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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> ???
Experts, We have AIX 5.3 running on a standalone box with 4 GB RAM. From past couple of weeks the physical memory has been shooting high, 100% many times and the system is paging highly. T...
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
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...
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...
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 /...
Hi, I am trying to install Samba on my AIX 5.3 box. Although Samba comes pre-installed on most of the other OSs this is not the case here (unable to find smb.conf file) Can anyone tel...
Is it possible to stop and start crontab daemon? If yes, how do you do that? thx much
Hi, What does "The module has an invalid magic number" mean? I get this error when I try to run my binary. 0509-036 Cannot load program testssl because  of the following errors:        ...
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 que...
Hi All, Below is my script to remove carriage return to convert DOS to unix file format. ************************************************************************* #!/usr/bin/ksh if [ $...
Generally the ulimit settings for memory are set at 32 GB. (ulimit -a   or cat /etc/security/limits   will show). If needed can these memory setting for all users be changed to infinity?  O...
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 ...
I have one for all of you AIX guru's out there - We have recently taken on a vendor who needs FTP-Put access to a directory on our UNIX server in order to send invoice confirmation files t...
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 a...
I ran df and have one logical volume getting full. I have to browse around the "usual suspects" to delete large temp files that may be part of the problem. Is there a way to use the find c...
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 fi...
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 t...
I've been asked to trace a process that we've been having problems with on our production Unix AIX server. I've never heard of the truss command until a few days ago. How do I trace a process ...
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 ...
I am in need of a script to run on IBM AIX v4.3.3 to compare a directory that contains nearly 60,000 files to a partial copy of the same to determine which files are missing and copy the missi...
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 w...
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 ar...
I am getting this errror when I try to load a java application that is running on UNIX. Ideas of possible reasons for this error: End of file reading from socket Connection was probably...
I need the command to copy an entire directory and all it's contents from one UNIX server to another by using FTP. Any help would be appriciated.