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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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What do the 2 leading underscores indicate in these alias lines for .kshrc?

I am configuring ksh88 on AIX 5.3L and came across a few lines that are supposed to enable the arrow keys for command history navigation. alias __A=$(print -n "\020") alias __B=$(print -n "\016") alias __C=$(print -n "\006") alias __D=$(print -n…
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File corruption issue AIX jFS2

I have an application which is doing a lot of file operations.Its doing a lots of file read and write operations(lot of small files). We have found that some of the files are getting mixed up randomly. Output of file1 is going to file2 and so…
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How can I return to nohup after logout?

I'm working on an AIX and cannot install screen but want to use its capabilities. Basically I want to be able to run a session (maybe logout), then the same user but logged in again to be able to get it back to the foreground. I send a job to the…
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Space not released after deleting files - AIX Version 5.3

I have AIX Version 5.3. I have deleted some file from the file system but the space is not released. The percentage of inodes in use is adequate. Is there any permanent fix for this?
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AIX's implementation of AIO servers on 6.1

We have this current settings. myibm:root:/:>ioo -Fa |grep aio aio_active = 1 aio_maxreqs = 65536 aio_maxservers = 30 aio_minservers = 3 aio_server_inactivity…
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How do I find the system's disk capacity?

I run the command df -g to get the GB block sizes in the second column (left to right). If I want to get the total capacity for all hard disks, which command should I use? OS is AIX.
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AIX 5.3 On Power4 Hardware Wouldn't Boot

We have a old Power4 server with AIX version 5.3 installed. Upon boot up, it hangs right after the AIX welcome screen. On the diagnostic load progress LED indicator, I saw that it stopped at '0c32' then after awhile the LED would be blank. The…
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Re-Configuring TCP IP of an AIX system ( LPAR P770/AIX 5.3)

I have serverA and serverB (AIX LPARS on SystemP) I want to switch hostname and IP configurations between serverA and serverB. Is it enough to perform the changes via smitty mktcpip or do I have to make changes via the HMC ( Hardware Management…
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AIX 5.3 Package Dependency

I want to install gettext but i cannot because my AIX says that gettext is dependent on glib and when i try to install glib it says that I cannot because glib is in turn dependent on gettext. Please let me know how I could get past this…
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ctrl-v key on AIX

I'm new to AIX and I miss some tricks that work well on other *nix flavors. I need a CTRL sequence in a ksh scripts, like ^[ (CTRL-[) and to do that I'm habit to use the ctrl-v [ , but here it doesn't work. At the moment I'm obliged to use a windows…
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Unable to connect to remote secure site using stunnel

I've got a remote machine I need to connect to that uses HTTPS and a client I need to connect to it with that doesn't support HTTPS. Enter stunnel. I'm running it as follows, then connecting with the client from another machine: $ stunnel -c -f -d…
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Named on AIX (5.3) - DIG won't find hosts without FQDN?

Ok I'm a newb to AIX and Named, so hopfully I'm just missing something easy. :) The goal is to just have smooth DNS lookups in this goofy Windows workgroup/AIX DNS setup (it will change eventually, but for now I'm limited in the infrastructure…
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setting CPU entitlement for AIX 6.1

Hi I would like to understand LPAR entitlement's better. If I have a system that is running AIX 6.1 with an uncapped LPAR, what do I lose by setting the entitlement low? Meaning theoretically if I need more CPU power and more CPU's are available…
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How to know the source of certain TCP traffic on AIX

We have two AIX boxes, one for production system and another for testing. both systems are running ATM machine switches, where the ATM device is connected via TCP socket. we had an issue on production system where the machine would power off or get…
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Get the version of the C libraries installed on an AIX server

How can I get the version of the core C libraries installed on an AIX server?
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