Questions tagged [aix]
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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print text between special characters on same line and remove starting and ending whitespaces
I am trying to achieve getting text between special characters. You can follow the below to understand what I am trying to achieve. I have the necessary commands to do this, however I am looking for a ...
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Convert pipe delimited column data to HTML table format for email
I am trying to convert delimited data format to html column table output for email printing and I am unsure how to use pipe delimiter as a separater for HTML tabular formatting.
Below is what I could ...
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AIX: BFF file can be extracted but not used for installation
I work in an ancient AIX 4.3.3 environment, please don't ask.
There is a BFF file from a legitimate AIX CDROM from which I must install a package.
I can interact just fine with the file with restore. ...
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Why is the ntptrace peers list inconsistent with the ntpq peers list?
Environment: NTP Clients (AIX 6.1 TL07) + P/S NTP Servers (ST1 GPS).
Symptom:
the ntpq -pn command outputs both the primary and secondary (candidate) NTP server.
the ntptrace command just outputs ...
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Find command slow when I'm not piping into awk
I have a script I've used for many years for building a list to some directories, with the following lines:
##Find all scenarios for this sector number
find /gsgt/source/scenarios/AT_* -name ${...
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RPM libgcc package conflicts with installed libgcc version newer
I am installing gcc4 (http://v14700.1blu.de/aix/index.php?n=Main.Gcc#v4.8.3) on aix.
One of the dependencies is libgcc 4.8.3-1.I install it via rpm -i libgcc-4.8.3-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm and get the error: ...
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AIX - BASH REGEX INTO IF STATEMENTS = Segmentation fault (coredump)
Hello everyone and thanks for your support!
I'm facing a problem while using REGEX inside a bash script through =~ operand.
Environment:
GNU bash, version 4.1.7(1)-release (powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0)
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XCOFF binary editor
Is there a tool for editing a built XCOFF file?
I'd like to specify the path to some dependencies after the build, just like the -bipath flag does when XCOFF is linked.
I'm looking for something like ...
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Unable to build a cpp program on AIX with gcc fsanitize address
I'm trying to build a cpp program on AIX 7.2 using gcc with address sanitizer (-fsanitize=address) but this errors out with:
cc1plus: warning: '-fsanitize=address' not supported for this target
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Finding the WCHAN value
This is running on AIX version: 7, release: 2, on powerppc.
I have a process that is hung, and the output of ps -ef -o THREAD is:
USER PID PPID TID ST CP PRI SC WCHAN F ...
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Installing PAM radius server on AIX
i was trying to install radius server on our test server running AIX7.3 on it. i have perform following things:
Extract the tar file to /tmp where i have downloaded pam_radius-1.4.0.tar.gz.
Modify ...
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SSL Error on Curl AIX
Hi guys I'm fairly new to curl and connectivity. I'm encountering an issue below using curl command:
curl https://example.com/realms/apigw-auth-dev/protocol/openid-connect/token
curl: (35) Unknown SSL ...
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Add hours to the date and time
I have a requirement to add offset hours to the datetime value.
Get the previous date (e.g. 2023-10-19 00:00:00.000000)
previous_date=`TZ=TZ+24 date '+%Y-%m-%d 00:00:00.000000'`
Calculate the ...
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Runtime library search order on AIX
If I understand correctly, the variables LIBPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH have a higher priority than the argument to the linker -blibpath. I'm looking for how to tell the loader to search for libraries ...
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Find command with -mmin not working as expected
In our production servers(AIX)there are multiple API calls which made every micro seconds and those API call details will be appended in an log called ins.log. On the other hand, we are using this ...
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Why does AIX on Power require that the svc instruction must be preceded by an unconditional branch or a CR instruction?
The IBM AIX Documentation for the svc (Supervisor Call) instruction has a note that states
To ensure correct operation, an svc instruction must be preceded by an unconditional branch or a CR ...
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"for" loop is not executing on the remote server using SSH
The below "for" loop works locally on the same server.
