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 to the apps on the server from the

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Hi together found this this one as part of set up a hacmp cluster Give: - Server name (symbolic name for the resource) - Start and Stop scripts full pathnames (must exist on ALL NODES, in non-shared filesystems). Repeat this step for ALL Application Servers. Does this mean, the (...)

11 mars 2010 : IVM ip error

Hi, I have updated the IVM ips on 2 Power machines, one P5 570 and a P5 550. The update was only on the HMC-1 port. The machines are not managed by any HMC. After the update, the ips respond to ping, but trying to connect to the IVM fails on both servers. I then tried on the HMC-2 (...)

11 mars 2010 : LSLPP and DB2/Sybase installations

One of our network scanning tools uses LSLPP on UNIX and AIX systems to identify applicaitons. I've just noticed one oddity -- the reports on our DB2 servers does not indicate the presence of DB2 software. Same for Sybase Are we using the wrong setting or do the two applications not (...)

10 mars 2010 : SLP in 5.3

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9 mars 2010 : How to complier occi library in AIX with gcc?

Enviroment: Power5,AIX5.3,X64 Oracle10gR2_X64 Complier:gcc/g++ When i complier a c++ project with gcc, the program return problems like this: ld:0711-317 Error:Undefined symbol: oracle::occi::Blob::isNull() const But i have include the header files directory and load the library (...)

6 mars 2010 : SNMP on AIX

Hi: Is there any way to install net-snmp on AIX and have CPU, memory and FS monitoring ? I'm trying without success. Please help me if you can.

4 mars 2010 : 64 bit AIX5.3L: sed, utf-16 unicode files and nulls

I have a unicode file with a little-endian BOM. I'd like to strip a few characters out of it with sed, but despite my best efforts at manipulating LC_ALL to various values, sed always seems to strip out ALL of the nulls from the file regardless. For example, "s/\r/\r/g" to do (...)

3 mars 2010 : wants to install VNC Server on AIX.

Hi All, I am new to UNIX. I am in learning mode. I wants to install VNC Server on AIX. can anyone help me to get it out ? I welcome if some can share any good document resource with me. Thanks, Haresh

2 mars 2010 : problems with aix 5.3 with hacmp

hello i've a big big problem with hacmp over two nodes P520 AIX 5.3 5300-10-01-0921 well my probles his that: my configuration is : one server contain application ( wrote in C ) and the second server contain Ingres DB. my problem appear when i lose my internet connection. the (...)

2 mars 2010 : Change default behavior of 3rd party driver

Hello, now being the proud owner of an HDS AMS, I do have a little issue: I saved the money on the HDLM (loadbalancing multipath) drivers and set for the (ODM)plugin to regular AIX-MPIO. This is fine and works as expected, but the attributes default to 'reserve (...)

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25 février 2010 : Problem writing to DVD on P520 running AIX 5.3

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24 février 2010 : mksysb to a DVD

Folks, We recently purchased a P520 system, it is running AIX 5.3, it has a SATA DVD-RAM drive. cd0 U789C.001.DQD3X09-P2-D2 SATA DVD-RAM Drive Manufacturer................IB M Machine Type and Model......RMBO0040502 ROS Level and ID............SA63 Device (...)

21 février 2010 : AIX 3.2.x serial console login

Hi ! Forgive a silly newbie ... Can't get serial console login prompt ... I'm using the cable I've used on other machines (HP servers or other Linux boxes), connected to S1 on the back ... with an adapter for the berg style IBM serial. The system starts ... I get (...)

19 février 2010 : Not able to access

Hi, I have been using KEA! , there was some problem with KEA and now wanted to use putty client instead but always the error message is displayed "Program error at "cus_maint.4ge", line number (%d)." Can any body figure out what setting need to be done in Putty to access the server. (...)

19 février 2010 : AIX TL upgrade, required firmware update?

I have a 9111-520 that is at 5300-00, to install a newerversion of HTTPServer, I need to upgrade to 5300-07 or higher. I am just wondering if there is a required firmaware level for 5300-07. The server is at a very low firmware level SF222_081. The current version is SF240_382 which (...)

