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Hi Madz To check the process locking the device type - 1. fuser /cdrom (or mount point). 2. Ensure you aren't in the cdrom filesystem, as you can't unmount a filesystem you are sat in.

Hi ron You may aleady know this, but have you tried to use a for loop for filename in `ls run*` do May work. Nadim

PSD I'm running the following command - rsh <hostname> date I'll look into the .rhosts file and see if there is anything obvious I have missed. cheers Nadim

PSD I've added the source ip address into /etc/hosts on the target box. Now when I run the command I get - 0826-813 - permission denied. Also, anyone know where I can get info on these error codes, and general aix info online. cheers Nadim

PSD No /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/netsvc.conf on source 2 files from target box /etc/resolv.conf domain ukit.tandb.co.uk nameserver 10.1.40.100 nameserver 10.16.40.100 /etc/netsvc.conf hosts=local,bind cheers Nadim

PSD This is the line from /etc/inetd.conf on the target box - shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/rshd rshd and this is on the source box - shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/rshd rshd How can I check if were running DNS or NIS ?. Cheers Nadim

I added the hostname into /etc/hosts, but the command still fails.

I can ping the target system by name and IP address, however, I can only ping the source host from the target host through IP.

I'm trying to run remote commands on the rs6000. The command - rsh <hostname> date appears to be OK on all, but one of the hosts - I'm getting the error rshd: 0826-826 The host name for your address is not known. Can anyone help !!!!!!!!. thanks

I'm too sure if there is an option to empty wtmp, but you should be able to empty it by issuing. > /etc/wtmp Nadim

Hi nand You may have already done this But is the getty process running for the console root 12675 1 0 01 Nov hft/0 0 /etc/getty /dev/console Nadim Technical Analyst

When U say first paragraph, which script are U referring to. The .profile, or the backup shell script. We implemented this feature, by calling the backup script, from the .profile, when U login. There is absolutely no way of breaking out. If U are going to call more menus, from the main menu...

Hi chuck Although I agree, that if the user was allowed into smit, they could potentially do anything, if they were logged in as root. However, if you were going to login as a backup user, which had root privileges, but the user was logged into a backup menu, and smit wasn't used for the...

There would only be a security issue, if the user was given access to the command line, not if, for example you had a backup user id, which logged U straight into smit, or a backup shell script.

Hi I dont know if you're still having problems. But, the only way to give a non-admin user root access, is to make the USER ID number of the user, identical to roots. You can't do this via - smit user, the only way, is to edit /etc/passwd. To stop the user from accesing the command line, change...

In root - try find . -mtime 1day this may tell U which file is growing. technical analyst

Try kinit root.admin

These are usually caused by noise on the line, or incorrect config of devices. Check config of devices u are using telnet sessions.

Try creating a mount point called temp in / (root). Then try mounting cdrom. mount /cdrom /temp

You could create the images on one of the nodes. Also, you can shut the CWS down, it wont have any effect on the nodes.