It maybe good to add some bundles before releasing the machine for general use.Įg: Add the Application Development bundle ::
If you use /home as NFS mounted home dir, you may wish to update /etc/filesystems so that the the local disk is mounted as /localhoome or something.ĪIX that comes with the machine often don't have all the desired software packages installed. Every FS can be expanded on the fly, so no special work is really needed on initial setup.
usr/sbin/install_assist # what get launched automatically after init install rebootĪIX uses a pretty good volume manager out of the box. Initial System Setup smitty assist # init os setup assistant to config basic system param. For example, /lib/security/NSS_LDAP and /usr/lib/netsvc/dynload/nss_ldap.so are modules loaded by the authentication subsystem, and these files are locked and cannot be upgraded. If a file is held open by the OS with a running program, it will not allowed to be overwritten (think Windows). These deficiencies makes development in AIX extremely painful. There is no automatic patch to update the No rpmbuild but use the old rpm -recompile. However, it is stuck in the past,Ĭirca 2002, and so many of the newer Linux updates are not available. Package manager to manipulate these open source tools. The linux toolkit does add lot of open source utilities for AIX, it even provides an rpm
With version 5L that added Linux Affinity, it Smit update_all # automatic add patches to existing sw, no complain if patch is not relevantį4 or ESC, 4 Provide list of items to choose fromį6 or ESC, 6 Show command that smit will actually runĪIX is affectionally known as It Ain't uniX. Smit lsprt # list printers (don't list all, may need to go thru long menu) Smit chfs # change file system, eg grow/extend it. Smit mktcpip # configure network parameters It can accept a parameter to get to a specific menu section right away. VRMF - Version, Release, Modification/Maintenance level, and Fix.Ī lot of the sys admin task in AIX can be done thru smit (or smitty for TUI version). SP - Service Pack (starting aix 5.3 ML 3) eg is SP 1 on M元įileset - group of files, eg ML - Maintenance Level, grouping of APAR.
APAR - Authorized Program Analysis Report, specific release of PTF.