18 février 2010 : SeaMonkey 2.0.3 for AIX is released

You can download from [link]> and a AIX 4.3.3 backport from my site: [link]> Thunderbird 3.0.2 builds coming soon! If there is a demand for 64bit versions, wave your hands. I can build them too. Surfing the net has never been so (...)

16 février 2010 : AIX 5L System Administration IV : Storage Management

Hi all, Have someone some manual about Storage Management? [link] Thanks!

16 février 2010 : What is meaning of DF8A44B0 in errpt ???

We are getting an errpt that shows the following: ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------- LABEL: SC_DISK_ERR8 IDENTIFIER: DF8A44B0 Date/Time: Mon Feb 15 16:00:15 PST 2010 Sequence Number: 212 Machine Id: 00C2DCD54C00 Node Id: (...)

15 février 2010 : Php does not work with apache

Hi, I am trying to install apache-php-informix on aix. I install ibm apache rpm version Apache/ 1.3.31(apache-1.3.31-1ssl.aix5 .1.ppc.rpm) I have to build php (php-4.4.9) to have support informix connection. standanlone php works to access informix. But php on Apache's informix (...)

15 février 2010 : Best Settings for Terminal Emulator and rz/sz

I am trying to get Zmodem file transfers between my PC and an RS6000 to work more reliably. Everything worked fine until I updated the PC to Vista Business and Procomm Plus quit working for sending files. I got a new terminal emulator, Tiny Term Plus, that was Vista compatible and am (...)

13 février 2010 : What could cause a creat() call to return ENOSPC on a filesystem with 2 GB free...???

Current Environment: oslevel -s: 5300-10-01-0921 hardware: P55A Does anyone have a clue as to why a “creat()” system call would fail on one of our SAN-mounted filesystems with a ENOSPC errno…. …when there is over 2 Gig of space available, and only 2% of the (...)

12 février 2010 : HMC connecting Power6 520 LPAR server stays in recovery mode

Hi, Any help on this is much appreciated. A customer bought a few months ago two new Power6 520 from some hardware dealer, but did not buy a HMC. The systems were delivered in LPAR mode, with 1*VIO and 2*LPAR's each. The System management was done throught Websm on the VIO server. (...)

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10 février 2010 : PATH HAS FAILED

hi, I am getting this error in errpt, LABEL: SC_DISK_ERR7 IDENTIFIER: DE3B8540 Date/Time: Wed Feb 10 11:05:38 GMT 2010 Sequence Number: 254129 Machine Id: 00C8E80B4C00 Node Id: seuedcsap404 Class: H Type: PERM Resource Name: hdisk150 Resource Class: (...)

10 février 2010 : CIFS AIX problem using ls and wildcards

Hi, I'm having an issue using wildcards (especially ' * ') when listing file under AIX on a CIFS share under Windows 2003 server. The problem (see below for an example) is reproducible. Does anyone have had the same problem? Is this a bug? Note that I'm not the (...)

8 février 2010 : C compiler error

Hi, Here is a short C-program: /*******************/ static const char *strings[]; main() printf("First string is %s\n",strings[0]); static const char *strings[] = "string1", "string2"; /******************/ This compiles fine with gcc, but when using xlc I get: line (...)

5 février 2010 : "SPOT - su" problem after update to AIX6.1 TL4 SP2

I recently perform "TL4 SP2" update on NIM master. I noticed strange problem: after SPOT creation, I can't use "su" su - root's Password: 3004-503 Cannot set process credentials : No permission. Only root can execute "su" command without error. After reboot, "su" is normally (...)

3 février 2010 : 0042-355 m_mkspot: Unable to perform the operation on "inbprd1_1feb2010_spot" because another SPOT is being created or modified on the server, "master". Wait for the other SPOT operation to finish.

I am posting this as the only answer found was at one of those WEB sites that charge for information that should be free. I had accidental killed a NIM SPOT creation from a mksysb resource. I went through the usual clean-up action but could not clear up the error. The error of 0042-355 (...)

