Appendix A. Linux for AIX system administrators
In this appendix, we introduce Linux to AIX system administrators who co-manage AIX and Linux systems in their environments. This is a high level comparison of common administrative tasks and locations of system-specific files that are somewhat common to both Linux and AIX.
Note that this appendix does not provide an in-depth Linux comparison for AIX system administrators; its purpose is to help simplify the life of UNIX administrators managing servers in mixed environments. You can also use ppc utilities compiled by IBM for Linux to run some AIX commands on Linux.
In this appendix we compare:
“Major features” on page 418
“Common system files” on page 419
“Task-specific command comparison” on page ...
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