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The AIX operating system - what is it? This is best answered by reading the text fil

I know neither Unix nor AIX - where do I find more information?

What is the Object Database? From: Uwe Geuder AIX stores most of the system ma

How do I get rid of the verbose error messages? From: Bjorn P. Brox Many of th

Which release of AIX or other products do I have? New with 3.2.5: The oslevel comman

What hardware do I have? What is availible? WITS? From: C.Deignan@frec.bull.fr (C.DEI

Is IBM "dropping" AIX? AIX 3 discontinued. No. IBM sells and supports AIX 4 (4.3).

No. IBM sells and supports AIX 4 (4.3). However,

e-Server pSeries (Is IBM "dropping" RS/6000 ?) Will you get real ? After 10 years o

Monterey / AIX 5L IBM has announced "AIX5L". It's essentialy AIX Version 5. The 'L

I am used to Unix systems programming, why should I learn SMIT?

How do I turn off the "running man" in smit? Use smitty, the standard curses version

How do I import an /etc/passwd or /etc/group file from another box?

Cleaning up utmp, who, and accounting problems The best way to fix this problem is t

How to fsck the root filesystem You can run fsck either in maintenance mode or on mo

How can I unmount /usr to run fsck on it? From: accapadi@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Matt Ac

How do I see/change parameters like number of processes per user?

How do I shrink the default paging space on hd6? X-With-Changes-From: Ray Reynolds

The swapper seems to use enormous amounts of paging space, why?

How much paging space do I need? See answer 2 in question 1.300.

How do I mount a floppy disk as a filesystem? From: op@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Olaf Po

How do I remove a committed lpp? AIX 3.2.5: you can get rid of COMMITTED lpps/ptfs b

How can I recover space after installing updates? From: Milt Cloud Note: If yo

Where are the AIX log files kept? From: dirk@kimosabi.ucsc.edu (Dirk Coldewey) A

How can I log information about ftp accesses to a file? From: elr@trintex.uucp (Ed Ravi

How do I find a file name from the inode number? From: /G=Bill/S=Mansfield/O=P00S38E/OU

How do I set up postscript accounting? From: taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Vince Talus

How do I create boot diskettes? In AIX 4.x you cannot, the kernel and ram drive don'

Where can I find tools for performance monitoring? Free X based performance watcher:

How can I tell what virtual printer a print queue is using? From: yoder@austin.ibm.com

Two srcmstr's are less useful than one? From: hubert@rs530.ncs.mainz.ibm.com (Bernhard

How do I set the tty name associated with a physical port? From: accapadi@mathew.austin

How do I use mksysb to clone a system? From: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Ma

How do I retain timestamps with mksysb? Originally From: graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Gra

How can I find out the machine type? [Due to it's length this script was moved to se

Updating to 3.2.5 From: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM (Frank Kraemer) (Ed. The

AIX fix strategy From: leedp@austin.ibm.com (Dennis Lee, PMP Release Manager) Fi

Are passwords limited to 8 char? AIX passwords are only significant to 8 characters.

How do I increase the number of ptys > 64? From: mick@oahu.cern.ch (Mickey Coggins)

Where can I find patches for CERT advisories? Patches (APARs in IBMspeak) for CERT a

How do I remove a non-existant physical volume? Thanks to Johnny Shieh (shieh@austin.ib

How can I see "console" messages? From: crow@tivoli.com (David L. Crow) Use the

Where can I find TOP for AIX? TOP functionality is included in an AIX package called

How can I restrict root logins to specific terminals? From: jfh@austin.ibm.com (Juliann

How do I merge my /etc/password and /etc/security/password for Crack?

How can I resolve DEV_WAIT status for a local print queue? From: chuah@sam.po.my (Chua

SMIT problems forcing/overwriting install? Installp does not support overwriting and

Which distribution tape do I have? From: fuzzy@obelix.ncs.mainz.ibm.com (Thomas Braunbe

How can I get PTF (fixes) via ftp? What is fixdist? Get a copy of IBM's fixdist pac

Is there an easy way to determine if AIX has a PTF applied or not?