2 février 2010 : Strane behaviour of disks (luns) after reboot

Hi today I'done an update to aix 5300-09-04-0920 and after reboot there were two filesystems (say fsA and fsB) closed/sync. Try to mount them manually ends up with an i/o error, try to fsck them ends up with message Could not read primary superblock Could not read either (...)

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2 février 2010 : Announce: C-Kermit 9.0 Alpha.02

For those who didn't see the first announcement in November, a new release of C-Kermit communication software: [link] is nearing release, version 9.0, described here: [link] The second Alpha-test version, Alpha.02, is now ready for (...)

29 janvier 2010 : iscsi software target on aix 5.3?

Is it already available on AIX 5.3 iscsi software target? sk

27 janvier 2010 : please test for bugs and usefulness, thanks

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin lsparent -C -k ent |\ awk '$2 == "Available" sub("ent","en",$1) print "NIC is " $1 system("lsattr -E -a alias4,netaddr,netmask -l " $1 )' |\ awk ' BEGIN print "NIC " " IP " " Netmask" if ($0 ~ "NIC is " ) en_name=$3 if ( $1 == (...)

24 janvier 2010 : lpar ipaddress host-name using hmc command

I have connected to HMC and am able to find out Managed Systems details using command lssyscfg . And I am even able to get LPAR-IDs for each Managed Server . The thing that I am missing is host-name and ip-address of each of the lpars . Additionally i used lspartition -all to get the (...)

22 janvier 2010 : Getting info on hung process

I have a situation where a process hangs intermittently on AIX 5.3. There are 13 of these processes running concurrently and 1 or more hang at random times throughout the day. Does anyone know of a way to gather information about this process such as a memory dump - basically anything (...)

22 janvier 2010 : LPAR docs?

group, I'm contemplating to run both AIX and RHEL on the same Power server, so LPAR comes to mind. Is there any recommended documentation (redbook?) how to proceed step by step, i.e. sth like "LPAR for dummies"? (...)

21 janvier 2010 : How to send "mail", with no body, from within a UNIX script

I created a script to monitor the number of sessions in an Oracle database. When the number of sessions exceeds a threshold I use a UNIX "mail" command to send an email message, and an electronic page. Everything to need to know is contained in the subject line. I have no need to send (...)

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20 janvier 2010 : tctl command not working during mksysb system recovery

System Model: IBM,9111-520 CPU Type: 64-bit Kernel Type: 64-bit Platform Firmware level: SF240_358 oslevel -s 5300-10-01-0921 First the background: ================ Our company has a policy that after we prepare a mksysb backup tape, during a system maintenance period, we test (...)

20 janvier 2010 : bff package with option of fileset ownership change

Hello. Does anybody know how to create a bff package with a possibility of fileset ownership change during the installation process? I use makebff.pl script to build a package, and I could rise a question to enter a new user/group information (during the installp process), but (...)

15 janvier 2010 : Cross memory access

Hi All, I have a question. I have two drivers. Can I allocate memory in one driver and access the same location from other driver. ( I export the variable that stores memory location from the driver). What is the procedure to do this? Thanks (...)

14 janvier 2010 : Getting native(physical) thread id and primal(virtual) thread id

AIX 5.3 I need to get both native(physical) thread id and primal(virtual) thread id * in C/C++ program * in script. Any suggestions? Thanks. Alex

14 janvier 2010 : Can installp packages share a file (like Solaris pkg and Linux RPM can)?

Can installp packages share a file (like Solaris pkg and Linux RPM can)? I have created installp 2 packages, "packageA" and "packageB". Both contain unique files and both contain "fileA". After loading "packageA", I load "packageB", which tells me: sysck: 3001-036 WARNING: File (...)

11 janvier 2010 : Change size of a disk

Hi, Is it possible to have a disk which change in size ? (we have a clariion, and we can change the size of a LUN) Thanks AIX 5.X & AIX 6.1

11 janvier 2010 : Availability of Seamonkey 2.0.2 for AIX 5L

I'm proud to announce that later today together of with official release of Seamonkey 2.0.2 my contributed builds for AIX 5L will appear later today on the contributed builds directory on [link]> Seamonkey 2.0.2 is the most recent and secure Webbrowser and (...)

