672 (Processor Activation of FC 5622 - 4.2GHZ 0/2 Core Power6 CPU). Therefore I am assuming that system has 8 twin-core chips. How many processors should be showing up in HMC as processor (...)
19 December 2008
DATA Segment Size of each of the processes running in AIX: Hello All, Is there any way to know the Data Segment size of each of the processes running on an AIX box. Regards, Kailash Wadhwa
18 December 2008
Asynchronous IO (aio_read, aio_write, etc) and sockets: Hi, Everybody! Did anybody use asynchronous I/O (aio_read, aio_write, etc) with sockets instead of select/poll, read and write? In IBM documentation aio is described mostly in context of local disk I/O but there is no explicit declaration that it cannot be used for sockets. For (...)
17 December 2008
HMC problem: Hi After migration LPAR i have on console following information: HSCLA27C The operation to get the physical device location for adapter U9117.MMA.06E3511-V2-C15 on the virtual I/O server partition S53-2- VIOS01 has failed. The partition command is: migmgr -f get_adapter -t vscsi -s (...)
17 December 2008
Blackbox LS1004A console switch and AIX pseries 505 - Anyone ?: Hi We have a terrible time trying to set up the AIX server to work with the console switch from Blacbox. We are using the DB9 serial port on the AIX side with a null modem cable and a converter to turn it into a "rollover" Cisco blue RJ45 cable on the Blackbox side. Are (...)
17 December 2008
Release of Firefox 2.0.0.19 and Seamonkey 1.1.14 for AIX: Hello, the builds of Firefox <[link]> and Seamonkey <[link]> are available now at their usual place. Thunderbird will be released as soon as the official release. This will be the final release supporting AIX 4.3.3. Until now I haven't managed a working build of (...)
16 December 2008
Forensic File Recovery from SSA: Hi, we have an old Domino/Notes mail server, using SSA disks, it is no longer in use but we've not actually decommissioned it yet. I've been asked if it is possible to recover a mail file (xxxxxx.nsf) that was deleted well before the server was actually switched of. My first (...)
16 December 2008
Re: Jumalauta! Tajusin juuri jotain järisyttävää!: *(Ydinklingonimme on parhaillaan niin kiivaskiukkusen käärmessmörkkisiä, ettei juuri vastattavaa löydy)). Toki syynä se, että on tullut autonkuormina ydinvastalunta tupasiinsa oikeen ÄIJÄKAADOLLA! Ja hyvä niin, jahka saamme myös SDP:lle viimen ikävöidyn ydinvastaisemman johdon niin ..! (...)
15 December 2008
Re: Mikä kappale 07_Ain't No Fun_AC DC_1976.mp3 [07/19]: *Yleisön pyynnöstä alan julkaisemaan Suomen ydinaavikoitumisen nykytilastamme kertovaa faktaa. M.T.05.05-08. Ilmatieteen laitos. PAIKKA SADE mm. _________________ Helsinki Kiikkala Turku 0,2mm Jormala Pori Niinisalo Tampere 1,5 Jokioinen 3,7 Lahti Utti L.ranta (...)
15 December 2008
Information on LPARs: I am looking for high level information on the capabilities of AIX LPARS. In particular, can a processor be split across different LPARS, e.g can I allocate 25% of a processor to an LPAR or does each LPAR need to have at least one processor? AIX version would either be 5.3 or 6.1 (...)
15 December 2008
Re: Joulukadun avajaiset Raahessa 28112008015.mp4 [149/324]: +Fotolisä. YLE 15.05-08, ilmoitteli varsin äänekkäästi, että TVO/Posivan:n alas ajama Merentutkimuslaitos on saanut kovasti kannatusta säilyttämisekseen. Diktatuurinen laitoksen silpoaminen silmittömässä ydinraivossaan on silkkaa Mao:ta! Ei lainkaan kuulema ymmärretä, miksi (...)
15 December 2008
USENIX LISA '09 Call For Papers Now Available: he LISA '09 organizers invite you to contribute refereed papers and proposals for invited talks and workshops. We're also looking for any ideas you have for Guru Is In sessions, Work-in-Progress Reports, posters, and training sessions. The theme for LISA '09 is "Putting (...)
12 December 2008
AIX NIM Problem: Hi, I have problem with creating spot from mksysb over nim... i am creating mksysb image of server over nim by command: nim -o define -t mksysb -a server=master -a source=tapdb1 -a location=/ exports/NIM/MKSYSB/tapdb1_`dat e +%Y_%m_%d`.mksysb -a mk_image=yes -a (...)
10 December 2008
SUMA download error: When I try to download upgrades, SUMA returns: [code] (SUMA::Download, /usr/suma/lib/SUMA/Download.pm [274]) (SUMA::Download, /usr/suma/lib/SUMA/Download.pm [274]) 20081209 17:39:30 D DEBUG: Attempt 1 to query fixserver failed. (SUMA::Download, /usr/suma/lib/SUMA/Download.pm [310]) (...)
9 December 2008
iostat option: Hi All Our unix machine a lot of hdisk, usually, I check hdisk3 , hdisk4 using below command iostat -d hdisk3 hdisk4 5 5 , this command will not report % user % sys % idle % iowait. Who to get CPU stat and particular disk io stat ? AIX (...)
9 December 2008
Multiple nfs mounts on same mount point ?: How is this possible ? Two nfs mounts on a same mount point ? Filesystem 1024-blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on apple:/home/data/media-server/ DB2 384827392 27588984 93% 369128 6% /mnt guava01-admin:/export/lpp_sour ce/TSM 384827392 27588984 93% 369128 6% (...)
9 December 2008
Page Swapping rate of a process: Hello, I have 512MB of virtual memory in my AIX system and we can know how much percentage o f this memory is already used with "lsps -s" command. (root) # lsps -s Total Paging Space Percent Used 512MB 1% But my requirement is to find the page swapping rate for (...)
9 December 2008
AIX ssh key question: I am not very familiar with AIX but I am working with a client who sent me an ssh public key to install on my windows server. The key that he generated has on top subject/comment and ---- BEGIN SSH2 ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY ----. I usually recieve keys that have just the key. Do I (...)
5 December 2008
About incomplete type from debugger: I am not able to see the types of my objects in debugger , I compiled a separate GDB using xlC but I am not able to debug anything bcoz of the following $2 = <incomplete type> (gdb) q where ever I want to see CPP object I getting the above (...)
4 December 2008
E-mails generated from script won't stop mailing: We have a script that runs every 10 minutes on one of our AIX 5.3 systems. The other day, the / filesystem filled up when the script tried to perform some changes in /etc (creating a user). Ever since then the script has e-mailed every 10 minutes telling me that the user creation (...)
3 December 2008
the following will compile on linux but not on xlC: typedef enum a , int main() is there any flag to escape it
3 December 2008
Ganglia, numbers of file descriptors and "top" processes: Hi there just working with this on a 570 and comparing to NMON RRD graphs, and whilst Ganglia is much prettier it lacks something showing the "top" processes and I'd also like to show how many file descriptors are open. (...)
3 December 2008
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30 November 2008
NetWorker Strangeness on AIX: Some brief stat.'s: AIX V5.3 TL6 NetWorker V7.4 SP2 NetWorker server runs on Windows 2003 Server Just wondering if anyone is seeing any inexplicable problems with nsrmmd where communications between it and the target drive breaks down for no apparent reason during a backup, and (...)
29 November 2008
help: gcc 4.0.0 on AIX 5.2 (32 bit): bash-2.04# cat t.c int main() return 0; I am getting following error when I compile this file using gcc 4.0.0 on AIX 5.2 (32 bit) bash-2.04# gcc t.c In file included from /opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc- ibm- aix5.2.0.0/4.0.0/include/stdio .h:413, from t.c:1: (...)
28 November 2008
.profile not executed for all users: Hello all, I have got the following scenario. When I create a new user using smitty and switch to it, it does not execute the .profile. Meanwhile, all existing users are running through their .profile. System Model: IBM,7998-61X Machine Serial Number: 062967A Processor Type: (...)
27 November 2008
Cannot increase size of /usr: Hi, I can't inccrease the size of /usr do you you know why ? (AIX 5.2) Thanks for your help U05:root:/usr#df -kI Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Free %Used Mounted on /dev/hd4 65536 58604 6932 90% / /dev/hd2 1310720 1300976 9744 100% /usr /dev/hd9var 294912 142304 152608 49% (...)
27 November 2008
issues with AIX linking: hi all We have object files made using various optmization levels in AIX while linking to a common library. Is it possible to use this library without any problems
27 November 2008
chcore set path and core name for process: Hi All I wonder know is there possibility to change values od core files for user i.e abc I know how to do this with chcore, root@server# chcore -p on -l /qa/qa_dump/corefiles/AIX/aix1 8/ lscore (done by user root) compression: off path specification: on corefile location: (...)
26 November 2008
any debugger for AIX: i am using aix 5.3 but I am not able to get any proper debugger for the same. GDB 5.2 and dbx from sunstudio10 are coming out to be wrong arch. In one case I found the 6.0W GDB to be working but the values shown for the variables are all meaning less which makes me think that (...)
26 November 2008
messed up hdiskpower devices while trying a cplv: On 1 of our Servers which has EMC Clariion Storage Type Disks,I found a few free hdiskpower LUNs free LUN Size(In GB) LUN No hdiskpower50 269 0x58000000000000 hdiskpower51 269 0x59000000000000
26 November 2008
Accidentally run chpv -C on a disk in a shared environment: Hi, We have a GPFS/ASM clusters in our environment and disks are shared (SAN ) across all nodes(systems). Accidentally i have run chpv -C on a disk which has a volume group of other node. The disk has only one volume group and one lv with log. right now lv is mount state ,is there (...)
26 November 2008
Interview Questions for AIX 5.3: Hi ALL, Could any body able to give me interview questions for AIX 5.3 (Level 1). Please help me. Thanks in advance, Kumaran
26 November 2008
Access to ASMI log from command line.: Hi, Was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to access the event log that the IBM engineers look at each time our p595 chucks a wobbly over flaky headrware. I know about the ASMI webpage, but would like something I could script access to via ssh so I can download the log. (...)
25 November 2008
LDAP package in AIX 6.1: Hi, Anyone has configured AIX 6.1 as a LDAP client? seems the packages are different now, in AIX 5.3, I installed "ldap.client", this package is not in AIX 6.1 CD, so I installed these ones, idsldap.clt64bit61.rte 6.1.0.3 COMMITTED Directory Server - 64 bit (...)
25 November 2008
P510 and lost passwords: Hi, I managed to get hold of a second-hand P510 but do not have any of the required passwords unfortunately. I don't have root access or the 'admin password' required for reinstalling the Operating System. Even the ASMI does not appear to be on the default Port of [link] (...)
25 November 2008
PV 'removed': The rootvg of my AIX 5.3 contains 8 disks, 4 internal and 4 external. Once the server was started up without powering up the external disks and since then, the external disks are "removed". The disks are healthy (no errpt, diag ok, rmdev -l then mkdev -l ok...). I believe the (...)
24 November 2008
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23 November 2008
Subversion 1.5.2 Binaries for AIX: Could people who would like to test the binaries that I've build, please contact me privately. I would like someone with AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 installations (you don't have to have all of them, but I would like to have them all covered). I have 5.1 and 5.3 but not 5.2 or (...)
22 November 2008
TL9 SP1 upgrade fails on bos.rte.printers: Hi All, I'm trying to bring a 55A from 5300-08-01 to 5300-09-01. I downloaded the TL+SP combo package from Fix Central. Everything installed OK except for: bos.net.uucp bos.rte.printers If I run lppchk I get: bos.net.uucp 5.3.8.1 (BROKEN) bos.net.uucp 5.3.9.0 (BROKEN) (...)
21 November 2008
bootlist issue: Having strange issue... when I enter the command bootlist -m normal -o I get the below output - hdisk1 On the first line there is this - which I want to get rid of. Tried setting this by bootlist -m normal hdisk1 Even tried But cannot remove the - . Is there anyway I could (...)
21 November 2008
KSH Script to CD to specific /dir and FTP: All, I have a script which is prompting a user to enter in a specific dir and then allowing them to use Reflection emulator to FTP a file from that dir: print -n "Type in the directory/file location: ";read var; print "" if test ! -d "$var" then echo (...)
20 November 2008
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20 November 2008
The indirection operator cannot be applied to a pointer to an incomplete struct or union: Hello, I know this has got to be a simple error, but everything I've tried doesn't seem to work. Any help would be welcome, I moved code from a SUN server to a AIX server and the code will not compile even though it's been working on the SUN server for years. Here is the (...)
20 November 2008
uncomplicated changing snmpd.conf in HACMP-environment: Hi, we have an old HACMP-2-node-environment in production (AIX 5.1 & AHCMP 4.4.1). Now I want change the /etc/snmpd.conf - files of both cluster-nodes. I want add the line "trap [our community] [IP of our management server] 1.2.3 fe". Now my question. Is this (...)
20 November 2008
PDF Converter: Is there a PDF converter for Report files created in COBOL in AIX? Thanks in advance.
19 November 2008
fread breaks file descriptors opened in "w" mode.: BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, For some reasons, somewhere in a program, I'd like, if possible, to quickly parse a whole file before rewinding it and letting the full analysis start. My problem is that the FILE* I want do parse has been fopen'ed far away (...)
18 November 2008
AIX, FTP & "netout: write returned 0?": All, I have a process which needs to FTP an empty semiphore flag file every hour. In response to this, AIX is spamming me with mail regaring the netout: write returned 0?. Is there any way to turn off this warning in AIX? (...)
18 November 2008
lost LUN config on AIX 5.2: Big problems After a reboot, I lost the names of my luns. the hdiskpower* disks all have other numbers now. How can I recover my VG's that are on there ? Thanks.
