comp.sys.hp.hpux FAQ
Alek O. Komarnitsky
Archive-name: hp/hpux-faq
Followup-To: comp.sys.hp.hpux
Last-modified: 97/06/09
Version: 7.21
comp.sys.hp.hpux FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
[HTML version of this available - pls see section 3.1]
Subject: 1. INTRODUCTION
This article contains the answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) seen in
the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.hp.hpux. Issues may also be discussed in
comp.sys.hp.apps, comp.sys.hp.misc, and comp.sys.hp.hardware. Discussion in
this document centers around Hewlett-Packard computer systems running the
HP-UX operating system; the focus tends to be on the series 700 workstations,
although topics are also applicable to series 800 machines, and to a lesser
degree, series 300 and 400 machines. It will be posted about (!) twice
a month as the maintainer sees fit (and remembers ... ;-)
This is Copyright 1996, 1997 by Alek Komarnitsky. It may be freely redistributed
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not necessarily represent their employers or Hewlett-Packard.
Refer to question 3.1 for details on where to get this FAQ.
This FAQ is written in "minimal digest format". You can skip from one
section to the next by pressing ^G in many newsreaders, such as rn, trn
and strn (but not nn).
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Resource Locator). A simplistic view of URL syntax:
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Where "method" can commonly be any of [file|gopher|wais|news|ftp|http].
An example: a file is available via FTP at rtfm.mit.edu and
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Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with
changes since the last issue are marked by a "!".
Submissions, corrections, comments, input, complaints should be directed to
Alek Komarnitsky <al...@csc.com>.
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Subject: 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. FINDING INFORMATION
