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Find command in IBM AIX
I would verify that files in the location listed may not have both the other-write and any execute permissions set.
This requirement to be applied recursively to files contained within subdirectories.
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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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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 can I send email with attachment xls file using shell script as application/xls mimetype without making the received file becoming unreadable
#!/bin/bash
ATTACH1=file.xls<br>
SUBJECT="subj"<br>
[email protected]<br>
[email protected]<br>
[email protected]<br>
MIME="Application/vnd.ms-excel" <br>
FILE=$...
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Deleting filtered files in Aix using Script
I need help in deleting files in one of my directories in Aix.
In deletion, manually, I am using the command:
to list the files:
find . -mtime +5 -type f
Then, if the listed files are good to ...
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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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Is it possible to make UNIX FTP client and CentOS VSFTPD server working together?
I have a UNIX bull AIX client with ftp installed and a CentOS 6.2 server with vsftpd installed.
Can the client connect to the server ? Cause it seems that the vsftpd server is refusing all ...
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Cannot Suspend vi with Ctrl-Z
It's on an AIX 6.1 connected via PuTTY 0.65.
If I open a file and hit Ctrl-Z then. It works 1st. But when I switch back and hit Ctrl-Z again. A square cursor jumps to the bottom. I can type something ...
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AIX - how to change user shell to bash?
I want to know how I can run bash automatically when I log into my AIX server. How can I do that without having to type bash every time I log into my AIX server?
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AIX lspath doesn't show any output
root@xxxxx:/>lspath
root@xxxxx:/>lspath -l hdisk20
lspath: 0514-538 Cannot perform the requested function because the
specified device does not support multiple paths.
root@xxxxx:/>...
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Using chuser and stopudt without root
I am trying to create a user account that can preform certain commands via command line without having to login as root. The commands I want to run are stopudt, chuser, chpasswd. What I have tried is ...
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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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UNIX command for deleting / removing files on today's date
I want to remove all the files in the directory I am in currently in that were created today.
So if today is April 3rd then the UNIX commond I am asking for would remove someFile2, someFile3, ...
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Not able to reference softlinks in a script
we have couple of softlinks to scripts a directory in our current directory. Let's take we have two softlinks , script1 and script2. We are referencing script2 from within a script1 like below.
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list out owned file/directories and change its permissions
Can anyone please tell how can I change files/directories owned by me only.
below is the command that list out files/directories owned by me
find . -user <username>
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editing string using sed or grep
first of all please execuse my ignorance on UNIX. I am quite new.
I have lot many sql files that contains following string
${DB_USERNAME}.${TABLE_NAME}
Can anyone please tell me how could I change ...
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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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SSH Issue on AIX 6.1
I recently upgraded the openssl version on AIXX 6.1 server.
The install went fine.
But now I'm unable to start new ssh sessions from puty to the server and I'm getting the error "Connection Refused"....
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666 permission even after making umask= 0000
I made my umask = 0000. However when I am creating a file it has 666 permission. Although directories get 777 , that's alright.
Also my aim is to create file/dir with permissions 774, I guess umask ...
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grep: can't open nohup.out
I am doing recursive grep (grep -r) but it is failing saying
grep: can't open nohup.out
How to make it going and grep in all directories. I have some idea about nohup but I am not interested in it. ...
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ls -l output difference between files and directories?
I looked at IBM's site and read the definition for ls -l, but could not find an answer to my question.
When issuing an ls -l command on AIX, what is the explanation for the different 'file size' ...
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Defaulting file permissions for any file being kept in a specific folder
I'm Using AIX.
I have a folder owned by me. Permissions for the folder are 777.
That means anyone can keep their files in this folder.
But I want the files to be kept only with 777 permissions. But ...
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Delete old log files in AIX
I am trying write a script to delete old log files in \var\log\applog\nmon on my AIX system. We usually get alerts that the file system is almost full and at the moment delete old files by hand. So ...
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Setting timezone in AIX
The timezone is set to "CET" but date displays CEST
$ echo TZ
CET
$ date
Tue Apr 16 15:56:57 CEST 2013
Noticed the timezone on another similar system is "CET0" (not sure what the 0 means here!). But ...
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Using find with -exec gzip and grep
I have a bunch of zipped up log files and I want to search them all for a string. I tried this but it's not working:
find ./ -name "*.log.zip" -exec gzip -dc {} | grep ERROR \;
It's giving me:
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Resolving an alias to a remote server [closed]
I have what I think is called an IP alias, which is used to access a Windows file server from a Unix server. The path on Unix looks something like:
/folder/file.txt
which is somehow resolved as:
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aix 5.3 cannot execute or load .profile automatically when login
I am using AIX 5.3, after I login as an Oracle user, I got a prompt to ask me to give the oracle home directory. If I manually type in ". .profile", it would work.
My AIX team has built this new ...
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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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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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Split a file on Windows and join back together on UNIX?
I have a process that involves transferring files from the Windows LAN to an AIX UNIX server using FTP through a VPN connection.
The problem is that some of the files are very large -- up to 4gb. The ...
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Limit CPU usage / Cores on AIX process?
We have two processes running on an AIX machine, one is Oracle the other is Business Objects. BO takes nearly 100% CPU cycles when running and Oracle is unable to process at an acceptable speed ...
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How can I compare two directories, one being a remote directory?
I want to compare two directories, one is local and the other is on another machine.
How can I do that? Can I do it with diff?
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Installing websphere in AIX (Unix)
I want to install web-sphere 6.1 in machine which has AIX OS. What is the command to install it? I need to install it from telnet.
I have using tried the following command, but the installation ...
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Unix basic shell script help needed please?
I need some help writing a basic Unix shell script that will run on AIX:
Loop that will run a netstat command (netstat -an| grep 16752| grep ESTABLISHED| wc -l) that counts sessions every second and ...
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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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is there any way to install AIX on a normal desktop for practice purpose?
is is possible with any emulator like QEMU or PearPC ?
or if not possible where can we get AIX box access ?
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Overlapping lines in AIX 5.3
When I type commands and hit enter my cursor line for some reason appears on the the second line from the end of the output:
tomcat [server] /home/tomcat: ls -l
total 24
-rwxr-x--- 1 tomcat dev ...
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PS command ouput with fixed width for each column
I want to run command "/usr/ucb/ps auxww" on solaris to extract SZ and RSS values. For some processes these values are not showing and mixing with %MEM value as shown below.
USER PID %CPU %MEM ...
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Memory consumption when running multiple copies of a process on a UNIX AIX server
On a UNIX AIX server if I start multiple copies of the same process will memory be allocated for the code, data and stack for each copy of the process ?
David