18 November 2008
xdelta for AIX 5.1: Does anyone know of a compiled version of the xdelta tool (xdelta.org) for AIX 5.1? Or a modified xdelta Makefile that works with xlc?
18 November 2008
how does smitty runs as non-root user?: Our helpdesk has access to smitty to make printers. I did not set it up and I seem to be unable to figure out how it works. My problem is a new box that it (smitty printers) does *NOT* work on. I am lost. I can not determine how it works (when it does) .... nor can I determine why it (...)
17 November 2008
New AIX information and archive site: Since IBM has a history of purging documentation and fixes for old products, I am looking to find sites, files, and information for AIX and RS/6000s in danger of disappearing. I've started with some older manuals and the AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 fixpacks. The goal here is to focus on the (...)
17 November 2008
ignore icmp echo on aix: People, i'm able to configure my linux box to ignore icmp echo simply by this: echo 1 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_i gnore_all and call it at system restart. How can i achieve the same result on my Aix box? 5300-06-08-0831 Thanks 4 (...)
16 November 2008
What do you do with a retired RS/6000 server?: We've been running AIX on an RS/6000 (pSeries 620 7025-6F1) since 2002. Last month, we migrated the data to a new server and have no use for this server. I've looked around on eBay and there doesn't seem to be an resale value in the unit. What the hell do I do with it (...)
14 November 2008
want to find the users who have not logged in from past 60 days: Hi, Would like to write a script to find the users who have not logged in from the past 60 days.. We have AIX 5.3........ any inputs plz? Thanks
13 November 2008
ML Update Queries: Hi Gurus, One of my server is Non-LPAR system and i would like to do ML upgrade on that system. When i tried with lsmcode, it gave me two output Platform Firmware level is 3F030829 System Firmware level is RG030815_d61e10_sfw133 If so which Firmware level do i need to upgrade before (...)
13 November 2008
lsuser ALL / lsgroup ALL in C: Hello I am unable to find a method/function in libc which allows me to list all known users and groups on a partition (similar to lsuser ALL / lsgroup ALL). All functions that I see in libc provide additional information on a group based on either the GID or the name. But what if I (...)
12 November 2008
KSH to determine the day: Hello, I'm trying to figure out why this isn't working: DAY=`/usr/bin/date|awk 'print $1'` if then echo "It Works!" fi When I try to run this I get a "`then' is not expected." error. Since today is not Thursday or Friday, I expected this (...)
12 November 2008
purchasing AIX 6.1?: I've got a P630 that I need to get AIX 6.1 installed on so I can update our software for our customers but can't find anyplace that is selling the O.S. (google searching came up with nothing). Any resellers out there that want to respond I'll give 'em a call as soon as I (...)
12 November 2008
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12 November 2008
nis / ypbind - what port does it use?: Does anyone know what port ypbind uses. I need to open the port in the firewall. Thanks in advance, Charlie
11 November 2008
Similar cmd on Linux...: Hi Do any of your guys know a similar command or combination of commands, that would give me an output like the AIX-commands usrck and pwdck on Linux? On AIX usrck –n ALL gives me: The user name XXXXXXX appears in /etc/security/passwd but not in /etc/ passwd. User daemon is (...)
11 November 2008
getting APAR IY41944: Hi, Running AIX5.3 oslevel 5300-07-06-0844 on a 44P-170, I want to download APAR IY41944. However, the link that was provided gets rerouted to another page for downloading Fix Packs. How can I search for and download an APAR from that? I tried but found nothing like that. (...)
10 November 2008
upgrading ssh: Hello, I`m new in the AIX's world, I`m working on a AIX 5.3, with openssh 4.1.8. An scanner has tell me that it is vulnerable to a SSH1 problem. I need to upgrade ssh? does openssh 4.1.8 support ssh2 protocol? or only need reconfigure sshd_config for ssh2 support? Thanxs, (...)
10 November 2008
handling special characters in AIX with C: Hi, I have this host which sends a text file in UTF-8 via ftp. But when my program reads the file in AIX, it is not able to handle the German umlaut character Ä which is in the file. My program is in C. I am using AIX 4. The program opens the text file and reads each character using (...)
9 November 2008
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9 November 2008
Firmware Query: I would like to do ML upgrade on one of my (IBM,9133-55A)Power 5+ system. Current OS Level : 5300-04-03 Current Firmware Level : SF240_219 and i would like to update to latest ML ie 5300-08 Can anyone please help me in knowing whether the current firmware is suitable for doing (...)
7 November 2008
lshwres command: System 9133-55A 2 processor cards 2 1G DIMM's and 2 2G DIMMs installed on each card 12G total >lshwres -r mem -m DocHarbor --level sys configurable_sys_mem=12288,cur r_avail_sys_mem=384,pend_avail _sys_mem=384,install ed_sys_mem=12288,max_capacity_ sys_mem=14336,deconfig_sys_mem (...)
7 November 2008
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7 November 2008
Dont compile gcc 3.3.2 on AIX 5.3: /usr/include/pthread.h:582: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/pthread.h:585: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/pthread.h:589: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/pthread.h:592: error: parse error before '*' token (...)
7 November 2008
Cannot mirrorvg after replacing defective hdisk: The scenario: 1) One of our servers had mirroring of the rootvg (hdisk1 & hdisk3). 2) hdisk1 died with messages in errpt - LVs listed as open/stale 3) Ran rmlvcopy and removed all copies on the failed hdisk1 4) Was able to reducevg and remove the affected disk. 5) rmdev -l hdisk1 (...)
6 November 2008
archive (big format) ??? Is static linking possible??: I just downloaded the newest version of openssl from IBM, to my AIX 5.3 system. It contained libssl.a and libcrypto.a. For whatever reason, I did a "file" on them and got this response: file libssl.a libcrypto.a libcrypto.a: archive (big format) libssl.a: archive (big (...)
5 November 2008
Remove SAN disk/s while disk is in use (for DR testing): Hi, While doing DR testing, we wanted to emulate a SAN issue and wanted to remove a SAN disk while the FS was in use (file being written continuously on the FS). We created a VG with single disk and a FS on it. Started a process (ping loopback > /test_fs/file.out &) to write to (...)
5 November 2008
AIX 5.3: Warning - logical volume fslv00 may be partially mirrored: Good day, everyone. Accidentally I found out that there is a potential problem on one of our AIX boxes in rootvg. When displaying LVs in a VG, following warning message issued for one of LVs: rootvg: LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE MOUNT POINT hd5 boot 1 2 2 closed/syncd (...)
5 November 2008
building a .so (shared object) file: I am trying to build php-5.2.6 on aix 6.1 using gcc 4.2.2 and cannot get it to generate libphp5.so. Is there a way I can convert the .a and .la files to a .so? Thanks
4 November 2008
FYI: Howto mirror the AIX Toolbox: A one liner to get the lastest ( hopefully ) rpm packages from the aix linux toolbox side ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeS oftware/aixtoolbox/ cat gettoolbox cd PathToToolbox wget -qO - [link] tr "\"" "\\n" |\ grep rpm$ |\ xargs -n1 -I wget --mirror
4 November 2008
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3 November 2008
file system cache....: Hi All, I am running a simple C++ program, which is pushing some double and string values in vector untill it fails because of unable to allocate memory. When first i executed it it failed after allocating the 12% of the memory even almost 90 % memory was free. After that i have set (...)
3 November 2008
Calculate IOPS and MBPS: Hii All I need to calculate max iops and MBps values on my aix system How can I do this ? Best Regards..
2 November 2008
New in AIX 6: Hi, I have to install an AIX 6.1 waht are the new features (or a link to point) Thanks in advance
2 November 2008
Aix Umask: I read that the default for files is 666 and for dirs is 777 and then the os aplyies the umask ... how I get by default file creation 775 for a specific user ?? what I have to add to /etc/security/user ?? Thanks !
30 October 2008
nfsd: Is nfsd daemon only required in case of nfs server ? What if we have a nfs client , is it not required in that case ?
30 October 2008
VIO issue: Friends, Require your help on the below issue... Here is the lspv output of alpha alpha:root:/home/root # lspv hdisk0 00abcb7d8bccb172 rootvg active hdisk1 00abcb7d8bee616c rootvg active hdisk2 00abcb7d43ea650d (...)
30 October 2008
high availability vs load balancing: Please help me here. High availability and redundancy is not the same as load balancing, right? Load balancing can point to different servers that may very well be configured the same but unless those servers themselves are clustered or have HACMP or another product that makes them (...)
28 October 2008
install gcc problem: I downloaded GCC for AIX from [link], as a single executable:gcc-3.3.2.0.exe This file gets unzipped into gcc-3.3.2.0.bff, and I use smit to install it. However, I get the following errors. Is there anything I missed? or there are easier ways to install gcc? "Bull and its (...)
28 October 2008
AIX SCSI standard Inquiry with ioctl and STIOCMD.: Hello all I have a problem on AIX 5.2/5.3 with an ioctl call. I'm trying to obtain the result of a standard SCSI INQUIRY on different tape drives. It's OK with IBM LTO drives but not with SUN/STK 9940 or T10000 drives. The error code from ioctl call is EFAULT (14) Bad address. (...)
28 October 2008
how to link statically to C++ runtime libs?: Hi, i want to remove runtime libs so i am trying to link statically to C++ libs but its not working :-( cat t.cpp using namespace std; int main (int argc, char **argv) cout << "test\n\n"; return 0; i used following link line: /usr/vacpp/bin/xlC -o t t.cpp (...)
27 October 2008
HANFS and HACMP: Guys I have one situation , where a two nodes cluster with cascading RG configuration is working fine ( no HANFS configuration...) The shared disk is on DS4800 and it contains a filesystem ( /oltlg1) , which has been exported from NodeB to NodeA over NFS... Problem is that , when (...)
27 October 2008
Bootlist not updated: Hi, I try to add a second disk (SAN disk EMC) to the bootlist only a '-' is displayed after, do you know why ? hdisk191 blv=hd5 - Thanks in advance AIX 5.2
24 October 2008
fileplace relevance in SAN environment: Hello I was just wondering if the fileplace command is relevant in a SAN environment? (sequentiality) I would to hear your vision on this. Thanks Miguel
23 October 2008
AIX 4.3 Stale LVs: Hi All, I've inherited an old AIX 4.3 system with 1GB drives in it. Yesterday I noticed some stale LVs. I googled the issue and ran some commands I found in other results. Here is what the system looked like before I started: rootvg: LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE (...)
23 October 2008
Aix Administrator - Immediate Opening - Permanent Role: Hi This is a Permanent Fulltime position Title : Aix Administrator Experience Level : 4+ Years Location : Los Angeles, CA Key skills required: Key skills required: (in the order of priority) Experience in enterprise Unix environment AIX v 5.1 through AIX v6.x IBM Regatta (...)
23 October 2008
building libphp5.so on aix 6.1: Has anyone been able to build the php shared module for apache on aix 6.1?
22 October 2008
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21 October 2008
spool printers: Dear all, I am using AIX 5.3 with IBM P5 series server. I am using network spool printers also. In case power fails or network link break need to restart the printer from server side (with enable command). Any one can help me to solve this problem? (...)
21 October 2008
Re: Call Java functions in a C DLL: Ahmad Jalil Qarshi wrote, On 20/10/08 23:33: <snip> <snip> Make files are not topical on comp.lang.c nor is how to interface to Java (because it is JAva that specifies this not C). Please keep the discussion of this on groups where it is topical, and I'm guessing that (...)
21 October 2008
veritas volume manager not able to detect netapp luns: Hi, I have exported 6 netapp luns via iscsi to my aix 5.3 system. Although, the system can see it, I am not able to detect the disks in vxvm even after "vxdisk scandisks" and "vxdisk -f scandisks". Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated. Here is the output of (...)
20 October 2008
sudo-1.6.9p17 x AIX 5.3: Hello there, I have compiled sudo-1.6.9p17 in AIX 5.3 TL 5 and in AIX 5.3 TL 8 and everything seems to be working just fine when I user reported me the following problem: $ sudo cfgmgr cfgmgr: 0514-603 Cannot access the Config_Rules object class in the device configuration database. (...)
20 October 2008
Difference between "Connection accepts" and "Connection requests": Hello, In output from netstat (e.g. "netstat -p tcp -a | grep -i conn"), I see lines like: 2755505 connection requests 340186 connection accepts 3086161 connections established (including accepts) 3428998 connections closed (including 2379842 drops) 0 connections with (...)
20 October 2008
libptools_ptr.a and mt__trce: I found in aix mt__trce can backtrce and install the libptools_ptr.a I find an example for this .but when I gcc ./backtrce.c -o ....,he told me not found the mt__trce define.but I can''not find the mt__trce define in /usr/include.where can i find the include define.If this write (...)
20 October 2008
PBUF/PSBUF/FSBUF question: Hello gurus After reading the man page on vmstat, it still isn't quite clear to me what the pbuf/psbuf/fsbuf buffers mean in the following vmstat -v output: 0 pending disk I/Os blocked with no pbuf 371595 paging space I/Os blocked with no psbuf 2178290 filesystem I/Os blocked (...)
18 October 2008
AIX and ODBC: Hello, is there any IBM supplied ODBC Support for AIX? Until now I only found third party addon products. Thanks Peter
18 October 2008
Properly initializing a serial device?: Hi -- I have a serial device attached to /dev/tty8 on an AIX 5.3 server. Any time the server reboots, the application that drives this device loses its ability to open and manage the device until I enter the following command at a shell prompt: # >/dev/tty8 After I do this, I (...)
18 October 2008
How to list all files with an ACL and also list the ACL settings: Hi, I am using AIX 5.3 with MP 7 and I am investigating the use of ACL’s to assist in setting various security constraints. I have found that you can use ls and find to obtain a list of the objects that have ACL’s applied to them. The command “find” with the (...)
