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Script For Reading HP-UX Itanium Root Disk EFI Partitions

I called this script “readpartition” but you can call it anything you choose. The purpose...

DRD Strangeness

I’ve been working with DRD recently and have come across a couple of strange issues....

Show elapsed time for startup tasks

When HP-UX boots up, more than two dozen startup scripts are run to initialize and...

Problem with filenames

I am getting: PuTTYPuTTY everytime I list a particular directory with ls or ll. It does not happen in any...

Using Julian days for calendar calculations

Q: I need to determine days between arbitrary dates. I’ve seen epoch seconds as a possible...

Extracting products from a large depot

When working with large, multi-product depots such as the Internet Express collection, it is often...

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...