Tag Archives: AIX

How to change welcome message in AIX

Posted on July 30, 2013 by UNIX Admin

of course each time you login to the server you see the following welcome Message : ******************************************************************************* *                                                                             * *                                                                             * *  Welcome to AIX Version 6.1!                                                * *                                                                             * *                                                                             * *  Please see the README file in /usr/lpp/bos … Continue reading →

How to make the System Ring

Posted on July 28, 2013 by UNIX Admin

if you are a Shell Scripting Developer and all the time deveolpe Shell Scripts, if course you need to make your System Ring after finished the script or when it needs data from the user. try this code on AIX

How to mount,unmount an ISO Image in AIX

Posted on July 19, 2013 by UNIX Admin

Sometimes you need to install package from AIX CD or install any other software like PowerHA on LPAR and the CD UNIT was located into another LPAR or you don’t have the CD but you have the ISO Image for … Continue reading →

cfgmgr: 0514-621 vdevice

Posted on July 17, 2013 by UNIX Admin

if you use VIO Server and need to share CD or TAP UNIT or Disks from VIO to LPAR, and after finishing from Mapping Configuration and try to run “cfgmgr on the LPAR,   you may see the following Error … Continue reading →

IBM Integrated Console Solution

Posted on July 11, 2013 by UNIX Admin

The AIX Operating System has a Secure Web Interface Management Tool which has the same functions of “Smitty”.   you just need to open port “5336” on your AIX Machine and try to access it through the Web browser from … Continue reading →

How to set the PVID of a disk to a specific value

Posted on June 30, 2013 by UNIX Admin

The following series of commands demonstrates how to set the PVID of an AIX disk to a specific value like “0123456789abcdef”: Note:  Setting PVID like this should be avoided normally. It may cause unwanted consequences in your environment.

superblock is invalid : -5

Posted on June 26, 2013 by UNIX Admin

You may face the following error on many Operation System not only on AIX : superblock is invalid : -5 this error means that you apply function of File system type on another type, in another meaning,

Server refused to allocate pty

Posted on June 18, 2013 by UNIX Admin

sometimes if you have many users logging on your system, you may see the following errors : login as: admin admin@10.10.11.10’s password: Server refused to allocate pty stty: tcgetattr: A specified file does not support the ioctl system call.

display next availale major number

Posted on April 10, 2013 by UNIX Admin

run the following command to get the next available major number : # lvlstmajor