17 October 2008
NIM lpp_source creation by nim support mutiple cd ?: Hello, I tried to create a NIM lpp_source of AIX 6.1 (2 DVDs) by nim command, I copied cd 1 with the following command, lpp6100 -a source=/dev/cd0 lpp6100 after it's finished, I tried to copied cd 2 with the same command and it showed 0042-001 nim: processing error encountered (...)
17 October 2008
FTP skipping commands in AIX: I have an FTP script that operates on a VPN tunnel between AIX and a remote server. It goes out to the remote host and tries to pick up a data file that provides updates for incoming material (essentially a form of EDI). Our server is using the native FTP in AIX 5.1 and the remote (...)
16 October 2008
link issue: Im trying to create soft link to a directory.... in / I do the following ln -s /incoming-dw/incoming-cc incoming and as expected it does create the soft link in / as below lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 34 16 Oct 13:48 incoming-cc - But the problem is if I try to cd incoming-cc pwd (...)
16 October 2008
how to check mirrorvg or extendvg status: Hi, I have a question , if a AIX server has 2 disks in rootvg, how do you know if it's in mirrored or striped state? thanks.
16 October 2008
Number of AIO Kprocs: Hello folks AIO is currently configured as: autoconfig available STATE to be configured at system restart True fastpath enable State of fast path True kprocprio 39 Server PRIORITY True maxreqs 16384 Maximum number of REQUESTS (...)
15 October 2008
Find and copy files modified today: Hello, I am trying to find and copy files modified today from one directory to another. Something like: cp find /dir1/P*.DAT -type f -mtime -1 /dir2/ Is there a way to combine the cp and find commands on a single line? I don't think that there is, so instead I made a script to do (...)
15 October 2008
filesystem increasing without logical reason: Hello, on a AIX 5.2 system I have a filesystem that houses the binaries for Progress. This is a 750MB filesystem and stated filling up suddenly. I cannot find what i causing this. du command shows its 200MB filled. find recently added files doesn't revail anything either. So I am (...)
15 October 2008
striping an existing filesystem: Hi ! There is any procedure to striping an existing filesystem ... im thinking in: a) backup the filesystem b) delete filesystem c) recreate with striping options is there something easier ? Thanks in advance.
14 October 2008
Encryption algorithm in DCE: Hi, I hope this guestion is not misplaced in this forum, if so I apologise and I'd be much obliged to know which other forum would be appropriate. We are migrating our users from DCE to LDAP and we've already exported user names and passwords from DCE to PWD and GROUP files (...)
14 October 2008
AIX/RAC Slow response: I have the following environment: 2 x P570's with 12X48 allocated to each of the RAC nodes. There is another LPAR on each node. Oracle 9.2.0.7 DS8100 SAN (File systems are 200G, one is 400G, total of 11 file systems) AIX 5.3 GPFS 2.3 Often, one of the nodes goes into a hang (...)
14 October 2008
Sending a down arrow key through ksh: All, I have a KSH script which needs to navigate a menu automagically. Right now it does something like: echo "Y\nY\n..." | myprog > /logs/my.log The Y enter Y enter is answering prompts correctly in myprog, but right after that I am presented with a menu which I need to (...)
12 October 2008
Freeze during boot: Hi, I transfered OS(AIX 5.3 P55A LPAR) local disk to SAN disk (alt_disk_copy) everything seems OK during boot on SAN disk I am freezed with LED 554 do you know what is the problem ? Thanks in advance
11 October 2008
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10 October 2008
Re: Installation Issue AIX 5L V 5.3 on JS21 Type 8844: On Oct 9, 6:37 pm, "underglobe2...@yahoo.co.uk" Get in touch with your IBM representive and get the lastet DVD/CD Set for AIX 5.3. AFAIFO AIX 5.3 ML4 is the minimum requirement or use another AIX server as a nim server for your js21 hth (...)
10 October 2008
how to get backtrace in aix using c: I want my programming get backtrace in aix, i search solaris using setjmp.h linux using glib.but aix i can't how to doing ,thankyou !
10 October 2008
HTML::Parser on AIX 5.2: 5200-10 This is perl, v5.8.0 built for aix-thread-multi Trying to install HTML::Parser from CPAN. Fails as follows: /.cpan/build/HTML-Parser-3.56- APVknA cc_r -c -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE - qmaxmem=16384 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT - (...)
10 October 2008
Installation Issue AIX 5L V 5.3 on JS21 Type 8844: I have a set of 8 cd's for AIX 5L V5.3 with product no. 5765-G03. Now this is a fresh/first Install.There is no OS in this blade. And when I try to install it from the drive attached to the Blade Enclosere it stops at this point ------------------------------ (...)
9 October 2008
Erasing Tape tctl problem: Hello! I try to erase tape on AIX 5 system with tctl. I get the following message: /dev/rmt0 erase 1 failed: There is an input or output error. Device is available, tape is inserted, tctl rewind works without error, tctl status shows the following info: rmt0 Available 05-08-01-1,0 (...)
9 October 2008
AIX Toolbox download page: Does anyone know what happend to the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications ? It use to be here, [link] Cheers.
9 October 2008
AIX GUI management/monitoring tool: I've been in AIX support for a few years, and so far I've managed to avoid using a Windows based GUI to manage and monitor the AIX systems I've supported. Managed fine with the command line. We've now got 24 AIX servers to manage, and I think the time has come to use a (...)
8 October 2008
How to get libgcj.jar: How to get libgcj.jar? gcj home page gcc.gnu.org/java/ seems to ask me to install the gcc. I had installed gcc 4.2.0 but do not have libgcj.jar.
7 October 2008
Traditional Chinese as Primary Language: Hello all, Our vendor has provided us an IBM machine with AIX 5 installed on it. In the specification document they have mentioned that Traditional Chinese Language is the Primary language and English is Secondary language. I was wondering if it may create any problem if we are using (...)
7 October 2008
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6 October 2008
Re: How to Mirror data vg: MC Pee pants schrieb: there is no mirroring of disks (== physical volume) in AIX' volume manager. You can mirror the hardware by the means of a hardware RAID controller. In AIX you add the free physical volumes into the data vg and then add a copy to each logical volume onto the (...)
6 October 2008
md5sum for aix 5.3: How to get md5sum binary for aix 5.3? My computer does not have it. I google but did not find it.
4 October 2008
VIOs sending BDPU packets?: I am in the process of testing 802.1Q tagging on a pair of VIOS servers (to have client LPARs on 2 different VLANS). The network guys are telling me that AIX is trying to participate in Spanning Tree and the switch port is being automatically disabled. They have BDPU Guard and portfast (...)
3 October 2008
in ps tdiskio field is empty ( AIX 5300-07-01-0748 ): Good day everyone, I have issue with field tdiskio for ps command on my AIX 5300-07-01-0748, it's empty for each process: ps -e -o pid=,tdiskio= | head -5 1 - 94352 - 114780 - 118890 - 131176 - How I can turn system to catch real values of this field (...)
1 October 2008
add the vim icon to the AIX CDE 1.0 front panel: How to add the vim icon to the AIX CDE 1.0 front panel so that clicking the vim icon will start the vimx in graphical mode? vimx 6.3 is installed at /usr/bin/X11/vimx. AIX version is 5.3.
29 September 2008
Ports Open: I want to see if the firewall ports between the two aix server have been opened or not. Is there any way to do that ? I know that there are netstat -an command , but not interested in that as it gives me the status only on source and recipient server, what I am morre interested in is (...)
29 September 2008
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29 September 2008
Source Code Migration Plan: Dear all, I need to make a plan for migration of Source Code from one of our vendor. Its a big application that is developed in AIX as core system and DELPHI as front-end. The plan would consist of the details steps for taking Source Code and building our own Development (...)
29 September 2008
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29 September 2008
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29 September 2008
64-bit eclipse prebuilt binary for AIX 5.3 on ppc64: How to get a 64-bit eclipse prebuilt binary for AIX 5.3 on ppc64? One workaround is to download the eclipse source code and compile it.
28 September 2008
mozilla 1.7.13.1 can be started only by root: I installed mozilla 1.7.13.1 for aix 5.3. It can be started only by root. It cannot be started only by non-root users. i.e. typing $ mozilla do not make the web browser to appear. No error messages appear.
27 September 2008
looking for JNI samples for java6_64 on aix 5.3: I am looking for JNI samples for java6_64 on aix 5.3. According to the SDK guide: [link] There is a README file and example programs in the /usr/java6_64/demo/ jni directory. The demos can be optionally installed with the Java6_64.samples (...)
27 September 2008
other jdk or jre for aix 5.3 besides ibm: Are there other jdk or jre for aix 5.3 other than those provided at [link]
26 September 2008
sftp logging issue: AIX 5300-06-03-0732 openssh 4.7.0.5301 openssl 0.9.8.601 openssh/openssl installed from IBM's installp downloads. I have sftp logging to a file and it works as I want it to - login time, files transferred information, and logout time, but when I build a chroot jail, and sftp to (...)
26 September 2008
Which AIX to which machine???: Long time ago i have found some table where was a list of p-series servers with lists AIX versions possible to install on this machine. But it is lost someware in google and i can not find it.. Maybe someone from you remember a link where can i find a list like that ?? a specially i (...)
26 September 2008
DB2 Container behaviour on EMC DMX 3 San.: We are reviewing database container design where the storage layer is an EMC DMX 3 Raid 5 San. The SAN comprises multiple raid 5 arrays, four disks in each array. We have been allocated 8 gig virtual hypervolumes(LUNS) each mapped horizontally across the four disks. The 8 gig hyper (...)
26 September 2008
AIX 5.3, DS4300 and redundancy over multiple HBA's: Good day everyone, I just made another try on establishing redundant FC link for an AIX (actually - VIOS) host connected to DS4300 system through a SAN switch (2005-H16). This time it worked, but I had to connect each HBS on the VIO LPAR exactly to one controller on the DS4300. (...)
26 September 2008
Source Code Acquisition Plan: Hello, I am required to make a plan for Transfer of Souce Code from a company. The code would be comprising of AIX application and DELPHI as front end. It is a big system with hundreds of modules and certianly millions of line of code. I need some mechanism/plan that shall take care (...)
26 September 2008
Regarding core files.: Hello, I have a process (called A) which has a message queue and and its job to read the messages from this queue and process them. The issue is, this message queue has become full and process A got asserted when some other aplication is trying to put a message in its message queue (...)
25 September 2008
db2 table space restore: hello all, Not really too familiar with db2 and need help restoring table space using TSM.. this is what i found in the web: 1) create an empty DB = NEWDB1 2) # RESTORE CURRENTDB db2inst1 password1 TABLESPACE PROD02 USE TSM TAKEN AT 091808 INTO NEWDB1 can you please verify if this (...)
24 September 2008
lsof question - re: fifo's: I have a question about lsof - on AIX I know I can see how much a process has "written" to a file, and how much it has "read" from a file... Is there a way to do the same with a PIPE (i.e. listed as a FIFO in lsof)...??? Take the lsof output for this process: (...)
24 September 2008
HMC requried to power up a power6 ?: I am not quite sure about but i think i have read some where that for certain p6 machines an ACTIVE HMC connection is required for power up. Meaning: No hmc - no startup of the p6 machine. Does sombody knows about it and/or can give a link? tia (...)
24 September 2008
filemon problem: hi all I used filemon -O all to gather io information and see which files are most active on my platform 5.3 However, running filemon significantly change the behavior of my testing application. Originally IO bandwidth is at 300M/sec, now with filemon running, it decreases to 20M/sec. (...)
23 September 2008
Release for Firefox 2.0.0.17 and Seamonkey 1.1.12: Firefox 2.0.0.17 and Seamonkey 1.1.12 are available now. Both GTK1 builds for AIX 4.3.3 or higher or the GTK 2.8.3 build for AIX5.1 or newer can be downloaded from the usual place: <[link]> <[link]> Have fun or a good time @ work with the best browsers on (...)
23 September 2008
has bosboot command changed characteristics of boot image?: hi all i just found one of my p650 server showing a warning message when i tried to run bosboot command after upgrading TL to AIX 530803. i also tried to run chpv -c hdisk0 and chpv -c hdisk1 to clear out the old boot info in hdisk0 and hdisk1 and rerun bosboot -a. it still showed the (...)
23 September 2008
Searching for AIX 4.1.5 Update for Apple Network Server: As the title states already I'm looking for Apple's AIX 4.1.5 Update / Upgrade for the short lived series of Apple Network Servers (not to be mixed up with their Workgroup Servers). Although it's basically an OS from IBM, Apple modified it for their own needs, so regular AIX (...)
23 September 2008
mount cifs: Hi, I try to mount a windows share from an AIX 5.3 I get the following error can you help me ? Thanks in advance U22:root:/#mount -v cifs -n cb010526/test/test1234 -o wrkgrp=fr1,fmode=750,uid=200,g id=201 /work /tmp_mnt There was an error connecting the share or the server. (...)
22 September 2008
Avoiding unintended shutdowns: Hello all! After one of my collegues shut down a production LPAR unintentionally, because he typed the shutdown command into the wrong putty window, I have been thinking about ways how to avoid this in the future. Here is what has come to mind so far: Putting a skript into the PATH (...)
22 September 2008
High load average: Hi. I have AIX 6.1 (6100-01) running on top of LPAR with 24 CPUs and 116 GB of RAM. System runs several Oracle instances. Although system runs fine, i.e. there are no complaints on host performance, today I've noticed this: 12:45PM up 10 days, 12:45, 0 users, load average: 389.41, (...)