11 janvier 2010 : Seeking Test of IBM's C compilers

Hello. I found a problem in the way that some C compilers handle the case where a function modifies a global pointer and returns an address which is assigned to that same global pointer. A test program appears below. The following compilers are able to generate code which can take (...)

10 janvier 2010 : Alternative cluster file system on AIX

Is there an alternative cluster file system that costs less than IBM General Parallel File System? Thanks, JZ

7 janvier 2010 : libsnmp restore on AIX

Hi, One of product removed libsnmp file at client AIX box. Now we want to restore it back. So,... 1.- Is it possible to restore it back ? 2.- Which process installs this libsnmp, like clusters or...? Here removal of product is not possible. Plz let me know for further details. (...)

1er janvier 2010 : RS/6000 J50/R50/SP2-high CPU cards

I'm curious about the CPU cards as used on the 7013-J50, 7015-R50, SP2 High Node, etc. There were a TON of FRUs for the 200MHz part. I saw an ancient post on this group that said IBM had a lot of trouble with the design of this card. After the 'X4D', it seems it was (...)

31 décembre 2009 : Could someone please try this 6-lic C program?

Is there anyone with access to a native IBM C compiler who could tell me the output of this program int main() printf("%.16lf\n",exp(1.0)); I've tried this program on 9 different hardware/software combinations, using both the GNU and native compilers on AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC), (...)

29 décembre 2009 : (paypal payment)( www.brandshoes08.com ) wholesale BOSS T-shirt

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22 décembre 2009 : LVM question : how to merge 2 VGs intoa single one without data loss ?

Hi ! Is there any way to merge 2 PVs belonging to 2 *different* VGs into 1 VG *without* losing data already stored in the 2 PVs ? I'm working on AIX 5.3 ML4. I've got 2 different VGs, each with only one PV. Each VGs contains only one LV/FS (jfs2) + the jfslog LV. The FS (and (...)

21 décembre 2009 : Problem with patching to 5300-09 Tech Level, Nov 2008 release

Whilst patching from TL5 to the TL9, we noticed it was trying to update the bos.net.uucp fileset. But for security reason, the user uccp a/c was removed a while ago. Can I simply take out the u818309 bos.net.uucp fileset and re-run the patching via "update all"? After the first attempt (...)

19 décembre 2009 : AIX CBT

Hi All, I am learner of IBM AIX. Can anyone help me to get IBM AIX CBT files? It would be really very great help for me. Regards, Prashant

19 décembre 2009 : IBM AIX

Hi, Can anyone tell me best institute for IBM AIX in Delhi & NCR? Regards, Prashant

19 décembre 2009 : AIX 4.3.3 hints

Hi ! Now some "more advanced"(?) questions ... 1) How can I enable telnet server ? It's done modifying inetd.conf ? I looked, it seems to be enabled, but I get "Connection refused" 2) The first time I booted the machine, I login with root,root. Now, trying to login so, result in a (...)

19 décembre 2009 : Monit 5.0.3 on AIX 5.x

Anyone have success with compiling Monit on AIX 5.x? I have tried both with gcc & xlc without success. Running configure is ok, error is reported by make: "Makefile", line 106: make: 1254-055 Dependency needs colon or double colon operator. (...)

17 décembre 2009 : weird issues with "at" command

I've got two AIX systems, both at 6100-03-01-0921. Both systems have the at binary at the exact same size so they are identical.On one system if I create a file called at.cmd with the following contents: export LIBPATH=/usr/lib:/usr/ibmcxx/l ib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/IBM/db2 / (...)

17 décembre 2009 : AIX 4.3.3 compiler

Sorry for the stupid questions ... I'm not an AIX guru ;-) I powered up a RS/6000 42W ... I found AIX 4.3.3 ... booting directly into XWindows. 1) The C compiler isn't installed as default ? I tried all flavors ... cc, gcc ... nothing. Where can I find it ? 2) There's a (...)

16 décembre 2009 : How to see Storage ID (serial number) of DS4800 under aix?

Any ideas? I see that some part of the "serials" reported by pcmpath query device are constant, but I am still not sure... For ds8000/6000 I know that the serial is the string without the last 4 characters (extent pool and lun?), but here I have no idea.... Help will be much (...)

