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To monitor the maxuproc, I find the user's id with: lsuser -a id user, then use: ps -fu $id | wc -l to count their processes.

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If you're interested, here's a...

Also, make sure you're using visudo instead of trying to edit the config file directly.

You can get the last login time from the user attributes instead of relying on your last log (we roll ours monthly). This should work but it requires perl to be installed to translate the results...

I've seen many files have UID of 25 and GID of 987 after the last two AIX upgrades I've done. Since neither that UID nor GID exist on my servers, I've added this as one of my post upgrade steps:...

I'm using "mailx" in almost all of my scripts so instead of changing each one of them individually, I'd rather setup something in the sendmail.cf to change "root" to "root.admin".

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Our AIX servers send e-mails which have the "from" address set to "root@company.com" for our root user ("C{M}company.com" in /etc/sendmail.cf). The problem is that when bad e-mails are sent out or...

The SEA is configured on the VIO server and without access to the VIO server, I don't think you have any way to see if there is one. I don't think the LPAR itself (not VIO server) would even know...

I have 2 VIO servers and a network connection to each of them in an etherchannel so running entstat against the individually adapters doesn't work.
host:/:$ lsdev | grep ^ent
ent0 Available...

EDIT!! That did it... "-l" must send "info" messages to the syslogd and the remote hostname/IP must be "info" level instead of "debug" level. Thanks rbatte1!

Jun 27 11:27:25 hostname...

I put this in my /etc/sendmail.cf file, but it changes all outgoing e-mails from the server to be from the domain "mycompany.com":
# class E: names that should be exposed as from this host, even if...

I'm using the FTP daemon that is part of the AIX default install. The inetd.conf file has the ftpd executable listed in it with these arguments: ftpd -u 002 -d
What am I missing to get it to log...

I have random connections coming into my FTP server, but the source IP is not showing up in my logs. Here is what my logs look for me trying to connect as a "whatever" user that doesn't exist. You...

Devyn, let us know what you end up getting. I have memory for Power 5 and Power 5+ boxes you could have for the cost of shipping. You don't happen to be near Kansas, do you?

I guess that is why UNIX gives the option of where you want the data because if you are worried about seek times, you'd want the data in the middle, if you were wanting raw speed to save a smaller...

The center is fastest? Outer tracks would have more sectors so as the disk spins, the head is able to read more sectors in a single disk rotation, right?

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In smitty when you are creating a LV, you'll see:
POSITION on physical volume middle
You can change this to whatever you want. If you are using a SAN though, it probably...

When we had physical servers, we had the same error and it ended up being caused by our switch being configured to 1000 full and our adapter was set to auto/auto. Once we changed our adapter...

In the Installation and Maintenance menu, obviously you can see the DVD drive, but do you see the disks? Maybe you should check your disk assignments on the VIO servers; make sure your slot numbers...

You could do this.
1. Backup and delete the /backup filesystem
2. Add another smaller disk to the rootvg (make sure it is big enough to hold all the remaining LVs)
3. Move the LVs to the new...

What are you trying to boot from? The DVD installation media or a virtual CD from the VIO server?

Do you have "auth.debug" enabled in your /etc/syslog.conf? If not, configure it and look in the logs and look for any errors in it. Here is my auth.debug line I use in my /etc/syslog.conf:...

I'm not sure how rsynch works, but I do know that the SSH server is limited to only have a certain number of unauthenticated SSH connections at one time. What is your "MaxStartups" set to in your...

The "Max" you are referring to is the maximum amount of CPU the LPAR can be entitled to. Since your LPAR is uncapped, the maximum amount of CPU the LPAR can consume is the number of virtual...

I run into this "MISSING REQUISITES" garbage all the time. I resolve it by either opening a PMR with IBM and they end up uploading the base filesets I need to testcase.ibm.com or by going to the IBM...

Use "oslevel -qs" (q=query) to see all the oslevels your system knows about. Hopefully, the TL8 is at the top of your list.
hostname:/:$ oslevel -qs
Known Service Packs
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