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Error when trying to execute command with sudo su - user -- command
I am facing a problem when trying to execute a command using another user.
If I do this
sudo su - user
direct
Works perfectly
Now if I do this
sudo su - user -c direct
I face this error
-bash: ...
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Command to get SHA384, 256 and SHA512 hashes in AIX servers
For AIX servers to get the MD5 and SHA1 hashes, I am able to use the command:
csum -h MD5 file1
csum -h SHA1 file1
But how to use the same command to get sha256, 384, 512 hashes ?
Or is there some ...
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How using sed on AIX differs from using it on linux
I know that -i option doesn't exist in sed for AIX but recently I've bumped into a different issue when trying to edit the /etc/services file in AIX.
I need to replace a line from this file so for ...
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How to get access of all the parameters a user used to call a shell script? Or forbid the use of * as a valid parameter?
I have a shell script that will be a such of a header to be imported by others scripts
Its main goal is forbid the user of "*" and "?" as parameters.
I've already tried:
1) To get access to the ...
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SSH Connection Radio Silence
I have been troubleshooting this issue for quite some time now and I cannot figure out the cause of this issue. We have a job running on an AIX server that uses Perl::SFTP to connect to a Linux RHEL 7 ...
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Imfile in rsyslog running on AIX Server 7.2
AIX server's rsyslog (imfile module) is not forwarding custom application logs from a specific folder that has multiple log files generated each and every day. The log file's name pattern differs. I ...
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imfile in rsyslog in AIX servers
AIX server's rsyslog (imfile module) is not forwarding custom application logs from a specific folder that has multiple log files generated each and every day. The log file's name pattern differs. I ...
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how many resources nmon command use in AIX?
I need to store in an external repository, every minute (in near realtime mode), the nmon information saved in a temporary file.
So what would be the best scenario:
1) every minute I open an ssh ...
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How to check used space for pvdisplay?
In AIX using lspv hdisk0, i am able to get total pps, free pps, used pps
TOTAL PPs: 1119 (71616 megabytes) VG DESCRIPTORS: 2
FREE PPs: 272 (17408 megabytes) HOT SPARE: ...
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Formatting multiple drives on AIX
I originally got help here to figure out how to remove multiple drives from a list.
I now would like to try and use that same sort of code to format multiple drives with a loop.
for i in `lsdev -Cc ...
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Setting up DNAT servers
Hi i have trouble connecting to server that i had setup with DNAT configuration.
i have two listening servers 145.217 and 145.241
both have configured their gateway ip same as my loadbalancer ip 145....
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Creating users across all cluster nodes
Is there a way to add a user across all cluster nodes via command line? I have the manual instructions from IBM here (and listed below) and found instructions for listing the users (cl_lsuser), but ...
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How to Identify automount mount path
I need to know all the mount points monitored by autofs/automount.
I came across "automount -m" to dumpmaps and "/etc/init.d/autofs status" in the older versions. But these commands doesn't work ...
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AIX - Memory space error when running script
I run the following:
for i in `ls -ld /u03/sss/| awk '{print $9}'`
do
echo $i
for j in `find $i -name "*.gz" | grep $send_sysdate`
do
count=`gunzip -c $j | wc -l`
sum5=`expr $sum5 + $count`
done
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Password less ssh AIX Linux
I tried to configure password less SSH from AIX to Linux. I executed the command.
scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]:/root/.ssh/authorized_keys
When I execute the command and try to connect from ...
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How to store password for switch user in my .profile
I usually connect to my AIX server using putty via my regular account and then do "su - otherAccount". This way I've to enter password twice, one for my account and one for the otherAccount. I've ...
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Zero sized tar.gz file found inside a tar.gz file
My current directory contains a single file like this-
$ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 8 May 28 09:10 pavan
Now, I want to tar and gzip this file like
$tar -cvf - * 2>/dev/...
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vi Error | Out of memory saving lines for undo - try using ed
While executing the following command on a large file:
vi largeFile.log
I get the following error:
Out of memory saving lines for undo - try using ed
My environment is:
AIX6
I cannot add any ...
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What is the AIX's `ps -T PID` equivalent for Linux?
I really like the way ps -T PID works on AIX. It shows you a nice tree of processes in the right side, and their PID, PPID and other info in the left side. In AIX docs, the -T flag reads Displays ...
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What's the name of the file system of the operating system in UNIX\Linux?
Is that correct to assume that the operating system is ALWAYS placed in /usr in all kinds of UNIX and Linux?
I'm writing a script that has to check the free space in the operating system's file ...
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How do you extract a file using tar in AIX?
On a NORMAL Unix distro, tar zxvf works but seems like my machine has some super old version of tar that doesn't have the right parameters.
-bash-3.00$ tar zxvf qemu-1.7.0.tar.bz2
Usage: tar -{c|r|t|...
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Connect to AIX via SSH
I have to connect the AIX machine through Linux via SSH command and i m not able to figure out how to connect. Can anybody help me with the command.
Thanks,
Vivek
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AIX auto completion: how to show a whole file name by type in only a few letters
I used to work on Redhat Linux and really enjoy its feature that I can only type a few letters on the command line, and the rest of a file name would show up. I am running AIX 5 or 6 now, and it does ...
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Need to transfer files(No SCP) from Linux to IBM-AIX
I need to transfer a tar.gz file from RHEL5 to IBM AIX... The IBM AIX does not have scp and I dont think, I could install, as I am just using the system for temporary purposes. Is there an alternative ...
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zgrep not working on the AIX platform
zgrep does not work in AIX and gives the following error
ap61cp01> zgrep 9 ap_balance_bucket9_20120718.txt.gz
gzip: ap_balance_bucket9_20120718.txt.gz: Permission denied
Please let me know the ...
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Fastest way to get creation and last modification times of a lot of files
Given
a directory
a sh pattern which yields a subset of files directly in this directory (like *.log)
a sh pattern which can, given a filename,
what is the fastest way (in ksh) to obtain for each ...
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Where is ORACLE_HOME set in AIX?
In Linux I can set ORACLE_HOME in .cshrc. Where do I set this variable in AIX?
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How to confirm source was correctly installed
I've installed CFEngine from source (for those of you who aren't familiar with the product, check out the wiki page) on an AIX server. I had some issues setting it up but finally got it to gmake ...
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