AIX 4.3.3 hints

supervinx

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Dec 18, 2009, 6:38:36 PM12/18/09

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Hi !
Now some "more advanced"(?) questions ...
1) How can I enable telnet server ? It's done modifying inetd.conf ?
I looked, it seems to be enabled, but I get "Connection refused"

2) The first time I booted the machine, I login with root,root. Now,
trying to login so, result in a black screen and then the greeter
again ...
3) I can login in command line mode (root and regular).
4) I can login in failsafe mode as regular user, no login as root
5) I can't login with the regular desktop as regular user ... I get a
blue screen , the message "Starting Common Desktop Environment" and
nothing more

I remember, when I shutdown the first time, the message that FS was full.
Here comes df

Filesystem 512-blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4 40960 0 100% 1531 15% /
/dev/hd2 2547712 41456 99% 38561 13% /usr
/dev/hd9var 40960 24088 42% 530 11% /var
/dev/hd3 57344 55200 4% 21 1% /tmp
/dev/hd1 163840 135408 18% 1214 6% /home

Any suggestion ?

Uli Link

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Dec 19, 2009, 5:35:24 AM12/19/09

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supervinx schrieb:

The CDE desktop needs to resolv it's own hostname to IP address.
If the machine was configured to resolv via NIS or external DNS, you
cannot login into CDE.

Fix /etc/hosts

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ULi

supervinx

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Dec 19, 2009, 7:43:47 AM12/19/09

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Hmmm ... the only time I made the login as root,root, I found no DNS set
up, and set it to my router address (192.168.1.1) in order to try to surf
with Netscape ...
Since then, I cannot login ...
I'll try to modify /etc/host setting local hostname (ipra) as 192.168.1.3

supervinx

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Dec 19, 2009, 7:43:47 AM12/19/09

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supervinx

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Dec 19, 2009, 9:04:03 AM12/19/09

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I checked /etc/hosts ...
There's already the line

192.168.1.3 ipra

=======
checked /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.1.1 #router

I added to resolv.conf the line
nameserver localhost as first line ...

Nothing ...

I did login in command line mode, and saw that the /etc/hosts file is not
read at all ...

I put other lines (like 192.168.1.1 router), rebooted ... and tried
ping router
ping ipra
etc ...
resulting in
ping (xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt) which is my provider search page address ...

I guess that, if I remove the nameserver 192.168.1.1, everything is ok.

But so, I can't surf, without a DNS ...

Hmmm, where's the quirk ?

Uli Link

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Dec 19, 2009, 9:33:30 AM12/19/09

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supervinx schrieb:

/etc/netsvc.conf

hosts = local, bind4

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ULi

supervinx

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Dec 19, 2009, 12:40:55 PM12/19/09

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Resolved some but not all the problems.
I'll proceed in order.
1) removed the
nameserver <router>
in resolv.conf
2) regular user can make CDE login
3) root still not. *solved*
Root file system was full ... the first login I made (I knew only
root,root) I used Netscape. His cache saturated the almost full FS.
Cleaned, made some room ... now root logins.

4) I made confusion between nameserver and DNS (shame on me...)
5) I created netsvc.conf and put there
hosts = local, bind4
6) no success ... can't resolve out-of-the-LAN names.
If I put nameserver <router> it works, but no subsequent login :-(
7) I tried to setup DNS from the Network applet ... I press Apply, than
OK. I reopen it, the DNSes addresses disappear ...
8) ps aux shows no bind, bind4 or similar processes ...

Thanks for your precious help...

Michael Kraemer

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Dec 19, 2009, 2:20:53 PM12/19/09

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supervinx schrieb:

My network setup looks like:

$ more /etc/netsvc.conf
hosts=local,bind

$ more /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.1
domain localdomain

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 loopback localhost # loopback (lo0) name/address
192.168.1.66 rs6km rs6km # IBM RS/6000 25T AIX 4.2.1, I/O server

supervinx

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Dec 19, 2009, 4:37:54 PM12/19/09

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@Michael
Your setup worked ...
I found the system a little bit messed up ...