22 September 2008
JNI program work with jdk 5 but not jdk6 on aix 5.3: My JNI program work with jdk 5 but not jdk6 on aix 5.3. i.e. I compiled & tested my program with jdk 5 and it worked. Then with the same files & directory, I run jdk6 (I installed both jdk5 & 6) and it failed. Why? jdk5 is ok: $ /usr/java5_64/jre/bin/java -d64 -jar (...)
21 September 2008
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21 September 2008
Fileset for CIFS: Hi, I am looking for CIFS fileset for AIX 5.3 I didn't find on the 8 CD where can I find it ? Thanks in advance
20 September 2008
Changing block size on on tape drive gives 0514-038: I'm running AIX 5.3 TL5. If I try to change the block size on the SCSI tape drive with the command: chdev -l 'rmt0' -a block_size='0' I get the error: Method error (/etc/methods/chggen): 0514-038 Error loading kernel extension. And the tape drive goes from (...)
19 September 2008
New secure password hash algorithms on AIX 6.1: Hi, I created an user on an AIX 6.1 box. I had set the configuration in /etc/security/login.cfg such that SSHA-1 would be used for password hashing. Now I am trying to write a program which will verify the password entered by the user with the stored password hash. but i am not able (...)
19 September 2008
debugger for JNI apps jdk 6.0 on aix 5.3: What is the best debugger for debugging JNI apps jdk 6.0 on aix 5.3? I had used Eclipse to debug java program previously. This is the first time I debug JNI apps written in C++ & jdk 6.0. Should I continue to use Eclipse? I found the following, do anyone has good experience with it? (...)
18 September 2008
Problem with fix for DNS Cache Poisoning: We were having a problem after installing the fix for the DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability? We installed APAR IZ26667 on AIX 5.2 (oslevel -r --> 5200-08). We are running named8. Then we noticed that named8 was no longer running. We would start it and it would be stopped a while (...)
18 September 2008
reading local variable to a register in assembly: Hi, I am trying to use assembly within c code. 1 unsigned long 2 foo() 3 4 int i = 5; 5 /* Copy i to r3 (r3 = i) like asm ("ld 3, i") */ 6 asm ("br"); 7 return 3; 8 9 10 11 int main() 12 13 unsigned long i; 14 i = foo(); 15 printf (...)
18 September 2008
download gvim for aix 5.3: Which website to get gvim binary for aix 5.3? Instead of downloading the gvim source code and compile it on aix 5.3.
18 September 2008
I can't get the oracle process full name using kgetpname.: Hello, all I made kernel module in AIX 5.3 that installed oracle 10g. The goal of my module is get the all processes name. I use kgetpname kernel services. It is good for all process execept oracle processes. For oracle process, process name is just 'oracle' not (...)
17 September 2008
How to release resources from an lpar: Hello, We have a request to release cpu and memory from an lpar which is not going to be used for a few months. We do not want to delete the lpar from the hmc, just release all the cpu and memory. Even though the lpar is shutdown it does not release the resources into the available (...)
17 September 2008
CIFS and AIX shares?: Hi -- When we migrated to a new AIX 5.3 box, we didn't install SAMBA on it, choosing instead to use the built-in CIFS system to get to the Windows shares that AIX needed to get to. But there are a few AIX shares that the Windows servers need to get to as well. And I can't (...)
17 September 2008
AIX x sudo 1.6.9p17: I’m trying to restrict the use of a few tools on AIX known by its shell escapes history. I started the tests with vi, crontab, less and find. The problem is: I cannot use the command crontab -e anymore. Even if I remove vi from the list. Does anyone knows how to make it work? Is (...)
16 September 2008
TSM StorageAgent 5.5.1.0 upgrade requisite failures: Hello. On a 5300-06-01 machine I would like to upgrade: tivoli.tsm.StorageAgent.rte tivoli.tsm.devices.aix5.rte tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.devices tivoli.tsm.msg.en_US.server from 5.3.2.0 to 5.5.0.0 but I've only found 5.5.1.0-TIV-TSMSTA-AIX.tar.gz on the IBM FTP site. However I (...)
16 September 2008
escape # in Makefile: Problem: Any occurence of # in Makefile cannot be escaped. e.g. /my/special/file\#001.txt This is okay for make on other platforms like sun4v/sol86/lnx but the escape using a '\'. gmake/clearmake work correctly without issues even on AIX. I searched this group for an answer (...)
16 September 2008
Stop AIX from releasing its lease at shutdown: Hi all, I know it looks like heretic to all but I would like to have the same behavior between Windows and AIX clients. Windows clients don't release their lease. AIX follows the RFC but I would like to keep the lease going so AIX clients won't change their IP. The guilty (...)
16 September 2008
Regular expression with Grep command: I have a file whose each line looks like: Description: SNL,CENT,8.0,ALP,UPSL,IE,38043 759 2CPUS Description: ABC,nmji,6.0,gtP,buyL,MAC,3804 9 2CPUS ....... ....... Using the grep command, how will I find all those lines in my file that DO NOT begin with "Description: SNL". (...)
16 September 2008
FTPD packet level debugging information required: Hello, I am working with aix 4.3.2 and the ftpd version is 4.1. I have a requirement to monitor all the ftp packets that go out of the server. I tried using the '-d' , '-l' and the '-s' options already available with the ftpd command. I also modified the (...)
15 September 2008
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14 September 2008
xlC 8 and 9 on aix 5.3: I did a TL upgrade to 5.3 ML7 with the lastest fixes included. That took my up to xlC9: xlC.adt.include 6.0.0.0 COMMITTED C Set ++ Application xlC.aix50.rte 9.0.0.1 COMMITTED XL C/C++ Runtime for AIX 5.2 xlC.cpp 9.0.0.0 COMMITTED C for AIX (...)
12 September 2008
AIX Administrator- Jacksonville, FL - 90K: Looking for an experienced AIX administrator (5.1, 5.2, 5.3). This person should be able to install, configure and support AIX. He/she should also be able to install and configure Power 5 virtualization (P5) and also APV. It’s plus if the person has Redhat Linux experience and/or (...)
12 September 2008
Looking for precompiled POP3 server for AIX5.3: Hi, i'm looking for precompiled POP3 server for AIX 5.3. Was lookng through Inet - but found nothing. Pls, don't tell me about Toolbox for Linux or compilation by myself - as on my compiler - e.g. popper doesn't want to compile. If you can precompile POPPER for me on AIX 5.3 (...)
12 September 2008
Transactional data (file system) store on AIX?: Not all data in a system is in a database but consistent information across data stores is a need (huge online data increase, going to 24/24 7/7, that need to be consistent). And a primary data store is the file system. A this time, there is capability to define or freeze a consistent (...)
12 September 2008
libHwAPI.so: Cannot open or remove a file containing a running program: CertificateDemo is a JNI java program which fails to run. $ java -d64 -Djava.library.path=/usr/java6 _64/jre/lib/ext CertificateDemo SSL Connect is failing Exception in thread "main" com.mycomp.crypto.HwCryptokiEx ception: function 'C_Initialize' returns 0x30 at (...)
11 September 2008
CPU, memory RTE monitoring script: Hi, does anyone has a script (possibly perl or shell) to monitor CPU, memory etc on run time ? I have written some scripts but they run on a pre-defined time i.e from cron or autosys. I want to put something at kernel level which alerts us whenever CPU starts going high. idea on how (...)
11 September 2008
openssh.base.client 4.7.0.5302.rpm required: Hi, I am installing OpenSSH 4.7 on my AIX 5.3 box. I was able to locate and download most of the pre-requisite rpms on the net. however I couldnt find "openssh.base.client 4.7.0.5302.rpm" and "openssh.base.server 4.7.0.5302.rpm". Could anyone please help me by (...)
11 September 2008
Best way for AIX patch management: Hi, I know this might be a odd question because there's nothing such as "best way", it varies from person to person, but just want to take some opinions on how people world over do their patch management like upgrade TLs etc. This is how I have been doing, - Break the (...)
11 September 2008
PATH environment variable for root is wrong: I want to set my PATH environment variable to /usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/ usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/us r/java6_64/jre/bin: /usr/java6_64/bin:/usr/java14/ jre/bin:/usr/java14/bin:/usr/l ocal/bin Therefore I modified the /etc/environment file to this: PATH=/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/ (...)
10 September 2008
syslog configuration for logging Oracle RAC events: Hi, Does anyone knows how can we configure syslogd to capture warning and above events from Oracle RAC (Clusterware). The reason I am asking is because, RAC is causing one node to reboot and we want to investigate why. Oracle logs somehow seems to be insufficient :-( As of now, I (...)
10 September 2008
How accurate are AIX disk reporting metrics with a SAN?: Are the disk performance and configuration data reported by AIX valid for SAN storage configured as hypervolumes and presented to the operating system as hdiskpower logical disks? For example: Does the data distribution reported by lslv accurately represent the actual data (...)
10 September 2008
varyonvg & varyoffvg taking LONG time: Hello, Got 2 nodes in cluster; both have access to same EMC disks, there is VG defined (oravg); oravg is imported on both nodes, but on one node varyonvg/varyoffvg takes ~3 seconds, on second node it is almost 2 minutes. Any clues what may be the reason? There are no any entries in (...)
10 September 2008
java "too many commands": We have a java application using IBM java 5 and apache-tomcat. The application sometimes returns "too many commands" errors. I am trying to figure out whether this is an OS problem or a apache- tomcat problem. Anyone seen this before and can point me in the right (...)
10 September 2008
SMIT requires a minimum of 24 line by 80 column output display: Please help. 1800-005 SMIT requires a minimum of 24 line by 80 column output display. Check terminal or window size and try again. Computer OS is aix 5.3.
9 September 2008
HACMP failover fails: Hello all, today one of the two nodes in our HACMP cluster failed. The standby node should have taken over, but clverify failed. This is what I have found in the logs: ""BEGIN CHECK Verifying Fast Disk Takeover Verifying volume group first_vg for fast disk takeover Node (...)
8 September 2008
is it safe to do system("procstack "): basically I want to print stack from the running process.
8 September 2008
I/O Performance from EMC DMX 3000 SAN.: We have a DB2 database connected to an EMC DMX 3000 SAN. Response is slow for certain queries and Topas indicates a hotspot on hdisk25 which represents physical disks on the san. iostat shows data max transfer rates of just over 1m per second when the DB is under load. Also (...)
8 September 2008
Physical Volumes - Space Allocated Vs Space used by data.: The prtconf command shows the physical volumes allocated to a volume group. Does "FREE PPs" indicate the number of physical partitions that have not been allocated to a file system or the number of partitions that have free space? The reason I ask is that this volume group (...)
8 September 2008
xlC installation error: I am new to AIX admin. I am trying to install xlC and after submiting the command "installp -aXYgd inst.images -e logfile all" I got the following error from logfile: MISSING REQUISITES: The following filesets are required by one or more of the selected filesets listed above. (...)
7 September 2008
Mount windows share to AIX: How in AIX 5.1 can I access a windows shared drive without using NFS. I have looked into cifs but I can not seem to find the package that I need to install for AIX 5.1 if anyone can give me any further direction please let me (...)
5 September 2008
install jdk 1.6 on aix 5.3 - missing Requisite Failures: I want to install jdk 1.6 on aix 5.3. I got the missing Requisite Failures. Should I download the missing Requisite and continue? Is there a better installation method? .toc Java6_64.sdk Java6_64.sdk.tar [TOP] geninstall -I "a -cgNQqwX -J" -Z -d Java6_64 -f File (...)
5 September 2008
LDAP - is there an API?: Hi, I've just been experimenting with AIX's -ldapsearch -utility - I've been successfully using it to retrieve information from an Active Directory, however, I need to make similar calls from a C program. Is there a suitable LDAP API on AIX which will give me similar (...)
5 September 2008
OpenSSH + AIX + WINBIND + AD auth: I've got a P55 with AIX 5.3 running with winbind successfully bound to our Active Directory (Windows 2003 Server) environment, and the AIX box is successfully processing authentications through AD when users log in via "telnet" (yuck). I've installed OpenSSH and that (...)
5 September 2008
FAST '09 Call For Papers Deadline Approaching: The 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) Program Committee would like to remind you that the deadline to contribute to the refereed papers is quickly approaching. Paper submissions are due 9:00 p.m. EDT, September 12, 2008. FAST '09 brings together (...)
4 September 2008
Find the executable for a running process: How can I find the executable for a running process? For example I use ps -ef and get: java ... for the CMD. How can I find which java is being executed?
3 September 2008
determine hard disk type in aix computer: Is there a command to determine the hard disk type (e.g. disk size, interface type) in an aix computer without looking at the disk physically?
3 September 2008
java 6 installation fixes on aix 5.3: I want to install java 6 on aix 5.3 (currently java 1.4.1 is installed). I had looked these web pages: [link] [link] I have some cpp programs on the same aix computer. Will those java fixes change the OS so that the cpp programs may (...)
3 September 2008
FTP transfert causes 100% use of rootvg: hello i made an Oracle Dump. When i get my dump ( 7 Go ) with ftp, the server is like hang. I can not send any command with my terminal. the transfert is short ( less than f5 minutes ), is complete. And after all is ok. the server responde good. During the transfert, i have see (...)
3 September 2008
VCS on AIX - failover problem: Hello, Did not find VCS related group, so.. :) I am using Veritas Cluster Server on AIX LPARs (AIX 5.3). I have 2 machines in cluster, node1 and node2 (working under Veritas Cluster Server); there are 4 volume groups having several filesystems - 3 of them are 'normal', one is (...)
3 September 2008
MISSING PATHS: When I run diag -a on my "AIX server9 2 5 005747AA4C00" MISSING PATHS 801024 The path between the following resources is missing: hdisk5 P1/Z1-Ac 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive (36400 MB) scsi0 P1/Z1 Wide/Ultra-3 SCSI I/O Controller hdisk4 P1/Z1-Ad 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk (...)
