HP-UX

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 calls the lpr command with appropriate options. Its main use is to allow the running of [...]

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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 in x86-based Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year. [...]

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Explains how to make a backup (track by track) using dd command under UNIX / Linux operating system.

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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 ID is 192.168.1.0/24, then you can type route command as follows: # route add net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.254 OR To add a default route: # [...]

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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 internal docs and other resources, I was able to recover system :) Here is what I did… First [...]

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You would like to execute a command on a remote Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/UNIX host and have the result displayed locally. Once result obtained it can be used by local script or program. A few examples: => File system and disk information => Get user information => Find out all running process => Find out if particular service [...]

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