14 décembre 2009 : AIX NIS user login problem.

AIX NIS user login getting error " 3004-505 Cannot set process environment" System is on NIS and root can login but not any of the NIS user.

10 décembre 2009 : Need AIX Professionals

Hi, We are in need of 5-7 Years of L3 AIX Administrators. Work Location: India Positions open: 20 Rel. Exp: 5-7 Yrs Salary: As per Industry Standard in INR Mail the profiles on: hr[at]cympac[dot]com Thanking you! (...)

9 décembre 2009 : sharp eyed user spots IBM typo in passwd command

[snip] Your password may only contain alpha numeric characters. There must be at least one lower case character, one upper case character and one didgit. [snip]

7 décembre 2009 : lapi_init() failed with rc(400) after upgrade to 5.3 of IBM,9113-550

We have upgraded our IBM,9113-550 to 5L 5.3 (previously 5.1) to accomodate some 3rd party libs we need to build our software. Unfortunately this upgrade hasn't really come out the way we would have liked. It seems that ever ince the upgrade our LAPI is broken somehow, and errors (...)

7 décembre 2009 : Nmon fiber card output question

I'm trying to determine if I have a bottleneck in the fiber cards on my machine. Nmon output using -a option shows two lines fscsi2 fscsi3 and one line that seems to be a total of the two lines above fcs3 My first question is what does fcs3 represent? We are using EMC (...)

5 décembre 2009 : logical volume name conflict in two volume group

Hello, I am a french computer technician, and i speak English just a little. On Aix 5.3, I encounter a name conflict logical volume on two volume group. The first volume lvnode01 is OK in rootvg and mounted. It is also consistent in the ODM root # lsvg -l rootvg |grep lvnode01 (...)

3 décembre 2009 : WTB Retro AIX/rs6k kit

I'm looking to acquire the following. If you have anything gathering dust in a dark hole somewhere, contact me :-). Systems will need to be in the US for economical shipment, though I may make exception depending on the model. Systems: * 7009-C20 * 7013-590+ * 7015 any * (...)

1er décembre 2009 : fsck question

Hello, I have question regarding fsck implementation on AIX. I suspect - fsck is checking info included in FS superblock. Is there any way to force full scan even if I know that FS is healthly? I want to get fsck time for 4 TB FS. Thanks in advance (...)

30 novembre 2009 : SNMP 64bit counters for interfaces on 5.3 or 6.1?

Hello all, has anyone been able to query the SNMP 64bit counters for network interfaces on AIX 5.3 or 6.1? If i do a snmpwalk on the IF-MIB sub- tree it seems that there are no entries for network interfaces: # snmpwalk -v2c -c public .1.3.6.1.2.1.31 IF-MIB::ifMIB = NULL # snmpwalk (...)

29 novembre 2009 : AIX 4.1 diagnostic/installation floppies

Hi ! I've a working 7011-220 with AIX 4.1 and XWindows. Does exist a diagnostic/installation floppy set ? I have a four-floppy set for AIX 3.2.5 ... obviuosly booting from them says "Not a version 3 filesystem" ... Since I've no AIX 4.1 copy, I'll do a mksysb but the (...)

29 novembre 2009 : RS/6000 Redbook Collection

[link] SK2T-8043-05, April 2001. Courtesy of WBST. Being indexed for search ([link]) at the moment. I will eventually write a script to pull out the PDF titles and create an HTML index. Regards, Kevin PS: If you are hoarding useful documentation or code, contact me (...)

28 novembre 2009 : boo2pdf update

I fixed image indentation and did some other minor updates to boo2pdf. If you preprocess using IBM's transmogrifier utility on Windows, the results are excellent. Unfortunately this util does not run well in Wine on Linux so I can't script it in to the web service. Code now (...)

28 novembre 2009 : Installing Firefox 3.0.7 breaks compatibility with Thunderbird or Seamonkey

The new IBM released Firefox 3.0.7 so far has two identified problems: first: you cannot save preferences see [link]> for more including easy workaround and complete solution. second and much worse: The GNOME runtime RPMS break binary compatibility with the 32bit (...)