3 September 2008
APAR installed ?: Hi, how I can see if an APAR is installed ? Thanks in advance
2 September 2008
automatic action after file transfer/close: I'm looking for a way to automatically copy a file from one location to another after a file close. Essentially, when a file is ftp-ed (sftp) to a home directory in a chroot jail, once the transfer is completed, it would be automatically copied to a new location so it can be (...)
2 September 2008
Automating a Crontjob to tell me when my Database files exeed 1GB ?? Help ??: HI, our database replication stopped the other week... the cause was found to be if the transaction log files grow over 1GB the replication stops, thus eventually the live database ground to a halt due to no replication happening. GOD KNOWS how ASK THE DBA'S :). Well my job now is (...)
1 September 2008
GigE Question: All, I believe I know the answer but am interested in unbiased opinions :-) so... For GigE adapters on pSeries/System P running AIX, what is the suggested/correct adapter setting (adapter and port) for speed and duplexing?? Should it be left at autonegotiate on both sides or (...)
31 August 2008
Subversion for AIX: What do people want?: Hi People, I've almost gotten subversion 1.5.x being compiled and built correctly, but I've got a few questions around the lines of what do people want/expect. Firstly, what versions of AIX do you need? 5.1+, 5.2+, 5.3+ or 6.1 only? Is a tarball ok, or would you prefer a bff (...)
31 August 2008
HACMP Problems: Hi everyone. I'm needing a help for a AIX Cluster with HACMP. I tried to add new disks for a concurrent VG, this VG is added for a Resouce Group using HACMP5.3. When I added it, I got this message; cl_extendvg: Error executing clupdatevg wsrg1vg 00cf225f0c816b87 on node (...)
29 August 2008
Removal of sparse file settings: Hi there, Does any of You how to remove the 'Sparse file' settings on a jfs2 filesystem? I got a problem (or my sap dbs's does) We've got a jfs2 filesystem, the sap adm user, and the oracle adm user got 'unlimited' settings, like this: time(seconds) unlimited (...)
29 August 2008
Run commands on multiple LPARs: Hello, again, Folks, AIX newbie alert (old VMS guy trying to find his way around UN*X after 20 years away)... Is there any software available for running a single command, even something simple like "date" (to verify thet NTP is working as expected), on multiple LPARs? (...)
29 August 2008
HMC V7R3.1 upgrade and proxy server: Thought I have to share this piece of knowledge. Although not in a common setup, someone else may hit this trouble. I had a look through HMC support at IBM but did not find anything similar. I was upgrading HMC V6R1.3 to V7R3.1, all according to IBM manual. Saved upgrade data to HD, (...)
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bos.mp 5.3.0.30 install error: I want to install jdk 1.6 on aix 5.3. It fails because the followings are missing: bos.mp 5.3.0.30 # Fileset Update bos.mp64 5.3.0.30 # Fileset Update bos.net.tcp.client 5.3.0.30 # Fileset Update bos.rte 5.3.0.30 # Fileset (...)
27 August 2008
LPAR - not using all processors: I have two LPARS, both running Oracle for the same application (one is Test, the other is Development). Each has two processors assigned, and because they're dual-core, they show up in NMON as four processors. On one LPAR, it uses all four processors equally. On the other, it (...)
27 August 2008
AIX automount does not mount /net: I have a weird issue with AIX automounter ( At least in 5.1 and 5.2) if I have a NFS server, name it "machine", that is exporting root ( / ) AIX automounter will not mount any mount point under /net/ machine. If that NFS server stops exporting ( / ), then the AIX automounter (...)
26 August 2008
after updating and reboot still running old SP: Hi, I just updated my 44p-170 using smitty suma. However, after rebooting 'oslevel -s' tells me I'm still running 5300-07-01-0748 and not 5300-07-03-0811 (mentioned with 'oslevel -qs'). How can I make sure I'm running the latest verrsion and SP? Thank (...)
26 August 2008
Cannot importvg: Hi, I try to transfert disk from one machineA (AIX5.1) to another machineB (AIX5.3) with SAN EMC. on machineA - umount - unmasking on machineB: - masking: OK - cfgmgr: OK => new disks - when I try to importvg I have the error below: what is wrong ? Thanks 0516-024 (...)
25 August 2008
Maintenance partition: Hi, In a P55A, I have a partition that I can't drop it is a maintenance partition... What is the utility of maintenance partition ? I have other P55A with only one partition (not maintenance) Thanks for your help
23 August 2008
NIC speed duplex on AIX 5.3: Hi! How can I get the information of speed/duplex settings of the NIC on an AIX 5.3 server? I already tried the commands I found with Google, I get a lot of information, but NOT speed/duplex. entstat -d ent0: a lot of info, but not speed/duplex lsattr -El ent0: only infos about (...)
22 August 2008
jfs2 user qouta: Is there a way to alter the quota of an individual user with a qouta on a jfs2 filesystem? Or, must I create another class and put him in that?
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passwd locking over GPFS: We have 8 AIX Escalla servers in a cluster using GPFS to share files. All the necessary "passwd" files are stored on GPFS. We have over 9000 users. How resilient is the file level locking for the passwd function? Does this locking work over GPFS? It's a tricky one to (...)
22 August 2008
xvfb queries: Hi, Where can I get information on xvfb such as how to run; configure; etc for AIX 5.1? Thanks in advance.
22 August 2008
HDLM - AIX Performance Issue: We have AIX 5.3 with Sybase - no multi-pathing. A batch job was taking 1.5 hours to complete. However, post configuring HDLM 5.9 wth round robin, the same batch job is taking 2.5 hours. Any tunable parameters etc which can at least give 1.5 hours. Regards (...)
22 August 2008
FTP over SSL: Hello, does anyone have experience getting ftp over SSL to work on AIX 5300-07 without resorting to 3rd party products not found on the Linux toolbox shipped with AIX? SSH/SFTP cannot be used. Thank you and best regards Leszek (...)
21 August 2008
chroot jail on AIX 5.3 using new IBM developerWorks document: IBM has a paper dated 05 May 2008 entitled "openssh with AIX chroot" - link is; [link] that I have attempted to set up a chroot jail for ssh, scp and sftp following this document. The chroot jail works and ssh and scp work as I expect them to (...)
21 August 2008
PLM on a 64 bit kernel: Does anyone know if Partition Load Manager can be run on a 64 bit kernel? We are trying to standardize on 64 bit kernels for all servers. We are running PLM on AIX 5.3 & power 5 p595's. Thanks
21 August 2008
AIX 5.3 not using all physical memory: Hi, I am facing a weird situation. I have a p550 configured with 64gb RAM. When I issue a "lscfg -vp" I can see all the 16 slots filled with 4gb memory cards. But when I issue "lsattr -E -l mem0 -H" the system reports only 48gb of usable memory. I have only one (...)
20 August 2008
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20 August 2008
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20 August 2008
expire accounts with ADMCHG set: Ok new audit requirement -- AIX 5.3--maybe 5.2 -- accounts with ADMCHG set ignore expiration dates. Is there anyway to change this behavior? We create accounts and set an initial passwd with the admchg flag set. The accounts are supposed to expire in 90 days. BUT if the user never (...)
19 August 2008
libpthread.a(shr_xpg5.o) issue on AIX 5.3 TL 04 & 05: Hi, I have a 32 bit binary (threaded application) compiled on AIX 5300-04. When I try to run it on AIX 5300-05 it fails with following error: /tmp/test start exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /tmp/test because of the following errors: 0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for (...)
18 August 2008
Central Repository - File Distribution Question: What are other AIX sites using to keep scripts, cron jobs, printer definitions, etc. in-sync across multiple LPARs? We have 10 LPARs right now, not counting a NIM server which has yet to be built. When I've asked in other fora, about the only response I got involved RSYNC. We (...)
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What's causing this System Slowdown??? - vmstat included: Our Environment: Hardware: P55A 24 GB of memory SAN - fiber attached Hitachi Tagma Software: AIX 5.3 (5300-06-03-0732) DB2 9.1.3 Tomcat 4.1.24 (services INTRA-net accesses only) Apache 2.52 (services INTRA-net accesses only) We had a severe system slowdown for about 15 (...)
14 August 2008
X applications fail to run on ssh -X: I use "ssh -X" to login to a aix machine successfully. However X applications fail to run. Please help to solve this problem. local$ uname -a Linux linux1 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux local$ ssh -X -o (...)
13 August 2008
iostat chart: is there a tool to plot xfer time, queuing time, %tm etc from iostat? nmon/nmon_analyzer cannot plot queuing time seems. thanks
13 August 2008
FTPD and Active Directory: Hello, I currently work for a company that is moving to an AIX platform for a specific initiative and I have been pushing to integrate user and group authentication with the existing Active Directory infrastructure, however, one of the requirements is to give developers overseas, ftp (...)
13 August 2008
AIX 6.1 NIM SPOT will not produce a boot debug string when set to debug=yes: Hello, I have attempted over the last few days to create a SPOT image on an AIX 6.1 NIM master that will allow me to setup a debug image. As most NIM folks are aware you simply run "nim -o check -F -a debug=yes <SPOT NAME>" and you end up with a boot string to enter at (...)
11 August 2008
Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 for AIX5L available: Now Firefox has it's companion Thunderbird. At least on AIX 5.1 or later. <[link]> <[link]> Installation documentation updated for AIX5/GTK2. The upcoming releases of Firefox 2.0.0.17 and Seamonkey 1.1.12 may be delayed for the AIX builds for about one week after the (...)
11 August 2008
aix users with no email: Is there a simple way to set-up AIX user accounts so that they have no outside email (i.e. sendmail rejects incoming email traffic for these accounts)? Thanks.
11 August 2008
Upgrade EMC powerpath on VIO server issues (mapping issue): Hi, Today I ran into the following issue : In order to update the EMC Powerpath software on a VIO server, I need to remove all mappings. Restoring my mappings with the same VIO LUN id seems impossible, as the previous numbering was not contigious and the LUN id is assigned by IOS when (...)
11 August 2008
samba patches (how to apply): How does one apply samba patches on AIX (Sorry I am primarily a Solaris admin), does one use the "patch" freeware or is there some built in support within AIX. thanks for any help
11 August 2008
Count Messages in a Message Queue: Hi, I have developed an application in C on IBM AIX 5.2. Its using multiple Message Queues to share data between different processes. I am using following functions to send/receive messages into/from message queues: int msgget(key_t, int); ssize_t msgrcv(int, void *, size_t, long (...)
11 August 2008
Need to understand SAN: We have traditionally used NFS to share directories between 2 AIX servers. However if the directories were on a SAN would I need to use NFS? Can I access data on a SAN from 2 servers without NFS? As you can tell I have no experience of (...)
8 August 2008
Printer Sharing: Have a P2P network of many computers, including 4 computers :- RS6000/AIX4.3, RS6000/AIX4.2, RS6000/aix4.3 and a RS6000/AIX3.2 . One of the RS6000/4.3's has connected to its parallel port a HP LaserJet 4 Plus. Would appreciate it if some one could guide me to a set up procedure or (...)
8 August 2008
how can I restart X server?: I copy the /usr/dt/config/Xservers to /etc/dt/config/Xservers and add -d 24 then it become 24 color depth but I must reboot the computer ! but I don't want reboot the computer. more better I want only one user become 24 depth color.and other user not become 24 color How can I (...)
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crfs cannot create more than one file system on a volumn group: I tried to create multiple file systems on the same volumn group, but only the first "crfs" command succeeded. The second crfs does not create a new file system with the proper size, as shown below, any gocha? mkvg -fy myfs -S -s 1 hdisk7 crfs -v jfs2 -m /myfile1 -g myfs -a (...)
5 August 2008
New Version 2.72 of cfg2html for AIX available: Hi folks, a new version of cfg2html is out. You can find the latest version on SourceForce.net. [link] This is the AIX version. If you need the HP or LINUX version, you will find them on the yahoo grops page. Andreas (...)
5 August 2008
How to fix a BROKEN bos.rte.filesystem fileset: I have a BROKEN bos.rte.filesystem: host # lslpp -l bos.rte.filesystem Fileset Level State Description ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------- Path: /usr/lib/objrepos bos.rte.filesystem 5.3.7.2 APPLIED Filesystem (...)
5 August 2008
Confused about DNS: If my DNS servers (windows boxes) go down, my AIX box really starts suffering. Things start taking ages. Similarly my IHS/apache web servers take ages to start at the moment, even with apparently working DNS (*) - if I set NSORDER=local, they start quickly. (* I say apparently working (...)
5 August 2008
Problem with Slave Printer and 4.3.3: I have a dot-matrix printer that is slaved to a PC requesting receipts from our RS/6000 and just recently started having some print problems. It has worked for over 10 years with no problems, other than having to replace worn out printers. The printer is used to print receipts and may (...)
5 August 2008
Upgrade 5.1 to 5.3: Hi, I have to upgrade AIX 5.1 to 5.3 I have disk unused inside the box can I use it to do the upgrade ? using alt_disk_install ? what are the steps ? Thanks in advance
4 August 2008
NFS protocol: If I specify TCP as the protocol on the mount command (which I believe is actually the default) does that mean that TCP is used for all of the related RPC services also? I need to specify the ports & protocols required so we can configure our firewalls (...)
4 August 2008
Firefox and Document Library: On a 7025-F80 AIX 5200-09 used #configassist to install Document Library, which went okay. On the desktop clicking on Infocentre, Firefox opens and displays [link] but it never opens. Waited 20 minutes with the message at the bottom of Firefox (...)
