Originally posted by: twbernardes

Whatever command I try to run on AIX I need to put "sh" before. Ex: if I run just "smit" I get "ksh: smit: not found", but running "sh smit", it works!

The problem is: I need to install a fixpack for a Websphere product, and the program(setupaix) I have been using for that runs ANOTHER program, which is /usr/sbin/extendlv. So since this ANOTHER program is called by setupaix, I'm unable to put sh before.

Note. These programs are installed on my server, and I also tried to run then from root directory, but did not work.

Any idea about what I need to do to resolve that (run execs without sh before)? Do I need to set something in the path?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

It sounds like your PATH environment variable is hosed. I would take a look at the current PATH variable is set to...

On a minimal install as root I see this:

# echo $PATH /:.:/bin:/usr/bin:

You definitely want the path to point to where common commands are installed, such as smit which is in /bin.

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Message was edited by: bfveale
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Originally posted by: twbernardes

server>echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin

So it should work for smit, right? But it's not!
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

What does the following command return?

which smit

it should return:

# which smit


 /bin/smit

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Originally posted by: twbernardes

Yes, I had checked that. That's correct too.

server>which smit
/usr/bin/smit

Thanks.

Thiago
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Originally posted by: orphy

A couple more ideas. What does 'lsuser <user>' show? What happens if you run smit using full path? Do you have problem with all other commands or only certain commands? What if you write a tiny little script of your own and try running it? Does it give you the same ksh error?

Otherwise, the basics have been checked and they look fine so I suggest opening a PMR with AIX Support. They might be able to get a snap and look at your environment which seems to be messed up. Please post the resolution here so we all benefit from it. Thanks.
Orphy
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Originally posted by: twbernardes

Here is what I have done to fix that:

Somehow I lost some links that point to where the commands reside. I had the path set, but I needed those links to be able to execute the commands.

Ex:
On / I looked for bin and cannot find, so I ran:

1. ln -s /usr/bin /bin

After that I ran:

1. lppchk -l

Got this:
lppchk: No link found from /lib to /usr/lib.
lppchk: No link found from /u to /home.

Then I ran:
ln -s /usr/lib /lib
ln -s /home /u

Just that!

Thanks for the responses anyway.

Thiago
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