UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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I'am an aix administrator, and soon i must to administrate a unix server..... Can I do it ? Unix is very different of Aix ?

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Aix is just IBM's version of Unix. You should not have very many problems. Some of the tools will be different.

What is the other flavor of UNIX that you are going to be working with? A lot of the command-line UNIX commands are basically the same across many vendors' distributions, but the proprietary GUI stuff and a lot of the admin tools aren't. If you're used to using 'smit', you won't find that anywhere else, i.e. in Solaris you would use 'admintool', and in HP/UX you would use 'sam'. Also, a lot of the files are named differently-- for example, /etc/filesystems in AIX is /etc/vfstab in Solaris, and /etc/fstab in HP/UX. Many admin commands are different too - 'mkuser' in AIX is 'useradd' in Solaris, and so on. More than likely, you'll be able to figure it out quickly if you've been doing AIX sysadmin for any length of time. If you haven't, you may want to pick up a book on what you're going to be working with so you'll have something to refer to if you get stuck. Good luck and have fun learning something new.

thank very much for your response !