lp printer save / restore

if the restore don't work, make sure /var/sam/lp and contents are owned by lp:lp

chrome / chromebook sync issues

try resetting the sync data stored on the cloud - "reset sync" button at bottom of this page:  https://www.google.com/settings/chrome/sync

add web-site url to chrome shelf

add a website or url to the chome shelf:

http://jonnorris.work/add-websites-apps-chrome-os-shelf/

basically go to the "hamburger" menu  in chrome browser, "more tools", "add to shelf"

convert hex to binary in bash shell on linux

remember hex must be in uppercase for BC command on most linux / unix distros

echo "ibase=16;obase=2;000000004B817EFB" | bc

results:

1001011100000010111111011111011
space it out to make it easier to read:
alias spc=" sed 's/./& /g'"

echo "ibase=16;obase=2;000000004B817EFB" | bc | spc
1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 

chrome remote desktop host component install for centos / rpm based distros

http://fedora-centos.blogspot.ca/2014/07/using-alien-to-convert-deb-to-rpm-and.html

basically convert the deb install file to rpm format using the alien tool, then rebuild the rpm file with rpmrebuild tool.

find last ignite server used by client

find last ignite server used by client

file:  /var/opt/ignite/recovery/previews  contains information of last ignite recovery ( make_recovery / make_net_recovery ) completed or done on that server.

swpackage error / copy depot bundle to file

ERROR:   The fileset XXXXX will not fit on the tape

         "/tmp/XXX.depot".  The fileset requires 4249089 Kbytes of

         tape space, but the tape provides only 1298828 Kbytes.  The

         fileset requires a larger tape.

 

Fix by:

swpackage -s /source/dir -x allow_large_serial_depot=true -x media_capacity=50000 -x target_type=tape @ /ignite/r11.depot bundle/package/etc

media_capacity=larger than depot file

ldapclientd won't start hpux

mmap failed or messages like that on ldapclientd.rc startup ---

remove the status file:

/var/spool/ldapcltd/status

sendmail errors: Deferred: local mailer (/usr/bin/rmail) exited with EX_TEMPF

-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------

t0F800jK001682      255 Thu Jan 15 02:00 root

                 (Deferred: local mailer (/usr/bin/rmail) exited with EX_TEMPF)

                                         root

t0F7o3vI001264      704 Thu Jan 15 01:50 root

                 (Deferred: local mailer (/usr/bin/rmail) exited with EX_TEMPF)

                                         root

t0F6F19E026586       58 Thu Jan 15 00:15 MAILER-DAEMON

                 (Deferred: local mailer (/usr/bin/rmail) exited with EX_TEMPF)

                                         root

it can't deliver local mail since the /var/mail didn't exist in this case....

/var/mail needs to be created and bin:mail ownership and 775 permissions

ssh doesn't work after ignite recovery

ssh connections have errors after doing an ignite recovery. If the
following shows up in syslog:
sshd[14702]: error: openpty: No such file or directory
sshd[14704]: error: session_pty_req: session 0 alloc failed

check another server with ssh working using lsof and you'll find
/dev/ptmx reference:
sshd 22391 root 7u STR 156,0 0t41177 2935 /dev/ptmx->ptm

re-create the device file using mknod to this:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 72 0x00009c Nov 27 04:23 /dev/ptmx


Also /dev/klog was missing (as seen in syslog) after the ignite recovery:
crw------- 1 bin bin 189 0x000000 Dec 22 2010 /dev/klog

stock motorola rom/firmware images

http://sbf.droid-developers.org/

easy guide to default back to stock rom

easy guide to default back to stock rom

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231249

Rosetta stone for unix OS

compare commands from different unix OSs:
http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

headless ubuntu / linux

if you are running a headless ubuntu / linux server and have no remote
console at all and it's important for the OS to boot without requiring
interaction make sure you do this:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/grub-not-working-default-highlighted-but-timeout-doesn't-auto-select-4175490182/

set GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=2 (or whatever timeout you want). and of
course, run update-grub.

This will prevent it from sitting / hanging at the grub menu because
of a power failure or whatever.....

avio_stor and avio_lan on hpvm guest

slow network performance was fixed by changing the adapter type from
lan to avio_lan.


Here's a quick way to do it:

## where 0,0 is the bus,dev (found from hpvmstatus –P $vm_name )of
the disks -- may list multiple -m

hpvmmodify -P VM -m hba:avio_stor:0,0



## where 0,1 is the bus,dev (found from hpvmstatus -P $vm_name) and
lan2 is the vswitch name

hpvmmodify -P VM -m network:avio_lan:0,1:vswitch:lan2

light UID on ciss0 controlers in HPUX

how to light the hard disk UID (unit identifier) on the ciss
controller (SAS SmartArray P410i RAID Controller) in HPUX:

find the wwn of the drive:
$ sautil /dev/ciss0 -s

$ saconfig /dev/ciss0 -I -p wwn of drive

drive LED will blink for 5 mins

youtube rss feed for video uploads per user/channnel

https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/<username>/uploads?alt=rss&orderby=updated

where <username> is the username of the youtube user

find number of lun paths for emc devices hpux 11.31

here's one way to find the count or total lun paths for each emc device on hpux 11.31 without powerpath.  all it requires is emc solutions enabler or you might be able to adopt this to syminq as well

/usr/symcli/bin/sympd list | grep -i rdisk | awk '{print $1,$2,$3}' | while read dev sym saport

do

echo lun: $sym  sa-port: $saport  dev: $dev

scsimgr get_info -D $dev | grep -i "LUN path" | grep -E 'LUN path count|Active|Standby|Failed'

echo;echo

done | mailx -r example@example.com -s "`hostname` - Lun Path counts for each device"  me@example.com

fix CDE / XDM after upgrades

fix XDM (XDMCP query)

to fix change the DESKTOP variable to CDE otherwise dtlogin will not start
ch_rc -l -p DESKTOP
ch_rc -a -p DESKTOP=CDE


Also to get the dtlogin process to listen for incoming XDM connections
you need to comment out the Dtlogin.requestPort line (see the comments
in the Xconfig file)

vi /etc/dt/config/Xconfig
#Dtlogin.requestPort: 0

then start it:
/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start

copy depot software to single depot file

swpackage -s /path/to/depot -x target_type=tape -d
/tmp/singledepotfile.depot bundle_or_product_name

Where:

-s = source directory path (on depot server)

-d =output file

bundle_or_product_name = bundle / product / patch / depot being
retrieved from the source