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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New user added but having error in AIX 7.1
I newly add a user name perfmgr in AIX 7.1 using smitty, however when I try to change the password it output and error as below:
# passwd perfmgr
Changing password for "perfmgr"
3004-616 User "perfmgr" does not exist.
3004-709 Error changing…
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Unable to get defined path in 'source' type on AIX node
I am trying to create a set of users on my AIX node and trying to get
their authorized_keys which are already hosted on my server with name
like, 'myuser_id_dsa.pub'. Currently i am managing 2 nodes (1. SLES 2. AIX). I defined the 'source' file…
haris
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Truncated e-mail
Have a program that runs on an AIX server. An e-mail is being generated and sent out but is being truncated. The e-mail is about 157KB, 3,349 lines and 193,752 characters at the point of truncating.
I've been digging through the sendmail config but…
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Good Source Site for AIX Public Domain Ports
My UNIX experience was missing AIX. So now I have a problem as I have a mixture of just about all types of UNIX/Linux. So I need a little help for my AIX situation.
I'm trying to put the public domain programs on our AIX systems that our users…
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Timestamp comparison on AIX without date -d
I have a bash script on AIX 7 that runs a database query and the output I get is a timestamp in the following format: 201607130319.
Now I would like to compare the timestamp with current time (date +%Y%m%d%H%M - 201607201802) and check the…
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Installing locally python3 on AIX
I'm trying to locally install python3 (3.5.2) interpreter on AIX 7.1
I used this to configure, which runs ok
CC=gcc OPT="-O2" ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME/usr/local
but I get error while doing make…
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AIX non-expiring account lock - who is locking it?
I have a non-expiring service account on an AIX server which I use to connect to my database.
Every couple of weeks some user or task tries to connect to the account with the wrong password, and the account gets locked. This causes me days of delay…
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AIX 5.3 - Howto backup operating system to a bootable ISO image
We would like to backup the AIX 5.3 IntelliStation at our company. Unfortunately it does not have a tapedrive nor a DVD-Writer. It only has a DVD-ROM drive.
The idea is to mount a directory via NFS and to create an ISO image there. Afterwards We…
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Fast directory delete on AIX
I have an extremely large directory (containing millions of files summing up to 150 GB) which I want to delete.
Is there a faster method than using rm -rf which takes ages to complete on this directory?
BTW: It's an AIX system and the directory…
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Are the "procps" utilities available in a weird name/path on common AIX?
I have to deal with a very poorly loaded out AIX system for a development project. One thing I find missing are utilities common to Linux systems, such as those in the procps collection. Is there a convention on AIX for names or paths under which…
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Restoring AIX ufsdump on another Unix system
I've previously tried to restore from an AIX mksysb image (question here).
I managed to find another set of nightly AIX backups that look to have been made with ufsdump:
# mt -t /dev/rmt/1h rew
# dd if=/dev/rmt/1h of=./tapeThu3.out bs=512k
0+116608…
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How to run smbpasswd as root on AIX?
I have Hitachi ID Password Manager (formerly p-synch) set up to change the password on (among other systems) an aix 6.1 server running samba. p-synch has the capability of executing additional commands by configuring "chat script" in the conf file.…
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Storage volume is not avaliable from second node AIX 6.1 OS
My environment comprised AIX 6.1 OS installed over six physical servers and connected via brocade switch to DS8000 SAN storage.
I am aiming to build HACMP cluster on two physical machines in a way that disk could fail-over to each other of two…
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How to change the PVID of a device and still be able to import the Volume Group in AIX?
I have 3 disks that are copies of other disks so they have the same PVID's. I would like to change the PVID of those disks and import the volume group but as I understand the VGDA information on the disks references the old PVID's.
How can I change…
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Login issue in aix server
while login as root in an aix server, i am changing the password of a user. However, when trying to login to the server from that user id, it shows password expired and You must change your password now and login again!
Please help.
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