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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Function body defined in /etc/profile appears in shell history on login
We run IBM AIX here (currently 7100-03-03-1415) that is missing a fair amount of the utility preset in other versions of UNIX. One of the things that we need to do on a semi-regular basis is convert from epoch time to a standard timestamp. To…
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Browser for AIX 6.1
Does anyone have a suggestion for a "current browser" for AIX?
IBM's recommendation is Mozilla Firefox for AIX - Version 3.6.25.2
2011 era.
Can't find anything much more recent.
There's Amaya, but even that is barely a 2012 release
Any…
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NFSv4 permissions on AIX
I am attempting to use an NFSv4 mount across two systems that do not share UID/GIDs. This is for a system migration where the old environment used whatever UID/GIDs were available, and they now conflict on the new environment. I've given all the…
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Send Apache Access Logs to syslog
We have IBM HTTP Servers (Based on Apache 2.0) and want to send the access logs to syslog. (in addition to error logs which does work)
The config we are using is as follows:
ErrorLog "|/HTTPServer/bin/rotatelogs /archive/http/error_log.%Y%m%d 86400…
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Compiling Apache 2.2.11 on AIX 6.1, .so files not genereated
I am compiling Apache 2 (2.2.11 yeh, Its old...but its a requirement) on AIX 6.1 with GCC 4.2.0. I am using the configure options:
./configure \
--enable-module=rewrite\
--enable-module=log_referer\
--with-included-apr \
--enable-proxy …
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How to get memory util of LPARs from HMC?
I know I can get CPU utilizations with lslparutil from the HMC. But is there a way to get memory utilization stats of LPARs from the HMC? The metrics I found seems to be all configuration-related and not actual memory usage. Any…
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AIX 7.1 .kshrc ignored
I've created .kshrc file in my home directory, but all my custom settings are ignored. ENV variable is not set. How can I force ksh to read .kshrc?
Here is my .kshrc:
set -o emacs
export…
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same file different size in Linux and AIX
we have file in Linux and copied to AIX. same file smaller size in AIX.
Linux - ext3 file system
AIX - jfs2 file system
both file systems in same block size 4k
size in Linux
du -sk p14727347_112030_AIX64-5L.zip
1160568…
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How to disable login into AIX using password for any means
Is there any way to disable login to AIX using password?
I know that for SSH login I can update sshd_config and set PasswordAuthentication to no.
But what about other ways of login into AIX, like telnet, ... ?
I have to forbid login with password…
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Bind telnetd to specific IP on AIX 5.3?
Is it possible to bind telnetd to a specific IP on AIX 5.3? I know telnet is evil. Unfortunately, we have to have it listening on one interface for a specific application, but I want to make sure that's the only interface/IP that it's listening…
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AIX - rename oldest file in a directory
I have a situation where several files may accumulate a folder for some processing and the processing routine can only handle one file at a time, and it must have a specific filename.
I need to be able to find the oldest file in this directory and…
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Expect Script, timeouts and error checking
I was hoping to get a little insight into an expect script that I've written.
Basically we have this expect script to perform an sftp upload, key authentication is not an option, and sftp is the only method supported by our vendor, thus the need for…
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Python and mod_wsgi path issue
I have an AIX 6.1 system that I've compiled and installed:
Apache 2.2.21 (into /usr/local/mercurial)
Python 2.7.2 (into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib)
mod_wsgi 3.3 (with the AIX fix #1 described here)
Mercurial 2.0 (system-wide)
However, when…
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AIX sed parsing error 0602-404 but works with Linux sed?
I have this sed working in Linux and have a few AIX servers I need to use it on as well but keep getting this error and I can't find any information on it even though it's specific.
Got the following to work but the complex one I can't figure…
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how do i list remote print queues in aix?
So lpstat returns all print queues. What is a quick way to determine which of the print queues are remote and which are local?
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