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  • intltool > 0.35

    Hello, I need intltool version higher than 0.35 for building rrdtool utility. As much as I can see intltool > 0.35 requires perl 5.8.1 or higher which comes with AIX 5.3. Thanks.

    2009-08-31 09:34:47 UTC by mzoran

  • Need new version of rsync

    rsync 2.6.2 is very outdated and has some security flaws.

    2009-03-18 18:01:51 UTC by nobody

  • FUSE/sshfs

    SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a file system for Linux (and other operating systems with a FUSE implementation, such as Mac OS X or FreeBSD) capable of operating on files on a remote computer using just a secure shell login on the remote computer. On the local computer where the SSHFS is mounted, the implementation makes use of the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) kernel module. The practical...

    2009-02-10 15:41:56 UTC by doug_eckert

  • Comment: SUDO : /etc/group entry in excess of 255 chars

    Disregard. Disregard. I had users entering command as follows: $ sudo -i -u Error was that user is not allowed to run '/usr/bin/ksh ' as user: I added "/usr/bin/ksh " to the command alias and all is well.

    2009-02-06 20:33:28 UTC by doug_eckert

  • Comment: SUDO : /etc/group entry in excess of 255 chars

    correction...teh 'workaround' doesn't seem to work, either.

    2009-02-06 19:50:14 UTC by doug_eckert

  • SUDO : /etc/group entry in excess of 255 chars

    This is on an AIX server using the sudo package provided by IBM at: # oslevel -s 5300-08-03-0831 # rpm -qa | grep sudo sudo-1.6.9p15-2noldap If an /etc/group entry exceeds 255 characters, 'sudo' doesn't recognize the users at or beyond character 255 as being in that particular group. The workaround I've used is to split the /etc/group entry just before 255 and create additional...

    2009-02-06 19:10:44 UTC by doug_eckert

  • Sudo NOEXEC option is broken

    When using the NOEXEC option in the sudoers file with the Sudo package available in the AIX Toolbox, the following error message is received... $ sudo id exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program id because of the following errors: 0509-150 Dependent module /opt/freeware/libexec/sudo_noexec.so could not be loaded. 0509-022 Cannot load module...

    2008-11-06 22:29:38 UTC by clwheel

  • Comment: rpm -i reports space needed when plenty of space present

    It actually needs 13MB. Your 12M and an additional 1M that you don't have free...

    2008-10-29 09:54:27 UTC by frimik

  • Comment: Broken switch --prefix

    Great, thanks a lot! I can't test right now, but will report back as soon as I can confirm it works also for the real production packages. Good job :)

    2008-10-28 19:17:08 UTC by rainerjung

  • Comment: Broken switch --prefix

    Fixed in the rpm.rte 3.0.5.46 installp package (or the rpm-3.0.5.46 RPM package). Here is the patch: .

    2008-10-28 18:59:24 UTC by arbab

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