RE: Recommended AIX lists

There is a lot of AIX that are different than other flavors of UNIX. For example, AIX uses /etc/fstab rather than /etc/filesystems.

Much in the security area has files and commands that are different.

Many AIX commands are close to the system I naming conventions.

Scott

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 8:31 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Recommended AIX lists

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:36 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got a greedy request. I want a script translated from UNIX to AIX.
This script was supplied to us by our auditors and I tried it but it
obviously was destined to fail on an AIX system. Auditors just say this
is the information they want, supply it.

It's been ages since I was fluent in any flavor of Unix, and even then
I was never an expert. But this has me intrigued. I wonder what is so
specific to AIX, and of interest to auditors, that the script wouldn't
work. (I can easily imagine a Unix guru creating scripts that by
design only work on very specific platforms. But I can equally imagine
him (and yeah, when I imagine a Unix guru, it's a guy) creating a
script that purposely is widely compatible with various platforms.)

How long is this script? Do you know what language it's written in?
("Language" in this case could mean bash or tcsh or other shell.)

Have you tried running it? How far do you get before it fails?

John Y.