How do I recreate a deleted /dev/null? From: tvweaver@austin.ibm.com (Tom Weaver)

What is a checkstop error? From: tvweaver@austin.ibm.com (Tom Weaver) While thi

How do I recover deleted files? Preferably from a backup. If you don't have a backu

What questions are on the AIX Certified User/SystemAministrator/etc., e

How can I run a command or commands at system shutdown? "Stock" AIX 4.1.x does

How do I start local daemons at system startup? AIX does neither use the BSD style r

Some info about tape backups From: Craig Anderson The following supplements the

How do I do remote backup? There seems to be several ways of doing this. The first

How do I backup a multi-disk volume group? From: pack@acd.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman)

How do I put multiple backups on a single 8mm tape? From: kerm@mcnc.org (Cary E. Burnet

How can I make an exact duplicate of a tape over the network? The challenge here is

What is tape block size of 0? From: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) Tape de

Resetting a hung tape drive From: Craig_Anderson@kcbbs.gen.nz (Craig Anderson) A

How do I restore specific files from a mksysb tape? From: Marc Pawliger (marc@sti.com)

How do I read a 5Gbyte tape on a 2Gbyte drive? Posted by: bobmet@clam.com (Robert Metca

What can Sysback do for me? From: johnsont@austin.ibm.com (Tony Johnson) Sysback

How can I get my HP 4mm DAT to work? For HP25470/80A DDS: MRS disabled: Set s

How do I copy DAT tapes? If you have two drives try tcopy(1). Otherwise the traditi

How do I speed up backups to DLT tapes? DLT tapes need high data rates to stay in st

Some info about the memory management system From: Michael Coggins (MCOG@CHVM1.VNET.IBM

How much should I trust the ps memory reports? From: chukran@austin.VNET.IBM.COM

Which simms do RS6000's use? This answer is under construction... I'm trying to coll

What is kproc? kproc (always PID 514 on AIX 3 and PID 516 on AIX 4) is the kernel's

How do I create a RAM disk in AIX? From: Jeff Wang You can't create a RAM disk

How much RAM (real memory) does my machine have? From: Michael Abel/resnova

Why do PIDs run non-sequentially? From: Julianne F. Haugh The answer (I was th

How do I make an informative prompt in the shell? In the Korn Shell (ksh), the PS1 v

How do I set up ksh for emacs mode command line editing? The ksh has an undocumented

Listing files with ls causes a core dump From: Julianne F. Haugh Scenario: a d

How do I put my own text into InfoExplorer? With AIX 3.1, you cannot do it. AIX 3.2

InfoExplorer ASCII key bindings From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)

How can I add new man pages to the system? From: horst@faui63.informatik.uni-erlangen.d

Why can't I read man pages? Where is nroff? Nroff and troff aren't in the base inst

Why is my environment only loaded once? The .profile file is only loaded once (for y

Where is the 'nawk' command on my AIX system? From: Jeff Wang The /bin/nawk th

Why can't I set my default shell to one we've just installed? When adding new shells

Why do I get the "Unable to connect socket starting Info-Explorer? It's

Why can't I write a setuid shell script? From: mww@microfocus.com (Michael Wojcik)

How to prevent ctrl-alt-backspace from killing the X session Start X with 'xinit -T'

Who has a termcap/terminfo source for the HFT console? The console used on the RISC

1.) Is there any way to get the machine to check its local host table first wi

VT100 key bindings for aixterm From: haedener@iac.unibe.ch Add this to your .X

Is there a screen saver that does not use excessive CPU? From: Don Buchholz Tr

Where are the colors, available for an X session, listed. /usr/lpp/x_st_mgr/bin/rgb.

