It is possible on Linux or AIX to have users that share a home directory.   For example, you might have user1, user2, and user3 all have their home directories set to /sharedhome.  Anytime you are deleting users and home directories you need to keep this in mind.   You might only need to delete "user1" but want to leave "user2" and "user3" unaffected.   But if you delete user1 and its home directory you might end up deleting the shared home directory which would have a big... [More]

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One of the fundamental principles of troubleshooting any issue is to look for what has changed between the time things went from working to not working.   One thing that could be relevant  to any issue is if any software has been recently updated or installed.  AIX provides the "lslpp -h" command which will show fileset installation and update dates for each fileset.   Unfortunately it doesn't sort the output of this, so it can be very difficult to look through the output to find filesets that... [More]

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