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Setting Search $PATH csh

July 1st, 2009 by elizar

Another quikie copy/paste kind of thingy…

You may set your search path automatically each time you log in, by placing the appropriate “set path” command in your “.login” file.

(To learn more about the .login file, type “help dotlogin”.) Here is a sample of a command line that you might put in your .login file to set a non-standard search path:

set path = ( $path /usr/ucb /bin /usr/bin /usr/new .)

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Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better

June 24th, 2009 by elizar

Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better… That’s what I searched when I got a ticket from one of the AIX boxes here complaining about CPU being 99% used up.

Of course, you can use vmstat with interval, but for those sysadmin folks who are use to using Top, its still more comfortable using (and seeing) the top output.

Topas is the equivalent of Top for AIX.. it’s better than Top as a matter of fact according to some AIX gurus (and Solaris)

If you persists in using top, You’ll have to build it yourself from the sources at http://www.unixtop.org/ plus probably this fix: 

        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=934590&group_id=72892&atid=536044

Good luck!