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We have noticed a message HMGR0152W: CPU Starvation detected. Current thread scheduling delay is 84 seconds.
This happens everyday night between 11 and 2. The monitorig application gives heavy memory usage on the servers and I guess this could...

I am on RHEL 6 and need to increase the limits for

 

I have the following config:

 

Specifically, I need max open files to be unlimited and max processes to be 4096. for user mqm

I have no entries in my limits.conf file

How do I...

I need to find out what version of MQ running on my server, but I dont see any folders like /usr/mqm or /usr/lpp/mqm, OS is AIX 5.3 L

I need a command to check the number of CPU/cores AIX 6.1 running on.
AIX running in virtual environmetn - PowerVM LPAR.

Could anyone kindly assist, I would need a unix command to list a count of the number of files in a directory.

ls - <which parameter> ???

I have a AIX 5.3 ML08 server. When I try to login with SSH, both as root user and non-root user, it fails with permission denied error message.

Below is the output,
ssh -l user etr6506l3-aix93.ca.com
user@etr6506l3-aix93.ca.com's password:...

How can i start stop restart dsmc service on AIX

Hey,

So I tried to increase the Max and Init Heap sizes in the WebSphere console then tried to restart WebSphere and it gave me an error saying it cannot allocate the heap space:

"JVMJ9VM015W Initialization error for library j9gc24(2):...

hi i'm running AIX 5.1 ML 4

The problem is ...

i tried to activate nfs

To start the nfs group, i type

# startsrc -g nfs

nfsd, biod,rpc.statd,rpc.lockd showing ALL STARTED WITH PROCESS ID.

but then when i type to check status...

I am on a THEL 6 system

A new Broad com 10 GB has just been placed into the machine

WHen I run the following command

 

I can see my 10 GB card

 

I enter the following command:

 

and then select Device Configuration, I get...

Hi All,
Iam running a script in AIX which calls ant utility. The script terminates by saying
ant: 0403-006 Execute permission denied

I extract a util directory from an ear file and set the ANT_HOME=./util/bin and then I call the ant, so I...

Hello
i have a filesystem which needs to be increased in an aix 6.1 server, that has HA installed on it.
The filesystem is not in rootvg( so i cannot use chfs command to increase the size)
how can i find out if the this filesystem is part of a...

I am getting following error when i do fcstat for fcs1 on AIX 5.3 ( TL10 SP2).

Error opening device: /dev/fscsi1
errno: 0000003d

lsdev -Cc adapter is showing adapter as available. we have changed this adapter 2 months back. The problem is...

Hello i am decommissioning an lpar

i have shutdown the lpar, now i need to unmap the disks to that lpar.

can someone tell me how i can unmap from vio for a vio client?
also how to remove vhost from vio?

Given that the lpar is down, do i...

I've got a AIX 5.3 Server which has applications that generates out bound email.  This server is not our email server.  The problem is that I need to rewrite the from address.  I have a local user called "myuser" and the outbound email has a from...

When doing a preview install of software on an AIX 5.3 server, it said OK at the top. Then after I actually updated the software for real it said "failed" and caused huge problems.  When software installs successfully, it just says "OK" at the...

wget doesn't work on AIX 5.3, it says command not found. Does anybody know the command for downloading a file off the internet for the AIX?

In aix server I am getting following error through errpt command
173C787F   0410091407 I S topsvcs        Possible malfunction on local adapter
173C787F   0410085807 I S topsvcs        Possible malfunction on local adapter
173C787F  ...

Is it possible to stop and start crontab daemon?
If yes, how do you do that?

thx much

I added 3 addtional SCSI Disk Drives to P5 AIX Unix but my vendor sent me disks with the wrong firmware and when I installed the disk it created the missing path. When I removed the disks the path remained. I tried to remove the path in smitty's...

hi

I have always done SPOTs from MKsysb resources on NIM, but after upgrade the NIM to AIX 7.1TL1-SP1 I get this error:

[isga01s@nim:/var/tmp] sudo nim -o define -t spot -a server=master -a location=/nim/spot1 -a source=MKSYSB_testaix...

