J,

Well I bet I hold the record for most judicious museum archiving of AIX 
I still have working 3.2.5, 4.3.3 and 5.1 systems, all of which will run a very old version of NCSA web server I think it is called
- doesn't do name-based hosting, can't remember if it did SSL (I think not) and is very simple.  Don't know if other
versions of Apache proper would work with 4.1.4/5 (which I don't think I ever used for very long - bit of a bug-fest as I recall), but Michael has some experience of compiling Apache on various AIX levels and it might work - those old libraries are going to be a problem I suspect.

For network settings, "smit mktcpip", you shouldn't need to mess with "no" settings or other layers of it to get it working.

However, instead of bothering with all the rotten Apples, 
I recommend you go on eBay or contact a local second hand pSeries seller
and get a proper IBM AIX machine, e.g. a 43P-150 or p505:
- the former is very cheap now, will take you up to 5.3 and is much nicer to work with, rather PC-like,
- the later is ideal to play with LPARs and much dearer but my favourite design of machine (intended for a rack, 1U).
Then you can have a really nice Apache server on it, just like this one.

If any of our other readers would like to plan ahead for Christmas,
ROOTVG would very much like a p505 to play with if
anyone out there happens to be giving one away. 

Hello everybody.

Before asking some questions I would like to introduce myself a bit more to rootvg. First of all I´m no native speaker, so please excuse any humble or misunderstandable expression. I will try to do my very best!
I´m a freelance journalist and besides my profession a collector of unusual or rare computing hardware. My background on operating systems is based somewhere in the early days of the Spectrum ZX, later the Ataris and some Amigas but in deep I´m clearly located in the old Mac OS. Mac OS X in special and UNIX in general is still somewhat "uncomfortable" to me when Terminal-related actions are asked or in other words: I´m no UNIX freak. But as a collector I´m now facing UNIX in a very "uncomfortable" way: AIX 4.1.4. I know that this distribution is very old but as long as there is nearly no information available anymore about AIX for older computers I´m contacting any source in order to find some help - that´s why I´m here, now ;-)

Some days ago I was very lucky in getting myself an old Apple Network Server 500/132 (not to be mixed up with "Apple Workgroup Server" or "A/UX Macs"). This old box formerly was managed by two AIX versions: AIX 4.1.4 and later on a 4.1.5 update / upgrade. Other Versions besides the already mentioned ones could NOT be used on that machine, just Yellow Dog Linux 3 and 4 can be used with that strange server. As long as I would like to use that server with the original AIX OS lots of questions are rising...

I already managed to install 4.1.4 on that box facing lots of incompatibilites with original Apple hardware or compatible hardware that is usable in regular Macs. Ok, this is not a catastrophy. What really annoys me is the handling of AIX. It took me nearly 30 minutes to get my display resolution and refresh changed. Now You might have an impression how things look like ;-) While messing around with AIX a bit more I stumbled over the network settings...

Is there any documentation out there available describing the configuration of network settings within AIX in an understandable way? Doesn´t matter if written in English or German.

I´m looking for the Update / Upgrade 4.1.5 Apple once provided for download. I don´t know if the IBM update and the Apple update are the same (in fact the Apple AIX just contained some Apple-specific drivers and some utilities for a Mac OS based computer), so I don´t know if I could use an IBM update - if only one would be available. Can anybody in here help me with these files? The Apple update is preferred...

I´m wondering if there is any possibility to get PHP, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin installed on AIX 4.1.4, furthermore I´m unsure what Apache version can be used with that AIX version.

As You can see I´m pretty lost with that old OS... So any help or information is highly appreciated! Thanks in advance and kind regards from Switzerland

J

Hi,

I want to know is it possible to restart vio server if my vio server and vio client (AIX) are booting from DS4700 Storage not from local disk in case if need arise? or I have to shutdown vio clients after that only I can restart the vio server.

Regards,

Manoj

Hello guys,

i got a problem with AIX5.3TL5SP6 on several boxes.
We are using Hummingbird-Exceed V13 to connect to these machines.
Everything is going fine, CatiaV4 works reasonably fine, but sometimes user
cannot connect to dtlogin.
/var/dt/Xerror reports:
XIO:  I/O-Fehler 73
...
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x15)!
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x17)!
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x19)!
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x1b)!
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x1d)!
.... and so on. (30-40 times)

Any suggenstions ?
thx
Chopper

iirc it runs vios 1.5[.1] - how can I check that? 5300-08-01-0819 says oslevel

but the good news is: i got a mail from a debian developer and the most recent version of the next upcoming official release seems to run fine. that is: it installs fine - logging in gives some problems though

i did not have any problems with installing redhat/suse apart from the broken terminal emulation of the hmc console

Which version of VIOS (Virtual I/O Server) are you using?

Have you tried a network install? When I first started with Suse and Redhat - and was using IVM 1.3 I had all kinds of problems with CD/DVD installs. VIOS 1.4 provided a CD drive that was stable for installs where the physical DVD drive was made available via Virtual SCSI.

Hi,

I tried installing Debian Linux for power in an LPAR. Allocated 1 cpu, 4GB ram, 32GB diskspace via virtual scsi and then tried installing from the debian 4.0r4a iso-file in the vios.
In some cases it reaches the point where it starts installing packages but then fails after a few but most of the times it bails out with the error that it cannot use this cd player.
What should I do?
Installing from a physical cd works (somewhat but that's a different story) but that's a bit of a pain when you have lots of cds to install (my p52a is not under my desk).

And woopsie, another little web-only outage over Sunday 31st night after I messed up an httpd.conf
edit which kicked in (or rather didn't) after a UPS test failed - yet another component cooked to
death in the last data centre I suspect, or call it old age - anyway UPS replaced immediately,
everything has now been tested to destruction 

Well here we are again 

This server, which is a multi-service pSeries machine, has now moved physical location and is back
up and running almost as before. 

Just one more technical issue is to be sorted out concerning the difference between dedicated IP
and name-based virtual hosting.  This caused longer than expected outage problems on the service,
something around 9 hours on Friday 29th August from 15:30.  It took a while to notice there was
any problem and implement a workaround - other sites on this server had only a 3 hour outage
while the DNS switched and the server was in physical transit. 

Three weeks ago we were informed of a massive increase in future co-location hosting and
traffic fees from our ISP, where the server had been housed in a shared data centre for the
last eight years.  We were forced to build our own dedicated server hosting room and
there was doubt it would be ready in time to take the server.  At the eleventh hour before
the mega-ransom-bill kicked in, we were able to get the connections in place ready to move.
So again apologies for the short notice of this change and outage.

Presumably Michael will come up with some new htaccess re-write rules or changes to the
site page coding to allow the site to revert to the planned name-based virtual hosting
without having to have it as the default IP-based host section where a multi-site switch
menu was intended, or I may just implement a series of links to allow the files to be found
from the unintended directory. 

If you have any further problems with the service, please do contact us with details.

All rather sudden, so please accept our apologies for any downtime.