Installation guide

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Bull S.A. May 25th, 1999
PART 3. Miscellaneous
1. AIX Restrictions and Limitations
Estrella all series:
• LFT terminals: ”Low Function Terminal” are not intended to support all of the features of
other ascii terminals, in particular the ”tput bold” function is not supported.
• telnetd: Do not use the –a option (performance) in inetd.conf file.
• smit minarg requires that disks be already included in the Volume group in order to be
used.
• shutdown: after a # shutdown –m (mono–user), execute # shutdown –Fr to
restart all the processes.
• When you run netls_config with the variable LANG=fr_FR: for a message of the form
“question (Y/N)” you must reply “O” for “Y” and “N” for “N”.
• The lex command incorrectly manages LANG=fr_FR.
Use LANG=C instead
• The svmon command does not return the right number of free frames.
• aixterm has not been enhanced to support locale thai or vietnamese, or any of the new
UTF-8 locales added in AIX 4.3.2. Please use dtterm for these locales.
Estrella series 200 only:
• The dump on tape with block_size = 0 is not possible.
• With the graphics controller on the mother board (cvga0), do not change the default
values for the monitor type (Display type): PanaSync_5A using the command
smit g_display
2. Suggestions and Recommendations
Estrella all series:
• The default login method is dtlogin. If you log in using xdm to invoke the X Display
Manager, the PATH variable is changed. As a result, some SMIT commands will not
work. To prevent this problem add the following lines to your $HOME/.profile:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
export PATH
• When a tty line is opened you can update only the Enable LOGIN and TERMINAL
type line attributes with the smit chgtty command
If you try to change other attributes when the line is opened, you get the following error:
Method error (/etc/methods/chgtty):
0514–062 Cannot perform the requested function because
888–409–092 the specified device is busy.
To change the other attributes proceed as follows:
– check if the tty<x> is already in use,
– if the getty program alone is running enter:
# pdisable tty<x>
# smit chgtty
# penable tty<x>
(where <x> is the number of your line.)