Have you ever had an application team tell you they have a requirement to modify a system’s /etc/hosts file? As we all should know, giving sudo vi access is in essence giving a user root access so you should never Read more…
Although I normally advise people to install a technology level or service pack on a server and only install a efix as a last resort. If you do need to install an efix for any reason (normally required to avoid Read more…
Here’s another problem I encountered ages ago but figured I’d post about in case someone else encounters the same issue. After mounting an NFS filesystem, I had run ‘mount’ and noticed the following After seeing this I decided to attempt to Read more…
TCP/IP connections appearing to hang/taking long to establish is a common issue that occurs when an AIX lpar has lost connectivity to the DNS server it is configured to resolve from. When you notice, for instance that you can ssh Read more…
Hey all, Welcome to my new site. I was getting a bit bored with the old site and also had a lot of content on it which was no longer relevant with the later releases of AIX and TSM so Read more…