Q: I need a way to test LAN performance but I don't want disk I/O to slow things down. A: ftp can be used to exercise a network, probably the fastest handshake method without specialized programs. Here is a little known technique: Use the put...
When working with large, multi-product depots such as the Internet Express collection, it is often desirable to extract a single product or small group of products to create a small depot. The technique is quite simple. Here are two examples: # swcopy -x enforce_dependencies=false -s...
Q: I need to determine days between arbitrary dates. I've seen epoch seconds as a possible way but this is limited 1970 through 2038 and converting between MDY forms and epoch seconds is fairly tricky. A: If all you need are the number of days,...
I am getting: PuTTYPuTTY everytime I list a particular directory with ls or ll. It does not happen in any other directory and I can't see anything unusual in the directory so what is the problem? For most terminal emulators, there is an AnswerBack feature,...
When HP-UX boots up, more than two dozen startup scripts are run to initialize and start services and daemons. Most complete immediately, but some take a long time to complete. There is no timestamp recorded in /etc/rc.log (where the startup scripts record their activity) so...
I've been working with DRD recently and have come across a couple of strange issues. Issue #1: The first issue deals with the format DRD expects patches to be in. DRD cannot handle a "serial" or "tape" depot when installing products or patches on...
I called this script "readpartition" but you can call it anything you choose. The purpose of this script was to fill in a missing piece of the HP-UX 11.31 Itanium root disk mirroring procedure. The output of this script is designed to be the input...
SWA is a great tool to analyze installed patches and products and then return a catalog which is used to create new patch recommendations. However, some of the information about each server can be considered to be private and thus, a secure method for uploading...
owerPath LUNs report zero size HP-UX Symptoms: LUNs presented from storage randomly report zero size with diskinfo. PV status is unavailable from pvdisplay or vgdisplay -v. inq command reports some LUNs are 0 length powermt display reports nothing First step: powermt check_registration Should report Expires:...
A Gigabit capable port on some Solaris 10 systems made by Broadcom has difficulty negotiating speed and duplex settings with Cisco network switches. To resolve the situation, the bge interface in question was manually set to 100BaseT Full Duplex as follows. Modified /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/bge.conf by adding the...