Hello
can someone tell me
How to install / upgrade samba on AIX
how to check what current version is installed on it?

I can run a program from the command line manually.  When I try to have cron to run the same command via cronjob I get the error: 0509-103   The module has an invalid magic number.

The complete error listing is as follows:

exec(): 0509-036...

I am trying to mount the CIFS share from Netapp on AIX 5.3 system. I have installed the bos.cifs package, also I see the permissions are set properly for the cifs share. But still I am getting the error :
mount -v cifs -n netapp1/user/password...

Dear experts,

   I would like to know as a regular unix user, how what commands can get the information of AIX 4.x and 5.x system
CPU clock speed (in MHz or GHz),
memory size (in MB or GB),
swap size (in MB or GB),
hard disk volume (in GB,...

OK, I made this script to list the TCP open ports and their running service

netstat -aAn|grep LISTEN|while read socket b c d puerto resto;do echo "PUERTO: "`echo $puerto|cut -f2 -d"."`  ------\>  `rmsock $socket tcpcb|sed 's/^.*...

I installed RHEL 6 (64 bit) on Intel hardware, and I get the following error:

 

I Googled the error, and apparently since I only installed the 'basic server', I do not have the correct libraries to process this command

I have never used...

We are building AIX 5.3 servers. Our need is following
1.How to check sftp is configured for particular lpar or not?
2. How to check  ssh is configured for particular lpar or not?
3.If sftp is not installed, how to install and configure it?...

Hi Folks,

What's wrong here?

NFS mount fails as shown.
Hosts can dig each other and dig -x each other's IPs.
They are in each other's hosts files.

Other tests shown...

Many thanks,


EDIT:  Great, lost entire code section...

I have files in
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/Archive/Zip.pm
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/Archive/Zip/MockFileHandle.pm
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/Archive/Zip/MemberRead.pm...

we are getting 0301-154 bosboot: missing proto file: /tmp/bosboot_536614_6753/filesystems
on aix while taking mksysb and running bosboot.
Any help appreciated.

I noticed when i ran topas on aix 6.1 my disk is showing 100% busy on my db2vg. So I added another disk to the system via extendvg. My question is, do i actually have to spread the filesystems across to share the load? or what is a good way to...

Hi
We have nfs hard mount point on aix 4.2 box
nfs server is down ( backup server)
we are trying to unount nfs mount point from client .
while trying we are getting below message
umount: 1831-015 16 error while unmounting...

snider:stmil1:/cern/d_stp> ls -al
ls: .: The file access permissions do not allow the specified action.
total 0
snider:stmil1:/cern/d_stp> ls -a
ls: .: The file access permissions do not allow the specified action.

What could be wrong with...

I need to be able to log sftp commands with the same level of verbosity I log ftp commands. That is, what file a user if ftp'ng, did they delete and files during their sftp session, and so on. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

File...

Hi,

I have a strange high load (betwreen 2 and 5) constantly and I see no CPU or IO used on that server.
from topas:

CPU  User%  Kern%  Wait%  Idle%  Physc   Entc  
ALL    0.1    0.3    0.0   99.6   0.01    0.6   Writes    

Name     ...

$ ulimit -a
time(seconds)        unlimited
file(blocks)         2097151
data(kbytes)         unlimited
stack(kbytes)        32768
memory(kbytes)       unlimited
coredump(blocks)     unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) 1024
$ ulimit -n 2048...

I want to list the top processes using CPU and memory. The "top" command is not working on my AIX. You know I am not an admin. Thanks.

Jirong

Hello
I need to verify if my server which is getting its storage from EMC SAN has dual path or not ?
and if so, than i have to figure out if the path is failover ready. So if one of the paths goes down, than there would be no outage.

the...

Hi All,

Our system is AIX 5.1.

