I just finished a conference call with HP to talk about the Forums replacement, the HP Communities. I too, have had many of the above concerns about moving to a very different user interface and possibly losing the some two decades of irreplaceable information. From...
Q: How can I create version 2.x volume groups on my old copy of 11.31? The man pages do not have options for version 2.1. Do I have to purchase something? A: No. The latest LVM code is free and you can upgrade by...
Q: I need to sleep in my script for less than a second. How can this be done? A: While you might perform some calculation a million times, your script will run slow on older systems and too fast on new systems. perl is your...
Q. I am trying to reduce the time needed to mirror a series of lvols by running all of them simultaneously. This seems to work on all volume groups except vg00. They are mirrored but the mirror will not boot. A. The problem is that...
Q. I have to create some enormous (dozens of Gb) logical volumes with mirroring. The mirroring takes a very long time. Is there some way to speed up this process? A. Yes, it can be done with one command in just a second or two....
Q: When I bootup my HP-UX system, I see this message in the rc startup scripts: Checking user database .............. FAIL * How can I fix this error? A: From the script itself (/sbin/init.d/userdb), you can see that userdb is being run. So from the...
Q: When I boot up, I am seeing a mess on the startup screen, something linke this: HP-UX Start-up in progress _________________________ Configure system crash dump ............................................................................................... ............................................................................................... ............................................................................................... ............................................................................................... ............................................................................................... ............................................................................................... .................................................................................... OK Removing old vxvm files What's wrong? A:...
Quick reference for PGP PGP encryption for HP-UX can be provided with the open source program GnuPG. You can download the program from HP but only for 11.23 and 11.31, part of the Internet Express collection ( ). It is available for 11.11, 11.23...
Q: I need to upgrade my Ignite/UX, but I have heard two different approaches: remove and install, or just install. What is the correct method? A: The answer is yes. Actually, it depends. Normally, just install the new version and all will be well. The...
Restoring a file from Ignite backups (HP-UX) Q: I use Ignite on all my systems but occasionally I need to restore a single file or a directory. Is it possible to restore one file from the tape? How about from a network Ignite server? A:...
