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We have a number of Intellistation 9114 workstations and some of the users are asking if they can use a scroll mouse. Is a scoll mouse supported with AIX 5.x on these systems? Thank you, Dean

We are encountering the following error message when one of our user accounts runs the /usr/bin/idebug debugger: sh: /home/jsmith/.DbgProf/idebug.env: file already exists System runtime function system(set > /home/jsmith/.DbgProf/idebug.env) failed This account was able to use the idebug...

I will make sure it is only writable by root. Thank you for the suggestion.

Management believes the cost of not having these systems on the UPS outweighs the cost of replacing the UPS.

Much thanks. I will work on it.

> Why would you want to just remove the cron job like the good books say to do I am sorry, but I do not understand what you are implying. We have been removing the cron job (via the "crontab -e" command) so the users are not hindered by the messages. We have over 1000 of these systems on the...

> Why would you want to just remove the cron job like the good books say to do I am sorry, but I do not understand what you are implying. We have been removing the cron job (via the "crontab -e" command) so the users are not hindered by the messages. We have over 1000 of these systems on the...

Thank you for your reply. I had not looked at the /etc/rc.powerfail file. Per your suggestion, I just looked at the file, but I do not understand how to implement the disabling of the power failure messages. Can you guide me through the changes? Thank you.

We are running AIX 5.3 and after a power failure the OS writes an entry to the crontab file do a "wall" command every 12 hours notifying the user of the previous power failure. We know how to remove the entry from the crontab file, but how do we disable the entry from even being written in the...