1. I wrote a srcipt to tar only FOUR directories:
 
tar -cvf /dev/rmt0.1 / >> /logs/coldbackup
tar -cvf /dev/rmt0.1 /usr >> /logs/coldbackup
tar -cvf /dev/rmt0.1 /var>> /logs/coldbackup
tar -cvf...

SSH access didn't work, the resolution was:

under /etc/ssh/sshd_config, these are added:
#stopsrc -s prngd
#stopsrc -s sshd

#startsrc -s prngd
#startsrc -s sshd

#UseDNS no
and then,
stopsrc -s sshd
startsrc -s sshd
...

I can't seem to find the installp files for OpenSSH version 5.8p1 and OpenSSL version 0.9.8r for AIX 6.1. Can anyone please help provide the link or source?

Hello,

I have created a resource group (proftpdrg) and assigned it a service IP and and an application server.
When I try to make it offline (or move to other node), it gives me the following error in smit screen:

Before command...

I have inconsistent filesets on our box.  I need help to troubleshoot this issue.
OUTPUTS:
# lppchk -vm3
lppchk:  The following filesets need to be installed or corrected to bring
         the system to a consistent state:

  bos.esagent...

Guys,
When trying to start an application/tool   called introscope on an AIX server running 5.2, it shows an error saying "Failed to establish port 4550 for secure user authnetication".
How to open this port,     Any immidiate suggestions...

What commands allow you to read contents of an AIX tape device?  How to format / delete data on a tape?  What is use to generally manipulate a tape device and contents of tapes on AIX?

dears,

kindly, i need a Unix AIX simulator that can be run on windows. any one can help me.

Please don't answer if you don't know.

I am new to AIX 5.2.  I need to do a simple task such as mount a CD ROM using SMIT.  Everytime I try to run smit command it says that a TERM variable needs to be set.  Can anyone help?  Many thanks

Does anyone know the location of the ftp log file on an AIX server? Is there one?  I need to know who has been logging into my server using an ftp connection.

Can't open Xterm when connecting remotely to server via Putty... getting this error..."xterm Xt error: Can't open display:..."

Any ideas what could be wrong? I set my DISPLAY variable to my local_ip and local_computer_name but neither worked.....

I needed help with mirroring.

I have datavg and rootvg volume groups, with hdisk0 allocated to rootvg. I have hdisk1, hdisk2, and hdisk4 physical volumes. I needed to mirror rootvg and mirror datavg. I wanted to mirror rootvg with hdisk0 and...

I need help to encrypt and decrypt a string from password file.
I need a sample script which will encrypt and save the information in password.txt file.

1st script (encrypt.sh)
---------------------------
excution: $ ./encrypt.sh
input...

I have fileone  to be ftp'ed to AIX server:
-rw-r-----   1 root     sys      1073741312 Sep 19 10:27 expref3.dmp

i use root account in the ftp connection.

but, I am getting this error:

ftp> put expref3.dmp
200 PORT command successful....

How is syslog configured under RHEL, especially RHEL 6

I do not see a /etc/syslog file

hi

Something strange is happening here.. I've just install a new AIX 6.1 upgre it from nim to tl7 sp 1, after make the hardening and some other configs I rebooted and it's asking me for a passwd I didn't setup before. Before the reboot it...

Hi,

I need to write a shell script to monitor CPU, disk and memory on a 5.3 AIX server. If the threshold for CPU say crosses 90% then I need to send an email.

Have you written something similar  or can you help me with code snippets ?
I...

I installed WESB 7 on RHEL 5.5.  installs without error.

I run the Profile creation tool, and I get the following error:

 

I did some google searches, but found some hits but no clear solutions.

Below is a more complete segment of the...

I need to install libtool. I am using rpms to install my libtool.  But I get dependencies errors.

# rpm -Uvh libtool-1.5.26-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
            grep is needed by libtool-1.5.26-1
*** So, I go to install...