3.1 Where can I get a copy of this FAQ file?
3.2 Courses on HP-UX
3.3 Interex, The International Association of Hewlett-Packard
3.4 InterWorks, the Technical Users Forum of Interex
3.5 Interex HP Users Conferences
3.6 InterWorks Conference 1997
3.7 HP/Works
3.8 HP/Works Conferences
3.9 Japanese HP Computer Users Association
3.10 German HP User Group
3.11 DutchWorks
3.12 HP-UX freely available software from InterWorks.
3.13 Anonymous FTP Sites for HP-UX, and UNIX related software.
3.14 Where can I get a demo CD with software for HP-UX?
3.15 HP-UX patch information
3.16 How can I send mail to an "hpdesk" address?
3.17 What are the known issues with porting BSD-based programs to HP-UX?
3.18 What periodicals are available that focus on HP-UX?
3.19 Books on HP-UX
3.20 HP-UX Sysadmin Mailing List
3.21 HP-related WWW Sites
3.22 Is there any way to get rid of a frequent poster's posts?
3.23 HP 9000 series 500 Mailing List
3.24 HP 3000 FAQ
3.25 What is HP's involvement in the HP-related newsgroups?
3.26 Who were the former maintainers of the FAQ?
3.27 Where do i get information on HP's Printers?
3.28 Where is the SunOS to HP-UX Porting Guide?
4. THIRD PARTY VENDORS
4.1 Third party vendors for RAM.
4.2! Third party vendors for other things
4.3 Do Seagate 9GB drives working with s700 and s800?
5. UTILITIES
5.1 ASCII to Postscript converter.
5.2 How do I make perl on HP-UX?
5.3 What is the status of the various gnu items on HP-UX?
6. X WINDOW SYSTEM, MOTIF, HP-VUE, AND CDE
6.1 X11 libraries (Athena, etc.) and utilities (imake, etc.).
6.2 How can I display an image on the root window with HP-VUE?
6.3 How do I get a scroll bar on hpterms?
6.4 How can I put a title in my hpterm titlebar?
6.5 How come my hpterms keep going away by themselves?
6.6 How come my HP X/Motif clients take a LONG time to display on a Sun?
6.7 How can I get my login stuff to work under HP-VUE?
6.8 How can I get console messages to go to an hpterm?
6.9 What happened to the vuewm key accelerators at VUE 3.0?
6.10 How come I can no longer disable the caps lock key with xmodmap?
6.11 How come vi behaves strangely in xterms at 9.01?
6.12 How do I disable HP-VUE?
6.13 What's a good termcap entry for hpterm?
6.14 My screen is wedged. What should I do?
6.15 How can I get an X client to come up in an alternate workspace?
6.16 How can I get HP-VUE to not override colors?
6.17 How can I override the system default printer in vuepad?
6.18 What about X11R6?
6.19 How can I set user-specific app-defaults in HP-VUE?
6.20 How can I get VUE to share colormap entries?
6.21 How can I disallow root login at the console with VUE?
6.22 id/groups doesn't show secondary groups in dtterm/CDE
6.23 What type of books are available about CDE and oriented toward HP-UX?
6.24 Getting mouse button cut-n-paste to work correctly with HPUX10/CDE
7. OPERATING SYSTEM
7.1 Can I have filenames longer than 14 chars?
7.2 How can I tell what products have been loaded on my system?
7.3 How do I safely remove software from my system?
7.4 How can I change the order of hostname resolution?
7.5 How come the LOGnnnn files in /usr/adm keep growing and growing?
7.6 How come I can't lock mail or other files on a Sun?
7.7 Why are mail files in /usr/mail are owned by daemon instead of the recipient?
7.8 How can I tell if I need more than a 2-user license?
7.9 How can I tell what patches are in the kernel?
7.10 How come I have to hit return after control-d in the Korn shell?
7.11 How do I boot into single user mode?
7.12 How come my Korn shell login hangs?
7.13 How can I avoid those annoying copyright notices on login?
7.14 How can I turn off quota checking?
7.15 How can I track log files and core files?
7.16 How much memory can a process use?
7.17 How can I make a ramdisk?
7.18 What's a good strategy for clearing /tmp and /usr/tmp?
7.19 How can I change the timezone?
7.20 How can I look at what my system is doing?
7.21 How can I partition HP-UX disks on 700s at 9.x?
7.22 How can I print man pages successfully?
7.23 How can I limit core files?
7.24 Can I put more than one backup on DDS with fbackup?
7.25 How can I load multiple patches on a machine at the same time?
7.26 How can I set up an HP-UX workstation as an X terminal?
7.27 What causes "Unable to initialize MI" when running Glance?
7.28 How come I can't get all of my swap space?
7.29 How come I can't start my Aserver?
7.30 How can I get a daemon to successfully start from /etc/rc at 9.x?
7.31 How come my /dev/null keeps getting blown away?
7.32 How can I track network packets?
7.33 How come my processes keep dying at 67M memory usage?
7.34 Is it possible to artificially limit the memory size?
7.35 How come my alt key combinations don't work in emacs X mode?
7.36 I can't get FLEXlm based licensing to work.
7.37 How can I set up group-based FTP access?
7.38 How come my 700 doesn't perform as well as I expect?
7.39 How do I convert the uname string to the model string?
7.40 Problem with ntalkd and it's handling on /etc/utmp.
7.41 How to get an MS-DOS floppy formatted using HP-UX?
7.42 How to get the MAC (station) address programmatically?
7.43 Is there a Transport Level Interface (TLI) interface to TCP on HP-UX?
7.44 How do you disable IP Forwarding at 9.x?
7.45 Does HPUX 9.0 have support for threads?
7.46 How come I can't type an '@' character?
7.47 How come I can't get my machine into boot admin mode?
7.48 What's a quick check to see if a fileset is installed on 9.x?
7.49 How does one package a set of files for HP-UX 9.X?
7.50 Why is ifconfig giving me errors when I try to configure my LAN?
7.51 What new features are in HP-UX 9.07?
7.52 Why do I get the message "Can't start message server..."
7.53 How can I disable new logins?
7.54 What is the maximum filesystem size on a 7xx, running HP-UX 9.X HP-UX 10.X?
7.55 What is the current revision of HP-UX?
7.56 What's different between HP-UX 9.x and 10.20?
7.57 What's different between HP-UX 10.01 and 10.2?
7.58 What happened to /usr/local? What's this /usr/contrib directory?
7.59 What happened to "less"?
7.60! Remote mounts and the automounter -- What's new?
7.61 Why does tcsh have problems with 'bind'?
7.62 How do I change the hostname, IP address, DNS Server, etc?
7.63 What should go in my PATH and MANPATH environment variables?
7.64 What happened to 'lpr' and other misc. lp hints?
7.65 Lpstat reports the printer down, even though it's not (?)
7.66 Misc. HP-UX10.x gotcha with root's shell
7.67 cksum command is a bit "squirrely" in HPUX09
7.68 HPUX10 generate copious "Sti_save" syslog messages
7.69 Why does pfs_mount fail with the message 'Not Owner' when I try to use it?
7.70+ What is the HP equivelent of ldd (determine shared library dependancy)?
8. COMPILERS AND LINKERS
8.1 What's a P-FIXUP error?
8.2 Where is regcmp on HP-UX?
8.3 How come the default C compiler is brain-dead?
8.4 How do I deal with "too many defines"?
8.5 How come I get "_builtin_va_start" undefined when I build with gcc?
8.6 How can I tell if something was built debuggable?
8.7 Is there some kind of problem with using FLT_MIN in ANSI mode?
8.8 What's the deal with _INCLUDE_xxxx_SOURCE?
8.9 How come I need to explicitly specify -I/usr/include?
8.10 Is there an equivalent for getrusage()?
8.11 Why is syslog() call not doing what i want it to?
8.12 Is trace on HP-UX?
8.13 How to get C programs automatically generate stack dumps?
9. HARDWARE AND PERIPHERALS
9.1 Are alternate keyboards available for HP workstations?
9.2 How can I play audio CDs on an HP workstation?
9.3 How can I enable the LAN interface on a 700?
9.4 How can I get an Exabyte to work on an HP?
9.5 Is there a "node ID" on 700s?
9.6 How can I get a stuck DDS tape out of the drive?
9.7 How can I use dump with a DDS tape?
9.8 What is the correct major number for DDS drives on 9.x?
9.9 How can I set up /dev/audio to point to the external jack on a 700?
9.10 How can I configure the parallel port handshake on a 700?
9.11 What are the specs of the audio hardware on the 700 series?
9.12 What are the various revisions of PA-RISC?
9.13 How do I read an SGI-written tar format DDS tape?
9.14 Is there a trackball for the 700?
9.15 Where can I get disktab entries for third party disks?
9.16 Do I need to terminate the internal SCSI on a 700?
9.17 What is the largest disk partition I can have at 9.x?
9.18 How can I determine how much RAM I have non-interactively?
9.19 How can I turn off the lpspooler cover page?
9.20 Why are CDROM filenames all UPPERCASE with ;1 attached?
9.21 DIP Switch Settings for HP 7475 Plotter (RS-232)
9.22 Why inserts HP-UX 4 spaces when I print using a parallel port?
9.23 How do I find the speed of my system?
10. LOOKING FOR...
10.1 Where did xline go at 9.x?
10.2 How about the VUE 2.01 man page help index?
10.3 Is there anything remotely like the Apollo DM available?
10.4 Where can I get SLIP for HP-UX?
10.5 Where can I get pcnfsd on HP-UX?
10.6 Where can I get ppp for HP-UX?
10.7 Where can I get STREAMS for HP-UX?
10.8 What about POSIX threads?
10.9 Where can I get Interviews for HP-UX?
10.10 Where can I get POP for HP-UX?
10.11 Where can I get sudo for HP-UX?
10.12 Where can I get ntalk for HP-UX?
10.13 Where can i get disktab entries for certain seagate drives?
10.14 Where can I get information on a public domain PPP?
10.15 Where can I get generic information about PPP on HP-UX?
11. HP-UX 10.x INFORMATION
11.1 Can you have Multiple IP addresses on one interface?
11.2 What version of named is running at HP-UX 10.0?
11.3 What documents are available on HP-UX 10.0?
11.4 What is SD-UX and why does it replace /etc/update?
12. S300/400 SPECIFIC INFORMATION
12.1 When will HPUX 9.10 be available?
12.2 What are the highlights of HP-UX 9.10?
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Subject: 3. FINDING INFORMATION
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Subject: 3.1 Where can I get a copy of this FAQ file?
(This is under construction as Alek figures out all this stuff! ;-)
Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the Internet
FAQ archive site:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/hp/hpux-faq
This FAQ is also archived on the InterWorks archive machine:
ftp://interworks.org/pub/comp.hp
HTML versions of this document are available at:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/hp/hpux-faq/faq.html
http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/FAQ/
http://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk/hppd/FAQ/
http://us.external.hp.com
http://hpubgon.norway.hp.com/Faq/
You can also get it by e-mail from <mail-...@rtfm.mit.edu>; send the
text "send usenet/news.answers/hp/hpux-faq".
Or from <majo...@cv.ruu.nl>; send the text:
get hpux-admin HP_FAQ
end
The FAQ is also included with the InterWorks software CD-ROM, the Interex CSL,
and the Walnut Creek Internet CD-ROM. Note that these versions were current
when the respective distributions were frozen.