4 August 2008
RBAC in AIX 6.1: Hello all I have one remaining question regarding RBAC since we will start migrating to AIX 6.1 in Q4 of 2008. Since we are using LDAP users, does this mean that whenever you give a role to an LDAP user, the LDAP user gets the role for all AIX 6.1 LPARS? What I am currently (...)
3 August 2008
du not working for some user using ksh: Hi, I have a strange problem with a AIX server, user are having problem with using du will in their ksh shell, if they switch to sh or bash there is not problem. root account that are using ksh but have not problem with du. this is the error messages when trying to run du du: (...)
2 August 2008
Core file generated sometimes in my C application on AIX 5.2: Hi, I have developed a software in C on IBM AIX 5.2 Machine. It work fines but after few days or months it crashes. I have checked it using dbx but I am unable to sort out the place where the problem occurs. The trace of dbx is given below: ------------------------------ (...)
1 August 2008
NIM Deallocat resources: All, While trying to install software on client get some errors on NIM 0042-001 nimclient: processing error encountered on "xyz- admin": x x 0042-001 nimclient: processing error encountered on "master": x x 0042-001 nim: processing (...)
1 August 2008
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31 July 2008
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31 July 2008
Specifying the "From" email address in mail?: Hello. We have AIX 5.3 machine which is not directly connected to the Internet. However, when the machine send automatic email from applications to our trading partner recipients. The "From" email address of any mail that is sent out by our AIX system is (...)
30 July 2008
where are IP addresses on NIC coming from?: AIX 5.3 ML4 When an interface starts up, there is an additional address attached to the interface, but in /etc networking files, and smit tcpip, (and CuAt as far as I can tell) there is only the primary IP that should be there. I don't see any additional ifconfig scripts running. (...)
30 July 2008
ssltap for AIX: Hello, Does a ssltap command exists under AIX? If Yes how to get it. If no I am trying to debug a ldap connection over ssl between solaris as client an Oracle OID on a AIX as Server. Thanks in advance Denis
30 July 2008
rmcd wont listen 657 tcp?: hi all i found a problem in my aix server (aix 5.3 ML0704) when i run lsof - i :657. it looks like the following. COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME rmcd 762006 root 3u IPv6 0xf100020003f19600 0t0 UDP *:rmc in /etc/services, the port 657 is defined. rmc 657/tcp # (...)
29 July 2008
Date start of a process: Hi, How can I see the date/time of a process when this is > 24 Hours Thanks in advance
28 July 2008
AIX tun/tap anyone ?: Hi all has anyone been successful in building a tun/tap driver for AIX ? I see tun devices on Linux, *BSD and Solaris, but not AIX. Since AIX has Virtual Ethernet on LPAR it should be possible to have a tun device also ? ( Isn't AIX a BSD derivate ? ) I need to connect to a (...)
28 July 2008
Command to get Stack trace from core dump on AIX 5.3: Hi Please let me know if there is any command AIX 5.3 provides, which gives stack trace from Core dump, like pstack on solaris. I can't use dbx as customer doesn't have dbx on their environment. Thanks, Bharti
27 July 2008
Is there a way to mount a JFS with Direct I/O on system reboot?: oslevel -s 5300-06-04-0748 When using Enhanced JFS, is there a way to allow AIX to automatically mount the file system with the Direct I/O option? To do this now, I use the following command: However, I would like to set up the file system so that it is automatically mounted using (...)
25 July 2008
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Rights to a Folder: Hello, I would like that 2 groups can access to a same folder RWX, but I don't want to put the second group in the first group Example : GroupA:user1,user2 GroupB:user3 Folder -rwxrwxr-x /usr/toto owner:user1, group GroupA How can I configure to accept GroupB to write in my (...)
24 July 2008
AIX - 452 Error - need help: I was trying to copy Oracle installer (of size : 1238844 KB) from Windows box to AIX 5.2 box through ftp and it throwed the following error : " 452 Error writing file: A file cannot be larger than the value set by ulimit." I changed the ulimit value to unlimited and I tried (...)
24 July 2008
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24 July 2008
AIX 5.1 and 5.3 Socket Program Issue: Hi, Our product uses a file transfer module which uses TCP sockets to transfer data. This code was developed on SUSE9 32 bit and ported to AIX-64bit (5.1 and 5.3), HP-UX 64 bit and SUSE 10 64bit. The file transfer module is working on SUSE9,10 and HP-UX without any issues. Only on (...)
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How to write files from AIX 4.2.1 to Windows?: I'm wanting to write files each night from an RS/6000 running AIX 4.2.1 to a machine in my Windows domain. I have samba set up on the AIX box, and Windows users can happily access the AIX box but am having issues when wanting to write files in the other direction. From searching (...)
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18 July 2008
CacheFS Write-back option?: Is there any way to have AIX CacheFS working in write-back mode? I wish for writes to the cache to take place locally and have the system transfer to the server on the backend, thus giving write performance. I realize this would introduce possiblilty of inconsistancy in the cache vs. (...)
17 July 2008
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16 July 2008
According to lslparutil on my HMC Not Activated LPARs allocate ressources: Hi I trying to find out how many free ressources (procs and memory) I have left on my P590 box. My HMC is on version 6.1.3. As far as I can see, the ressources from previously "Running" LPARs that are now "Not Activated" are not released when the LPARs are stopped. (...)
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Release of Firefox 2.0.0.16 and Seamonkey 1.1.11 for AIX: Hello, Firefox 2.0.0.16 <[link]> and Seamonkey 1.1.11 <[link]> are available at the usual place. For the first time I also provide GTK2 builds with SVG support on AIX5L or higher in addition to the traditional GTK1/AIX 4.3.3 builds. If you have the IBM Firefox (...)
15 July 2008
Beginner, help, script: Hi! I'm not working in AIX at all but I have the need to make a script that would kill all the processes that have "ftp" in their name. The system is AIX 5.2, shell - ksh. I know how to list the processes and kill them manually: root 54758 6966 0 10:00:36 - 0:00 ftpd (...)
15 July 2008
AIX 5.3 Hardware compatibility list: Hi, It's been a while since I've dealt with AIX, but a customer of ours wants to buy a 2nd user RS/6000 44P and load AIX 5.3. Is this version of AIX compatible with this harware? I've just spent an hour "lost in space" on the IBM web site and can't see a list. (...)
14 July 2008
unforgiven rmdev: Hello, In short words, I cannot remove/reconfigure FC adapter. Story was as below. I had some troubles with FC connection - seems that cabling was done in wrong way; as an result I had status: ***** 1. I cannot see second path for fscsi3: root@server# powermt display paths | head (...)
14 July 2008
AIX auditing on LDAP users: Hello to everyone, a customer asked me to implement auditing on some AIX 5.3 LPARs. For local users everything is OK, but they have also many LDAP users to be monitored (they want to trace logins as well as command executions/exit statuses and so on). I haven't found any examples (...)
13 July 2008
Paging Space Placement Question: Our AIX admins and DBAs have had some differing opinions on the layout of our systems and the use of paging space, so I thought I would post something here to see the opinions of the experts here. Here is the system details: =================== - P5 system with 4 processors - AIX (...)
11 July 2008
Regarding GBK,GB2312 encoding conversion on AIX 5.1: Hi, On Aix 5.1 I am unable to convert documents encoded in GBK,and GB2312. Can anybody tell me how to fix this. On Hp-Ux systems there is a config.iconv file which lists out all the aliases, so for GB2312 i can use hp15CN, however I have been unable to find a similar file on Aix. Also (...)
11 July 2008
AIX authentication to Active Directory via Win2k3r2 Kerberos & NIS: Hi-- I'm trying to get some AIX 5.1 and 5.2 machines which are currently NIS clients and/or slaves to migrate to using Windows 2003r2's version of Services For Unix ("Identity and Access Management") but am running into problems... notably with automount and/or login. (...)
10 July 2008
ASMI Web-based Interface vs. TLS 1.0: ASMI loses. We've recently had a requirement levied that we must have TLS 1.0 Enabled in our web browsers. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to be supported when trying to access the service processor on our AIX 5.3 box (9131-52A) using IE 6.0 . Ideally, I'd like to be (...)
10 July 2008
Device goes busy, yet missing: Hello, Folks, First, let me apologize for not having complete information. We're stymied and we're turning to anyone who might have a useful insight into what condition may exist when we see this. Does anyone here know under what circumstances one might see this: 0516-304 : (...)
10 July 2008
Tree device: Hi, how can I find the tree device for a given device for example: cd0-> ide0 -> pci3 I can find the child for a device with lsdev -p xxx but if I know cd0 how can I find ide0 then pci3 Thanks in advance (AIX (...)
9 July 2008
getaddrinfo segfault on AIX 5.3: I'm having a weird crash on AIX 5.3 deep inside getaddrinfo. Thinking that it could be a potential multi-threading issue I made sure that the code is being executed under a mutex. However this didn't help. AIX docs says that the function should be threadsafe... but I did this (...)
9 July 2008
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9 July 2008
Virtualize Aix 4.3: Hi guys, is it possible to virtualize an Aix 4.3 with an informix on raw device on a Vos?
9 July 2008
Unable to post messages to comp.unix.aix: Hi, I am unable to post messages to this group... I tried twice yesterday. A test message now. Cheers...
9 July 2008
VG mirroring: Hi, my company purchased a new storage array, and i need to migrate data from the old array to the new one. i'd like to know if there is a way to migrate the data online, with host-based mirroring. can i add a new volume or set of volumes to an existing volume group, perform a (...)
8 July 2008
problems with \n and \r switch in herald stanza of login.cfg: Hi, I made a standard entry in herald stanza using the \n and \r switch but both are not working as expected. \n is creating a new line but the new lines starts from where the first one finishes eg. Unauthorized use of this system is prohibited. (...)
8 July 2008
NIM question: Hi all Just wondering the following is doable using NIM: I collect vmstat information from a group of client machines, and if the average user CPU is below 10%, then start some jobs. The difficulty to me is two fold: how can I define a "script" resource to be a command (...)
7 July 2008
how to change username, keep userid ( UID ): How to change a user from adminv3 to adminv4 and keep the same UID, what is best way to go about making this change? I tried usermod -l adminv4 adminv3 and it gave the following error: Usage: mkuser [-R load_module] [-a] "attr=value" ... newuser I want everything in (...)
7 July 2008
dsh and rah: hi, i have a simple questions here: is there any reason why we need rah if we already have dsh? (except running commands in serial, but anything more significant)? also, which of the following works better? "dsh sudo ...." or "sudo dsh ..."? (...)
7 July 2008
inet0: error loading kernel extension: Hi, First of all I have to admit, that I'm relatively new to AIX although I've got some experience with Unix clones (BSD, Linux) so I know the concepts. Some days ago our AIX 4.3.3 ML11 machine (I know it's old, but I can't change it) hosting an InfoPrint Manager ran (...)
7 July 2008
question about 0513 execute BI_main: Hi, all My system is a p650 and OS is aix 5.2-Ml10, when i want to do a system backup by smitty mksysb , there is an attention appears: kenerl is more than 12M , the tape maybe unbootable, according to the README of / usr/lpp/bos.sysmgt, i changed bootlist as rmt0 , hdisk0 and update (...)
7 July 2008
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6 July 2008
Mirrorvg gone bad: Hello to one and all, After the routine replacement of an SSA disk in a mirrored data VG on a machine running AIX 4.3.3, the last step of the procedure called for remirroring the disks using the "mirrorvg -m" command accompanied by a specific list of hdisks. This step always (...)
6 July 2008
Dynamic partitionning: Hi, I have a P55 and I created some partitions I installed AIX 5.3 TL08 on each partition Is it possible to allocate/deallocate resources while the partitions are running ? With HMC, I tried to allocate/deallocate RAM and CPU while the partition are activated, but it doesn't (...)
5 July 2008
Problems compiling Subversion using VAC 7 and AIX 5.3: Hi All. I keep running into issues running the configure script for subversion. The configure scripts bombs out when it can not find zlib.h, re: configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool (...)
5 July 2008
backup problem: I am taking backup of multiple file systems in multiple sessions on a single tape. The problem is that, one of the file system has now grown beyond the size of the tape. Now is there a way to tell backup to pause till next tape is loaded? I wanted this to be automated using a script. (...)
4 July 2008
How to 'activate' my Clariion disks ?: Sorry for my noob aix question, brand new in aix-systemadmin This my config: root@server21:/tmp# lsdev -Ccdisk hdisk0 Available 06-08-01-3,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk1 Available 06-08-01-4,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive hdisk2 Available 01-08-02 EMC CLARiiON FCP LUNZ Disk (...)
4 July 2008
Daemon on AIX: HI NG, I´m a newbie at AIX, but i need to create a deamon on AIX. How can i do this? Has anybody a good manual or "How-to" for this? Thanks Uli
4 July 2008
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3 July 2008
Firefox 2.0.0.15 for AIX available: Hello, Firefox 2.0.0.15 is released and my builds for AIX 4.3.3 are available. <[link]> Seamonkey 1.1.10 <[link]> Firefox 2.0.0.16/Seamonkey 1.1.11 is coming very soon. The first release candidate is under testing at the moment. The release date is expect (...)
3 July 2008
'Strange' paging behaviour: Hello, I have a 570 LPAR configured with 2 CPUs, 64 bit kernel, 6GB of memory and 12GB of paging space, the (hopefully) relevant vmo output is shown below as is a short (but representative sample) of vmstat maxclient% = 90 maxfree = 1088 maxperm = 1355915 maxperm% = (...)
3 July 2008
problem with nfs mount and "1831-008" error -> "vmount: A system call received...": mount: 1831-008 giving up on: nimserver:/export/lpp_source vmount: A system call received a parameter that is not valid. Here's some more details: 1. nfsmounting the filesystem locally works fine... 2. tried 3 AIX hosts on the same subnet... all fail with same error 3. name (...)