27 novembre 2009 : sudo mailx

Only root can use mailx in order to use sudo i added 2 lines in visudo Cmnd_Alias CMD_TIVOLI_DB2_MAIL = /usr/bin/mailx ALL =(root) NOPASSWD: CMD_TIVOLI_DB2_MAIL without success :(.. still cannot send. No message error (...)

20 novembre 2009 : openssh with gssapi

Hello, Does anybody know if there is an openssh package built for aix that supports gssapi. The one at [link], does not appear to , because I get : auth|security:info sshd[495704]: reprocess config line 67: Unsupported option KerberosAuthentication auth|security:info (...)

18 novembre 2009 : Socks for AIX

Hi All, Are there any compiled downloadable binaries for a Socks client for AIX? I need to get svn to talk to a remote server via SOCKS. And Hudson for that matter,,, -Chris

14 novembre 2009 : multiple copies to print using qprt command

We have a couple of printers attached with serial cables to our AIX 5L system. One printer is network capable so I have prepared a queue for TCP/IP printing. The queue works but every time a print job is submitted with -N copies, only one copy is sent to the printer. I use the "lpr" (...)

12 novembre 2009 : Question: How to check that memory page is filled by zeros when a process gets it in first time?

I have to check whether AIX fills physical memory pages by zeros when they are given for a new process (or may be when they are freed from an address space, but it's hardly probable). In other words when a process gets a new memory page, this one must be cleaned. I've solved (...)

12 novembre 2009 : Virtual Fiber and Virtual SCSI?

Guys Now as we have virtual fiber concept on Power6 , what is the best way to allow client partitions to access SAN based disks through VIO? I mean whether to use virtual scsi ( old way) or to use virtual fiber ( NPIV)? Any guidelines from IBM ? (...)

10 novembre 2009 : emxdrv0

anybody have any idea what this driver is? can't find anything on google or the IBM site about it i get this message: hard_unload emxdrv0: OK on /usr/lib/drivers/emx/emxdrv0 Thanks for any ideas, Jim

9 novembre 2009 : segmentation fault in svn 1.4.6 on AIX 5.3

I've set SVN up on a few machines, and they have all been good. However, on this one machine, I get: Segmentation fault(coredump) Type 'help' for help. [using memory image in core] reading symbolic information ... Segmentation fault in check_sbcs at 0xd1a85f14 ($t1) (...)

9 novembre 2009 : How to script

Hi, I want to schdule shutdown with -t option but this option will prompt me to answer "yes" or "no". How to go about putting in the yes in the script? Thanks in advance.

7 novembre 2009 : Problem with Console and graphics 7029-6c3 and AIX 6.1

Has anyone else run into this problem? Typically, I use a serial port connection to start my 7029-6c3 pseries system ( sms, etc) which prompts me to "select 0 for a system console" and AIX 6.1 boots. This works if a video card and standard PS/2 style keyboard aren't installed. (...)

6 novembre 2009 : Question: Linux for Pseries 615 RS6000

Which debian based linux distro supports power4+ systems? Typically I use Linux Mint but don't think they have a port for power. I enjoy AIX but may also install a 64 bit Linux on my RS6000 as well. Please recommend a Linux 64 bit distro that also supports KDE v4 and Gnome. PS - (...)

5 novembre 2009 : Moving RS/6000 595 system to new machine or emulator?

Hi - hope some of you can help me with some thoughts on this. We have an old RS/6000 Model 595 running AIX v4.2. The unit still runs some old ERP system, and I am curious as to what options we have. I saw that IBM claims that AIX 6.1 is binary compatible with 4.x (well behaved) (...)

5 novembre 2009 : Any risk with running chvg -t on live system

I need to add a 300GB volume to a volume group. extendvg tells me I need to increase the number of PPs per PV using chvg -t. What bothers me is that the message says to use the command to "attempt to change" this value. Researching it, it looks like that wording is there because there (...)

