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I have a SuSE 8.1 box and an AIX 4.3.3 box sitting on the same LAN, a few feet from each other, and for some reason their ssh stream is being bottlenecked and starved into stalling. If I run 'ssh -C' it works fine. Same is true of 'scp -C'. In fact, the throughput goes from around 4kbytes...

Thank you, unixtechie! Unca Xitron

Hi all. In AIX 4.3.3*, what can I do within a script to learn who is REALLY running a process? Here's the situation: I've written a bash script that runs once a minute which checks the output of 'ps -Ao %C,%u,%p,%n,%a' for CPU (second field) utilization that exceeds a given threshhold. If it...

Thank you both so much! Excellent information! Unca Xitron

Hi. Running AIX 433-10 (oslevel -r). I'm having an intermittent problem with Oracle, creating the error: WARNING: ORA-12540: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded One of the web pages I found offered the following suggestion for an HP user: "This error points to a resource limit in...

Thanks, gifo! Can you clarify something for me, though? When you say "File= directory or file", what exactly do you mean? /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf is 33 characters long but httpd.conf is only 10 characters long Which is the 255 character limitation? Are you saying that...

Can anyone tell me the maximum length allowed for a filename in AIX 4.3*? Also, does this maximum length include the directory-names leading to the file? In other words: ================================================ filename.fil is 12 characters long /route/to/filename.fil...

mgshn: thanks for clearing that up for me. Much appreciated!

Perfect, mrtex! Thank you!! Unca Xitron

Thanks aixmurderer! Since I've never taken the time to learn awk (BAD sysadmin!! Bad!!!), this was my approach... for fil in $ARCHDIR/arch* do INUSE=`fuser $fil | cut -d: -f2` # Get a PID if in use if [ $INUSE > "" ] # Is file being written to? then echo "$fil in...

Thanks, nwardez. I guess I figured that having a file open with vi would be sufficient for having it considered "open". So would I be correct in guessing that a file that is being written to would show up with a PID that I could grep for as a test for being "open"? As for...

Hi nwardez. First, thank you for replying. fuser is a great option, but either it is not doing what we'd hoped, or I'm not interpreting the output correctly. Example: On one screen I do the following: # vi myfile.sh On a second screen I then run the following command, and get the...

AIX 4.3.3.0-10 - Oracle 8.1.7.4 I'm trying to write a bourne script to periodically backup the Oracle archive redo files to a different server just to cover my arse. However, I don't want to make the mistake of copying a file that is in the process of being written. Is there a simple AIX...

Interesting. Well, bos.mp was installed and committed, and I never did that, so maybe the system actually took care of itself, as advertised. Dunno. :-) Unca Xitron

I'm sorry it took so long to get back to this. I had to wait until the customer would allow me the downtime to install the CPU and RAM. So, to report back, it all went exactly as planned. I first installed the RAM (8 sticks of 128) and CPU. Then I restarted and upgraded the firmware. After...