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Ok guys, I figured it out.
It was a global umask setting that got changed during an outage we had a couple weeks ago. Apparently one of the SAs changed the global umask to 0666 trying to fix an FTP...

Thanks Jim, I'll go and check the truss on another system and see what we get.

For now since it was giving errors for /var/tmp, I've created an .exrc file to point the temp directory to my home
...

I had thought that too, but the other passive node in the cluster has the same permissions, and it's working just fine.

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I had seen that too, but am able to write to the directory with no issue.

patloradb01a:/home/prices02 >$ls -ld /var/tmp
drwxrwxrwt 3 bin bin 4096 Jan 03 06:53 /var/tmp

Scrutinizer,
Using the follow links flag:
patloradb01a:/home/prices02 >$usr/lib/libcurses.a /usr/lib/libcrypt.a /unix <
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 36343685 Oct 15 2014 /unix
-r-xr-xr-x...

Yoda,
I was trying to get strace to work earlier, but only get a usage message when trying it

patloradb01a:/home/prices02 >$strace -o trace.out vi test.txt
usage: strace [mid sid level] ...
...

Ok, so ldd returns:
patloradb01a:/home/prices02 >$sudo ldd /usr/bin/vi
/usr/bin/vi needs:
/usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)
/usr/lib/libcurses.a(shr.o)
/unix
...

patloradb01a:/home/prices02 >$ls -ld .
drwxr-xr-x 3 prices02 sysadm 4096 Jan 02 10:12 .
patloradb01a:/home/prices02 >$type vi
vi is a tracked alias for /usr/bin/vi

Here's the output

patloradb01a:/home/prices02 >$which vi
/usr/bin/vi
patloradb01a:/home/prices02 >$ls -al /usr/bin/vi
-r-xr-xr-x 5 bin bin 364544 Aug 22 2014 /usr/bin/vi
...

Hello all,
I've got a production system that the DBA complained that the vi command was no longer working for the oracle service account for a particular instance. When I logged in as myself, I...

Hello all,
I'm working to fix a two-node SysMirror cluster that uses NFS mounts from a NetApp appliance as the data repository. Currently all the NFS mounts/unmounts are called from the application...

What kind of software, and where is it located? Are they on a CD or DVD, or is it something you've downloaded? You'll need to get the .bff files (or whatever type of source files you have) onto a...

Thank you folks.. I had the applications person re-install, then uninstall the package, and it's clean now. I appreciate the help.

Hello all,

I've been asked to help with some cleanup on a couple of systems that were running some Websphere apps. I need to remove the following filesets:

mqsi61.cfgmgrc 6.1.0.2 ...

Hello all,
I'm looking to implement a Linux server that will host up to 60 simultaneous X sessions, all running firefox to a secured web interface.

Does anyone have any experience sizing a...

Hello all.
I've been tasked with building a system that will have up to 50 concurrent users connected and using an X session running firefox. Is there some kind of standard sizing model available...

Found the solution to my problem, and thought I would post it in case I forget it and have to look it up again.. :)

Since the customer application was setup to print to 4 individual printers,...

Hello all,
I need to setup a print server that listens on three separate network interfaces, and sends jobs to the corresponding print queue. Example:

192.168.69.100 - printer1 -> Out to...

I always load up gftp for graphical ftp/sftp on any distro.

I use a free product called big brother to monitor all kinds of things on my Unix servers, it does have syslog integration so that you can parse words or phrases that you want to trigger alerts on....

As long as the HBA's are plugged into the switches when it comes up, there should be no problem. I've had issues where I had to remove the FC interface 'rmdev -Rdl fcsx' and run 'cfgmgr' again when...

Migrating your pSeries systems will be the same as the intel boxes. You'll just need to add the systems to the fabric and zone them as you did previously. This will require taking the systems down,...

All,
I'm filling in for the HPUX guy here (I'm AIX), and a client needs the 6.0.5 aCC compiler loaded up on an IA64 system. Where can I find the installs? Are they someplace on the system cd's?
...

What kind of systems are you putting these cards in? What type of storage device are you using? There may be some specific software necessary for your disks.
Normally there is no issue with the...