gig card on hp-ux 11.00 doesn't keep speed/duplex setting

A 1000Base-T card in an 11.00 box was giving me grief.  the switch port was set to 100 full duplex, but the card kept staying at AUTO even though the speed/duplex was changed via sam and verified in the /etc/rc.config.d/hpgelanconf file; that, of course, cause collisions and a bunch of network errors because the card negotiated 100 half duplex.  There's a patch that fixes the issue:  28995   make sure the config file has the speed and duplex value in uppercase:

HP_GELAN_SPEED[0]=100FD

swinstall and rpc exception communications error

error when doing an swinstall:
       * Beginning Selection
ERROR:   RPC exception: "Communications failure (dce / rpc)" 11/24/06
         17:27:01 PST
ERROR:   A Remote Procedure Call to a daemon has failed.  Could not
         start a management session for "myhost:/".  Make sure the host
         is accessible from the network, and that its daemon, swagentd,
         is running.
       * Target connection failed for "myhost:/".
ERROR:   More information may be found in the daemon logfile on this
         target (default location is myhost:/var/adm/sw/swagentd.log).
       * Selection had errors.

fix by restarting swagentd:
/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

mkboot complains about logical volumes when none exist

$ mkboot /dev/dsk/c2t6d0
There appear to be non-boot logical volumes on this device.
Overwriting them could destroy all the data on this device
Should the logical volumes be overwritten [y/n]? y

solution:
because PV isn't marked as bootable.   pvcreate -B /dev/dsk/c2t6d0
or
PV belongs (or thinks it does) to a volume group already.  (tread lightly here!):
Fix by using the -f (force) option:  pvcreate -Bf /dev/dsk/c2t6d0 

upgrade vxfs online

update version 3 veritas JFS file system to version 4

vxupgrade -n 4 /mount_point

vxfsconvert -- offline version or to convert an HFS

my favorite vim settings

my vimrc is customized with these, my favorite settings and options for vim / gvim:

set ic
colorscheme torte
set nobackup
set showmatch

dmisp daemon on HP-UX hogging CPU

It's no longer used much anymore and there's a bug in it which will cause it to consume tons of cpu on the system.  Turn it off:

ps -ef | grep -i dmisp
/sbin/init.d/Dmisp stop
ch_rc -l -p START_DMI ; ch_rc -a -p START_DMI=0 ; ch_rc -l -p START_DMI

HP-UX support timeline

HPUX support end of life timeline:
http://www.hp.com/softwarereleases/releases-media2/history/slide2.html

HPUX support matrix

HP 9000 server models and OS support matrix:

http://h20338.www2.hp.com/hpux11i/cache/324537-0-0-0-121.html
http://h20338.www2.hp.com/hpux11i/downloads/public_hp-ux_systems_support.pdf

Google Toolbar shortcut - firefox 2

Customize Firefox (2), remove the History menu so that the google toolbar shortcut key will work. If the history menu is present, it overrides the keyboard shortcut for the google toolbar focus (alt - s). Use the instructions here: Geek to Live: Consolidate Firefox's chrome - Lifehacker

The History Menu used to be called the "go" menu, so use the #go-menu keyword

AVG free anti-virus

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/39791

requires update to Roxio Easy CD and DVD creator:  http://www.roxio.com/enu/support/mserr/cdr4_7.html

NFS / PCNFS / Hummingbird Maestro problems

NFS maestro PCNFS mounts on PC doesn't work for user. (invalid username or password)    UID of user is too big.  Either change the UID to less than 60002 or uidrange needs to be added to the pcnfsd.conf file.

     http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-1153/ch02s02.html
    If your PC NFS client software is assigning user IDs smaller than 101 or greater than 60002, set the uidrange in the /etc/pcnfsd.conf file to allow access to a different range of user IDs, as in the following example:
    
    cat /etc/pcnfsd.conf
    uidrange 101-9999999
    
    then:
    kill rpc.pcnfsd
    /usr/sbin/rpc.pcnfsd

difference between autoboot and autostart flags on HP 9000 hardware

difference between autoboot, and autostart flags in the PDC, BCH menu:

From: http://docs.hp.com/en/A7137-96003/A7137-96003.pdf (rp3410 rp3440 operations guide)

When the autostart flag is off, autoboots will be interrupted if a configuration change occurs
which causes reduced performance; thus requiring you to intervene prior to booting to the
internal system loader (ISL).
The auto boot will halt at the BCH prompt and you may continue booting by entering boot.

cron - run command last day of month

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=123030&admit=-682735245+1161911384666+28353475
Solves the problem of running a script on the last day of the month. Put 28-31 (for days) in your crontab and put this little section in for date determination.

#!/bin/sh

if test `TZ=MET-24 date +%d` = 01
then
exec command
else
exit 1
fi

pseudo swap on HPUX

explanation of pseudo swap in hp-ux:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=103008

gmail macros

Great keyboard navigation inside gmail using a greasemonkey script.: http://persistent.info/ do a search for gmail macros (or christmas)


Here's a google group that tracks the script and has some enhanced versions: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/gmail-power-users

logins man page

HP-UX 'logins' command displays user account info.  the -x option doesn't explain the last field reported:

PS 100506 7 175 -1

the last field is the number of days before the password expires to start warning the user.  see the warn option of passwd(1) man page and passwd(4).  The warn flag only works on trusted systems, so you'll see a -1 for non-trusted systems.

Remember that the system (at least on non-trusted boxes) will round to the nearest week, Thursday to be specific.  So the report of when the passwd was last changed is not the actual day it happened, unless it happened to fall on a Thursday.

Gnome / KDE keyboard shortcuts

Linux Desktop manager: Gnome and KDE keyboard shortcuts
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/2289.html

non-printable chars in filename

ls -al on a directory produced a "blank" file name.  to see the non-printable  character, pipe the output to more:

ls -al | more

The file show up as a DEL char (^?); so to delete or view the file do a control-v and ? for the filename.

configure HP-UX kernel

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90675/ch06s02.html
Synopsis:

cd /stand/build
/usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep -v -s system

make changes to the /stand/build/system file to add or remove whatever
/usr/sbin/kmsystem -S /stand/build/system -c Y driver-name

creates the /stand/build/vmunix_test
/usr/sbin/mk_kernel -s /stand/build/system

mv /stand/system /stand/system.prev
mv /stand/build/system /stand/system


updates /stand/vmunix and create a bacup /stand/vmunix -> /stand/vmunix.prev before.
/usr/sbin/kmupdate -- tells shutdown script to do the above.

determine bitness of HPUX

HP-UX 64 or 32 bit? :  getconf HW_CPU_SUPP_BITS

Sometime you need to determine this whether to install the 32 or 64 bit version of ODE.