Came across an issue recently when attempting to update AIX 7.1 TL2 SP4 to the newer level of AIX 7.1 TL3 SP4. I loopmounted the ISO (as it was already on the system) and attempted to do an: smit update_all without any success. Exact error was: 0503-465 installp: The build date requisite check failed for…
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Meta dangers to posting photos online
As you may or may not be aware, every time somebody takes a picture with their cell phone, camera, etc. it will (by default unless disabled) capture EXIF data. The EXIF captures things such as exposure settings, camera model, date / time picture was taken, and GPS (if the device has GPS). This meta data…
List installed Perl Modules (AIX)
This one-liner will list all of the installed perl modules. Comes in handy 🙂 perl -MFile::Find=find -MFile::Spec::Functions -lw -e ‘find { wanted => sub { print canonpath $_ if /\.pm\z/ }, no_chdir => 1 }, @INC’