But when triggered through "ssh" protocol on remote servers, the output is not received.
Please, can anyone suggest how to ...
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AIX 7.1 Python3 Installation: Symbol Resolution Issue
I'm trying to install and run Python 3.9 on one of our AIX Operating Systems.
I used yum to install Python 3.9.
Current OS Level:
root@our_AIX_host:/opt/freeware/libexec > oslevel -s
7100-05-11-...
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Why does ksh93 not support the %T format specifier of its built-in printf in AIX?
We have tested the following commands with ksh93 printf in many AIX 5.3/6.1 systems, but they all failed with the same result.
Why is that?
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# oslevel -s
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UNIX - Determine Physical Device of specific File System
While trying to troubleshoot a possible I/O disk performance issue on AIX 7.2:
$ oslevel -r
7200-05
$ oslevel
7.2.0.0
I'm trying to understand how to identify the target device (iostat), without ...
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NFS unable to mount server denied Access
On the server side (AIX)
vi /etc/exports
/NFS -rw
exportfs -a
On the client side, which is my laptop with ubuntu os.
showmount -e 192.168.119.56
Export list for 192.168.119.56:
/NFS (everyone)
While ...
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POSIX compatible TAR for AIX and Solaris
I have created a TAR archive with our product using maven-assembly-plugin. The TAR archive is in the POSIX format. Our QA complains about PaxHeaders.X files when extracted.
Do the AIX (version AIX 7.1 ...
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Writing a ksh-script with a predefined time-out
My OS is AIX (7.2) and my shell is ksh88 (preferably) or ksh93, if necessary.
I want to write a script that sets some maximum timer for its execution. If it manages to finish its task within this time ...
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Configuring AIX auditing for rmdir and syslog collection
How can the auditing feature in an AIX Unix system be configured to collect information about the removal of a directory (though rmdir) and send it to syslog?
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Mediawiki on AIX, PHP-component missing
My OS-Version is AIX 7.2.5.3 (oslevel -s shows "7200-05-03-2148") and i try to install a Mediawiki (1.39.1). I used the RPM-packages from the "AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software" ...
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Sort by 3 different columns with numbers and text aix
I am trying to perform a sort by 3 different columns in the correct order on an AIX system.
The below is an extract of a larger file that displays the longest running runtimes between the open ...
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How to convert seconds to hh:mm:ss.ms when getting difference between 2 times
I performed a calculation that converts current timestamp giving milliseconds as well using perl command such as below:
perl -MTime::HiRes=time -MPOSIX=strftime -e '
$now = int(time() * 1000);
printf &...
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Update /etc/group in AIX with sed
I need to add Centrify/AD accounts to local root groups, which is why I need to manually edit /etc/group as the AD accounts are not recognized via adding the "proper" way, across all of our ...
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List of sessions for ncftpd per user
I am dealing with an AIX 7.1 server running ncftpd 2.8.6.
I can count the sessions of established connections counting the number of ncftpd processes.
However, how can I list which ncftpd users are ...
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IBM AIX - Method to identify Cluster or HA services
I am keen to learn if existing IBM AIX servers from different location have Clustering/HA features. Kindly let me know the steps to check. Thanks.
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korn shell Store for loop output "values" in array and pass to another loop
Need help with array in korn shell. I need to pass the values from first for loop to 2nd loop.
The first loop returns
/opt/IBM/db2/V11.5
/opt/IBM/db2/V11.5.8
/opt/IBM/db2/V11.5.8
Then I am greap &...
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Blocking a specific port
I need to block specific ports temporarily on AIX 7.2 to simulate an application using this port. I am developing a workaround for an application ignoring the entries in /etc/services and using ...
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Switch user using EOF does not work su - ${instance} <<'EOF'
I am running a ksh script from root where I switch (su) to different users and execute the commands. But, some reason EOF does not. Here is part of my code.
This part of the code does not work su - $...