Why does my app hang the X server but not an X station? From: Bjorn P. Brox /u

How do I switch the control and caps lock key bindings? If you are running the X win

Missing fonts? If your Xserver supports X11R5 try running a font server (edit /u

What's the termcap entry for an IBM 3151 look like? # # Written by Aleksandar Mi

Errors starting X11 application binaries from aixpdslib. From: We have been aw

.XShm*, .sm* (Shared memory) Link errors building Xwindows applicatio

How do I set my DISPLAY when I login to another machine? Though this is not a questi

Why doesn't Netscape work? From: "Gary R. Hook" The problem is that Netscape

My named dies frequently, why? From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) R

How do I trace ethernet packets on an AIX system? From: afx@muc.ibm.de (Andreas Siegert

How do I set a tty port for both dial-in and dial-out? Set the mode of the tty to be

How to move or copy whole directory trees across a network The following command wil

How can I send mail to hosts that cannot be pinged? From: jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca!dedour

How to configure dialup SLIP IBM's WWW page can lead you to a helpful document

Where is DCE discussed? DCE is the Distributed Computing Environment, which is rough

How do I make /var/spool/mail mountable? From: petersen@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Jo

getty spawning too rapidly From: aslam@abaseen.lums.edu.pk (Sohail Aslam) The p

Does AIX support Compressed SLIP (CSLIP)? No. That means no VJ compression either :

How do I setup anonymous ftp on my AIX system? (stolen from Peter Klee posting)

Talk, getting notification. If you are not getting notification (that someone wants

Disabling software flow control; using RTS/CTS. Different versions of AIX 3.2.5 resp

NIS security Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk (Ole Holm Nielsen) SUMMARY: AIX 3.2.4 an

Why can't non-anonymous users login using WU-FTP? From: swcxt@boco.co.gov (Shane Castle

NIS users can't login, do I need '*' in /etc/passwd? From: ohnielse@fysik.dtu.dk (Ole H

HP JetDirect cards and virtual printers? mkvirprt problems? (stolen from many)

How can I hack libc.a to alter how hostnames are resolved? From: "L. Mark Larsen"

What modem settings do I need? ATQ2 - result codes in originate only AT&C1 - CD

NIS slave server config with master on different subnet? From: msidler@metronet.com (Mi

Why does my 64 port concentrator loose data and drop the queue? [From: as@mynet.no (Ari

Netscape FastTrack server won't install on AIX 3../aixfaq From: Cameron Ferstat Befor

How can I share files/printers with Windows 95? The freeware solution is Samba, ava

Printing from AIX to WinNT/95/3.1 From: Charles J. Fisher 1. On your Windows s

How do I get NFS mounting with Linux to work? Linux by default requires any NFS moun

Telnet takes a 45 seconds to produce a prompt. This is in nearly all cases a DNS con

Ethernet frame type - en0 vs. et0 From: Michael Wojcik The "en" and "et" prefi

Free LVM lecture slides. From: shieh@austin.ibm.com If you want free LVM documen

How do I shrink /usr? From: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik) and Richard Hasting

How do I make a filesystem larger than 2Gb? AIX 3.2.5 and preceeding versions are li

Chlv warning. Is the first 4k of a LV safe? The first 4k of a raw LV are used to st

What's the limit on Physical Partitions Per Volume Group? From: shieh@austin.ibm.com (J

Why am I having trouble adding another disk to my VG? From: shieh@austin.ibm.com (Johnn

What are the limits on a file, filesystem? There are other limits but these come up

Hints for Segate 9 GB and other disks larger than 4 GB? [read 1.704]

How do I fix Volume Group Locked? >From /usr/lpp/bos/README (AIX 3.2.5) and 1.800.IB

How do I remove a volume group with no disks? From: shieh@austin.ibm.com (Johnny Shieh)

What are the theoritical limits within the LVM? From: Gerry FitzGerald

How do I control how hostnames are resolved? From: Frank Kraemer Information f

Where's the C compiler? As of AIX 4.1, the C compiler has been "unbundled." It's

Why doesn't Netscape work? See question 1.515.

SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 "interoperability" got you confused? A. SCSI-1 devices are supp

How to get your keyboard back after unplugging it from the 6000 From: Mickey Coggins an

How do I set up pcsim, the DOS emulator? [Editor's Note: this product does not exist

How do I transfer files between AIX and DOS disks? In the AIX package bos.dosutils a

Where is the crypt program? The crypt *program* (as opposed to the crypt subroutine)

How do I play audio CDs? From: woan@austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) Get xmcd by

How can I get the mouse back after unplugging it? /usr/lpp/diagnostics/da/dmousea

Where can I get source code to the operating system binary xxxxx?

What's the difference between the POWER and POWERPC architectures?

