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Setting disk timeouts

Q: What is the timeout for disk operations? A. There are two methods. One is...

Reading the CPU speed in HP-UX

For many years, this was the standard method to obtain the CPU clock speed in...

Cloning a system with Ignite

The steps to clone a client using make_net_recoveryare as follows: 1. Use make_net_recovery or the Ignite-UX GUI to...

How can I increase the size of the Primary Swap, and ‘/’ file systems (VG00 LVOLs 2 and 3) on an HP-UX 11.11 server?

QUESTION: How can I increase the size of the Primary Swap, and ‘/’ file systems...

Creating large mirrored lvols

LVM Performance Tips: Very large volume groups and lvols (terabyte and larger) require special planning....

Batch patch analysis

When you have multiple systems to manage, patch analysis can be tedious. However, the built-in...

Translating HTML characters

When writing cgi scripts for web pages, text that presented to your script is preprocessed...

Disk reports 520 byte sectors

Q: I have a DS2405 rack with 73 GB disk installed. It was part of a...

SUDO with redirect fails

Q: I need to run a command with sudo and redirect the output, but it is failing when...

bdfmegs – a better bdf

df and bdf history In HP-UX, the df command has a particularly obnoxious format so a better df (bdf)...