Starting with AIX 5.3, you can get the process tree showing all the children of a particular process in a tree format. This is a part of the Linux affinity push: Example: $ ps -T 119016 PID TTY TIME CMD 119016 - 0:00 sshd 1015808 - 0:00 \--sshd 418006 - 0:00 \--ksh 913436 pts/0 0:00 \--ksh 639072 pts/0 0:00 \--ps

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We found it was taking from two to three hours to run the configure script for apache. After searching we found that the solution was to change the environment variable CONFIG_SHELL to point to a different shell than the default ksh. When this was done, the multi-hour run of ./configure was done in 3 minutes. Solution: From the Mozilla site for AIX it says: export CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash export CONFIGURE_ENV_ARGS=/opt/freeware/bin/bash ./configure From testing, I found I could also use ksh93 and get similar results. export... [More]

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The new "multibos" command (AIX 5.3 ML3) provides dual AIX boot from the same rootvg. You can run production on one boot image while installing, customizing or updating the other. This is conceptually similar to AIX's "alt-disk-install". However, in "alt-disk-install" the boot images must reside on separate disks and separate rootvg's. The "multibos" capability allows both OS images to reside on the same disk/rootvg, avoiding the need for a separate disk. For more information see... [More]

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Setting the title on a running aixterm To set the title of your current aixterm window you can use the echo command to output an Escape, left square bracket, number 2, semicolon, the text for the window, and the octal 007. For example to set the title to AIXTERM Title use: echo "\033]2;AIXTERM Title" To set the title for the icon window replace the number '2' with the number '1' as shown here: echo "\033]1;ICON Title" To set the title for both the window and the icon use the number 0 instead of 1 or 2 echo "\033]0;Title and ICON Title" Of... [More]

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p5-590 and 595 System Handbook Revised: January 11, 2006 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg249119.html p5-590 and 595 Technical Overview and Introduction Revised: January, 11, 2006 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/abstracts/redp4024.html Implementing NFSv4 in the Enterprise: Planning and Migration Strategies Revised: January 12, 2006 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246657.html DS300 and DS400 Best Practices Guide Revised: January, 12, 2006 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247121.html N-Series Snapshot, a... [More]

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HACMP Tidbits Tidbits from Shawn Bodily: - First and formost, TSM does NOT work with HACMP v5.3. A TSM APAR s required (IY80002) that has yet to be released. This APAR is expected to drop in late March. (This should not be a surprise - it is documented in the TSM docs.) - A podcast explaining some of the new features in HACMP 5.3 is now available: http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/ha - A new redpaper on HACMP DLPAR & Virtualization was just released. It's essentially Chapter 10 of the new HACMP cookbook; released on 30-"Dec-2005: Cookbook:... [More]

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Documentation http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/eserver Electronic Services: http://www.ibm.com/support/electronic (Service Agent ("call home"), Open hardware/software service requests, Automate alert notification) Subscription Services: https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/pseries.subscriptionSvcs (Security Advisories, new fixes) Announcements/Events/Promo's': https://isource.ibm.com/world/ AIX Service Update Management Assistant (SUMA): http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/library/es-updateaix.html ("smit suma", Automate... [More]

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