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7z "ERROR: Can't allocate required memory!" on POWER9

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Tue March 26, 2024 11:00 AM
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Hello, TL:DR running "7z a -p ../demo.7z *bytes" on POWER9 fails, but same command works on POWER8, same AIX version on p8 and p9, same p7zip package installed on p8 and p9. Yes, there is a workaround for p9. The file sizes are somewhat random as is the file content. FIle content does not ...

RE: Update of vim required (CVE-2023-5344)

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Thu February 15, 2024 06:57 AM
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Hi Andrey, No I hadn't considered opening a feature request regarding vi IBM's ideas portal. I'm not sure how much vim has diverged from the AT&T UNIX vi that is part of AIX user land code base, e.g. the amount of work required to implement one or more features that vim has in vi. Then there is point ...

RE: Update of vim required (CVE-2023-5344)

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Mon February 12, 2024 06:21 AM
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Hi Nigel, AFAIK code coloring is not supported by AIX/UNIX vi. For me that is a helpful tool to find and fix syntax errors, in shell, perl and python scripts I write. Same goes for multi-level undo and redo. One of the quality-of-life features is to convert characters to lower case or upper case ...

RE: ezh or eezh on HMC

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Tue November 21, 2023 06:01 AM
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RE: ezh or eezh on HMC

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Tue November 21, 2023 06:01 AM
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I didn't see any updates at Matthews GitHub page. I've attached two files to this post. The version 2.3 does not use sed at all and it has a number of white space changes. The version 2.2.1 that has been modifed just enought that it works, with the sed limitations imposed in certain HMC ...

RE: ezh or eezh on HMC

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Tue November 07, 2023 11:06 AM
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Hello, You can get version 2.2. from Matthew Opokas GitHub page https://github.com/opokam/eezh FWIW There is only one difference between 2.1 and 2.2 and that is "backuplpars" function that outputs commands to recreate all LPARs, in same fashion as lparclone does for a single LPAR. ...

RE: ezh or eezh on HMC

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Mon November 06, 2023 06:15 AM
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I'm using version 2.2. I sent you email last Friday In the attached .txt file there is version 2.3, where I removed all dependencies to sed ------------------------------ Esa Kärkkäinen ------------------------------

RE: No RMC Connection on old AIX LPARs since HMC update

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Mon October 02, 2023 05:02 AM
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Hi Sylvain, Unfortunately there are no good, that is to say low risk, choices left. Depending what software you are running, there is a very good chance that the software running on AIX 5.3 will work on AIX 7.3, even if hasn't been certified etc. All the OpenSSL and OpenSSH ...

RE: Squid name resolution fails

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Tue August 08, 2023 06:19 AM
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Hi Reshma, I've updated squid to the latest version, but just about all IPv4 addresses are still shown as "::" in squid logs. # /opt/freeware/sbin/squid --version Squid Cache: Version 5.8 Service Name: squid configure options: '--host=powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.3.0' '--build=powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.3.0' ...

RE: High memory utilization

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Mon August 07, 2023 01:47 AM
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Hi Tom, Yes, that's what I've been doing for years and years, separate filesystems for the application etc, what ever it might be. In case of Oracle DB server, separate filesystems for redo logs, archive logs, data files and backups. I've given the DBA what the file system layout could ...

RE: High memory utilization

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Fri August 04, 2023 09:41 AM
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FS cache is useful, except when it is not, IMHO. For example this kind of a scenario. backup of the databases are done to a filesystem, disk space used by the files created by the backup is for example 100 GiB You keep 4 copies of the backups in the filesystem the filesystem is backed ...

RE: New SSD Drive shown as pdisk

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Tue June 13, 2023 02:02 AM
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Since your RAID array size is the same as the individual SSDs, it would appear that the RAID array in question is a mirror aka RAID1. One way to verify this is to run command "getconf DISK_SIZE /dev/hdisk5" and divide the size reported getconf by 1024 in order to convert the size from megabytes ...

RE: dnf hangs on AIX7.3

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Fri June 09, 2023 05:54 AM
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Hi, By default dnf assumes that you have internet access from the AIX. Either there is no proxy configured in /opt/freeware/etc/dnf/dnf.conf or you have to create a local RPM repo either by "dnf createrepo" or mirroring aixtoolbox to a local server, when you have RPM packages on the server, ...

RE: Obtaining security APARs, given the runaround and what a hassle

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Thu June 08, 2023 04:04 AM
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No you are not. What I'm doing is mirroring "https://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/" to a NIM server using one shell script and the another script verifies advisory signatures and then it verifies .epkg.Z file checksums, before it tries to place the .epkg.Z file to appropriate directory structure. ...

RE: CVE 2023-30438

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Fri May 26, 2023 05:58 AM
Found In Egroup: Power Global \ view thread
IIRC the only time I've seen that message is when RMC connection between the HMC and one or more managed LPARs, wasn't working. IMHO part of the physical server firmware is part of a LPAR. This is based on a memory of a image that contained this information and when I've updated firmware on server ...

RE: Squid broken by libxml2 version 2.10.2-1

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Mon May 22, 2023 07:56 AM
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Hi, Any updates regarding status of libxml and/or squid port to AIX? Best regards, Esa ------------------------------ Esa Kärkkäinen ------------------------------

RE: Downloading packages from fixcentral via Proxy connection?

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Mon March 13, 2023 04:10 AM
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Hi Tommi, Directly to AIX? Definitely maybe. I haven't done this on AIX, because AFAIK nobody has portend software like IcedTea-Web to AIX, which is most likely easier said than done, and I've decided that particular can of worms can remain closed on my part. IIRC IcedTea is available ...

Updating libxml2 from libxml2-2.9.14-1 to libxml2-2.10.3-1 breaks squid

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Tue February 07, 2023 02:57 AM
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Hi, After updating from libxml2-2.9.14-1 to libxml2-2.10.3-1, using command dnf -y update squid fails with following error # su - squid $ /opt/freeware/sbin/squid -k parse exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program squid_64 because of the following errors: 0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for squid_64 ...

RE: How to make NIM server my AIX respository (similar to Red Hat's Satellite local server)?

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Mon January 16, 2023 03:02 AM
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Your NIM httpd.conf file looks like it should not pass httpd.conf checks. Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Require all granted IMHO the above should be formatted like such Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Require all granted Options ...

RE: Memory leak in perl syslog function

Posted By Esa Kärkkäinen Fri January 13, 2023 07:17 AM
Found In Library: AIX Open Source