Does anyone have any experience using sudo to control smit on AIX 5.3?
These are the smit commands that I want certain users to execute:
Specifically, I am having issues with smit cl_lsuser and smit cl_users. I get these messages:
It looks like it is no longer running as root. Does anyone have any ideas? Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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Over the last few months I have created software called WinSmit, with this tool you can create your own AIX smit menus and corresponding message files.
We all know the smit or smitty menus that IBM provides to maintain the system, the... (6 Replies)
I'm trying to install sudo on AIX 5.3. I don't have a compiler on my machine, so I was trying to find a binary. The one found at http://www.bullfreeware.com/listaix52.html that is supposed to work for 5.3 even though it was compiled on 5.2. The issue is I'm new to AIX and could not figure out how... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am on a project and logging into about 100 servers one at a time. One of the steps I am performing is setting up a link with smit mkroute. I am using AIX versions 5.2 and 5.3
Does anyone know a quick command line to set DESTINATION ADDRESS, GATEWAY address, Network MASK, and... (5 Replies)
I am trying to understand why I get "0" returned when I run the command sudo bootinfo -r. I know bootinfo isn't really supported in versions higher then AIX 4.2. I also know that instead of bootinfo -r I could use lsattr -El sys0 -a realmem | awk '{print $2}' and produce the same output as ... (1 Reply)
My searches turned up nothing relevant, so I apologize if this has already been looked at.
I am trying to run an expect script from a Solaris machine, that ssh's into an AIX machine, and interacts with a SMIT created menu system that runs a few backups for me.
The expect script runs fine when... (0 Replies)
Hello,
I've configured an user authentication against Active Directory (Windows Server 2008 R2) on AIX V6 with LDAP. It works fine.
And here's my problem:
How can I control ldap user permissions on the local AIX machine?
E.g. an AD user should be able to write all files of local sys... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm newbee to AIX and would like to setup a process which kills 1 Hr. ideal users from smit. Please advise for making it work. :)
Thanks,
Sumit (2 Replies)
I am planning to implement sudo for users.
Under , it looks I have to put the users who need to have sudo access:
What are the recommended for users? I don't think I need to give the ALL privilege (i.e ) to AIX users.
I'd like to know the commonly used privilege specification for sudo... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I tried installing sudo on a lab AIX server. It has been successfully installed. but i still see the below errors.
/>sudo -V
Sudo version 1.8.27
Configure options: --prefix=/opt/freeware --sbindir=/opt/freeware/sbin --libdir=/opt/freeware/lib --mandir=/opt/freeware/man... (8 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
eventstat
EVENTSTAT(8) System Manager's Manual EVENTSTAT(8)NAME
eventstat - a tool to measure system events.
SYNOPSIS
eventstat [-rcsv_file][-nevent_count][delay [count]]
DESCRIPTION
eventstat is a program that dumps the current active system events.
OPTIONS
eventstat options are as follow:
-h show help
-n event_count
only display the first event_count number of top events.
-q run quietly, only really makes sense with -r option.
-r csv_file
output gathered data in a comma separated values file. This can be then imported and graphed using your favourite open source spread
sheet.
-t threshold
ignore samples where the event delta per second less than the given threshold
EXAMPLES
Dump events every second until stopped.
sudo eventstat
Dump the top 20 events every 60 seconds until stopped.
sudo eventstat -n 20 60
Dump events every 10 seconds just 5 times.
sudo eventstat 10 5
SEE ALSO powertop(8)AUTHOR
eventstat was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
This manual page was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).
June 13, 2012 EVENTSTAT(8)