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Find if network interface is a virtual device in AIX
In Linux we can use /sys/devices/virtual/net/<if_name> if the if_name is present under the directory, the device is virtual.
In AIX do we have any way to check if an interface say en0 or lo0 is ...
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How to use asterisks in awk if statment
I have a scenario where I need to print a line, but using an awk if to search for a number the is appened with a double colon with more numbers:
See below example:
test1 test2 37:375003 test3 test4
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How to check if the disk is shared in Linux and AIX? [closed]
How to check if the disk is shared in Linux and AIX?
For example, let's say we have the /dev/sdd in srv1 and srv2 hosts and the disk must be shared across the two servers (the same disk). How can we ...
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Getting a permission denied while invoking remote server script and command in if loop is not working properly
We have two servers, one is aix and other is linux, so from our linux server, i am trying to invoked script that is located on aix to minimise script execution time.
code:
On linux machine
ssh user@$...
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How to get CPU statistics PER PROCESSOR on AIX without requiring root privileges?
I want to get the per processor statistics for my AIX machines. I can use the ‘sar -P ALL 1 1’ (Documentation) command but it requires root privileges.
Is there a command that can give me PER ...
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Exclude last N lines that has been last modified from list and with file extension ending in .gz
I want to use the find command on AIX to exclude files ending in .gz, and it must also exclude the last 2 lines from the list. For example, inside the directory, I have:
shop14_0_Log0002019754.gz
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In AIX, how to avoid overwrite a file with cp?
We need to periodically archive some big files older than 2 days to a NAS while keeping their directory tree structure. Those files are kept for 7 days in the source directory.
At first we used find ...
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Sort absolute directory path alphabetically and numerically
I am having difficulty finding solutions online to sort an absolute directory path using letters and numbers.
Example is the below in a file called test.txt
/opt/informix/data/dcdwhdev/rootdbs.2
/...
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Installing AIX 7.2 from two iso files, using QEMU under CentOS 8
I'm trying to install AIX 7.2 having it on two iso files, virtualizing with QEMU version 4.2.0. I've created a disk file using the following command:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 hdisk0.qcow2 20G
Then I ...
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Display branch name in $PS1 on ksh88
I want to display my current git branch in the prompt in ksh88.
I'm working on a legacy project, when the backend run on IBM's AIX, with a mandatory ksh88 shell. I can switch to say, bash, for some ...
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Dnf/Yum repository install on AIX 7.1 ImportError: 0509-022/0509-150 libcrypto
I am trying to create a Yum/Dnf Repository for an offline AIX 7.1 and I've downloaded all the repos by using the reposync on a linux machine that was connected to the internet.
I've installed the Dnf ...
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Crontab scheduling for specific option
I need to add a crontab entry which runs every quarter ,on second sunday ,at 02 am.
Which of the below one is correct? the OS is AIX.
00 02 8-14 */3 0 && /myscript.sh
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00 02 8-14 */3 * [...
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ksh on AIX - pwd in prompt does not update when changing folders
I'm very new to AIX as well as ksh, but I currently have some downtime at work and am trying to configure my prompt to be both colored and show my current location.
At the moment, I get the correct ...
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How do I disable mount on AIX?
I want to disable mount mentioned in /etc/filesystems. (By disabling I mean set the mount option to false).
I heard, that the /etc/filesystems file, should not be edited directly, so I don't want to ...
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Script to monitor and alert for new orphaned pids
How would you go about detecting and alerting about newly orphaned pids? I would like to cron a script that checks once a day for any orphaned pids (PPID = 1) for a specific user and only alert if a ...
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AIX ACLs difference "permit" versus "specify"
What's the difference in AIX ACLs with permit versus specify:
This is what the documentation says:
"The permit, deny, and specify keywords are defined as follows:
permit
Grants the user or ...
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How do you install NodeJS on AIX?
I am currently running a server running AIX 7.1 and was wondering how I install NodeJS.
I cannot seem to find the apt-get package manager, nor the yum package manager? How do I go about doing this?
