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  • 1.  dnf requirements

    Posted 02/24/25 07:13 PM

    Hi,

    A client of mine is upgrading from a P720 with AIX 6.1 to a 9105-41B with AIX 7.3.

    In the beginning, the server was brought up in my office, loaded, updated, dnf installed, and a handful of packages installed via dnf with no issue.

    Relocated the server to the client's site, and it was discovered that we need rsync. Unfortunately, dnf does not work - it seemingly can't connect - takes about 6 minutes for the three functions to time out (two minutes on each "phase" on an install of rsync. Added one of the 4 IP addresses found on the web that dnf may use to the host file, and it logs in as an anonymous user but still fails to do anything else constructive.

    Having looked for requisites that define the ports that need to be opened, IBM documentation for its implementation of dnf, or any other aids to determine the best path forward to resolve this software need. or addresses, and it at least seems to connect, but still fails to function. I suspect there is a firewall or other issue in play. Kind of wierd that given the importance of dnf to a lot of systems, there would be some IBM-sanctioned dnf documentation - I hope nothing was found because of looking in all of the wrong places.

    The system does not have a GUI console; neither does the old 6.1 server. Acquiring the rpm package won't help, as yum is not supported nor installed on the AIX 7.3 server.

    Any ideas on getting rsync installed on AIX 7.3 without access to dnf or the repository?

    Thank you in advance for any help!



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    Bob Wyatt
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  • 2.  RE: dnf requirements

    Posted 02/25/25 03:40 AM
    Edited by Steve Munday 02/25/25 03:43 AM

    Bob,

    Hi, good day to you.

    I presume that DNF, itself, is working even if it currently cannot connect to (remote) repos.

    How about downloading rsync-3.4.1-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm (latest | https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-toolbox-open-source-software-downloads-alpha#R) to, say, /var/tmp and then running the following.

    dnf -y install /var/tmp/rsync-3.4.1-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm

    Hope that helps.

    Regards, Steve



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    Steve Munday
    AIX, IBMi, HMC, PowerVM, PowerVS, Ansible automation engineering
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  • 3.  RE: dnf requirements

    Posted 02/25/25 04:11 AM

    Hi Bob,

    I'm not sure about there being an IBM document, but if you look in the dnf configuration file - /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf, it will provide you with the URL for the repositories.  I have our network team allow https://public.dhe.ibm.com in the firewall, this allows all repos.

    Phill.



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    Phill Rowbottom
    Unix Consultant
    Service Express
    Bedford
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  • 4.  RE: dnf requirements

    Posted 02/25/25 07:16 AM

    Hi Bob,
    Would you like to focus on fixing the DNF issue, or do you just need rsync installed on the machine? Let us know how you'd like to proceed!
    Thanks!

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    Lakshmi Surekha Kovvuri
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    Lakshmi Surekha Kovvuri
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  • 5.  RE: dnf requirements

    Posted 02/25/25 12:19 PM

    Thanking all that replied...

     

    This server is running in a standalone environment – no domain, and therefore no resolv.conf file, and the address I tried in the hosts file wasn't a valid/current address.

    Ran nslookup on a PC for public.dhe.ibm.com and used that IP address for the hosts file entry, which resolved the timeout issues.

     

    It also allowed rsync and a required library to be installed, and while it was working, I ran dnf update to update 45+ file sets.

     

    All good – and thanks again!

     

    Regards,

     

    Bob Wyatt

     




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  • 6.  RE: dnf requirements

    Posted 02/25/25 12:31 PM

    Could you grab the DNS server details from the windows PC and use them to update /etc/resolv.conf?   AIX, or any other Unix, doesn't need to be in a domain to have DNS configured, it just needs the IP of at least one DNS server that it can connect too.



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    Phill Rowbottom
    Unix Consultant
    Service Express
    Bedford
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  • 7.  RE: dnf requirements

    Posted 02/25/25 01:43 PM

    Don't mind doing that (and it makes sense for other reasons), but the why and why not questions have to be addressed before-hand.

    If only Duck-Duck-Go offered trackless/logless DNS...

     

    Regards,

     

    Bob Wyatt

     




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  • 8.  RE: dnf requirements

    Posted 02/25/25 04:14 PM

    Bob,

    What questions remain to be answered here? I'm not sure I understand what you're after.



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    Stephen Ulmer
    Enterprise Architect
    Mainline Information Systems
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  • 9.  RE: dnf requirements

    Posted 02/25/25 04:20 PM

    Stephen,

     

    I'm all set...

     

    The questions I have are for the client, not for the group...

     

    Thank you!

     

    Regards,

     

    Bob Wyatt

     




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