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We're running Aix version 5 on an RS6000 P530 and it's sending out ICMP 8 packets.  How do I stop it and why would it do it?
Can you mount /dev/rmt0 ? how do you look at the contents on /dev/rmt0 ? cd /dev/rmt0 ksh: /dev/rmt0: 0403-037 The specified path name is not a directory. How do you remove the files i...
Is there a way to change PP Size of an existing VG from PP SIZE:        32 megabyte(s) to PP SIZE:        512 megabyte(s) ?
How do you fix this dump device issue? LABEL:          DMPCHK_TOOSMALL IDENTIFIER:     837E0DE7 Class:           O Type:            PEND Resource Name:   dumpcheck       Descripti...
I have a development system and a production system both are running Oracle 10g. I've been asked to document the kernel settings on each of these systems to verify that they are identical. How...
I have an old AIX Unix box running Catia v4. It's been acting funny, so I tried some of the usual commands to investigate - things such as du and I get this error for pretty much any command I...
I just got off of the phone with IBM and they told me their IBM System P5 AIX Server is an AIX only server, incapable of running Windows Server. I attempted to boot off the Server CD, but the ...
How to change permanently the memory ulimit parameter.
I have an AIX 5.1 machine. Suddenly i am unable to ping it from other machines ( in the same network). What might be the problem? how do i check the firewall settings? Thanks in advance, Sub...
This is probably fairly trivial using sed, but I am not all that familiar with sed. I also don't have any compilers on this system, so it will need to be a ksh script. I have a data file, le...
df -k gives the space info for "top" directories. Is there a way to run df -k for all sub directories as well and display the output by the free space desc order? In that case, I know which ...
Hi I need to open a core file that was was generated on AIX 5.3. Looking around I've seen mention of dbx, gdb and totalview. Which is the best and where can i get them? I've seen  that dbx ...
I'm having problem creating a new NSD on my GPFS cluster. This is a 2 node cluster. The storage is from a SAN. Below is the error generated when I run the command "mmcrnsd -v no -F /tmp/oradat...
I am running AIX 5.2 at the office and have many system printers. It seems that when users print a file called 3ALSE is created in the /var/spool/lpd/qdir/ which prevents me to cancel print jo...
Can you look at this shell script and tell me where my backups are being saved? Thanks I am not knowledgeable with shell scripts and can't understand it very well.
I have an RS/6000 H80, running AIX 4.3. I had two 9GB SCSI disks (hdisk0 and hdisk1) running mirrored (I think via mklvcopy).  hdisk0 started reporting that it was marking physical partitions...
How to configure SCSI disk on VIO server and assgn it to VIO client ? in AIX
can anyone explain the purpose and usage of the utility FTPPWD in UNIX Thanks in advance Thanks
After upgrading a 4073-150 from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.1, the Desktop CDE does not work anymore. When I boot the system the SNS screen appears and I can move around that menu. After that, the RS6000 s...
How do you move an existing non-striped LV to a striped LV on AIX 5.2, is there a way to remap the data from the non-striped to a striped LV without creating a new logical volume?
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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 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. ...
Does anyone have any knowledge and or can point me in the right direction on this: I have a new 55a on a rack. Running AIX 5.3.6. Attempted a nim mksysb installation on the server. The server ...
I am getting this error.  What is the cause of this and the fix? thx much # mklv -y prod_4096_254 -t raw prod6vg 32 hdisk148 The distribution of this command (111) failed on one or more...