Hi wmp, I need your help... again :-)

I have a NIM on AIX 7.1 with latest SP. Look at my resources:

[root@bibmnim:/] lsnim -l
master:
   class               = machines
   type                = master
   max_nimesis_threads = 20
  ...

I am trying to take a mksysb image on a tape but this is the error I get

 

I have checked the permissions on /bosinst.data and it looks fine.
-rw-r-----    1 root     system         5747 Jan 11 2006  /var/adm/ras/bosinst.data
-rw-r-----...

Chapter 6 of the installation Guide contained in the Quick

Start Guide references the following link:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wmqv7/v7r0m0/index.jsp

Which recommends max open files to be in excess of 1024,

and max...

Greetings,

This ia a variation of a question I posted and received one answer to earlier.  As I thought about it, I realize I left oout one very important piece of info from my original question *and* I'd like to get clear about the various...

I am new to AIX, so I don't have much knowledge yet.  i need to delete a large number of files, but the system will not accept my use of wildcards in the rm function. I get this message when I try "ksh: /usr/bin/rm: 0403-027 The parameter list is...

Hello
I need to install an rpm fileset, but i do not have rpm installed in my system.
can someone tell me how i can install rpm installer in my AIX 5.3.

also on another system of mine AIX 6.1, i have rpm installer installed, but the version...

Is there a way to know the root cause of this error msg?

errpt -a -j 1F0B7B49
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LABEL:          CORE_DUMP
IDENTIFIER:     1F0B7B49

Date/Time:       Wed Jan 25...

I have EMC disks presented i.e. as shown below.   Unlike other disks, lsattr doesn't show the size of disks.
What the command to view the size of disks?   There are a bunch of EMC disks.  I like to have a script that can return the names of...

Hello,
I have an AIX HACMP server, which is having tripwire connectivity issues.
Please provide assistance with it. Below is some information about it.
# clRGinfo
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------...

We can only access it via telnet.  Not SSH.  We have a client that is requiring SSH access.

What is the easiest way to get SSH working on AIX 5.1?

Hello
Can someone tell me what pbrun is and how to set up , configure and manage it.

i use the pbrun command in my server environment with the following syntax to go to one server from my jumpserver
pbrun -h servername -u root ksh

Would...

We recenlty changed out WAN connection to remote locations from a T-1 point to point to VPN over a broadband cable connection using static ip's. We route through a Cisco 1800 series router on the remote side to  a Cisco ASA500 box on the host...

IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol Detected - UNIX/Linux Vulnerability

How do I disable anything related to IPv6 or 4 on AIX 6.1 and 5.3

I do not use IPv on our systems

Thanks

Hi experts,
OS is AIX 5.3:I need to flush DNS cache value In Client and Master Server. Give me how to do with command and how to do with manually.

Thanks

Siva

Hello,
Can someone tell me if any of the following AIX equivalent commands can be run in HMC restricted shellcommand line.

change directory, rename a file, move a file, touch a file, chmod and chown.

Also, how can i get out of HMC...

Hello,
a non-root user is getting the following error when running the below find command.

$ find /center/certsc/cdir -name "worklist*.dat"
find: bad directory </center/certsc/cdir>
$

I believe this might be due to read permissions for...

The system was rebooted.  I donlt think someone manually rebooted it.  Is it possible that the system rebooted by itself?

# errpt -a -j 2BFA76F6
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LABEL:         ...

I can access the node via Reflection with no issue, but I cannot do via putty.
The issue is only the particular node is not working with putty, which worked fine before.  I have checked settings in putty, but I don't see anything specific.
With...

believe or not! NIM again :-(
Here I go.

First, I create the client-MACHINE on the NIM.

On the NIM server:
bibmdes_cont:
   class          = machines
   type           = standalone
   connect        = nimsh
   platform       = chrp
 ...

    Hello

  I get this error "Runtime Stack Overflow" when I run a programm.
 
    The problem is that I cannot modify the programme, and I can not see the source code of the programme, but I have to make it work, not to give me this error....

