Recent content by Job317

OK. For an AIX newby I am now seeing the difference from other *nixes. I am coming from a predominantly Linux background and didn't get that this simply was not an install-time option. I still don't understand why AIX does it this way but I'll use this information today and enlarge my...

That's interesting that you said "chose to install". This is the root of my issue. I didn't see any options at all. If it is helpful to troubleshoot, the entire install was command line. I got no gui from the install CDs. Did I miss something? I'm early enough in the process that if I need to...

Hi group, How can I change the partition sizes at install? I am installing AIX 5.3 from scratch on a clean RS6000 B-50 and just installing some additional development tools has caused me to run out of space. The HD is 18.2 GB and here's the output of df: Filesystem 512-blocks Free...

OK, just so I'm clear, I need a NULL modem serial cable or I *don't* need a null modem serial cable?

As I said in my original post, once the system reboots I get a "Console login:" prompt. I type "root" and hit enter, then I get a new "login" (not "Console login:") prompt. I type "root" again then hit enter which gives me the "Console login:" prompt again (ad infinitum). Clearly keyboard input...

I used a serial cable to connect to the WinXP machine using HyperTerminal. I don't know if it's a "null modem cable" or not as it's not printed anywhere on the cable that I can see. Can you elaborate on why IBM would be "fussy" about the type of cable since I already pointed out that I did go...

Hi again group, I thought I posted this yesterday but I never saw it hit the list (maybe fat-fingered something) so here goes again... I have a new (well, new to me) RS6000 B50 which I am trying to install AIX 5.3 from CDROM. The install seems to go OK (slow, but OK) but I am never prompted to...

OK, I'm 99% of the way home. I've got my new 20 GB drive partitioned and formatted. I can mount it as root at /x/hdisk1 and cd and ls -l and see the lost+found folder. However, as a normal user, I cannot create new folders here. I get "Permission denied" If I create a folder as root then chown...

OK I have the drive formatted with a 1GB swap and the rest was all put in partition 0 using the "all free hog" option: # df -k Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 18207041 9 18024962 1% /x/hdisk1 I have it mounted using the...

I inherited the disk which is why I want to understand what I have before I install the new disk. There is no '-h' flag for df on sparc 5.8 :( Do I have to format a disk on sparc using all of these partitions or can I just make a swap (1 GB) and put the rest in a single partition like I would...

I have a 20GB drive that I want to add to my sparc 5.8 machine to provide additional storage space. Basically, all I want to do is format it, give it a single partition and mount it on, say, /mnt/hdisk1. There's one more nice-to-have... since I just added memory to the machine too, I would...

I am adding a new hard drive to my existing 5.8 Sparc machine but before I delve into that I need to understand what is going on on the current drive. Can someone please explain to me the following information from the 'df' command and the format->partition->print command regarding my current...

The fix turned out to be unrelated to SSH really. The particular user account which was to use the passwordless login was also auto mounted but NIS and this was setup incorrectly. Running the sshd daemon manually in verbose logging mode showed the error in mounting the user's home folder...

Hi list, I have a network with various Unix machines (linux, freebsd, AIX and solaris) as well as Windows. We are using Openssh to login from a Windows machine to each of the Unix machines running Openssh servers and are trying to set them all up with RSA keys for passwordless logins. This is...

Thanks, I googled "aix openssh and mkitab" which got me this link which got me everything I needed. http://www.blacksheepnetworks.com/security/resources/deploying-openssh-on-aix-43.html