AIX vs standard unix

[Jay Schuster]

grover at skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Grover Davidson) writes:
>We get better support and assistance from the net that we do from IBM.
>Am i supprised? NO! I have NEVER SEEN IBM PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY SUPPORT
>FROM IT'S OWN ORGANIZATION!!

We have clients with PS/2's running AIX and RS/6000's running AIX.  The
PS/2 AIX is a piece of shit.  No ifs ands or buts.  IBM support wasn't
able to help us to get terminals or modems working.  And then, of
course, there's the AIX updates on the PS/2.  Run through 35 disks ten
times.  At least we don't need to buy 3.5" floppies anymore.  IBM just
gives them to us.

I just wanted to recount what happened the other day.  One of our
clients had a problem with their hard drive -- it wouldn't boot into
multi user mode.  fsck was coming up with an error on the /local
filesystem.  Two IBM techs were there, twiddling their thumbs, while we
resolved the situation.  Some directory was a Small Block File that was
too big.  After finding out that it was the /local/locks directory
(/usr/spool/locks is a symbolic link to this directory), we just did a
clri and fsck did the right thing.

I did this knowing only the standard UFS, not the filesystem the PS/2
uses, and with the help of the fsdb, fsck, ncheck, and clri man pages.

And the two IBM techs just sat there, twiddling their thumbs.

I mean, what did they send them out there for anyway?
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