2 July 2008
trusted X11 forwarding problem: Hi, I'm running AIX 5.3 and login from other machines using ssh -Y -l <name> <IP>. Then I start Firefox on AIX, and here's where things go different. On my Fedora8, it works great. Firefox starts on AIX and shows on Fedora desktop. On Debian Etch, the Firefox that (...)
1 July 2008
Old AIX (4.3.2) cloning question: I have a ancient rs6000 (43P Model 170) and a not quite as ancient box (44P Model 170), We'd like to clone the 43P onto the 44P so as to have a somewhat newer box to get us buy in a disaster recovery scenario. Moving to a newer version of AIX isn't an option due to the custom (...)
30 June 2008
Strange VIOS memory consumption: Hello to everybody, I've got a strange problem with a VIOS 1.5.1.1-FP-10.1. The problem is related to memory consumption, that is very high, even if this VIOS is virtualizing only a couple of VSCSI and a couple of SEA. Preamble: - everything occurred after the creation of the (...)
30 June 2008
audit script: Has anyone a generic script that I can use to perform 'blind audits' (there will be no login capability - the idea will be to send the script to the client) for various IBM servers - although will mostly be p5 models and some RS/6000's. The intention is to capture 1) all (...)
28 June 2008
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27 June 2008
aix telnet logout hangs: Anyone seen a Putty telnet or Xwindow session ( using SSH ) hang on logout? It seems that after some time spent in a host running various commands, a CTRL+D or exit will simply disconnect and hang. The session does not completely terminate. I am not starting any background processes or (...)
26 June 2008
Help - strange behavior of AIX 5.3: Hi. Welcome all for the first time. The situation is : AIX 5.3 on p575 LPAR and 14GB of RAM What is stange - well topas shows that there is a 30% of free RAM memory. When I try to run another java process suddenly AIX allocates all his swap space (process have enough ram, if of course (...)
26 June 2008
How to check AIX 5.2 Shared memory size ?: Hi All How to check AIX 5.2 Shared memory size ? moonhkt
26 June 2008
Input from STDIN, a regular file, or a compressed file: Probably not the correct venue, but I'll try here anyway since its the correct platform. I have a ksh script that invokes awk with "inline" commands. The input may come from STDIN or from a regular file, or from a compressed file. Handling the choice betwee STDIN and a (...)
25 June 2008
Migrate from ESS to DS8000 in HACMP env: Guys Any ideas how to migrate from ESS disks to DS8100 disks in a hacmp 5.1 environment? I mean these disks are shared between HACMP nodes and i wonder would simple LVM mirroring could help me to migrate data from ESS to DS8100? Second worry is coexistence of ESS/DS8000 device drivers (...)
25 June 2008
identifying hardware from within obp: Hi, Does anyone know of a command (in OBP) that is the same as the shell command 'uname -i'? Or the shelll command 'uname -m' ? I've not seen anything in previouos postings. Thanks in advance shaman
25 June 2008
Problems trying to install OpenSSH on 4.3.3: I am trying to follow the instructions at [link] and am running into a couple of problems. The first is that some of the files mentioned are not on the IBM website. The second problem is that the files available are for 5.1 and 5.2 and not 4.3. When I tried (...)
24 June 2008
7025-F50 Indicator lights: Any one know what the sequence of the following indicator lights mean. It is not covered in the service or operators manual. Power Supply has one Green and one Orange light Front Operators Panel has 3 vertical Green lights in a row and 3 vertical Orange lights in a row. The full front (...)
24 June 2008
AIX STIOCMD ioctl for FC SCSI: Hi! all I have a problem on AIX 5L (5.2-08) using ioctl STIOCMD. My problem is below.... ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ STIOCMD ioctl is doing well in SCSI interface, but there is no sese in FC interface. Here is sample (...)
23 June 2008
AIX j2gp progress IO: Hello: I have a p595, and 32CPU, 64G Memory run some server(build BEA tuxedo), today, I found: j2pg progress spend much kernel CPU, topas just like kernel: ###### user: ## IDLE : ########################### and top progress j2pg may be use 70% kernel, system some server core down, (...)
23 June 2008
WTB: Linux-compatible gfx card for 44P-170 (i.e. GXT135P): My 44P-170 came with a GXT4000P which apparently doesn't work with Linux. I'm now searching for a Linux-compatible gfx card for this machine. IIRC a GXT135P or GXT130P should do fine. Anyone has one that isn't needed anymore? If possible I'd prefer the version with DVI (...)
22 June 2008
DHCP client and option 55: Hi all, I have a large group of AIX to change into DHCP clients. Since we use NIS, I would like AIX DHCP clients to get the NIS domain and servers via DHCP. So, I put option 40 and 41 into /etc/dhcpcd.ini but it looks like dhcpcd doesn't care. To be precise, dhcpcd creates DHCP (...)
20 June 2008
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20 June 2008
CD-ROM Training Set: On page 9 chapter 1 RedBook SG24-6191-00 There is mentioned a five CD set titled Education on CD-ROM: IBM AIX Essentials Contacted IBM who say it is no longer available. Anyone have a set they would like to sell ? Please email farl7 (...)
19 June 2008
cfgmgr: devices.usbif.030000: Have an IBM 9131-550 with attached 7316-TF2. At boot time and any time the cfgmgr runs the message: cfgmgr: a device needs package "devices.usbif.030000".... Have searched high and low for what this package is and have found nothing by this package name. Can someone please (...)
17 June 2008
Display one screen at a time - in a safe way (?): Hi I need to display output from a command safely to a user. One screen at a time. When 'more' or 'pg' commands are used - user can type :!sh and gets shell. I dont want that. In OpenBSD there is more/less command and it has env switch which does what I want. (...)
17 June 2008
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16 June 2008
Power6 performance ?: hello group, is somebody out there who has compared the (single-core) performance of a Power5 vs a Power6 box, with a "real-life" application (mixed int/fp) ? The P6 box ( 520 @ 4.2 GHz ) gives me only some 30% increase over a p505Q @ 1.65GHz, quite disappointing. Code was (...)
16 June 2008
Linking .so on AIX 4.3: Hi, I am facing a problem when I try to link a .so on AIX 4.3, the link step is xlc_r main.c -I./include_path -L./lib1_path -L./lib2_path -llib1 - llib2 lib1 is static, lib2 is a shared object. The path specified in -L is correct yet i get the following message: ld: 0706-006 (...)
16 June 2008
Disks: All, I'm trying to find some empty disks on my vio server and when I enter lspv I get result something like this hdisk161 00cXXXXfce1dXXXX None hdisk162 00cXXXXfce1dXXXX None hdisk163 00cXXXXfce1dXXXX None hdisk164 00cXXXXf2d28XXXX (...)
16 June 2008
AIX 6.1 automount ?: hello world, I'm loading a shiny new P6 server with AIX 6.1. Went fine so far, but now it seems the automounter hangs. I copied functional /etc/auto* files over to the new machine, but it seems automount hangs even before it looks at those files, when I'm trying to start it (...)
15 June 2008
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15 June 2008
Who has experimented sshfs?: Hi all, at work I receive many requests to use some kind of shared FileSystem. I don't really like NSF and data replication (aka rsync), so I'm looking for an alternative way to share a remote fs over multiple AIX box. In my wishlist I found the idea to use ssh protocoll to (...)
14 June 2008
Doing an HTTP Post?: Forgive the newbie question but is it possible to do an HTTP Post on AIX 5.3? I want to post to a web address something like the following: http:\\[link]somepage.aspx?id=myid and receive the response from the posting. Is this possible? If so, how would I go about doing this? (...)
13 June 2008
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13 June 2008
Is it high context switch? about 55k per second.: HI: I am new to AIX, have a system running heavy OLTP system. Just saw the process switch (pswitch from libperfstat.perfstat_cpu_total _t) is about 55k per second on peak time.
13 June 2008
Sysback 567 and AIX 5.3 tl 5: We have a p570 that has a NIM server setup as well as sysback. When trying to restore a server to the p570, the restore always hangs at error code 609. I have looked up this error on IBM's website and have checked all the IP settings and permissions to the tftp files in question. I (...)
12 June 2008
dual vio each has a single hba, want to use mpio in the client, do i need to load hitachi drivers or some hitachi software onto the vio?: HI All, I have a two vio servers each has a single hba, I want to use mpio in the client lpars. The San is hitachi san. In the documentation it says I need to set the reserve policy to no reserve on the vio luns. But there is no reserve policy attribute to set on the san disks.. When I (...)
12 June 2008
Calculate time difference: I have a large file containing records as follows and I need a script that will output the time difference in seconds each timestamp. How can I calculate time difference in AIX? N.B. times will not straddle midnight! 09:27:00: Next mailpiece 09:27:02: Next mailpiece 09:27:03: Next (...)
12 June 2008
Compilation issues with moving from xlc v6 to v9: Hi Does anyone know of any issues when we move our compiler version from xlc v6 to v9, anything specific which might require changes in our C/ C++ code? I know of one compiler flag which is required to ensure that name mangling is backward compatible. Any other known issue or any (...)
12 June 2008
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12 June 2008
unattended start mode: Folks, I have a B50 and I am trying to set it up for auto start after a power failure. The service guide says I need to set a power on password (POP) before unattended start mode can be set. I setup a power on password and set unattended start mode to ON in SMS. But it doesn't (...)
11 June 2008
no AIX for Cell BE - yet?: IBM seems to be producing some stock hardware with Cell BE / PowerXCell processors instead of POWER or PowerPC now. For example the BladeCenter QS22 and QS21. However i noticed they only offer Red Hat Linux for these, not AIX. Could it be IBM's support for their own OS is lagging (...)
11 June 2008
How to use DNS: Hello, how can I make my AIX (V4.3.3) server use the external DNS (Windows server)? I have created the /etc/resolv.conf file, and put the address of the DNS as well as the domain name inside: nameserver 192.168.1.101 domain my.domain I have also removed the /etc/hosts file. After (...)
11 June 2008
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11 June 2008
TSM backup setting: Dear all, I have a problems about TSM backup setting. Currently, we use TSM v. 5.3 to backup data in our environment and we can not how to set up full and incremental backup method that the menu of TSM is not user friendly . Therefore, we would like to know step by step how to set (...)
11 June 2008
aix os log: Dear all, In my country published the computer acts, the contents of acts mentioned that must be keeping log of system not less than 3 months that indicate and identify source such as ip, user ,time stamp and period of service. Therefore, we need to keep the log files to comply by the (...)
11 June 2008
IVM VIOS 1.5 dedicated i/o: p5 support?: The announcement letter ZP07-0424 ([link]) mentions about IVM/VIOS: " Support for Dedicated I/O: IVM now offers support for both shared and dedicated I/O, thus offering clients a choice when configuring their system. " But it is mentioned on POWER6 feature support. (...)
10 June 2008
After TL08: Hi I installed TL08SP2 on AIX 5.3 ML04 everythings seems OK when I try 5300-07-01-0748 not 5300-08-02, why ??? Is my OS OK ? Thanks for your help ...
9 June 2008
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9 June 2008
AIX 5.3 TL08: hi I have a AIX 5.3 ML04 P55A I have to install Oracle 10.2.0.4 Is TL08 a reliable patch ? Thanks for your lights
7 June 2008
Strange AIX 6.1 Behaviour: Installed AIX 6.1 on a 9114-275 and in trying to install browsers, updates, printers, doc services I had to keep upping the space and accidently used up all the PP's. Things went weird when under root, I set up another user in smit and in trying to give the new user a password the (...)
7 June 2008
7025-F80 PV Mystery: Obtained a 7025-F80 in May last year for personal AIX training. At the time I obtained the computer, ran diagnostics to ensure all was okay, then formatted and certified the 8 PV's. Subsequently AIX 5200-09-00 was installed over hdisk0 and hdisk1. hdisk1 through to hdisk7 were never (...)
7 June 2008
Nim installation of openssh at fb: Here my problem : I am trying to install the fileset openssh.base.server in a NIM installation, (into the first boot script) This install failed because of at the first boot engaged by NIM server on the client : the system ressource controller is not started on the NIM client ! And (...)
6 June 2008
trouble building gcc 4.3.0 on aix 5.1: I'm hoping someone with more experience with AIX than me knows a simple fix for my problem. During a build bootstrap I get the following errors (I mucked with the paths to obscure the directory structure): gcc-4.3.0/host-powerpc-ibm-aix 5.1.0.0/gcc/xgcc gcc-4.3.0/host-powerpc- (...)
6 June 2008
Boot frozen 0517: Hi When I restart a fresh installed partition(mksysb), I am frozen with LED 0517 When I stop and start the partition the boot is OK AIX 5.3 ML4 Have you any ideas ? Thanks in advance
5 June 2008
Core files issues: An executable crashed on a remote machine, generating a core file. The program is in C++, 32 bit, running on AIX5.3 Trying to examine it I get - -bash-3.00# gdb prog core GNU gdb 6.0 Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General (...)
5 June 2008
Shareware: txt2pdf 9.7 can support cyrillic: We would like to announce txt2pdf 9.7 version. [link] txt2pdf is shareware; it is a very flexible and powerful Perl5 script that converts text files to PDF format files, so you can use it in every operating systems supported by Perl5, including AIX (also on OS390) and every (...)
5 June 2008
Mailing Address Validation for AIX: Is there good, inexpensive software that can be loaded on AIX 5.3 to do mailing address validation?
5 June 2008
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4 June 2008
Connecting p5 to a Terminal-Server: Hi, up to now I wasted a few days trying to connect a p5 (520) via serial line to a terminal server (in order to install an AIX). I used the port parameters I found in the IBM docs: speed=19200, databits=8, parity=none, stopbits=1, flow control=none (as well as flow control=hard). I (...)
