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LAN speed test with no disk I/O

Q: I need a way to test LAN performance but I don’t want disk I/O to...

Mounting an ISO image in HP-UX

Some applications are supplying ISO images rather than actual CDs or DVDs for installation. An...

Forcing Speed and Duplex of on-board network interface e1000g on T2000, T5120, and T5220 with ndd

By default the e1000g network interface is set to auto-negotiation enabled, 1Gbps full-duplex. # ndd -set...

GZIP/GUNZIP with no extra storage`

When you gzip (or compress) a file, the original plus the compressed copy will exist...

Say Yes? Say No? Say what?

Anyone who has written an interactive script has had to ask a yes or no...

Renumbering device instances

With really large disk arrays, you can find instance numbers piling up very quickly, and...

Java out of memory on HP-UX

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Map failed This is a common error for 32 bit applications. Without special handling,...

Stopping pwgrd (password daemon)

The password daemon (pwgrd) was created to manage massively large password file (more than 500...

setboot path and DSF

setboot returns the Primary and Alternate (and HA Alternate) boot paths but starting with 11.31,...

Using lsof

lsof (List Open Files) is one of the most indispensible tools in the sysadmins toolkit. With...