A Japanese version of this document is available from CUA (HP Computer
Users Association); send mail to <tag...@jpn.hp.com>. The original translation
was done by Masataka Isoya. Subsequent translations have been done by
Kumiko Watanabe.
If all else fails, contact the maintainer (al...@csc.com).
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Subject: 3.2 Courses on HP-UX
Call the following numbers for information or the latest HP Education Catalog.
U.S.: 1-800-HPCLASS {1-800-472-5277}
Canada: (416)678-9430
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Subject: 3.3 Interex, The International Association of Hewlett-Packard
Computing Professionals
The Independent Association of Hewlett-Packard Computing Professionals, known
as Interex, has a worldwide membership of more than 18,000.
It is a not-for-profit, 20 year old organization. Interex is accountable only
to its members - not to HP - allowing us to provide a comprehensive and
objective source of information, education, and advocacy services, addressing
virtually every aspect of open HP systems. Interex doesn't attempt to
supersede HP's support programs. Instead, we complement HP's programs by
offering unique resources unavailable elsewhere.
Interex's membership represents a large, knowledgeable, powerful network of HP
users. In addition to their vast expertise, our members managed computer
budgets exceeding $X.X billion in 1995.
Benefits of Membership include:
Exclusive Tips and Techniques
HP Product News
Peer Networking Opportunities
Hands-On Solutions
Roundtables with HP Engineers
Local Networking Groups
Product Enhancements
There is now Online access to Interex services via the WWW. Point your
browser to - http://www.interex.org/ On the Interex home pages you
will find our publications online, you can search the Contributed Software
Library for solutions, can search the archives of the 5 HP related News
Groups, join Interex Special Interest Group LIST-SERVER, find vendor
information, and link to many other HP related sites.
To contact Interex:
(800) INT-EREX or (800) 468-3739
or: (408) 747-0227
fax: (408) 747-0947
email: ehrh...@interex.org .. Editor of hp-ux/usr magazine
pu...@interex.org .. Circulation/advertising
membe...@interex.org .. Membership inquiries
csl...@interex.org .. Contributed software library (hp-ux)
Compuserve: 76376,1222
Address: Interex Interex (for US mail)
1192 Borregas Avenue. P.O. Box 3439
Sunnyvale, CA 94088 Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3439
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Subject: 3.4 InterWorks, the Technical Users Forum of Interex
InterWorks, formerly the Apollo Domain User's Society (ADUS), was
originally formed to provide a users group specifically for HP
_workstation_ users. The group has since expanded to cover system
administration, software development, and other technical topics for
all HP-UX users. In August 1995 InterWorks merged with Interex to
form a single HP user group, and become the Technical Users Forum
of Interex. InterWorks holds an annual conference, has an extensive
Web presence at http://www.InterWorks.org/ and has a large software
library (see below). Membership is free; sign up via the Web or contact:
InterWorks Technical Users Forum
Interex
P.O. Box 3439
Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3439
phone: (800) INT-EREX or (800) 468-3739 or (408) 747-0227
fax: (408) 747-0947
email: membe...@InterWorks.org
WWW: http://www.InterWorks.org
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Subject: 3.5 Interex HP Users Conferences
Next events are:
HP WORLD 1997 - August 24-28 in Chicago, IL.
For more info:
Send Email to confe...@interex.org
Call 800-468-3739 and ask for the Conference Department
Get information and register Online at http://www.interex.org/
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Subject: 3.6 InterWorks Conference 1997
The next InterWorks conference is to be held 4/12 - 4/17 1997 in Philadelphia,
PA. See http://www.InterWorks.org/conference/IWorks97 for more details.
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Subject: 3.7 HP/Works
HP/Works is the HP/Apollo Workstation User Society in Europe.
Based in the UK the Society supports all HP/Apollo workstation
users - running the HP-UX or DOMAIN operating systems -
throughout Europe.
The Society aims to offer a high level of service to our members
whilst continuously expanding the number of benefits available.
Currently these benefits include:
Two Major Conferences a Year
Special Interest groups (SIGs)
A quarterly newletter (PING)
Contributed software libraries for both HP-UX and DOMAIN
Introductory documentation and short courses
Mailings of the latest product information and offers
Contacts with outher European HP Computer Users
For further information and a membership pack contact:
Helen Grainger,
PO Box 47,
Bicester,
United Kingdom +44 (0)869 321080
or by e-mail from he...@hpworks.demon.co.uk
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Subject: 3.8 HP/Works Conferences
HP/Works Provisional Diary of Events - 1997
28 January - Integration of Unix and NT - Openland, HP Bracknell
6 March - OpenView Special Interest Group Meeting - BBSRC, Harpenden
15/16 April - Setting up a Web server/html document writing/Web security
- University of Liverpool
15/16 July - Network Printing + additional topics with hands on opportunities
- University of Durham
Mid-October - OpenView SIG
November - to be arranged
Contact Helen (see info above) for more info.
Thanx to Mike Ellison (M.H.E...@durham.ac.uk)
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Subject: 3.9 Japanese HP Computer Users Association
In Japan, the HP users group is called CUA (Computer Users Association);
for information, contact Masaaki Tagami <tag...@jpn.hp.com>, or Junko
Matsumoto <j_m...@jpn.hp.com>.
Address: Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd.
9-1 Takakura-cho Hachioji Tokyo, Japan 192
Tel: 81-426-60-2949
Fax: 81-426-60-8535
e-mail:j_m...@jpn.hp.com
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Subject: 3.10 German HP User Group
In Germany, the HP user group is called "Deutsche HP-Benutzergruppe e.V.";
contact Mario Beckmann <beck...@com1.dwhl.de> for information.
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Subject: 3.11 DutchWorks
DutchWorks, formerly GGTS, was formed to provide a users group for technical
users. It represents technical HP users of HP9000 Workstations and Servers,
Instrument Controllers (RTE, HP-RT, RM BASIC, etc.), and Vectra PC's. The
group has a BBS which maintains a library of HP-UX, DOMAIN, RTE and BASIC
software. Since october '94 it runs also a full mirror of the Liverpool's
HP-UX Archive.
Membership details are available from:
Hans Hartwijk,
Weidezoom 11,
2742 EX Waddinxveen
The Netherlands
31 (0)1828 15086
or by e-mail to ja...@klft.tn.tudelft.nl (Jaap Kooman, chair DutchWorks)
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Subject: 3.12 HP-UX freely available software from InterWorks.
Dave Shaw is the Interworks librarian. He maintains a library of publicly
available HP-UX related software on behalf of the InterWorks User Group.
He can be reached at (303)443-9413 or via e-mail at
<libr...@interworks.org>. The following text is provided by Dave.
See the README mentioned below for details.
