Category Archives: AIX

how to mirror 2 terminals

Posted on October 10, 2013 by UNIX Admin

Hello Everone, do you think about terminal mirroring ?? do you think about how to know what the other users write on Shells??? AIX has a great commands you can use it for mirroring to see what others write or … Continue reading →

how to see hidden char in file

Posted on October 9, 2013 by UNIX Admin

some times you transfer files from windows to Linux or UNIX using binary method, you will find some hidden characters  on the file, to display these hidden character  use commands “cat” with option “vte” see the following examples:

System Accounts Description

Posted on October 9, 2013 by UNIX Admin

Hello Everybody, i bring on the below line some description for system users and for what they used : Description of accounts root : Commonly called the superuser (UID 0), this is the account that system administrators log into to … Continue reading →

how to ease navigation with CDPATH

Posted on October 7, 2013 by UNIX Admin

$CDPATH=:..:~:~/projects Set CDPATH to ease navigation CDPATH tells the cd command to look in this colon-separated list of directories for your destination. My preferred order are 1) the current directory, specified by the empty string between the = and the … Continue reading →

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 →