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:...
Hex, Octal and Binary shell conversions In scripting, it is common to find a need hexadecimal (hex or base 16) numbers, and occasionally binary numbers. Converting can be tricky without some tips. You can use printf, typeset and even bc as conversion tools. Here...
Computer printers Since the first printers were connected to a computer, there have been two industry standards for plain text: ASCII and EBCDIC. There wasn't much to configure, just the top of page (pin-fed greenbar paper), lines per inch and page length. The text was...
Q: I need to run a command with sudo and redirect the output, but it is failing when writing to the output file: $ sudo ioscan -f > /var/adm/ioscan.log su: /var/adm/ioscan.log: Cannot create the specified file. A: sudo is processing the command line but the...
df and bdf history In HP-UX, the df command has a particularly obnoxious format so a better df (bdf) command is available. However, bdf was written a long time ago when long lines of text (more than 80 characters) was a problem and thus, bdf...
Q: I have a DS2405 rack with 73 GB disk installed. It was part of a VA7410 but now I just want to use the disks as a JBOD. However, the disks show size: 140000000 using diskinfo for 73 GB disks and HP-UX hangs trying...
When writing cgi scripts for web pages, text that presented to your script is preprocessed by the web server (such as Apache) and special characters must be translated so they can be included in the URL line and QUERY_STRING variable. Spaces are converted to "+",...
