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The amber light (I think it's called System Attention) is switched on when anything hardware-related gets logged in the errlog. Check with "errpt -dH" to see what is there. Note that by hardware-related it may not necessarily mean that something is broken. A power failure also gets logged in the...

mksysb is as script so you can't use setuid+setgid bits on this one, but sudo would probably be of help. It's on the Linux Toolbox CD.

The most common place to invoke skulker from is root's crontab. In your case it seems to be in /etc/inittab or possibly one of your /etc/rc* scripts. We use skulker at my site but we have it run at midnight through cron: 0 0 * * * /usr/sbin/skulker >/var/adm/skulker.log 2>&1

1) Try sudo on IBM's Linux Toolbox CD. It's also available for download here 2) There's a technique to manipulate Korn Shell's SECONDS variable to use to for display the current time in the prompt here.

No, on the contrary, I would assume. With these routes AIX redirect packets destined to the same machine through the loopback interface instead of passing them down to the Ethernet device driver (or whatever type of card you have on your box) and I guess the reason for this is performance.

If you use /etc/profile then you may also need to apply the same to /etc/csh.login if you have users using C-shell.

You need root-privilege to set a higher priority on a process. Use the setpri subroutine if you're writing a C-program or the command renice if you're writing a shell-script. setpri sets a fixed (only for the lifetime of the process) priority while renice just changes the nice value.

This may not be related to HACMP. If you're running AIX 5.x then this is normal behavior. The system redirects internal traffic to the loopback interface. Is 10.133.217.51 by any chance one of your interfaces on the machine?

You can also choose command-line editor with the -o option to ksh, such as: ksh -o vi

Also: 1. Make sure that your RPC server on nodeA has bound to the right IP-address. Use rpcinfo -p ipaddress to see socket-number and then netstat -anf inet|grep socket. 2. You may need to delay the start of the RPC server on nodeA until after configuring the service-address. If this is an...

Another possible reason could be that the refresh rate is too high for the monitor. Try a lower rate. This can be changed with the command smitty chres_refrt.

The file /etc/nologin will disable all users except root. To allow more users to log in you could instead do this: # chsec -f /etc/security/user -s default -a login=false -a rlogin=false If you want to disable rsh and rexec logins as well: # chsec -f /etc/security/user -s default -a...

Only files? Then maybe this short script. You need to be root to run it. #!/bin/ksh find $(lsvgfs rootvg) -xdev -type f | wc -l

AIX does not enforce the rules on passwords (such as aging, composition etc.) on a NIS client. This works fine with LDAP though.

NIS: bos.net.nis.client and bos.net.nis.server. NIS+: bos.net.nisplus. These packages are available on the AIX 4.3.3 operating system CD's.