There is an archive of UX-related software on the InterWorks library node
(interworks.org--128.255.18.10). Note that everything is available via
anonymous ftp in the pub/comp.hp directory
(ftp://interworks.org/pub/comp.hp). The README there contains a
complete list of the available software.
The InterWorks CD, containing a snapshot of the library as it existed
early in 1996 as well as much of the Liverpool archive is available
from Dave. It is also shipped by HP as part of the standard HP-UX media kit.
All of the archive is suitable for the 700 series machines, and I have started
to verify that. Executables are included in some packages. If you take a
package and find that you must build an executable (or do some porting) for
your machine and/or OS level, I would appreciate hearing about your work and
receiving a copy of the executable you built.
Note that I have had very little involvement in the writing or packaging of
any of the items on the list-- they are the result of the work of many other
people. In particular, note that the available binaries have not been compiled
by me. If you are concerned about running binaries compiled by someone else,
build them yourself with the available source. Also note that individual
authors may include text regarding the rights of others to use and distribute
their code.
Thanks to all the contributors.
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Subject: 3.13 Anonymous FTP Sites for HP-UX, and UNIX related software.
Site: ftp://interworks.org/pub/comp.hp
Contents: The InterWorks HP-UX Library in the directory "pub/comp.hp" as
described above. The iworks node also keeps the last 4-6
months of comp.sys.hp.hpux online (via an InterWorks member logon
(see question 3.4 above). An archive going back to June 1990
is available-- contact the InterWorks librarian for details.
Additionally, a large (~1300 line) "HP-UX Troubleshooting
Guide" is available under the InterWorks member logon.
Name: ftp://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk
Contents: Over 1,000 packages ported to HP-UX 8.X and 9.X
Name: http://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk/ or
http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/ or
http://hpux.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/ or
http://hpux.cict.fr/ or
http://hpux.ced.tudelft.nl/ARCHIVE/archive_intro.html or
http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/ or
http://hpux.dsi.unimi.it/
Contents: WWW interface to the above HP-UX archive
Name: gopher://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk
Contents: Gopher interface to the above HP-UX archive
Name: wais://hpux.cict.fr/hpux
Contents: WAIS interface to the above HP-UX archive
There is also a mail server at mail-...@csc.liv.ac.uk for users without FTP.
Name: ftp://hpux.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de
Contents: Official German HP-UX archive site (same as hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk)
Name: ftp://hpux.cae.wisc.edu
Contents: Official US HP-UX archive site (same as hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk)
Name: ftp://hpux.cict.fr
Contents: Official French HP-UX archive site (same as hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk)
Name: ftp://hpux.ced.tudelft.nl
Contents: Official Netherlands HP-UX archive site (same as hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk)
Name: ftp://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca
Contents: Official Canadian HP-UX archive site (same as hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk)
Name: ftp://hpux.dsi.unimi.it
Contents: Official Italian HP-UX archive site (same as hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk)
Site: ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu
Contents: The X Window System and contributed clients.
Site: ftp://waterloo.external.hp.com
Contents: X Window System libraries and utilities.
See /pub/enware/ for X-Terminal software stuff
Site: ftp://ftp-boi.external.hp.com
Contents: Drivers for HP printers.
Site: ftp://lut.fi/pub/hpux
ftp://lut.fi/pub/unix/hp-ux
Contents: Various
Site: ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/arch/hpux
Contents: Various
Site: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu
Contents: The Free Software Foundation's GNU utilities, etc.
Site: ftp://hybrid.irfu.se/pub
Contents: X11 archive and shared libraries, full imake support,
and all missing .h files for both X11R4 and R5, dvi2pcl.
Site: ftp://geod.emr.ca
Contents: GNU stuff ported to HP-UX 9.x by Pierre Mathieu.
Site: http://www.cup.hp.com/netperf/NetperfPage.html
Contents: netperf, a network performance measurement tool.
Site: ftp://jazz.gsfc.nasa.gov
Contents: bathymetry, FFT, graph, pgplot, triangulation, sortroutine
Site: ftp://us.external.hp.com
Contents: HP-UX patches available from FTP for SupportLine customers.
Site: ftp://patch.external.hp.com
Contents: European mirror of us.external.hp.com
Site: ftp://jaguar.cs.utah.edu/dist
Currently available in the "dist" directory:
gdb-4.13.u4
binutils-2.5.2.u4
gcc-2.6.3.u6
libg++-2.6.2.u2
There is no more "hpgdb", and "gas" is now bundled in the binutils.
The prebuilt binaries can be retrieved all at once from
hpuxbin.tar.Z, or in pieces from the hpuxbin directory.
Site: ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/sysadmin/utilities/
Contents: sudo in cu-sudo.v1.3.1-beta9.tar.Z
Site: ftp://ftp.amtp.cam.ac.uk/pub/HP
Contents: ntalk in ntalk.tgz
Site: http://www.am.qub.ac.uk/world/lists/hpmini-l/
Contents: It contains an archive of messages from the HPMINI mailing list
which is dedicated to topics directly relating to Hewlett-Packard
workstations and primarily those running HP-UX.
There are also other pointers to HP-UX information.
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Subject: 3.14 Where can I get a demo CD with software for HP-UX?
See your friendly local HP sales rep to get a copy of the latest
"Power On" CD.
------------------------------
Subject: 3.15 HP-UX patch information
To determine what patches are installed (9.x only):
The standard patch installation will leave a directory in /system
that is is name of the patch. For example, PHSS_3259 creates
/system/PHSS_3259
$lsf /system/PHSS_3259
CDFinfo copyright customize* index new/ orig/
The orig directory contains the modules that were replaced by the patch and
the new directory will contain any modules that were not installed for
whatever reason.
This can take up a lot of space, so you may want to archive this directory
and remove the new and orig sub-directories. You may want to leave the
customize file because it has a list of the modules replaced. To see the
list do:
grep Patch customize | grep -v \#
Another place to look is in /etc/filesets:
$ls /etc/filesets/PHSS*
/etc/filesets/PHSS_1644 /etc/filesets/PHSS_2695 /etc/filesets/PHSS_3060
...
/etc/filesets/PHSS_2686 /etc/filesets/PHSS_3032 /etc/filesets/PHSS_3328
If someone has removed the /system/PHSS* directories and the PHSS*
entries in /etc/filesets, there is no easy way to tell what patches
are installed. You can tell if a given patch has been installed by
comparing what(1) and sum(1) outputs with those given in the
PHSS_nnnn.text file. Refer to question 7.11 about kernel patches.
For 10.x, use the swlist command.
How to get patches:
There are four ways to get patches.
