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Operating Systems AIX Aix 5.3 Post 302077802 by bootnix on Monday 26th of June 2006 02:02:31 PM
Old 06-26-2006
1) Standard - agree, budget at least 2 GB for rootvg size, generally more depending upon amount of paging space needed to support your memory config and other variables. Our site has standardized on 10 GB for rootvg for AIX 5.3 lpars and a 5 GB paging space, unless amount of memory allocated to an lpar dictates more. This may be a bit overconfigured for disk space but disk is relatively cheap nowadays, so better to have too much rather than not enough. I've visited a site where there wasn't enough space given to rootvg and so subdirectories of /var on almost every box were links to other filesystems, sometimes on other vg's and no consistency anywhere, which made it look like it was very messy to have to admin those boxes.

2) Standard - agree, we also create a /usr/local/bin directory on all servers

3) ML 04 (or latest patches at install time)

4) All patches needed by your hard-/software *** this includes putting the latest firmware on your hardware as this is often overlooked but can be critical. Modern RS6000 hardware runs very complex firmware and if you are running multiple LPAR's on a host you don't want to have to shut down all partitions a month from now to apply firmware if you could have applied the same firmware before putting any partitions on it. Read the firmware instructions very carefully as well, it could take 30-45 mins to apply the firmware. Earlier this year I badly hosed up a box by thinking something was wrong with the firmwarre update and pulled the plug in the middle of it. DOH! ***

5 - I agree with your two previous posters
I would add that gzip is very handy
some of my coworkers insist on using vim
lsof can be extremely useful
Personally I like to have lynx on the box too for easy and immediate http connectivity
OpenSSH (don't use the commercial one it's not as good) no longer requires prngd, only the OpenSSL package is a pre-requisite.

You can find many of these tools at this website:

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/pr.../download.html
Registration is required to get OpenSSH and other crypto software, it's an easy-to-overlook small link at the bottom of the box on the right-hand side of the page.

I'm absolutely certain that the RPM installer is a part of the standard AIX 5.3 install, and pretty sure that gzip is installed by default as part of AIX 5.3 too (it's part of our default install for 5.3 via NIM)

Hope this helps >< bOOtnix
 

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concordance(1)						      General Commands Manual						    concordance(1)

NAME
concordance - for programming your Logitech Harmony remote control SYNOPSIS
concordance For automatic mode: concordance <file> For manual mode: concordance <options> DESCRIPTION
This software supports programming Logitech Harmony remote controls. This software uses libconcord, which in turn uses libusb, which requires the RAWIO capability. That means you probably need root to use it. This software can be run in one of two modes. If you run it in automatic mode, the software will analyze the file to determine what sort of file it is and what to do with it. In some cases, concordance may not be able to deteremine the filetype; if this happens, you should use manual mode. In manual mode, you specify what you want to do. For any command-line option that requires updating the remote, a filename is required. In manual mode, you must first choose a mode (and only one): MODE-SETTING OPTIONS -c, --dump-config [<filename>] Read the config from the remote and write it to a file. If no filename is specified, config.EZHex is used. -C, --write-config <filename> Read a config from <filename> and write it to the remote. -f, --dump-firmware [<filename>] Read firmware from the remote and write it to a file. If no filename is specified firmware.EZUp is used. -F, --write-firmware <filename> Read firmware from <filename> and write it to the remote -h, --help Print this help message and exit. -i, --print-remote-info Print information about the remote. Additional information will be printed if -v is also used. -k, --get-time Get time from the remote -K, --set-time Set the time on the remote -l, --learn-ir <filename> Learn IR commands from other remotes. Use <filename>. When you selected multiple commands to learn on the Logitech website, you can move through this command list and let the Harmony learn the IR code for each command. -r, --reset Reset (power-cycle) the remote control -s, --dump-safemode [<filename>] Read the safemode firmware from the remote and write it to a file. If no filename is specified, safe.bin is used. -t, --connectivity-test <filename> Do a connectivity test using <filename> -V, --version Print the version and exit NOTE: If using the short options (e.g. -c), then *optional* arguments must be adjacent: -c/path/to/file. Required arguments don't have this limitation, and can be specified -C /path/to/file or -C/path/to/file. Additionally, you can specify options to adjust the behavior of the software: OTHER OPTIONS
-b, --binary-only When dumping a config or firmware, this specifies to dump only the binary portion. When use without a specific filename, the default filename's extension is changed to .bin. When writing a config or firmware, this specifies the filename passed in has just the binary blob, not the XML. --force Force. This forces concordance to use the file the way you specified, even if it doesn't think that's the kind of file it is. This is necessary for files dumped by concordance. -R, --no-reset For config or firmware updates, do not reboot the device when done. This is generally only for debugging. -v, --verbose Enable verbose output. -w, --no-web Do not attempt to talk to the website. This is useful for re-programming the remote from a saved file, or for debugging. BUGS None known at time of release, but check the website. BUG REPORTS
Please file all bug reports in the bugs section of our SourceForge Project page. NOTES
This software is not supported, affiliated, or controlled by Logitech in any way. AUTHOR
concordance was written by Kevin Timmerman and Phil Dibowitz http://www.phildev.net/concordance/ concordance(1)
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