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HP-UX to remote PC printer

Preface: The majority of printer models manufactured in the last 8-10 years (especially those less than $200-300) are "host-based" which means that formatting is done in the computer, not the printer. Formatting is the task which takes text, matches the characters to stored font outlines,...


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Creating/merging .depot files

The Software Distributor system has two methods to provide installation packages, a depot directory with subdirectories and files and a single tar-based depot file with all of the components in what is called the tape format. Indeed, the tape format can either be written directly...


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Glance reports “na” for logical I/Os

For the latest version of Glance (and MeasureWare/OVPA) logical I/Os are not being measured. In Glance, the logl Rds and loglWts are marked: "na". For MWA (MeasureWare or OVPA) there are no readings stored for logical (that is, memory resident) reads and writes. The midaemon...


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Files in /var/spool/sockets/ICE?

Q: Is it OK to remove the files from /var/spool/sockets/ICE? A: Yes, these files are leftover from running Xwindows (actually, running CDE). They are leftover when users do not logout and close their desktop (CDE) sessions properly. If someone is running CDE, there will be...


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lvremove fails to remove lvol

Scenario: A mismatch exists between the Cur LV and Open LV: --- Volume groups --- VG Name /dev/vg00 VG Write Access read/write VG Status available Max LV 255 Cur LV 8 Open LV 9 Max PV 16 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 Max PE...


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HP-UX email with attachments

1. Mail No attachment, just the body: mailx -m -s "My Subject" billh@abc.com < file_for_email_body 2. Mail with attachement, and no body: ux2dos /path_to/some_file | uuencode some_file.txt | mailx -m -s "MAIL FROM Billh" billh@abc.com 3. Mail with both attachment and body: ux2dos /path_to/some_file |...


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Easy Xwindows for PCs

For the first couple of decades of Unix-style systems, Xwindows, also known as X or X11, was part of every Unix-based workstation. In HP-UX, Xwindows started life in the late 1980s with mwm (Motif Window Manager) and later in the early 1990s, porting VUE (Visual...


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Here document not working

Here documents (inline text) are a great way to keep text within a script. But when the document doesn't work as expected, troubleshooting can be a challenge. Here are some tips: You can prevent shell expansion of variable names and other special characters by placing...


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Network fails with /var full

One of the more bizarre error conditions for /var being full is that networking cannot be initialized at bootup. The basic networking functions (loopback interfaces) are the first step in getting network cards initialized, and if this step fails, all networking is disabled. All versions...


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Troubleshooting failed NFS

There are always 2 parts to an NFS share: the client and the server. For shares that have been working in the past, the remote server and the path between is usually the problem. To see that if rpcbind is running and NFS transactions are...


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