If you have a support contract you can call the Response Center
(800-633-3600) and have the patches sent to you on magnetic media.
If you have Basic support or Response Center support you can access the
Support Line (ftp://us.external.hp.com, ftp://192.6.148.19) and download
patches via ftp, uucp, or kermit. The access can be modem or internet.
Regardless of the support you have, you can get patches via e-mail via the
SupportLine mail service. To get the user guide, send e-mail to
<sup...@us.external.hp.com>, with "send guide" in the text portion
of the message. No subject is required. The result is a plain ASCII version.
In addition to patches, you can also access online problem solving
information, subscribe to mailing lists, and get documents. One interesting
service is the obsolete patch map; to get it,
send "send hp-ux_obs_patch_list" to the mail server.
Or you can get them via the web at http://us.external.hp.com/.
John Morris of the Atlanta Response Center posts a weekly list of new patches
to comp.sys.hp.hpux on Mondays. It tells what's new and what patches are
replaced by the new patches, along with sizes.
------------------------------
Subject: 3.16 How can I send mail to an "hpdesk" address?
For a person whose DESK address is:
JANE DOE /HP1234/XY
Ignore the subentity (XY) and use the form:
jane...@hp1234.desk.hp.com
Send them a test message and tell them to make a note of the return address,
as forming internet addresses on DESK is a little more complicated. If
there is an X.400 system between you and the DESK person, what you get back
may look like a very strange internet address, but it generally works.
Notice the underscore between names. Names can be first_last or last_first,
but first_last is easier to remember and get correct, especially if they have
initials in their name as in fred_...@hpatc1.desk.hp.com. Be sure that the
DESK address they give you is exactly what is reported by DESK when they send
a message to themselves or look at the distribution list on a piece of mail
the recipient already has to verify the address.
(Thanks to Bob Niland and Bill Hassell)
------------------------------
Subject: 3.17 What are the known issues with porting BSD-based programs to HP-UX?
Mike Peterson <sys...@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> periodically posts
his list of BSD-HP tricks to comp.sys.hp.hpux. It is also archived on the
InterWorks FTP site (mentioned above) as "hptricks".
------------------------------
Subject: 3.18 What periodicals are available that focus on HP-UX?
o Interex publishes hp-ux/usr, an HP-UX focused newsletter with numerous
contributions from InterWorks members.
o HP Professional (The Magazine for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Computing)
This magazine covers MPE, HP-UX, PCs, peripherals and Networking for
HP users. Its focus is on both commercial as well as technical
computing. It is published by:
Cardinal Business Media, Inc.
101 Witmer Road
Horsham, PA 19044
(215) 957-1500 FAX: (215) 957-1050
email: sim...@cardinal.com (editor-in-chief)
o The HP Chronicle (The Independent Newspaper for HP Computer Users)
This tabloid-sized newspaper contains news from HP and other vendors
of compatible hardware, software and peripherals. Published by:
Publications and Communications, Inc
12416 Hymeadow Drive
Austin, TX 8750-1896
(512) 250-9023 Fax: (512) 231-3900
email: {cs.utexas.edu, execu, texbell}!pcinews!wks
Compuserve: 76011,307
MCI mail: PCI
EasyLink: 62755060
o Unix Review covers general Unix topics monthly.
(Thanks to Bill Hassell, HP, for most of this)
------------------------------
Subject: 3.19 Books on HP-UX
A recently published book on HP-UX system administration:
'The HP-UX System Administrator's "How To" Book'
by Marty Poniatowski
Prentice-Hall
ISBN 0-13-099821-4
If you're serious about administering HP-UX workstations, get this book.
Unfortunately, it fails to mention the Internet or this FAQ as
alternate resources, but it does discuss InterWorks and Interex.
Marty has now published a 10.x version of this book which
has an ISBN number of 0-13-125873-7.
(Thanks to Mike Taylor, HP)
Learning the HP-UX Operating System
by Marty Poniatowski ISBN 01-13-258534-0
Disk and File Management Tasks on HP-UX
by Tom Madell ISBN 0-13-518861-x
CLUSTERS for High Availability
by Peter S. Weygant ISBN 0-13-494758-4
(Thanx to Pat Goodwin, pgo...@ast.lmco.com)
HP-UX System and Administration Guide, by Jay Shah
published by McGraw-Hill, 1997 (ISBN 0-07-057277-1)
The book's coverage includes SAM, LaserROM, new system installation
(Instant Ignition), Kernel Configuration, I/O buses and backplanes,
Logical Volume Manager, and Performance monitoring.
(Suggested by (surprise! ;-) Jay Shah, jay_...@merck.com)
------------------------------
Subject: 3.20 HP-UX Sysadmin Mailing List
Bart Muyzer runs an HP-UX system administration mailing list. To reach
ALL MEMBERS of the list, send e-mail to <hpux-...@cv.ruu.nl>;
to SUBSCRIBE, send mail to <majo...@cv.ruu.nl> with in the body:
subscribe hpux-admin e-mail address
end
The e-mail address is optional and, when left out, will be set to the contents
of your "From: " line.
To get a list of available commands, send a message containing
help
end
to <majo...@cv.ruu.nl>."
Problems, questions, suggestions and the like should go to the address
"owner-hp...@cv.ruu.nl". You can retrieve the charter from
<majo...@cv.ruu.nl>; send a message containing:
get hpux-admin hpux-admin-policy
end
A copy of the FAQ is available in the same way by sending:
get hpux-admin HP_FAQ
end
(Thanks, Bart!)
------------------------------
Subject: 3.21 HP-related WWW Sites
There are now several sites supporting WWW access on HP-related topics,
including HP itself.
The HP SupportLine World Wide Web service allows you to:
o Resolve software problems by searching up-to-date support and problem-
solving information;
o Browse news and current announcements; and
o Subscribe to automatically receive the latest Hewlett-Packard support
information.
The HP SupportLine World Wide Web service home page is located at URL:
The Hewlett-Packard World Wide Web home page (Access HP) is located at URL:
Please forward all feedback about the HP SupportLine World Wide Web service
to webm...@us.external.hp.com.
Other HP-related WWW sites include:
Site: http://hpwww.epfl.ch/HPUX/tools/disktab.html
http://hpwww.epfl.ch/bench/bench.html
http://hpwww.epfl.ch/
Or send mail to mai...@hpwww.epfl.ch to access disktab info.
Contents: Contains many disktabs for non-HP disks
Site: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/hp-faq/faq.html
Contents: This FAQ.
Site: http://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk/FAQ/
Contents: This FAQ.