2 novembre 2009 : Beta testers for Seamonkey 2.0 for AIX5L

Who is willing to test the brandnew Seamonkey 2.0 sharing it's browser engine with Firefox 3.5.4. Compiled on AIX 5.1 ML9 as 32bit app. You will need at least 512 MB RAM, a TrueColour X Server and the possibility to update some system software from the levels listed here: (...)

2 novembre 2009 : AIX 5.3: access existing file gives ENOENT

I ran truss on a running java program, and noticed that the access system call was returning "Err#2 ENOENT" for existing files, files that were succesfully "accessed" earlier in the same program, and later on. Is there any reasonable explanation for this behaviour? In the truss output (...)

2 novembre 2009 : Help: Loud fans

Is there an AIX command or another way to manually turn down, turn off, and turn on CPU and power supply fans in a 7029-6c3 pseries 615 system? Unfortunately, The system will not boot into AIX without fans ( which sound like jet engines). With fans removed, the system only boots into (...)

31 octobre 2009 : What's lasts OS to use on RS 6000 7025 F50?

I've got an IBM RS 6000 7025 F50 which is running AIX 4.3 or there abouts (not sure of the exact version. It might be 4.3.3.) What's the latest version of AIX I can stick on this machine? I was given a set of AIX 5.1 CD-R's some time back, but I've seen a set of 8 CDs for (...)

31 octobre 2009 : Buying+sell+rent+Real+Estate+plots+bangloaws Gulshan Johar Dha Clifton North-Nazimabad in all Karachi+Lahore+Islamabad+others+cityes

Buying+sell+rent+Real+Estate+p lots+bangloaws Gulshan Johar Dha Clifton North-Nazimabad in all Karachi+Lahore+Islamabad+other s+cityes [link]

31 octobre 2009 : agregate volumes

Hi How can I aggregate free space on disk group after deleted lun on DS series 3xxxx or 4xxxx, I would like to recover defragmeted space on my disk group.Thanks for advice. SK

31 octobre 2009 : Strange behaviour of cron

Hi together maybe it's only a syntax error, but the following find runs fine on commandline but when starting via cron, it fails find /dir/dir/dir/ -name file -mtime +2 -exec mv /dir/dir/dir/file \; What is wrong here? Thx in advance (...)

31 octobre 2009 : update VIOS virtual ethernet adapter (SEA) without rebooting

Hello everybody, this could seem odd but it is not. I have a complex environment composed mostly by p570 POWER6 machines. Each machine has 2 VIOS (last update of 1.5) that gives vSCSI and vETH connectivity to LPARs. VIOS are configured to guarantee redundancy (control channel for SEA (...)

31 octobre 2009 : Recommendation about C++ compiler flags

Problem when compiling Firefox 3.5.4 on AIX 5.1ML9 the Compiler crashes when both flags are given together: -qobjmodel=ibm -qeh not matter if -g or -O2 with XLC/C++ 7.0 with Jun09 fixpack. [link]> xlC_r -qlanglvl=extended -qobjmodel=ibm -qeh -o nsHTMLLinkElement.o -c (...)

30 octobre 2009 : Help: gxt6500p and pseries 7029-6c3 (aix 5.3 or 6.1 )

Is the gxt6500p or gxt4500p compatible with the 7029-6c3 ( pseries 615 )? Aix Diags lists a SCAN_CHRP error when the gxt6500p card is installed. At this point, I am not sure if it is a bad gxt6500p video card or if it is a system compatibility issue? If the gxt6500p is not compatible, (...)

29 octobre 2009 : VIO server and increasing VGs

I have VIO server installed with two AIX 5.3 mLPARs. Each mLPAR has 10G assigned. Unfortunately, this isnt enough. the mLPARs backing devices are logical volumes on the VIO server. I increaded these LVs to 17Gb each. On the mLPARs if i use bootinfo - hdisk0 i se the devices as 17G, (...)

29 octobre 2009 : pattern match

I'm trying an include/exclude list in 1 hit for a wrapper script I want to get a hit on the string "exception" but exclude all the other java bit's that are ok egrep "[^(javax.mail.MessagingExcept ion)+|^(java.net.UnknownHost)+ |^ (nested exception is )+]?exception" kind of (...)