Will there be date rollover problems in the year 2000? From: mbrown@austin.ibm.com (Mar

How can I build an "installp format" file? Jim Abbey has a tool called "lppbuild".

Is there a generic SCSI driver for AIX? From: Rogan Dawes Yes. Matthew Jacob (

Viruses or virus scanning on AIX? From: mww@microfocus.com (Michael Wojcik) FWIW

How do I determine the clock frequency of a RS/6000 by software ? From: Franz Pesten

How do I create a ramdisk ? From: Mark Grubbs # mkramdisk SIZE /dev/rramdi

Can I run Linux on an RS/6000 ? Some distributions can be installed on some RS/6000'

C/C++ Contrary to many people's belief, the C environment on the RS/6000 is not

I cannot make alloca work A famous routine, in particular in GNU context, is the all

How do I compile my BSD programs? The file /usr/lpp/bos/bsdport contains information

Isn't the linker different from what I am used to? Yes. It is not at all like what

How do I statically link my program? cc -o prog -bnoso -bI:/lib/syscalls.exp obj1.

How do I make my own shared library? To make your own shared object or library of sh

Linking my program fails with strange errors. Why? Very simple, the linker (actuall

Why does it take so long to compile "hello world" with xlc? Some systems have experi

What's with malloc()? malloc() uses a late allocation algorithm based on 4.3 BSD's

Why does xlc complain about 'extern char *strcpy()' The header has a strcpy macro

Why do I get 'Parameter list cannot contain fewer ....' This is the same as above (2

Why does xlc complain about '(sometype *)somepointer = something'

Some more common errors Here are a few other common errors with xlc: 305 |

Can the compiler generate assembler code? Starting with version 1.3 of xlc and xlf t

Curses Curses based applications should be linked with -lcurses and _not_ with -

How do I speed up linking Please refer to sections 2.03 and 2.06 above. Fro

What is deadbeef? When running the debugger (dbx), you may have wondered what the

How do I make an export list from a library archive? From: d.dennerline@bull.com (Dave

Building imake, makedepend From: crow@austin.ibm.com (David L. Crow) [Editor's n

How can tell what shared libraries a binary is linked with? Use "dump -H " and see

Can I get a PTF for my C/C++ compiler from the net? contains pointers to most PTF

Why does "install"ing software I got from the net fail? Note that the RS/6000 has tw

What is Linker TOC overflow error 12? There is a hard coded limit in the AIX 3.2.5 l

What is the limit on number of shared memory segments I can attach?

I deleted libc.a by accident --- how do I recover? From: Ed Ravin You can reco

Where can I find dlopen, dlclose, and dlsym for AIX? An implementation of these dyna

Where can I find ldd for AIX? From: Jens-Uwe Mager Try . Also the "aix.tools"

How do I make my program binary executable on the POWER, POWER2, and P

How do I access more than 256 Megabytes of memory? By default each program gets one

How do I use POSIX threads with gcc 2.7.x? From: David Edelsohn The code gener

Why does pthread_create return the error code 22? Using Posix threads under AIX requ

How do I build programs under a later AIX release that run under earlier releases as w

Fortran and other compilers This section covers all compilers other than C/C++. On

I have problems mixing Fortran and C code, why? A few routines (such as getenv, sign

How do I statically bind Fortran libraries and dynamically bind C librar

How do I check if a number is NaN? From: sdl@glasnost.austin.ibm.com (Stephen Linam)

Some info sources on IEEE floating point. 1. ANSI/IEEE STD 754-1985 (IEEE Standard f

Why does it take so long to compile "hello world" with xlf? [read 2.07]

GNU and Public Domain software GNU software comes from the Free Software Foundation

How do I find sources? From: jik@GZA.COM (Jonathan Kamens) There is a newsgroup

Are there any ftp or WWW sites? SMIT-installable precompiled packages of popular fre

Why does "install"ing software I got from the net fail? This answer was moved to sec

GNU Emacs A prebuilt installp (smit) installable package is available from .

