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HP-UX Booting from a system recovery Tape
Recently one of our HP-UX servers went down and it needed recovery. Since I’m new to HP UX one of our senior UNIX admin pointed me that they have a system recovery tape. After going through our...
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HP-UX: How Do I configure routing or add route?
You can use route command to configure routing. Syntax is as follows: route add net {network-address} netmask {subnet} {router-address} Let us assume your router address is 192.168.1.254 and network...
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How Do I Make Linux / UNIX Filesystem Backup With dd?
dd command is all in one tool to Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the options. Since Linux (and other UNIX versions) understand everything as a file dd works like wonders. Please...
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Linux Success Story: New York Stock Exchange Moves to Linux
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is the largest stock exchange in the world. NYSE wants to move away from proprietary platforms, so they selected HP hardware with Linux. NYSE is investing heavily...
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Print / Select a paper size other than A4 when using lp command line utility
Under Linux / UNIX you use lp command to print files from command prompt. lp is quite useful when GUI is not installed on Linux box to print files. The lp command is simply a front end command that...
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Emergency Server Management With Intelligent Platform Management Interface...
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a hardware level interface specification that defines a common, abstracted, message-based interface to platform monitoring and control functions....
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HP Releases Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System ( AdvFS ) Source Code
Good news and great contribution from HP. You can study all those advanced features for academic project. AdvFS is a file system that was developed by Digital Equipment Corp and continues to be part...
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Choosing UNIX / Linux Operating System Vendor / Software
UNIX or UNIX like operating system offers many flavors. Most Microsoft users are stuck with Windows NT / 2003 only. However, UNIX users can select a variety of UNIX like oses: + HP-UX + Linux ( Red...
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pssh: Run Command On Multiple SSH Servers
I have already written about tentakel tool and shell script hack to run a single command on multiple Linux / UNIX / BSD server. This is useful to save time and run UNIX commands on multiple machines....
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30 Best Sources For Linux / *BSD / Unix Documentation On the Web
Man pages are written by sys-admin and developers for IT techs, and are intended more as a reference than as a how to. Man pages are very useful for people who are already familiar with Linux, Unix,...
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