Ok new audit requirement -- AIX 5.3--maybe 5.2 -- accounts with
ADMCHG set ignore expiration dates. Is there anyway to change this
behavior?

We create accounts and set an initial passwd with the admchg flag
set. The accounts are supposed to expire in 90 days. BUT if the user
never logs in in that period the accounts do not expire, they can log
in with the initial passwd at any time in the future and they will
get in.

I know this can be scripted but I would prefer something inherent in
AIX to do the job before I go of the deep end and accidentally lock
everybody out....
thanx

Hi,
I have a 32 bit binary (threaded application) compiled on AIX
5300-04. When I try to run it on AIX 5300-05 it fails with following
error:

/tmp/test start
exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /tmp/test because of the
following errors:
0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for scsrvc because:
0509-136 Symbol __pthread (number 195) is not exported from
dependent module /usr/lib/libpthread.a(shr_xpg5.o).
0509-192 Examine .loader section symbols with the
'dump -Tv' command.

I checked loader section for libpthread.a on AIX 5300-04 and it
contains __pthread as EXP but its missing on AIX 5300-05. Has anybody
encountered such an issue? Is there a way to resolve this issue
(except for moving to higher TL)?

Thanks & Regards,
Amit

What are other AIX sites using to keep scripts, cron jobs, printer
definitions, etc. in-sync across multiple LPARs? We have 10 LPARs right
now, not counting a NIM server which has yet to be built.

When I've asked in other fora, about the only response I got involved
RSYNC. We don't want to deal with NFS on that scale, so I'm looking for
something uses RSH, SSH, RCP, SCP or ??? instead (preferably some SSL
implementaion).

The Central Repository could be on Windows or UN*X - doesn't matter to
us.

Anyone have any ideas?

David J Dachtera
Technical Analyst
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL

P.S.: I'm a long-time VMS jock returning to UN*X after 22 years.
Apologies for any improper/unfamiliar terminology, etc.

http://mile.googlebong.com

Debbie Mellema GoogleBong

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Our Environment:
Hardware:
P55A
24 GB of memory
SAN - fiber attached Hitachi Tagma
Software:
AIX 5.3 (5300-06-03-0732)
DB2 9.1.3
Tomcat 4.1.24 (services INTRA-net accesses only)
Apache 2.52 (services INTRA-net accesses only)

We had a severe system slowdown for about 15 minutes on 08/12.
We had a vmstat running with a 30 second sample period.
I have attached a snippet of the output of that vmstat.

I use "ssh -X" to login to a aix machine successfully.
However X applications fail to run.
Please help to solve this problem.
local$ uname -a
Linux linux1 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
local$ ssh -X -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no twong@aix1.chrysalis-its.com
twong@aix1.chrysalis-its.com's password:
Last unsuccessful login: Fri Aug 8 10:50:29 CDT 2008 on ssh from
172.20.11.66
Last login: Fri Aug 8 13:56:17 CDT 2008 on /dev/pts/5 from
172.20.11.66
$ xterm
xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
$ xclock
Error: Can't open display:
$ uname -a
AIX aix1 3 5 00CC111E4C00

is there a tool to plot xfer time, queuing time, %%tm etc from
iostat?

nmon/nmon_analyzer cannot plot queuing time seems.

thanks

Hello,

I currently work for a company that is moving to an AIX platform for a
specific initiative and I have been pushing to integrate user and
group authentication with the existing Active Directory
infrastructure, however, one of the requirements is to give developers
overseas, ftp access. The environment doesn't exist yet, just doing
some homework :)

My question is, once I get the Active Directory authentication
working , will ftpd utilise the Active Directory mechanism to
authenticate users trying to ftp?

Or...Since authenticated users will have secure shell access would it
be best to have them transfer files via sftp?

I am new to integrating within a Microsoft ruled environment, so I may
sound stupid in asking these questions...Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks!

Hello,

I have attempted over the last few days to create a SPOT image on an
AIX 6.1 NIM master that will allow me to setup a debug image.

As most NIM folks are aware you simply run "nim -o check -F -a
debug=yes " and you end up with a boot string to enter at
the debug prompt.

This all works fine for a 5.3 and a 5.2 image, but when I try this
with a 6.1 image it seems to complete but I end up with no boot
string.

Am I missing something? I tried re-creating the LPP source using
multi_volume=yes just to see if I was lacking something off of the 2nd
DVD, but all I got were language files of course.

I read over the release notes for 6.1, but they make no mention of
this kind of change in 6.1.

Has anyone else hit this problem?

Thank you!

Shane

Now Firefox has it's companion Thunderbird.
At least on AIX 5.1 or later.

<http://www.linkitup.de/ForAIX/Thunderbird>
<http://www.linkitup.de/ForAIX/Firefox>

Installation documentation updated for AIX5/GTK2.

The upcoming releases of Firefox 2.0.0.17 and Seamonkey 1.1.12 may be
delayed for the AIX builds for about one week after the scheduled
official release date.
The upcoming AIX5/GTK2 releases will have a performance improvement, as
the build environment gets better and better :-)
For the next release I will use the older, but faster IBM GTK2 RPMS for
build time too.

Sorry for the AIX 4.3.3 users, still no working Thunderbird. But you can
use Seamonkey instead.

My porting of Fireofox 3 is stuck with a lot of bugs filed. Still a long
way to go. The first patches are checked in.

Have fun with the best web browser for AIX
--
Uli Link