Site: http://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk/intro.html
Contents: Interface to the Liverpool archive, including package descriptions,
man pages and screen shots as well as the packages themselves. Also
includes a WAIS server (wais://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/hpux) for searching
HTML documents relating to the archive.
Site: http://hpubgon.norway.hp.com/Faq/
Site: http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/FAQ/
Contents: This FAQ.
Site: http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/intro.html
Contents: Interface to the Wisconsin Liverpool archive mirror, including
package descriptions, man pages and screen shots as well as the
packages themselves.
Site: http://hpux.ced.tudelft.nl/HPUX_ADMIN_ARCHIVE/
Contents: Archive for the hpux-admin mailing list.
Site: http://www.eel.ufl.edu/~scot/tutor/
Contents: HP-UX 9.x Tutorial
Site: http://hpux.ced.tudelft.nl/HPUX_ADMIN_ARCHIVE/index.html
Contents: System Administrators Mailing List for HP-UX
Site: http://hpwww.epfl.ch/
Contents: French speaking HP www support (some info also in english like
benchmarks, disktab entries, etc...)
Site: http://www.eel.ufl.edu/~sessiont/tutorial/tofc.html
Contents: HP-VUE tutorial
Site: http://www.interex.org/
Contents: Information from Interex.
Site: http://www.InterWorks.org/
Contents: Information from InterWorks.
------------------------------
Subject: 3.22 Is there any way to get rid of a frequent poster's posts?
If you wish to remove a frequent poster's posts (ie Joe Bloggs) and most
of the related followups and if you are running rn, put the following
commands in your kill file:
/Joe Bloggs/a:j
/jo...@anyplace.com/a:j
If you are using Gnus (an Emacs-based newsreader), type "M-k" in the
Subject buffer of the relevant newsgroup to expose the killfile,
insert these two lines into the killfile:
(gnus-kill "From" "jo...@anyplace.com" '(gnus-summary-kill-thread nil))
(gnus-expunge "K")
and then type "C-c C-c" in the killfile buffer. From then on, you
will not see any thread trees rooted at an article from Joe Bloggs.
------------------------------
Subject: 3.23 HP 9000 series 500 Mailing List
There now exists a mailing list dedicated to the HP 9000 series 500 machine.
To get on (or off) the list, send email to
<hp9000-50...@nvc.cc.ca.us>
with the word
subscribe
in the subject line.
(Thanks to Chris Osborn, <fozz...@nvc.cc.ca.us>)
------------------------------
Subject: 3.24 HP 3000 FAQ
There is a (slowly forming) HP3000 FAQ available by e-mail to
f...@3k.com, gopher at gopher.3k.com, anonymous ftp at ftp.3k.com, or
www at ftp://ftp.3k.com/3k.htm
It contains a list of the products and vendor names. There is also a
list of HP3000 vendors (on the above machines) with Internet e-mail
access.
(thanks to Chris Bartram, 3K Associates <r...@3k.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 3.25 What is HP's involvement in the HP-related newsgroups?
HP does not, to my knowledge, have a formal policy regarding employee
involvement in the HP-related newsgroups. There is significant
activity from HP employees, typically Response Center engineers and
lab engineers. Much of the information in this document originally
came from internal HP sources.
------------------------------
Subject: 3.26 Who were the former maintainers of the FAQ?
Greg Cagle (gca...@hpupora.nsr.hp.com) from Mentor Graphics was the
FAQ maintainer until November 1994. All entries with no attribution
are Greg's. Thanks for all the work getting the FAQ started and running.
Colin Wynd (co...@col.hp.com) from the NetMetrix Operation in
Hewlett-Packard was the maintainer until November 1995.
Craig Gilmore (cra...@mayfield.hp.com) from Mountain View
Hewlett-Packard was the maintainer until February/96.
Alek Komarnitsky (al...@csc.com) got conned into doing this by
Greg starting in August/96 (where's that six-pack of Hank's?!? ;-)
------------------------------
Subject: 3.27 Where do i get information on HP's Printers?
You can access printer information and software from:
http://hpcc997.external.hp.com/cposupport/cpoindex.html
Site: ftp://ftp-boi.external.hp.com
Contents: Drivers for HP printers.
There is a phone number for ordering printer drivers: (303) 339-7009
------------------------------
Subject: 3.28 Where is the SunOS to HP-UX Porting Guide?
Electronic copies of the guide are available via the Interworks Library.
The Library may be accessed via:
FTP: www.interworks.org
WWW URL: ftp://www.interworks.org
/pub/comp.hp/porting_info/
sun_hpux_port_ascii_0295 ASCII version of the Porting Guide
sun_hpux_port_html_0295.tar WWW HTML version of the Porting Guide
sun_hpux_port_ps_0295.tar Postscript (level 3) version
Hard copies are available free of charge ONLY through your local HP Sales
Representative. Please reference HP Literature Distribution Center
document number 5963-5416E.
(Thanks to John Agosta <ago...@fc.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 4. THIRD PARTY VENDORS
------------------------------
Subject: 4.1 Third party vendors for RAM.
The following vendors are listed in alphabetical order. No guarantees
are made regarding compatibility or relative merit of the vendors.
Camintonn Clearpoint Research Corporation
22 Morgan 1000 E. Woodfield Road, Suite 102
Irvine, CA 92718 Schaumburg, IL 60173
(800) 843-8336 (708) 619-9227
(714) 454-6500
Concorde Technologies Dataram
7966 Arjons Dr. B-201 PO Box 7528
San Diego, CA 92126 Princeton, NJ 08543-7528
(800) 359-0282 (800) DATARAM
(619) 578-3188 (800) 799-0071
Digitial Micronics Eventide
2075 Corte Del Nogal 1 Alsan Way
Unit N Little Ferry, NJ 07643
Carlsbad, CA 92009 (201) 641-1200
Helios Systems Herstal Automation
1996 Lundy Ave 3171 West Twelve Mile Rd.
San Jose, CA 95131 Berkley, MI 48072
(408) 432-0292 (313) 548-2001
(800) 366-0283
IEM Infotek Systems
P.O. Box 1889 625 South Lincoln
Fort Collins, CO 80522 Suite 204
(800) 321-4671 Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
(303) 221-3005 (800) 767-1084
Intelligent Interfaces ISA Ltd
P.O. Box 1486 1-1-5 Sekiguchi
Stone Mountain, GA 30086-1486 Bunkyo-Ku
(800) 842-0888 Tokyo 112 Japan
81-3 (5261) 1160
US Office (Texas)
