PUBLIC MARKS from idaashley with tag aix

Ever wonder what makes a computer tick or how a UNIX server does what it does? Discover what happens when you push the power button on your computer. This article discusses the different boot types, managing the AIX bootlist and the AIX boot sequence. After reading this article, you will better understand what exactly happens when your server starts.

This article provides guidance to DCE or DFS users who are migrating from DCE or DFS to Kerberos/NFS V4. During the transition period, these users need to be authenticated and authorized to use both DFS and NFS V4 directories. This article answers some basic questions, such as, "Can the DCE authentication server be used as a Kerberos server for NFS V4 with a Kerberos client?"

Linux recently acquired POSIX file capabilities, which split root user powers into smaller privileges such as reading files or tracing processes owned by another user. In this article, learn how to program using capabilities and how to switch on the ability of your system setuid root binaries to use file capabilities.

Volume management is not new to systems such as AIX and UNIX, and logical volume management (LVM) has been around since Linux kernel 2.4v1 and 2.6.9v2. This article reveals the most useful features of the LVM2 tool, such as how to build and manage volumes, snapshot a backup, and ways to simplify your system administration tasks.

You need to run a job at midnight, daily, or weekly, but you would rather be sleeping, or enjoying life some other way. This tip helps you use the cron and at capabilities to schedule jobs periodically or at a single future time, so you can sit back and let routine tasks happen automatically and consistently while you enjoy life.

Learn how to construct and deconstruct a simple multicluster using the GPFS, and remotely add an existing GPFS cluster to another cluster. General Parallel File System (GPFS) is the parallel file system from IBM for AIX 5L and Linux clusters made up of System x and System p computers.

Looking to save some time? In this article, the authors provide short, simple, and complete instructions for collecting an AIX core file and other files for analyzing process exceptions with Java applications running on the AIX operating system. You'll also learn how to package and send data to IBM Support.

Learn useful techniques for making the most out of limited processing resources. This mini how-to shows you how to dual boot between AIX and Linux operating systems in a clustering environment, where available hardware resources are limited.