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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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ulimit value when output is "hard" or "soft"

Can someone explain to me how can I determine actual values of for ulimit when the output of ulimit command is "hard" or "soft". This is on AIX machine. For example: # ulimit -f hard And on another machine: $ ulimit -m soft Since i don't have root…
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Printing RAW jobs from AIX 5.3 to Windows Server 2008 R2

We're trying to move a program from a legacy Windows 2003 print server over to a Windows 2008 R2 one. The program takes output sent from an AIX server and then processes it. It gets the data by way of a remote print queue on the AIX box. Now for…
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What technical issues should I be aware of when re-mapping a LUN from one host to another?

I inherited an IBM System Storage DS4000 SAN with an AIX environment running Oracle RAC (3 nodes). One of the nodes crashed, so I got the system up and running with 2 nodes; however, the node that crashed was the node that was managing the backups.…
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Mystery Print Separator Page

Good morning! After a recent site upgrade to WebSphere 7.0 from 6.1 on an AIX server, our users reported a print separator page appearing on a certain type of report, and only on one printer. Trouble is, no one (devs, sysadmins, users) knows where…
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Error in AIX : 0516-040 : Unable to read the specified physical volume

Please provide me your valuable suggestions on the error beow in AIX. When I'm running the following command on the AIX server lsvg -l rootvg I'm getting this error: 0516-040 : Unable to read the specified physical volume descriptor area.
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Selectively synchronize files to multiple servers

I'm administering a medium sized AIX landscape. We have, probably... 40 systems. We are currently using AIX 6.1 which has a command called cfmupdatenode. What this program does is lets you define a root (/cfmroot) which becomes your synchronization…
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What does the OPMOD mean in the procfiles output in AIX?

I ran the following command on AIX in order to figure out the files opened by process 200866 on AIX 6.1. procfiles -nc 200866 and got the following sample outputs: Current rlimit: 2000 file…
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How to optimize SVN backup process in bash script?

I have a shell script running in AIX that will do the backup for each SVN repository every night. The execution is as follow: Download the each repository save as a dump file: svnrdump on repo_A svnrdump on repo_B svnrdump on repo_X ## X is the…
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Apache Ant setup in Aix

I want to install Apache Ant on my AIX 6.1 Server and I'm facing some issues. When I visit the link http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html I did not understand the installation step for the files with the extention .tar.gz The step is : .tar.gz -…
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Cannot get exclusive lock on rpm database in Unix

I was trying to install a python rpm on AIX 6.1 and it was taking too long and so I had to close ther terminal. Later when I tried to install the same rpm as root I am getting the problem as : root:stud -> $ rpm -i -v…
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AIX CPU Utilization behavior

We are facing a strange (for us) situation regarding the CPU utilization management. We have an lpar with 2 up to 4 online cores. While the application workload peaks, CPU usage is 100% (70% user + 30% kernel) and physical allocation 2.5 cores. I…
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Logging commands executed by remote shell scripts

I've noticed that when running a script that connects to a number of our servers (to essentially run batch commands) that the commands aren't logged in the user's .sh_history or .bash_history files. Is there a place where this is logged (assuming…
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Port seems to be in use although the corresponding process has already terminated on AIX 6.1

While running some kind of automated tests on our AIX 6.1 machine we are facing the problem that a port seems to be in use although the corresponding process has already terminated. E.g. if we kill a hanging application using port 9999 we’ll get the…
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How I can secure some Git Repositories in AIX?

I want to secure some git repositories and using only users and groups is not sufficient. I'm thinking about using ACLs to control the access. The access to the repositories is local, the users have shell access.
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ulimit enforcement on AIX?

Which ulimits (stack, data, rss, nofiles, etc.) does the AIX kernel enforce? It appears that the rss (memory) ulimit is not actually enforced, for either the soft or hard value. If that is the case, what is the point of having unenforced ulimits?
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