AIX

Hey guys,

Just been handed control of a Bull AIX server running 5.1.

Erm... first port of call was SSH as I cannot stand telnet. Installed the required prerequisites and un-tar'd the images ready for smit to install.

I've gone to "Install and Update Software". Then "Install Software" set the media location to "." as i'm in the directory obviously.

First time I ran the install without reading the options and smit happily went to install openssh but then stopped saying I need to accept the license agreement.

I went back to the Install Software screen and at the option "Accept new licensing agreements?" I was unable to change the option to yes. Smit says it cannot be edited and same for preview license agreement.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Matt

Strange, normally you can with alt+f4 or tab... Maybe check the man page for installp and install it directly with installp, gathering all the switches you need.

Yeh I thought it was quite weird.

I'm quite new to AIX... so just getting used to the querks. Not doing to badly though as I am used to linux.

Off I go to look at how to use Installp then lol

Cheers

SMIT is just a nicely polished (and, btw., even extendable) UI to execute normal system commands. If you could do it with SMIT you always can do it manually too - maybe not as comfortably so, but you can.

You can - by pressing <F6> - even look at the command(s) SMITty would issue and can cut/paste/edit this to use it in your own scripts. This is quite handy for developing scripts for the more arcane parts of AIX.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

run your install command

grep installp_cmd $HOME/smit.script | tail -1


and append "-Y" at the end of the command