[TriLUG] OT: AIX question

[Jon Carnes]

Another obvious way to handle this is to simply look at the rc
directories off of /etc.  You can see the services that are started and
you can start and stop services by moving files around or renaming them.

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 20:12, Heath Holcomb wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 05:30:12PM -0400, Greg Brown wrote:
> > Does anyone work with AIX 5?  Is chkconfig supported under AIX?  
> > Results of a Google search were somewhat unclear.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I don't claim to be an expert, but I don't think AIX comes with a chkconfig
> script. At least there's no chkconfig on any of the AIX boxes 4.3 or 5.1 boxes
> I use. AIX has its own system for managing services and runlevels and it is
> quite different from Linux. Your best bet is probably to use smit or smitty.
> Despite their unfortunate names, these tools are extremely useful for
> this type of thing.
> 
> There may be a chkconfig workalike out there somewhere though.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Heath