AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced "a i ex") is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.
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how to create nested file system in AIX
We run an AIX database server.
Our DB team is looking at this configuration:
hdisk6 to have a mount point of /u02/app/oradata/hisdb
hdisk7 to have a mount point of /u02/app/oradata/hisdb/rmirror
will the nested filesystem be the correct way to…

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How to revert AIX service pack?
I have an AIX 6.1 box with service pack level 6100-02-03-0909
swax23 # oslevel -s -q
Known Service…
unknown (google)
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i cannot send mail on unix aix?
i try to send e-mail but the following error appear :-
bbb@ccc.com... User unknown
/dead.letter... Saved message in /dead.letter
how i can solve this error ????

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How to determine the used/available memory on AIX with a non root user?
Using a non root user what is the recommended method to determine the global system used/available memory on an AIX system ?

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how i can write if statment in unix AIX
i want to write if statment as following :-
if [$x == "string"]
then
echo "ok"
fi
but the following error appear
./bash_if.sh[6]: [0: not found.

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AIX telnet from remote
Although i can telnet the AIX server from the local network , i cant get access to it via the internet.. Itsnt a firewall/router issue 100% as trying on other computers worked great...
AIX is version 4.5 i think... around 1995.
Any ideas guys??

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missing disk space in AIX
i have an AIX server.. where the partition supposed to have 39gb worth of space..
but when i do a df -k, it shows that i have used up almost 24gb of space...
but as i listed out everything under that mount point.. the size of the files does not…

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Monitor Processes' Memory Usage
We have an IBM P series box running AIX 5.3. This is our application server, whereby our J2EE application is running in Oracle's Applications Server (version 10g r2). At around 11pm till the next day 7am, we have shell scripts running, which…

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Aix + Apache not serving static files as uploaded
Ok, bear with me, this is kind of hard to explain.
I have an AIX server (5.3.9.0) that is running apache 2.2.11. With static files (css, html), I can upload a file to the server, and when I call it, either directly or not, it doesn't show me the…
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Per process I/O accounting on AIX
Is there a way of getting per process I/O statistics on AIX, i.e. to get current disk I/O rate of a process? Commands like iostat, nmon, topas etc. can't display such data. Filemon also doesn't help. Actually, what I would need is something much…

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how i can execute windows batch file from UNIX-AIX?
how i can execute windows batch file from UNIX_AIX i install copssh ???

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Oracle 8i - Error signaled in parallel query server
I am attempting to run a query against an Oracl 8i database instance running on Aix. It is a simple select * against a single table. The query runs for approximately 8 hours and then throws the following error. Any insight on this would be…

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How to resolve "paging space I/Os blocked with no psbuf"
We are new to AIX environment, and experiencing some performance issue running our application.
When it happens, we use the vmstat command and found the fre value under memory usually very low. A sample is as follow
System configuration: lcpu=4…

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Why does bash invocation differ on AIX when using telnet vs ssh
I am using an AIX 5.3 server with a .bashrc file set up to echo "Executing bashrc." When I log in to the server using ssh and run:
bash -c ls
I get:
Executing bashrc
.
..
etc....
However, when I log in with telnet as the same user and run the…

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What is the correct way of running JBoss as a service
I'm running an APP under JBoss on AIX 6, and the correct way to run JBoss, as the docs says, is using the ./run.sh script, but said script runs on front, not on the background, and also gives a lot of debug info to stdout, instead to logfile, and…

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