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HP-UX (Hewlett-Packard UniX) is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V (initially System III) and first released in 1984.

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Verify connectivity to a server on a UDP port

I want to know if a HP-UX machine can communicate to a remote machine (which I don't have control over) on a particular port using UDP. I tried telnet, but it doesn't look like it supports UDP. I would use netcat, but I was unable to find any…
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How do I find circular symbolic links?

I'm working on a HP-UX system and I want to find if there are any circular symbolic links. So far I'm using the command: ls -lrt `find ./ -follow -type l` But it's only doing ls -lrt on current directory as result. What command should I use to…
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Add RAM to HP-UX

I need to add some RAM to a machine running HP-UX. Is there anything that I need to do before or after adding the physical RAM? Or will the OS just recognize the RAM and no further tasks needed. I've never worked with HP-UX before, so I just need to…
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Best way to copy large amount of data between partitions

I'm looking to transfer data across 2 lv of an HP-UX server. I have a couple of those transfers to do, some of which are mostly binary (Oracle tablespace...) and some others are more text files (logs...). Used data size of the volumes is between…
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HP-UX (PA-RISC|Itanium) virtualisation on (x86-64|x86)

I'm looking for a way to run HP-UX (for educational purposes), but I don't have HP hardware right now. These options are not very suitable for me: HP TestDrive program - Looks like it was discontinued 2 years ago. Ski - looks like only CPU…
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Unable to list new files on a cifs share with ls *

I have an old HP-UX system running version 11.11, it has a cifs mount configured to a netapp filer. In the past several days we've been seeing some odd behaviour for the share where files can be created & accessed if the full path is used, but…
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Can increased disk throughput increase CPU utilization?

We recently upgraded the storage in our data center and migrated all our production systems to it. We noticed that in one machine (an HP_UX IA-64 Oracle database server for SAP), the CPU utilization started spiking up while the IO wait% was…
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clone for Hp-UX?

we have HP-UX installed on HP Itanium hardware. As per HP hp-ux will not run on intel board. and vmware also not supporting hp-ux as guest OS. Is there any way to clone the hp-ux and it will run on intel m/c using visualization or something else?
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Alternate way to create a clone of a UNIX System

THE STORY: (If you don't like to read much, down below is the question :) ) Where I work we have two HP RP2470 servers same hardware same number of hard drives same everything :). One of them is a production server and runs HP-UX 11.00. The poor…
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How to list the files on a tape with tar?

On a HP-UX OS I have a backup on a magnetic tape created from the SAM. Everywhere I read the instructions to list-verify the contents of the tape is to use the TAR program: #tar tvf /dev/rmt/[tapefile] I've created a new directory /tape with 777…
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How to detect if a machine is virtualized or not

I have Linux, AIX, SunOs & HP-UX machines, I want to detect if the machine is virtual or not. So far I found this article which helped me get this information on Linux: dmesg | grep -i virtual //On Linux Machines But I also need commands for…
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How do I make (non-gnu-)grep ignore binary files?

Hey, I am on a HP-UX server here. When recursively grepping a directory tree, I have problems when the tree also contains binary files: grep treats them as text files and displays very long lines containing a lot of non-printable characters. This…
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HP UX iostat on File System

I have a server running HP UX 11 OS and I'm trying to have I/O statistics for File System and not disk. For example, I have 50 disk attached to the server when I type iostat (here under output of iostat for 3 disks) : disk9 508 31.4 …
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hp-ux mount a disk to recover data

Had a problem booting from a disk, installed a newly imaged disk, booted fine. I'd like to try to mount the problem disk and using sam I can see the disk fine. However I cannot figure out how to mount the disk and retain the current data. Read…
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HP-UX merging two volume group

I have a system with 3 volume group (vg00, vg01 and vgdata). I need to make a bootable tape, so I used the command below ad backup completed successfully. make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/0mn -x inc=vg00 -x inc=vg01 (this is not the exact syntax of…
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