(713) 493-9925
Kelly Computer Systems Kingston Technology Corporation
1101 San Antonio Rd. 17600 Newhope Street
Mountain View, CA 94043 Fountain Valley, CA 92708
(415) 960-1010 (714) 435-2600
Martech Merida Systems
1151 W. Valley Blvd. (617) 933-6790
Alhambra, CA 91803-2493
(800) 582-3555
(818) 281-3555
MDL Corporation
15301 NE 90th St.
Redmond, WA 98052
FAX (206)861-6767
(800)800-3766
(206)861-6700
Newport Digital R Squared
14731 Franklin Avenue 11211 E. Arapahoe Rd., Suite 200
Suite A Englewood, CO 80112
Tustin, CA 92680 (303) 799-9292
(714) 730-3644 (800) 777-3478
HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
Oldesloer Str.97-99
22457 Hamburg, Germany
+49 40 559 747 - 0
+49 40 559 747 - 77 Fax
email: gf...@hcs.de
(Thanks to Roy McMorran <mcmo...@ll.mit.edu>)
------------------------------
Subject: 4.2! Third party vendors for other things
Vendor Product(s)
------ ----------
Andataco System integrator and peripheral reseller
10140 Mesa Rim Road
San Diego, CA 92009
(619)453-9191
mailto: inq...@andataco.com
Black River Computers Carry both HP Brand equipment and HP
7630 Race Road compatible equipement (memory & disks)
North Ridgeville, OH 44039 Also does on-site service for HP stuff.
800-840-4277, 216-365-9950
FAX: 216-365-3916
http://www.blackriver.com
mailto: to...@blackriver.com Tom Killen
Database Excelleration Systems Solid-state disk emulators (SSDs)
2945 Oakmead Vilage Court Specializing in database accelleration
Santa Clara, CA 95051
FAX: 408-727-5496
(408)727-5497
http://www.desdbx.com
IEM, Inc. Tapes (4mm, 8mm, QIC, 3480), disks,
1629 Blue Spruce Drive optical, floppy and backup software.
Fort Collins, CO 80524 SCSI and HP-IB peripherals.
Voice: (303)221-3005
FAX: (303)221-1909
mailto: in...@iem.com
Imperial Technology Provider of high-performance solid state disks
2305 Utah Ave. and cached disk subsystems designed to increase
El Segundo, CA 90245 the performance of HP-UX based applications.
310-536-0018
www.imperialtech.com
Interphase Corporation High performance bus interfaces (EISA/FDDI,
13800 Senlac VME/ATM.)
Dallas, Texas 75234
(214)919-9000
ITAC Systems, Inc. Supports Mouse-trak trackball for HP-HIL
3113 Benton St.
Garland, Tx 75042
(800)533-4822
mailto: yvo...@moustrak.com
MDL Corporation Disk, tape, optical, jukebox, EISA expansion,
15301 NE 90th St. RAID, others.
Redmond, WA 98052
FAX (206)861-6767
(800)800-3766
(206)861-6700
Modular Industrial MICHIL PS2 to HP-HIL converter. Allows
Computers standard PC keyboards and mice to be connected
(423)499-0700 to HP workstations
Norma Hansen
SBE EISA serial and SCSI boards.
4550 Norris Canyon Road
San Ramon, CA 94583-1389
(510)355-2000
(800)925-2666
fax (510)355-2020
Texas ISA SCSI & HP-IB External Storage Sub-Systems
14825 St. Mary's Lane UNIX Power Management Solutions - Auto
Suite 250 Startup/Shutdown Devices for networked and
Houston, TX 77079 non-networked UNIX systems.
(713)493-9925
(800)361-2258
mailto: sa...@texasisa.com
mailto: sup...@texasisa.com
Vital, Inc. Modern Graphical File Editor With Enhanced
4109 Candlewyck Drive Softbench Encapsulation.
Plano, TX 75024
U.S.A
(214) 491-6907
(214) 491-6909
mailto: in...@vital.com
Workstation Solutions Data backup and recovery solutions.
One Overlook Drive
Amherst, NH 03031-2800
VOX: (603) 880-0080
FAX: (603) 880-0696
mailto: ji...@worksta.com (Jimm Parsons, Technical Services Manager)
Confluent, Inc. UNIX diagramming and flowcharting tools
132 Encline Court for engineering, technical, business graphics
San Francisco, CA 94127
Voice: (415) 586-8700
FAX: (415) 586-8700
mailto: in...@confluent.com
http://www.confluent.com
(Thanks to various contributors)
------------------------------
Subject: 4.3 Do Seagate 9GB drives working with s700 and s800?
The s700's and s800's can't handle anything more than 4Gb (for the
forseeable future including initial 10.0 release). Another vendor,
MDL, sells 9Gb drives with a driver for HP-UX.
MDL can be reached at:
Michael Lampi la...@mdlcorp.com
MDL Corporation (206) 861-6700
15301 NE 90th Street (206) 861-6767 FAX
Redmond, WA 98052 (800) 800-3766
Mosaic: http://www.halcyon.com/mdlcorp/
(thanks to Bill Hassell <b...@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 5. UTILITIES
------------------------------
Subject: 5.1 ASCII to Postscript converter.
You can get an ASCII to Postscript converter from:
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume10/a2ps3.Z
Additionally, nenscript is available from various FTP sites.
------------------------------
Subject: 5.2 How do I make perl on HP-UX?
Reply like this to Configure:
1. When it asks for optimization flags answer
+O1 if you have HP-UX 7.05 or less
-O if you have HP-UX 8.0 or later.
2. When it asks for additional flags to cc answer
-DJMPCLOBBER
3. When it asks for additional libraries answer
-lndbm -lm (ignore the other libraries Configure finds).
You can also safely add -lBSD if you want BSD signal semantics.
4. When it asks if you want to use perl's malloc answer
y
If you have HP-UX 8.07 or later you may choose to answer no to this
since that malloc is OK.
5. When perl asks on which boundary a double must be aligned answer
8 if you are on a 9000/800 or 9000/700 series machine (HP-PA
architecture).
2 otherwise (Motorola 68k architecture)
NOTE: That an already compiled version of Perl 5.000 can be found on the
Liverpool archive and its mirrors.
------------------------------
Subject: 5.3 What is the status of the various gnu items on HP-UX?
Check the Liverpool archive for the latest GNU packages on HP-UX.
------------------------------
Subject: 6. X WINDOW SYSTEM, MOTIF, HP-VUE, AND CDE
------------------------------
Subject: 6.1 X11 libraries (Athena, etc.) and utilities (imake, etc.).
