Aix

What would you figure from the above ? Hopefully the rather obvious, that it’s a really shitty combination. So we figured it would be a nice thing to test our new setup before going into pre-production testing or production, but we don’t have an extra spare box. So we took one of the power4 boxes we have mounted in the rack basically consuming energy all day (that’s about 38kWh a day) and installed SLES10 onto it. Which wasn’t all that bad (at first the box repeatedly started back to AIX, from CD and after convincing the SMS - that’s basically the bios on the power*-boxes also known as System Management Services with a hammer to boot from the first hard disk). ...

OK, so I skipped rebuilding a newer RPM version (for now) and I’m currently rebuilding anything that fit’s into app-dev according to IBM … The list reads like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 $ ls -al ~/app-dev autoconf-2.59-1.aix5.1.noarch.rpm automake-1.8.5-1.aix5.1.noarch.rpm binutils-2.14-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm bison-1.875-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm coreutils-5.2.1-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm cpio-2.5-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm diffutils-2.8.1-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm flex-2.5.4a-6.aix4.3.ppc.rpm gawk-3.1.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm gcc-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm gcc-cplusplus-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm gdb-6.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libgcc-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libstdcplusplus-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libstdcplusplus-devel-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libtool-1.5.8-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm m4-1.4.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm make-3.80-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm OK, I’m not exactly rebuilding these old versions, I’m actually using their old specs to compile newer versions of these. I’m currently at coreutils-6.7, which really takes ages. But will see about the rest. ...

OK, so I tried to install the AIX Toolkit today, to build some newer rpm’s (yaaaaah, I hate RPMS myself, still it’s way better than distributing plain tar.gz archives) but looks like either AIX or rpm-4.4.7 doesn’t like me. Now I’ve to figure out how to get libm (that’s /lib/libm.so) installed on AIX. Will see about that later and/or tomorrow.

Today they finally let me fiddle around on an AIX 5.3 system. Well AIX ain’t bad, but misses (by default installation) some features and comfort. The first thing I noticed, they only! install telnet and don’t even give an option to install sshd .. That sucks, especially if you’re supposed to log in via the internet (yay! an telnet open to the internet 😯) So I googled a bit around and found out, that we should have some Bonus CD’s (from IBM of course) featuring openssl/openssh, looked into the cubicle behind the rack and look what I’ve found … Go, go … 😛 ...