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Hi All i have been asked to move some files of an old AIX box (ibm risc) i think it is version 4. how ever im a windows admin, have been told that ftp is running but i can not connect. so m...
A variable for CLIENTHOST is set in the /etc/profile which just uses the who -m command.  The variable for the hostname of the local machine is then passed in and works about 95% of the time. ...
Hi, We have one IBM AIX5 unix server. For some reason, the resource (paging space usage) cannot be freed properly and the server always hung when paging space reaches 100%. So the server ha...
Was running fbackup on my AIX 5.2 ML 06. Any idea what this error is? what caused it? and how to solve it?
setting up a lexmark on aix 5.2 I get the error : (WARNING) 0781-374 Connection to server timed out after retrying. rembak: errno = 79: A remote host refused an attempted connect operation....
Diagela messages are send to several email addresses here, not only to root. Several of these addresses don't exist any more. So eventually they arrive as undeliverable at the mailservers po...
                                  # errpt -a -j 613E5F38                                                   ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---    ...
I have this error, and IBM recommends APAR install, which requires system reboot.  My question is what would be the severity of this error?  How do you determine that?   # errpt -a -j 1F0B7...
I need to have a way to restrict access to our server only to one specific address. I've heard about hosts.allow, but I think you know better ways. Anyway the AIX will need to accept...
i am little confused in hdisk and pdisk? When i would connect a hardisk suppose of 34 gb in voume group what it would be define as ?hdisk or pdisk what is pdisk??/ is it partition in hardisv...
Guys, I am using AIX 5.3 and trying to come up with a detailed procedure on replacement of a failed HBA on an LPAR. HBA should be HOT SWAPPBLE. Please provide a step by step procedure whic...
HA
I am getting this error.  How do you troubleshoot? clhaver[152]: cannot connect to node prod1 rc=-1 errno=0 Starting Cluster Services on node: prod2 This may take a few minutes.  Please...
I did these to remove prod1vg. varyoffvg prod1vg exportvg prod1vg But, I am not sure if prod1vg was permanently removed.   Are there any other commands to remove prod1vg to make sure?  
I was looking at the errpt and noticed the below listed error.  I am guessing I need to clear out space in my /tmp directory but when I do a "df", only 20% is used.  Thus, I am a bit confused ...
I want to set up a crontab to get e-mail from nodes daily. The e-mail will contain: fget_config -vA lspv lsconf However, I just found that lsconf can hang due to some errors like belo...
I have been looking for installation instruction to install PGPcmdln_6.5.8.AIX_FW.tar.gz but have not be successfull.  All I have been able to find so far is instructions for Linux using rpm. ...
What is the message trying to tell us? LABEL:          LVM_QUORUMNOQUORUM IDENTIFIER:     5BEAD71B Class:           S Type:            INFO Resource Name:   LIBLVM           Descri...
I have df -k file system monitor script below.  What I need is to exclude /backup filesystem because it is always around 98 or 99%.   How do you put the line for excluding the /backup? bla....
Hi, I have a 9111-P520 server running AIX 5.3.  I just tried upgrading the firmware and it acted like it was rebooting and now, 2 and a half hours later, it's still not up.  The monitor act...
LABEL:          FCP_ARRAY_ERR18 IDENTIFIER:     DA1477B1 Date/Time:       Thu Mar 15 09:56:32 EDT Sequence Number: 2487 Class:           H Type:            PERM Resource Name:   hdi...
i have an IBM F50 running AIX 4.3.3.0 and am having some errors stating stale partitions on hdisk0 where the rootvg resides. what does stale partition mean?
HBA
What are the command lines that can show me the following data of HBAs? Switch Name     Port     Speed     Mode thx much
Dear Experts, I am using AIX Version 5.3. Say i have two directories dir1 & dir2. Both directories contain binary files. I want to compare the file names only (and not the contents) and li...
Due to tightening SOX restrictions, we are in need of taking away the root account password from the AIX administrators (me and another guy) and giving it to the IT manager.  However, we still...
I need to know the total size of alloted size (not actually used size) of all vgs and files an AIX node? What is the command that gives you the total alloted size (sum of Total PP Size)? W...