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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...

Troubleshooting failed NFS
There are always 2 parts to an NFS share: the client and the server. For...

Network fails with /var full
One of the more bizarre error conditions for /var being full is that networking cannot be initialized...

Here document not working
Here documents (inline text) are a great way to keep text within a script. But...

Easy Xwindows for PCs
For the first couple of decades of Unix-style systems, Xwindows, also known as X or...

HP-UX email with attachments
1. Mail No attachment, just the body: mailx -m -s "My Subject" [email protected] < file_for_email_body...