Posts Tagged ‘ Aix ’

A funny thing happened to one of my Red Hat 5 Enterprise servers after applying the errata. I rebooted the servers as usual after applying the updates, and they came up just fine. But unfortunately I was not able to logon remotely via ssh to a server. I tried various different accounts including root,...
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I came across this issue on my newly built Solaris 10 server. I was able to ping a remote machine by Ip address, but not by its hostname. This indicated that I had the correct route and gateway. Using nslookup and dig I verified that the DNS servers were resolving the hostname to IP...
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List the status of all swap areas. # swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 32,9 16 8425712 8425712 The output has five columns: path The path name for the swap area. dev The major/minor device number in decimal if it is a block special device; zeroes otherwise. swaplo The swaplow value for...
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If you need to find out which file in a directory contains a specific word then the grep command is your friend. Here is an example, if you wanted to find out which file in the directory /home contains the word groundhog. grep –i “groundhog” /home/* /home/shadow:Today is groundhog day The –i option means...
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I needed to determine the amount of time it would take to archive large amount of data on my unix server. If I had infinite amount of free time I could sit in front of the screen with a stop watch. But the better way is to create a script that would record the...
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My fat fingers inadvertently created a directory on my unix server with special characters. I could not access this directory nor could I delete it. When I listed the directory using the command ls –b, I could see all the funny characters. ls –b scritps010/010/010/010 I tried every command I could think of, rmdir...
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IBM had renamed the term maintenance level (ML) to technology level (TL). Here is an excerpt from IBM, “Although some systems administrators still use the term “maintenance level” when discussing their AIX version, the term is now reserved for legacy AIX systems. The new IBM methodology dictates two TL releases per year. The first...
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I needed to find out the type of fiber channel HBA cards installed in the Aix server. Here are the commands I used to find the information, Use the lsdev command to list the fiber channel cards (HBA) installed in the Aix server. Depending on the version of aix one or all of the...
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I have recently taken ownership of a Solaris 5.9 server and am in the process of migrating the applications over to a recent release. I decided to audit the applications and configuration of all the apps installed. One of the very long list of items I needed to figure out is the cron job,i.e....
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As a server/systems administrator you will find the TOP utility very useful to determine top cpu using processes. TOP is the utility for Linux and most Unix operating systems. IBM Aix has it’s own version which does the same job, it is called Topaz. Top can be download from unixtop.org, the documentation are also...
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