Although not an “answer”, I can give you my results on a slightly newer version running on AIX. Sorry that I’m unable to replicate your problem. [lholtscl@ibm3 ~]$ python Python 2.7.13 (default, Sep 7 2017, 21:08:50) [C] on aix7 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information. >>> print “%.10f” % 123456789012 123456789012.0000000000 >>> … Read more
The subprocess.run() function only exists in Python 3.5 and newer. It is easy enough to backport however: def run(*popenargs, **kwargs): input = kwargs.pop(“input”, None) check = kwargs.pop(“handle”, False) if input is not None: if ‘stdin’ in kwargs: raise ValueError(‘stdin and input arguments may not both be used.’) kwargs[‘stdin’] = subprocess.PIPE process = subprocess.Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) try: … Read more
You just need to call gdb with the executable (it does not matter if it is yours or a 3rd party one). Here is an example where I debug the ls command and set a breakpoint in the (shared) c library. This example uses gdb 6.8 which supports deferred (pending) breakpoints which makes this easy: … Read more
The –force option will reinstall already installed packages or overwrite already installed files from other packages. You don’t want this normally. If you tell rpm to install all RPMs from some directory, then it does exactly this. rpm will not ignore RPMs listed for installation. You must manually remove the unneeded RPMs from the list … Read more
If you use GNU find, since version 4.3.3 you can do: find -newerct “1 Aug 2013” ! -newerct “1 Sep 2013” -ls It will accept any date string accepted by GNU date -d. You can change the c in -newerct to any of a, B, c, or m for looking at atime/birth/ctime/mtime. Another example – … Read more
Netstat almost certainly won’t be able to help you. Netstat displays open sockets and active connections at the moment you execute the program. A DNS request will happen entirely too quickly for you to catch it because it’ll be gone and done in less time than it takes to type out the command parameters. Moreover, … Read more
Well some software is specifically written for AIX/Solaris etc. while some ‘money men’ don’t trust ‘free’ software (I’ve witnessed this myself, someone told me I HAD to spend money on OS!). But most of the time it’s to get 24/365 support.
Personal ones for my account, ~/bin. System-wide ones go in /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin as appropriate (scripts which should only be run as root go in sbin, while scripts intended to help ordinary users go in bin), rolled out via configuration management to ensure that all machines that need them have them (and the latest versions, … Read more
You are correct in the fact that oslevel will give you the current installed version, but that is not always enough information particularily if you are asked the question by support personnel. # oslevel <— this will only give you the Base Level To be more precise you should use the following command which will … Read more
There are several options: ps -fp <pid> cat /proc/<pid>/cmdline | sed -e “s/\x00/ /g”; echo There is more info in /proc/<pid> on Linux, just have a look. On other Unixes things might be different. The ps command will work everywhere, the /proc stuff is OS specific. For example on AIX there is no cmdline in … Read more