AIX toolbox
Five commands at least from the default install of the AIX toolbox (basically GNU and other open source tools compiled for Linux) fail to work as advertised, or sufficiently compatibly on AIX 5.3:
- kill - it, um, doesn't kill processes
- su - it, um, won't let you su
- uptime - it doesn't report the correct load averages
- hostname - doesn't support the '-s' switch to "Trim any domain information from the printed name"
- printf - seems to get confused with escape chars or octal encoding
Luckily, tools such as ls, du and df work well, to give niceties such as directory colouring and file sizes in human readable units (-h).
posted by M @ 10:35 am
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1 Comments:
'kill' and 'su' from coreutils 5.2.1-2 work OK on aix 5.1 and aix 6.1.
'uptime' from same doesn't show load average at all on 5.1, on 6.1 it shows load average but incorrectly so, as you said.
If coreutils could have been updated from the current old version to e.g. a 7.x version then the missing -s support for hostname, at least, should be fixed. Unfortunately no new toolbox version has been provided since Jan.2006.
-Tor
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