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:...
The awk search (/string/...) requires that / be escaped as it is the delimiter for the search pattern. This can be a pain to fix for full pathnames: awk -v MNT=/abc/def/file '/^MNT/{print $0}' This fails as the imbedded slashes will be interpreted as more search...
The awk search (/string/...) requires that / be escaped as it is the delimiter for the search pattern. This can be a pain to fix for full pathnames: awk -v MNT=/abc/def/file '/^MNT/{print $0}' This fails as the imbedded slashes will be interpreted as more search...
Q: I need to copy a lot of files and directories to another directory. What’s the fastest way: A: If the source_directory does not have any largefiles (that is, files greater than 2GB), you can use cpio –p like this: cd /source_directory find ....
Y2K38 - Jan 19, 2038 So what do I care about some date more than 20 years in the future? Well, let's start with why this is important: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem Operating systems such as HP-UX keep time by counting the number of seconds since Jan 1,...
There are several steps to verify that a system has an alternate mirrored boot disk. Here's the PA-RISC version. I would probably start with checking to see if the mirroring software is even installed. #swlist -l fileset LVM.LVM-MIRROR-RUN Then I would vgdisplay -v vg00 to...
Note: A user will not have the ability to travel anywhere outside the home directory on the system. Setting up a bogus shell with exit 0 as the contents will cause the connection of a user to be immediately terminated if the user attempts to...
Q: I have set up a route to our company's gateway but after a few minutes, the connection is terminated. I am running a newly installed HP-UX 11i system. What is happening? A: Try traceroute to the problem machine(s) and see what you find before...