4 June 2008
citrix client on aix 5.3: Hi, I want to install a citrix client on aix 5.3, but it wants either Netscape or CDE. I can't install Netscape since it's been withdrawn by IBM, and I can't use CDE since I'm accessing the machine through ssh with X-forwarding. How do I use the citrix with firefox? (...)
3 June 2008
GPFS performance: Can anyone explain the following results? Test1 I wrote a simple program that opens a file with around two and a half million lines in it and writes the contents to 3 different files depending on the contents of the line. This program opened 4 different file pointers at the start of (...)
3 June 2008
HACMP / Multipath routing: Hi, Today I ran into an issue with HACMP & WebsphereMQ. Connections we're being dropped on the firewall, due to the fact that the source IP address of one of the HACMP nodes was alternating between the persistent & the service address. As the firewall was only configured (...)
2 June 2008
/etc/filesystems check=true log?: We have setup filesystems with the check=true option in order to automatically fsck filesystems that may need it on boot (after a power outage for instance). If I recall, the messages (if any are generated) on boot with this option go to the console. But I can't seem to find or (...)
2 June 2008
Thunderbird for AIX 6.1 on 9114-275 Power4: Have installed Firefox 1.5.0.12 off the IBM supplied CD. Would now like to install a mail addon and it would appear Thunderbird is the one for Firefox. Searched the IBM web site for a Thunderbird package similar to the Firefox CD ie basic program plus needed dependicies, with no luck. (...)
31 May 2008
Cannot create vg: Hi, When I try to create a vg I get the following error any ideas ? Thanks in advance AIX 5.2 vg100 PV Status: hdiskpower82 005f929aff910a6a PVINVG 0516-021 varyonvg: The varyonvg failed because the volume group's major number was already used by another device. 0516-862 (...)
31 May 2008
Remote console: Hello, I have a p5 series 9131-52A. I do not have an HMC. The server has been partitioned for a single AIX partition and it has no OS installed. I am trying to install AIX remotely, using ASMI. Does anyone know if this is possible? I cannot seem to find a console interface. Thanks in (...)
31 May 2008
Upgrade of AIX to new TL: I have a p570 that was at AIX 5.3 ML 3. I needed to upgrade to 5.3 TL6 service pack 3 for a software system that my company has written. I downloaded the 5300-06 TL fix pack the SP3 fixpack. I performed a smitty update_all and everything seemd to go well (only 1 failure on a package (...)
29 May 2008
Upgrading xlC from version 6 to version 9: Hi I have a software product which is right now built using version 6 of xlC. We are considering upgrading to xlC version 9, however my product uses lots of third party libraries. I need to know if my product can continue to work with third party binaries built using xlC version 6 or (...)
29 May 2008
32-bit or 64-bit in AIX 5.3?: whats the command to tell if the AIX 5.3 is 32-bit or 64-bit? I tried oslevel and it says 5.3.0.0 thanks.
29 May 2008
Question regarding swap space utilization: Hi, I have an AIX system at 5.3 ML 07. I was noticing that the swap space keeps going lower on my system when doing some tests. However, the lower swap space did not seem to affect anything. Therefore, I was suspecting that swap space was utilized to page out something from main (...)
29 May 2008
Broken libstdc++ on AIX: After a lot of hassles with getting g++ 4.2.3 running on AIX 5.3 I'm ready with the next problem. Is it just me or is there a trend with these bugs on AIX!? :-) Now I'm trying to get some unittest code working more specifically [link] For the output stream I setup a ofstream (...)
28 May 2008
Running nmon on a VIO server: Is anyone running nmon on a VIO server? Is doing so an IBM-approved practice? I want to watch the performance on my VIO servers, and nmon has such a nice interface.
27 May 2008
USENIX FAST '09 Call For Papers: The 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) Program Committee invites you to contribute to the refereed papers, Work-in-Progress reports, and poster session. FAST '09 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions (...)
27 May 2008
PLM detection from LPAR: Hi, As an end-user of an aix LPAR (aix 5.3 ML-04) i want to know if the resources of the LPAR are dynamically (re-)allocated using PLM. Is there a way to detect from the LPAR if resource allocation is done by PLM ? Cheers, (...)
27 May 2008
Password authentication using unix crypt: Hi, We have a database that contains all of the user ids and passwords. This database is residing in our AIX server. The password is encrypted using unix crypt function. And for whatever reason we use only one-character salt key, instead of two. For example, (...)
27 May 2008
Install additional fonts ?: Hi, I have two fonts installed on my AIX machine: FONT FILE GLYPH FONT ID NAME SIZE ENCODING ==== ============== ===== ========= 0 Erg22.iso1.snf 12x30 ISO8859-1 1 Erg11.iso1.snf 8x15 ISO8859-1 I want to install more, how to obtain available fonts list ? What filesets I must (...)
27 May 2008
ld -r not working properly?: With our C++ application we need to let users link the application with gcc as opposed to g++. Under AIX 5.1 this worked fine by using "ld -r" on libstdc++.a and friends and merge all c++ dependencies into our objects before linking. However this doesn't work anymore under (...)
26 May 2008
which fileset contains man pages for system calls /usr/share/man/man2: I am trying to find information about system calls like kwrite. It is supposed to be in section 2 of man pages but ls /usr/share/man/man2 shows that it is empty. Then I tried which_fileset /usr/share/man/man2 and it tells me the fileset is bos.data. However after I installed bos.data I (...)
22 May 2008
PSEG flag meaning on AIX network interface: i aix gurus, On my AIX server, ifconfig en0 returns : en0: flags=4e080863,80<UP,BROADCAST ,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MU LTICAST,GROUPRT, 64BIT,PSEG,CHAIN> inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 I can find any documentation on the meaning of PSEG flag in (...)
21 May 2008
LPAR CPU Utilization: Situation: System Name Min Desired Max LPAR1 1 1.5 2.0 LPAR2 0.5 1.0 2.0 LPAR3 0.5 1.0 2.0 1) If the frame has 2 overall CPU , would itbe able to start all three lpars on boot ? starting with the minimum CPU.
21 May 2008
PSSP Query: All, I have some queries regarding PSSP infrastructure. 1. Does PSSP software include a GUI ? I know PSSP is installed on top of AIX on a control workstation and there are separate commands to manage it , but on CWS is it managed by GUI ? 2. PSSP Hardware : Can PSSP be run on any (...)
21 May 2008
Applicatoin - XWindow: Hi, We have an application supporting by AIX. The application requires the application account to login from the graphical console in the CDE environment and issues an "xhost +" in the xterm session. The login session is not allow to logout after that or else the application (...)
21 May 2008
Missing /etc/rc.d in 5L? (Yes, an old question): All: I'm new to AIX, but learning by being thrown into the deep end. And without a lifeguard in sight. (And I think the last sysadmin pee'd in the pool too.....) Anyway, I'm trying to troubleshoot some issues in my enviroment. One is the (apparant) non-existance of a (...)
20 May 2008
sending enter key to backup process.: HI, Hopefully someone can give me an idea on how to solve a backup issue I have. we run a backup and it now needs two tapes I want to automate the process to our ops via e-mail prompt or something. just want to get the logic in my script working. The backup command output the message (...)
20 May 2008
Renaming a symbol: I'm trying to rename a symbol in a shared object on AIX 5.2. I'm following Gary Hook's "Advanced linking", and was successful with a c program. Now I'm trying a 64-bit c++ binary, without much success. I have a library - libfoo.a, which contains one object - (...)
20 May 2008
How to get the leftmost n characters in a string: I know just enough about scripting to be dangerous. I'm trying to write a simple one that prints several files in a directory to different printers, based on the name of the file, for instance, if the file name is 3EAreport.ps, I want to send it to printer NP3EA001. I've figured (...)
20 May 2008
gcc compiled perl runtime module: Hi together one of my customers want to have a perl runtime which was compiled with gcc. He isn't able to do so himself, because he got many errors compiling the perl sources. Is there any place where I can download a gcc-precompiled perl.rte. Alternatively can someone post the (...)
19 May 2008
IVE and external network switches VLAN settings??: Guys Have anybody any expereince with IVE and VLAN settings on external switch. We want to use IVE feature on p570 server , but problem is that IVE is providing only two physical ports ( while i have around eight lpars on one vlan, while remaining on other VLAN). Question is that (...)
19 May 2008
errpt available ?: Hi, Some one could tel me how can i do to test errpt is available ? thank's
19 May 2008
Manually make Tape access=available: Hello How do I make the tape available in TSM. I ran command "update volume name access=available " but it shows error. I put two tapes in the drive which can hold total four. Two tapes were there before & when I run q libvol it just shows the previous two tapes. I (...)
16 May 2008
Make Tape available: Hello How do I make the tape available in TSM. I ran command "update volume name access=available " but it shows error. Thx
16 May 2008
Clariion: Hi, is there anyone who can get me a hint on Solaris Clariion combination. Usualy I manage aix - clariion, and when I want to promote secondary lun ( mirror view ) I run this procedure: AIX - unmount fs from hdiskpowerx AIX - deactivate vg from hdiskpowerx AIX - export vg (...)
16 May 2008
URGENT REQUIREMENT FOR AIX ADMINISTRATORS: Hi, Greetings!!!! I represent myself from Crystal Consultants, A Manpower providing Company (Around the Globe) Estd: 1999 is in the City of Hyderabad, A.P, INDIA. We are rendering our services to Companies, who are into different Sectors. Currently we have very urgent requirement (...)
16 May 2008
Dev partition to be as DR server?Is it possible?: Guys I do have one big Lpar at DR site and wondering that if it could be used as DR Lpar for my one of my Lpars at production site.... Good thing is that all Lpars ( production as well as Development) Lpars are san booted and PPRC using DS6000. Question is that , when DR happened and (...)
16 May 2008
General Linking question.: Lets say I created a shared library (libmyFile1.so) with a single function myFunc1 and want to link it into a newly created application (App1). The file libmyFile1.so is located in the /usr/source/lib/ directory. Scenario 1: ------------------ If I do the following, the application (...)
16 May 2008
32bit and 64bit compiling on AIX 5.2 and 5.3: I have an automation tool that I use that builds our applications on multiple platforms, two of which are AIX 5.2 and 5.3 32bit and 64bit (on a single host). It does this by compiling the code, if that's successful, booting the machine into the other bit level (but the same OS...so (...)
16 May 2008
Sudo: Hello This is the error I get when installing sudo in smitty Help is appreciated geninstall -I "agQqwX -V2 -J" -Z -d /tmp/sudo/sudo-1.6.9p16 -f File 2>&1 File: J:sudo-1.6.9p16 install-sh: Unknown flag (...)
15 May 2008
Failure Starting a new Process: I'm using AIX 4.3 with oracle. Sometimes users receive an error on aplication and when it occurs, AIX shows the following error: "Failure on starting a new process on host xxxxx. To continue it's necessary to interrupt a process on this host". Error occurs when a lot (...)
15 May 2008
GPFS new filesystem creation: Guys I need to create a new GPFS filesystem in a existing GPFS cluster ( used for RAC ) with newly added disks to system. Here is my procedue , pls review and recommend any necssary changes: 1. execute mmncrsd on new disk ( hdisk5) with a a new failure group ( different from what (...)
15 May 2008
Trying to manipulate mail recipients before it leaves AIX: Hello, I am trying to see if someone can help me figure out if there is any way I can do the following: I have many AIX servers that have many scripts configured to alert us. These scripts simply send an e-mail to the following address: sys...@company.org => This is an Outlook (...)
15 May 2008
Experience with g++ 4.2.0 on AIX 5.3: Hello, Has anyone tried the the g++ 4.2.0 build for AIX 5.3 provided on [link] The reason for asking is that I experience it to be very broken. I can't even complete hello world applications with g++ without getting a ton of weird linker errors. Before applying the latest TL I was (...)
15 May 2008
Java program returns error if printer is busy: I have an odd problem, wondered if anyone could help out. We're preparing to implement Lawson's Mobile Supply Chain Management, and they have a Java program that prints reports to some of our AIX queues. Problem is, if the printer is busy printing a job, the Java program returns (...)
14 May 2008
xlf rte - AIX4.3: Anybody know where/if I can get hold of xlf rte v7 for AIX 4.3? I realise it's no longer supported by IBM but need to test a CAD issue I have. I currently have v5 installed. Cheers,
14 May 2008
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14 May 2008
ssh and scp in aix 4.3.3: I'm using scp to copy files to another company via our 4.3.3 server. I am having transfer problems right at the transfer point in scp. Below are 2 debug outputs showing the bottleneck. The lower level debug preceeds the higher level debug output. It just seems to stop and refuses to (...)
13 May 2008
LPAR managed server cloning: Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a migration project as a contractant. It consists of migrating a TSM server on a p5 from version 5.3 to 5.5 I thought of cloning the actual TSM server running on a managed LPAR ; thus, we may install TSM server v5.5 from scratch on the new LPAR, (...)
13 May 2008
tail and logger: I have a situation where I need to redirect all messages from file to syslog which sends it to remote site. It works fine with: tail -f file.log | logger But thing stops when rotation happens on file.log. That is my problem :) Linux has "tail" command and -F switch which (...)
13 May 2008
Estate management: Hello all, we have a number of pseries racks with a number of LPARs in each rack (totalling about 80), along with some stand alone servers, I'm being asked to find out if there is a something out there that eases the daily tasks of managing such an estate. I think what I'm after (...)
13 May 2008
AIX 5.3, dsmc, and xlc++: I have a C++ application compiled with xlc++ running under AIX 5.3. One of the things it does is make a call to system() to run dsmc, the TSM client. When it makes the system call, dsmc runs and retrieves a file from an optical jukebox. dsmc completes and reports that it takes 21 (...)
12 May 2008