Urgent - Please help.
  I am tryiing to write a script to send an email to Lotus notes from the AIX UNIX.
I am not sure about the syntax.  Please help. I don't know where I have been doing wrong.  When I try to run this script, I am getting...

echo "hello" | mailx -s  "test" JohnLucania@***.*** does not retrun anything.
How do you troubleshoot?

Is there a way in AIX to only list the file name?

If I run the command below, only the file name is displayed.
ls -1 /tmp/

If I run the command like this, the path is included in the file name.   How can I get only the file name like the...

Is it possible to setup a IBM AIX VM to run on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
I know some Linux Servers are supported as Guest OSs on Hyper-V...but I am struggling to find information with regards to the above mentioned.
I am new to IBM AIX and...

I've a IBM eServer pSeries box with AIX 4.3 on it. It has 4 hard disk.

I would like to create logic volume, create filesystem (jfs) on it and mount it automaticall during bootup.

Here are some information:
# uname -a
AIX stymie 3 4...

Some backup info first:
We have an IBM RS6000 9131-52A that uses a DS4800 array.
We have 3 diskgroups:  rootdg, datadg, and backdg.
datadg is used to house our Oracle database.
backdg is used to house our Flash Recovery Area.
There are 6...

The port is being used by a process(9950)
netstat -na|grep 9950

Gives me the output that  it is being used ,listened and Established .
I want to use this port for my weblogic port(http).and I want to know who, which process is using it so...

Hello,

I am running a program called pest on a AIX machine.  There are several file that are used while running the program, I have no idea what they do individually.  I am trying to move some files into a different directory via FTP but I am...

We have an IBM p520 running AIX v5.03

Some months ago we suffered a power failure to the entire building, which took out the server.  When the system started the following day when power was restored, the System Attention Indicator (the yellow...

We need to suppress FSPSP65  messages being sent to us by our IBM AIX 5.3 System P520 system every half hour since we accidentally configured both ASMI ports with the identical IP and Subnet .  We have tried a hardware reset via the onboard dip...

With AIX 5.2 how can I rename an existing file system? If there is no direct way to rename a file system, can you make a recommendation based on the following scenario?

I am migrating data from one disk to another. I have the old FS and I have...

I am running RHEL 6 with WMQ 7.0.1 and WMB 7.0.0.0

I posted part of this under an MQSeries post, but it looks like I need to post this to the LIniux group

I get the following problem:

 

I only get this after I start  a MQSeries qmgr...

we have AIX 5.3 nim server configured with mksysb backup through nfs. We have two NIC cards in NIM server. one card normal Normal. another one is Gigabit Ethernet. Both NICs configured with ip and working fine. from NIM server /export/mksysbs...

i still dont understand the significant of export volume group and import volume group.

Can someone tell me the scenario. i have read the ibm study guide it saying because you want move to another system but i dont understand .. is it san...

Hi All,
The default file permission on AIX is 666, Iam trying to change the file permission to have atleast 7xx. Since Iam not the admin of this machine I cannot change the default behavior of file permission. So I tried changing umask in...

Hello Guru's

Good day, I am new to AIX Admin, can any one help me out in

" How to create Lpar (logical partitions on IBM pSeries Servers), a step by step ", It's an urgent issue "

At same, can you please suggest me also, some good links...

I'm trying to figure out how/where I can determine the maximum number of connections a socket can have. We're using IBM AIX v5.2, ML 2.

How to change kernel Parameters like SHMMAX in AIX, i want to change it dynamically and manually and also i want to know how to change in smitty?

Irecently install OpenSSH on a Clean AIX 5.3 box.  SSH is working but it will only allow root to login.  I know I have to modify thee sshd_conf file but I do not know 1) what has to be changed and 2) where to find it.  Presently the system does...

Hi,

I need a way to find for each running process the full path of it (Using command line of course).

The regular ps -ef command fetch sometimes only the executable and I need the full path.

Thanks