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.
Questions tagged [aix]
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Unable to remove file using 'rm'
In one of our severs (IBM AIX), we have a file in path /data/1002/ which we were not able to remove or delete using the 'rm' command. The error message we got is "rm: S1208001.002: A file or directory in the path name does not exist."
With the "-f"…
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How to do the equivalent of rpm -qf in AIX? (Which package does this file belong to?)
So. I have a binary in /opt/freeware/bin in an AIX PPC machine whose origin I don't know. It could be an RPM -- most open-source AIX RPMs install in /opt/freeware. But no such luck. It must have been from an installp package (.bff). How can I…
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How to find all executable files? (AIX)
example
-rwxr--r-- 1 me users 0 May 27 13:58 file_0
-rw-rwxrw- 1 me users 0 May 27 13:58 file_1
-rw-rw-rwx 1 me users 0 May 27 13:59 file_2
-rwxrwxrwx 1 me users 0 May 27…
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What is the rootvg in AIX?
What is the rootvg in AIX? Is it something that is unique to AIX?
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How to Migrate LPAR between 2 power trough SAN from VIOs mapped LUN to NPIV
I'm trying to migrate LPAR from a power to another.
Since my company doesn't have any IBM licence for their migration solution I have to do it trough SAN (using IBM SVC and brocade SAN switches).
A quick view of the current structure…
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Mirroring on external SCSI and iSCSI disks inside same volume group
On IBM P5 505 (maint level 5300-07) servers there is a concurently accessed
external storage, which is connected using external Ultra320 SCSI port (DAS).
External storage is detected as hdisk2 which belongs to volume group dbvg.
Volume group dbvg…
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AIX update environment after .profile change
I am running AIX 5.3. I have made changes to a user's .profile file (added a couple of environment variables).
Is there a command that I can use to re-process the .profile file for a particular user without them having to log out and then back…
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Best approach to generate and use ssh key pairs
New to ServerFault, but have been on StackOverflow for a few months and loving it.
I work on a daily basis on 5 servers I have been setting up for some time now.
These servers are all AIX 7.1, and are quite similar, running all different…
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Unix and Triggering MS SQL Server Integration Services Jobs
We have an AIX server which contains a lot of data, and once a night we dump that data to CSV for import into MS SQL Server for reporting reasons.
At the moment, each step in the process is unlinked, and triggered simply on a timed basis - for…
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List environment variables of a running process on AIX without character limit
Today I was trying to debug an issue where a process was not picking up the correct environmental variable. It took us hours before we realized that it wasn't picking up the correct variable.
I tried to list them using the solution here:…
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While loop read multiple lines from a grep
I'm writing a script in AIX 5.3 that will loop through the output of a df and check each volume against another config file. If the volume appears in the config file, it will set a flag which is needed later in the script. If my config file only has…
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AIX: is it somehow possible to get a ForeignAddress/PID pair like we are able to get in Linux with netstat?
In Linux (RHEL), we are able to get a ForeignAddress/PID pair with "netstat -ntp" command:
[root@rhel ~]# netstat -ntp
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State …
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Delete key not working when PuTTYed in to AIX box using Korn shell
I manage an AIX box at work using PuTTY. I'm using ksh in vi-mode. When I press the Delete key (not backspace) the case of following characters is toggled instead of the character under the cursor being deleted. I'm not necessarily looking to change…
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What is the most similar AIX-like linux/unix OS available?
The question tells everything :)
What is the most similar AIX-like linux/unix that is free and also capable to be installed on a VM so that i can do some practice?
I need to do some testing before starting to actually work, and there is an AIX…
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ldd equivalent in AIX?
I'm used to do a ldd -d libxxx.so in Linux but it doesn't work in this AIX machine, I looked and I found some places to download the ldd program, but I actually want to know if there is a default application to see the libraries dependencies.
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