gcc/gdb GNU C version 2.0 and later supports the RS/6000, and compiles straight

GNU Ghostscript A prebuilt installp (smit) installable package is available from

X-Windows AIX 4.x ships with X11R5 and Motif 1.2. On AIX 3.2 the base versi

Elm A very nice replacement for mail. Elm should be pretty straightforward, the

Oberon 2.2 From: afx@muc.ibm.de (Andreas Siegert) Oberon is Wirth's follow on to

Kermit - Communications From: Frank da Cruz Available for all versions of AIX

Gnu dbm From: doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) Here's the fixes for RS/6000's:

Kyoto Common Lisp The sources are available from cli.com. The kcl package is the nee

Expect From: Doug Sewell To build the command-interpreter version, you must

Public domain software on CD From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)

Andrew Toolkit From: Gary Keim The Andrew Toolkit Consortium of Carnegie Mello

sudo Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or

Flexfax/HylaFax and other fax software From: Christian Zahl Sam Leffler has re

lsof - LiSt Open Files From: abe@purdue.edu (Vic Abell) Q. How can I determine

popper - POP3 mail daemon The POP server is available via anonymous ftp from f

mpeg link errors version 2.0 From: Nathan Lane .XShmCreateImage .XShmDetac

NNTP, INN Link errors compiling nntp may occur because your machine lacks the "p

Zmodem - File transfer RZSZ is Chuck Forsberg's script for Z-modem. It is available

Patch - automated file updates AIX 3.2.5 does not ship with patch, a utility to appl

XNTP - network time protocol, synchronizes clocks From: Joerg Schumacher AI

GNU Screen and AIX 4.1.x Once again, binaries can be had from .

SCSI scanner software There is the SANE project that strives to deliver an open sour

Pager/Paging software There is information on Paging, Paging programs and listing o

JAVA Development Kit From: Curt Finch

Sendmail If you want to use SRC to start and stop BSD sendmail, do the f

Third party products [ Ed.: Entries in this section are edited to prevent them from

Non-IBM AIX hosts. Bull manufactures and sells AIX systems. To find a distrib

Disk/Tape/SCSI From: anonymous - Most SCSI disk drives work (IBM resells Maxtor,

Memory Nordisk Computer Services (Portland 503-598-0111, Seattle 206-242-7777) i

Others From: anonymous IBM RISC System/6000 Interface Products N

C++ compilers Several C++ compilers are available. You can choose from Glockenspiel,

Memory leak detectors IBM's xlC comes with a product called the HeapView debugger th

PPP PPP does not come with AIX 3.2.x (only SLIP). PPP support was announced

Graphics adapters Abstract Technologies Inc. (Austin TX, 512-441-4040, info@abstract

Training Courses Email training@skilldyn.com with "help" in the body of the message

Hardware Vendors New & Used RS6000s, peripherals Core Systems Inc 1605

Debugging aides From: Curt Finch SCTrace reports system calls (and more) made

Miscellaneous other stuff Information that defies catagories. ;-)

Can I get support by e-mail? In general, no, and are no longer supported.

List of useful faxes You can get some informative faxes by dialing IBM's Faxserver a

IBM's gopher, WWW, aftp presence. There is now a new section dedicated to AIX on IBM

Some RS232 hints From: graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, sactoh0.SAC.CA.US!jak Q: How do

Some acronyms APAR - Authorized Program Analysis Report Created internaly by

How do I get this by mailserver or ftp? Since the articles are crossposted to news.a

Hypertext version of the FAQ United States: New Zealand:

IBM AIX documentation on the WWW. contains links to IBM documentation, this in

Comp.unix.aix archive availible on the WWW Michael Staats & Fred Hucht have informed

How can I access the comp.unix.aix newsgroup via email (or Web)? From:

How do I set up postscript accounting? [ formerly in section 1.118 ] /* ps

How can I find out the machine type? From: anonymous [ formerly in section 1.126

Updating to 3.2.5 [ formerly in section 1.127 ] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= cut here =-

How do I do remote backup? (cont.) From: Henk van Doorn #!/bin/ksh #######

How to configure dialup SLIP [ formerly in section 1.606 part 5 ] #!/bin/ks

Disabling software flow control; using RTS/CTS. [ formerly in section 1.613 ]

How can I hack libc.a to alter how hostnames are resolved? [ formerly in section 1.6

How do I make an export list from a library archive? [ formerly in section 2.17 ]

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