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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Man command doesn't display any output amonst other problems :-) Post 302105367 by BOFH on Thursday 1st of February 2007 09:08:32 AM
Old 02-01-2007
From a troubleshooting standpoint, if my shell (either one) were missing, I'd start checking errpt for disk problems and root's shell (grep root /etc/passwd) to make sure it's where I think it's supposed to be. I'd also try a find / -name sh -print to try and locate it.

I'd log in to another 5.3 server and check out where sh is located and how /bin and /usr/bin are set up. On my AIX 5.3 server, /bin and /usr/bin are symbolically linked. There are 830 files in my /bin directory for comparison.

You're able to log in so there's a shell somewhere. Check /etc/passwd for the location of your shell. Mine's in /bin/ksh and root's is in /usr/bin/ksh.

Carl
 

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optisa(1)							   User Commands							 optisa(1)

NAME
optisa - determine which variant instruction set is optimal to use SYNOPSIS
optisa instruction_set... DESCRIPTION
optisa prints which instruction_set out of the ones specified in the command will perform best on this machine. In this case, ``best'' is defined by the order in which instruction set names are returned by isalist(1). Possible values for instruction_set are given in isalist(5). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 One of the instruction_set values you specified is printed by this command. 1 There is no output; that is, this machine cannot use any instruction_set that you specified with the optisa command. SEE ALSO
isalist(1), uname(1), attributes(5), isalist(5) NOTES
optisa is preferable to uname -p or uname -m (see uname(1)) in determining which of several binary versions of a given program should be used on the given machine. SunOS 5.10 25 Jul 1997 optisa(1)
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