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Hi, I have an AIX system running 5300-12-05. I'm trying to set up sendmail to forward all mails to a mail-relay host and have the following defined in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: DS[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] When I try to do a sendmail -v myaddress@mydomain.com I get: mydomain.com: Name server timeout...

Hi, I need a simple one liner to join lines taken from standard input so I can store this into a variable. Tried a few things but can't get exactly what I need. Any suggestions?\ Thanks,

Probably a daft question.. I'm trying to create a few additional filesystems when doing a install from my 5300-06-01 spot (had same problem at 5300-04-00). I've added in the lv_data and fs_data stanza's into the customised image.data. After the lpar has installed, the logical volumes have...

Hello, I've configured an etherchannel on my NIM Server using jumbo frames, setting the mtu on the interface to be 9000. Now I can't do NIM installs, I get an error when the system tries to get the bootfile: ERROR: icmp 3 icmp 3 : port unreachable ERROR: icmp 3 icmp 3 : port unreachable...

I'm doing some copies over virtual ethernet and only get around 4Gb per minute, coping a 350G oracle database. This doesn't seem that fast. Anyone got it working faster? cheers, John

I'm trying to set the timezone on my VIO servers using the "chdate -timezone GMT0BST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0". When I echo $TZ I then get "GMT0BST,M3.5.0,M10.5padmin" I know it could be easily fixed by editing the /etc/environment file but I shouldn't have to do that! Anyone else seen and got round...

Has anyone done a nim install using a virtual networking? I can get the ping working but can't do the tftp transfer. If I use a blank (0.0.0.0) default gateway I get a flashing 608 on the HMC. What gateway setting should I be using?

All, When using the ios mklv command I can't see an option to set the type of logical volume. To create a jfs2 logical volume I have to go into oem_setup_env. Can someone shed some light on the correct procedure for creating a jfs2 logical drive on ios? Thanks, John

OK, another post... I've got 2 VIO servers running 1.3.0.1. Both with one 2Gps fibre card. We are having problems seeing them on the ds4800. The brocade switches see the WWNS after running a cfgdev, but when our storage guy tries to see them on the controller he can't find the wwns. He...

Guys, I'm getting the following when trying to mount a remote NFS share on an AIX client: (both server and client are at 5300-05) nfsmnthelp: 1831-019 testlpar: System call error number -1. mount: 1831-008 giving up on: testlpar:/usr/sys/inst.images System call error number -1. I've set the...

I've created a virtual client which has 2 virtual ethernet adapters, one from each VIO server with different Vlan id's. I'm then using etherchannel in backup mode which seems to work nicely. However, on boot, I get the following error against both virtual ethernet adapters in the errpt...

Hi, I'm having performance issues after implementing CIO on my Oracle 10g database filesystems. After the initial switch over the users complained of jobs taking twice as long as they did before the change. We've tried increasing the SVA size (from 400M to 2G), pinning the SGA memory, using...

I have to change the IP range which my VIO setup resides on. Is it as simple as just flushing the routing table, changing the IP addresses, subnets and default routes and off we go? Is there something I've missed? Cheers, John

Hello, I'm trying to map a second virtual scsi disk to my client. Is it possible to do this without creating addition Virtual SCSI interfaces? I'm running the following: $ mkvdev -vdev hdisk5 -vadapter vhost0 -dev rs100a Some error messages may contain invalid information for the Virtual...

Hi, I;m having problems performing a dlpar operation on one of our VIO servers to move the media bay to another partition. I've traced the media draw back to pci0, and have performed an rmdev -dl pci0 -R, but still can't perform the operation. IS there anything else to rmdev?

Hi, I'm having trouble getting my VIO client to using 2 paths. After building the partition, lspath only shows one link, from my second VIO server - when I'm expecting 2. Does any additional software need to be installed on the client to use mutlipathing? Thanks, John

Does anyone know how to setup your HMC remote client software to authenticate securely with multiple HMCs? I've tried cating the multiple SM.pubkr files together but this doesn't work.

Hi, I'm having a problem with VNC downloaded from the Linux toolkit site. I've had the software up and running on multple lpars running between 5200-03 to 5300-04. All were fine upto about a week ago. Now, when I go through the web front end I get the traditional Xsession display not the CDE...

Is it possible to get sshd to read login.cfg? I want it to display the herald message before the login: prompt. I'm running 5300-02.

Hi, I'm being asked by one of our developers what the default process IO buffer size is and if it can be increased. Can anyoine help? Thanks, John