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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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How can you set the SMTP envelope MAIL FROM in AIX 6.1 Sendmail?

We have new SMTP relay host and it requires that the sender's email address should be the company's official email domain instead of server hostname Already did masquerade using generetics table. However, the new relay host still rejected my test…
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Is this a viable way to perform a VIOS update and prepare for a quick back out at the same time?

Is the procedure below viable for performing a VIOS update and, at the same time, preparing for a quick back out if necessary? Assume that the existing VIOS is mirrored on hdisk0 and hdisk1. Therefore, the bootlist would contain entries for both…
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SSH between two servers Linux and AIX

I am trying to do passwordless SSH between two server Linux (source) and AIX (destination) For this i have created public key in Linux server and coped this public key in destination server user profile (in path .ssh/authorized_keys).Also this file…
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Time-Limit for shell script in AIX

I want to run a shell script with time limit of 50s.Below work fine in linux. timeout 50s sudo sh my-script.sh But i have AIX server where i want to run above script with time limit of 50 seconds.So i run same command in AIX but it gives me …
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Accidentally unlinked /usr/lib/libcrypt.a. Is there a way to recover from this?

I have been upgrading OpenSSH and OpenSSL and I have accidentally deleted the file /usr/lib/libcrypt.a and now most features in AIX just doesn't work. Is back-up/restore the only way to recover from this?
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Prevent CRON jobs from running on Standby AIX server

We have an Active/Standby pair of AIX 5.3 Unix servers. Business requirement dictates keeping a list of components synchronized between them e.g. Oracle RDBMS using Data Guard and certain OS file & folders which includes…
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Slower response to AIX Virtual IP

Server_A is an AIX 5.3 server assigned 192.168.1.8. TNS Ping to it's Oracle 9i DB instance was 120 msec. A month later, Server_B with identical specs was built assigned 192.168.1.9. Virtual IP 192.168.1.10 added to Server_A for "High Availability"…
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Can RBAC secure non-root owners files on aix 6.1?

Can i use the RBAC feature on Aix 6.1 to do the following. file - myfile.txt I have users - root , aixuser(non-root). I want only aixuser to have access to file 'myfile.txt' and NOT the root user. Can this be done with RBAC on aix 6.1?
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What if AIX dynamic library imports one of symbols from wrong place

I have a legacy AIX ppc64 library mylib.so. Inspecting dump -Tv output, I noticed it expects that Foo symbol would be present in even older library oldfoo.so. However, it seems after new foo release, they moved Foo symbol to other soname:…
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Starting remote workloads across platforms

I work with a group that does integration testing for a IP/IPv6 network stack. We have many stress testing workloads that we run across a variety of platforms, including Linux (RHEL and SuSE), Windows (XP-2008), and a number of versions of AIX. As…
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AIX SMS Menu + Netapp Multipath cause BOS migration issues

I'm performing an AIX migration from 7.1 to 7.2 using the DVD Iso on a VIOS Virtual Library. At the point the migration starts, it fails with the following message: 0516-1775 varyonvg: Physical volumes hdisk0 and hdisk4 have identical PVIDs…
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AIX server DOD method for secure erase disk

I would like to know how can i securely erase disk on AIX as per DOD standards? any utility i can download and use on aix server rather using regular dd or diag command? Appreciate your help! Regards, Adel
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Track User CPU usage for a period of time

I need to track amount of processes that a single user invoked and how much CPU-time (or % ) these processes consumed for a given period of time. The trick is that each of these processes normally runs for a split second and consume almost no CPU,…
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AIX: Howto setup a new /home directory on a new harddrive

Our AIX 5.3 IntelliStation was running out of space in the /home directory and we needed to move the /home directory to a different location. Fortunately, the IntelliStation we are using had a second harddrive "hdisk1" which was not used at…
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AIX portmapper reported listening at port 32771. Why is it not the nlockmgr process?

I am trying to calm my security group which believes portmapper is listening at port 32771. My host is running AIX 7.1. I do not have access to the GNU network utilities here. rpcinfo(8), both remotely and locally, gives me output saying nlockmgr…
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