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Does anyone know of a compiled version of the xdelta tool (xdelta.org)
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8 janvier 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 janvier 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
7 janvier 2009 : Seeking an Experienced Systems Analyst
Richmond, Virginia E-mail Care...@scfoster.com ***3 Year Contract Systems Analyst with Logica Arm Suite of Products*** Analysis and design of Work Management applications and interfaces. Assist in the development, implementation and support of ARM suite of products (WMIS, AWP, (...)
7 janvier 2009 : Immediate Opening for an Experienced Video Conference Engineer
Greater Philadelphia Area E-mail: Care...@scfoster.com We are currently looking for an experienced Network Engineer with video conferencing experience. Must have: Router, Switches, firewall configuration experience a MUST!!! Tandberg Video experience PolyCom Lan/Wan Minimum (...)
7 janvier 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 (...)
6 janvier 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 janvier 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 (...)
5 janvier 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
2 janvier 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 (...)
1er janvier 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 (...)
31 décembre 2008 : 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 (...)
29 décembre 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 décembre 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/ (...)
26 décembre 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.
23 décembre 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 décembre 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 (...)
22 décembre 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 (...)
19 décembre 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 décembre 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 (...)
18 décembre 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
17 décembre 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 décembre 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 décembre 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 (...)
16 décembre 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 décembre 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 (...)
15 décembre 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 décembre 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 décembre 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 décembre 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 (...)
12 décembre 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 (...)
10 décembre 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 (...)
9 décembre 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 décembre 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 décembre 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 décembre 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 (...)
5 décembre 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 (...)
4 décembre 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 (...)
3 décembre 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 décembre 2008 : the following will compile on linux but not on xlC
typedef enum a , int main() is there any flag to escape it
3 décembre 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. (...)
30 novembre 2008 : HELP DESK SOFT
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29 novembre 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 (...)
28 novembre 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: (...)
27 novembre 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 novembre 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 novembre 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
26 novembre 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 novembre 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 novembre 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 novembre 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 novembre 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
25 novembre 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 novembre 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 novembre 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] (...)
24 novembre 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 (...)
23 novembre 2008 : CHASE CREDIT CARDS
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22 novembre 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 (...)
21 novembre 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 novembre 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 (...)
20 novembre 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 novembre 2008 : Registration for Workshops Co-Located with USENIX OSDI '08
Don't miss the workshops co-located with OSDI '08. Taking place between December 7 and December 11, 2008, in San Diego, CA, the workshops cover a variety of topics--analysis of system logs, power aware computing and systems, I/O virtualization, and more. * HotDep ’08: (...)
20 novembre 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 novembre 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 (...)
19 novembre 2008 : PDF Converter
Is there a PDF converter for Report files created in COBOL in AIX? Thanks in advance.
18 novembre 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 novembre 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 novembre 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.
17 novembre 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 novembre 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 (...)
16 novembre 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 (...)
14 novembre 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 (...)
13 novembre 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 novembre 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 (...)
12 novembre 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 novembre 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 novembre 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 novembre 2008 : SCHOOL LOAN
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11 novembre 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 novembre 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 (...)
10 novembre 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 novembre 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, (...)
9 novembre 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 novembre 2008 : CREDIT CARD SERVISES
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7 novembre 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 novembre 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 novembre 2008 : ONLINE TRADING
ONLINE TRADING [link]
7 novembre 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 (...)
6 novembre 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 (...)
5 novembre 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 novembre 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 novembre 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 (...)
4 novembre 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 novembre 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
3 novembre 2008 : FREE SOFTWARE ONLINE
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3 novembre 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 (...)
2 novembre 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 novembre 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
30 octobre 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 octobre 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 octobre 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 (...)