As you may have noticed, HP does not ship a "full" set of X11 libraries and
include files, and does not provide imake or associated tools. There is a HP
maintained, but UNSUPPORTED, set of X11R4 libraries and utilities for the HP
9000 Series 300, 400, 700, and 800. You can get the libraries, include files,
and config files (imake) via anonymous FTP from
ftp://hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com/pub/MitX11R4/libs.s*00.tar.Z
This is also archived on the iworks node as mentioned above. HP has also
submitted X11R5 sources to the iworks node as mentioned above. And, Bo Thide
has X11R4 and R5 support available via anon. FTP as mentioned above.
Note that imake is shipped with HP-UX 10.x.
------------------------------
Subject: 6.2 How can I display an image on the root window with HP-VUE?
Set Vuewm*backdrop*image: none. Note that there is an explicit pick for this
in the Style Manager with HP-VUE 3.0. When the backdrop is clear, you can use
xloadimage, xsetroot, xv, or the like to display the image of your choice.
------------------------------
Subject: 6.3 How do I get a scroll bar on hpterms?
Set the following resources:
HPterm*scrollBar: TRUE
HPterm*saveLines: 1024
or some other other arbitrarily large number. To do this interactively, use
"hpterm -sb -sl 1024". You can also set these in an app-default file
(/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/HPterm). You can also set saveLines to something
like "4s", which indicates four screens.
If you want the VUE panel terminal icon produce hpterm's that have
scroll bars, and also have their login shell run at the startup of
the terminal. To do this you have to modify the default action of the
VUE panel. The easiest way to do this on a system-wide basis is
to edit the "/usr/vue/types/xclients.vf" file. Change the line that says
"hpterm" to "hpterm -ls -sb -sl 400":
/usr/vue/types/xclients.vf
ACTION Hpterm
TYPE COMMAND
WINDOW-TYPE NO-STDIO
EXEC-STRING hpterm -ls -sb -sl 400
DESCRIPTION The Hpterm action starts an hpterm terminal
emulator.
END
(Thanks to Greg Cagle <gca...@hpupora.nsr.hp.com> and
John Kemp <John...@uiuc.edu> )
------------------------------
Subject: 6.4 How can I put a title in my hpterm titlebar?
Here is a two line program that you might find useful:
/* Quick and dirty program to put argv[1] in the title bar of an hpterm
Tom Arons March 1992
*/
#include <string.h>
main(argc,argv)
int argc; char **argv;
{
printf("\033&f0k%dD%s", strlen(argv[1]), argv[1]);
printf("\033&f-1k%dD%s", strlen(argv[1]), argv[1]);
}
An alternative is:
#!/bin/sh
LENGTH=`strlen $1`
echo "&f0k${LENGTH}D$1\c"
That's ESC between the first quote and the f0k.
strlen, in case you don't have it, comes from:
#include <stdio.h>
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
int *argv[];
{
if (argc != 2)
exit(0);
printf("%d\n", strlen(argv[1]));
}
To set the title in the icon:
#!/bin/sh
LENGTH=`strlen $1`
echo "&f-1k${LENGTH}D$1\c"
Where the & is ESC.
(Thanks to Tom Arons <ar...@ash.eecs.ucdavis.edu> and John T. Beck, HP.)
------------------------------
Subject: 6.5 How come my hpterms keep going away by themselves?
You are probably using the C Shell (/bin/csh) and have autologout set (it is
set to 60 minutes by default). Put an "unset autologout" in your
".cshrc".
If you are using the korn shell it is probably due to the value set for
the shell variable TMOUT. Set it to 0 (infinite timeout).
(Thanks to Jim Sharpe <j...@spatial.com> for the Korn Shell information.)
------------------------------
Subject: 6.6 How come my HP X/Motif clients take a LONG time to display on a Sun?
The problem is with the OW3 server. You can request OW3 patch 100444-35 (or
whatever is the current replacement) from Sun to fix the problem. Supposedly
this has been rolled into OW 3.0.1. A workaround is to set the X resource
*useColorObj: False on the Sun.
------------------------------
Subject: 6.7 How can I get my login stuff to work under HP-VUE?
Suggestion 1) The HP-VUE User's Guide suggests that people make a copy
of /usr/vue/config/sys.vueprofile to ~/.vueprofile. This file
contains a detailed set of comments about setting it up so
that their .login/.profile will be sourced correctly (including
details on making sure that tset(1)-like programs are only run
when *NOT* in HP-VUE).
Suggestion 2) When you login via VUE, VUE sources ~/.vueprofile *INSTEAD
OF* your .login (csh), .profile (sh/ksh), and other startup
files. Whatever actions are taken in ~/.vueprofile are
persistent across any children started by VUE. Meaning that
if you symbolic link ~/.vueprofile to your ~/.profile, then
VUE will source your ~/.profile before starting the window
system, and all children (hpterms/xterms and their interactive
shells) will inherit this environment (prompt variables et al).
Documentation indicates your ~/.vueprofile should contain
either csh, or sh/ksh syntax, depending upon what your login
shell is.
When csh is my login shell, I set my ~/.vueprofile to contain
only two lines:
if ( -f /etc/csh.login ) source /etc/csh.login
if ( -f ~/.cshrc ) source ~/.cshrc
When sh/ksh is my login shell, I set my ~/.vueprofile to
contain only two lines:
test -f /etc/profile && . /etc/profile
test -f ${HOME}/.profile && . ${HOME}/.profile
So, before starting the window manager and any clients, VUE
makes sure that all my shell startup files are sourced and all
the variables I want in my shell environment are already there
and waiting for me.
(Thanks to David Masterson <dav...@prism.kla.com>, and
Steve Jumonville, 3com)
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Subject: 6.8 How can I get console messages to go to an hpterm?
You can avoid console messages writing to your graphics planes and trashing
your VUE session by starting an hpterm and designating it to receive console
messages, and to de-iconify, when console messages are received. Put
something like this in your "vue.session" file in ~/.vue/sessions/home.
(line wrapped for readability):
# Start up the Terminal Console as iconic, and raise it if any output
vuesmcmd -cmd "hpterm -C -iconic -ls -sb -sl 256 -name Console -T Console
-xrm *mapOnOutputDelay:\ 30 -xrm *mapOnOutput:\ True
-xrm Console*clientFunctions:\ -close -xrm *workspaceList:\ all"
(Thanks to Steve Jumonville, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 6.9 What happened to the vuewm key accelerators at VUE 3.0?
Well, we don't really know. Here's how to set them, though.
Add an entry like this (you can, of course, customize it to your
liking) to your $HOME/.vue/vuewmrc file:
Menu VueWindowMenu
{
"Restore" _R Alt<Key>F5 f.normalize
"Move" _M Alt<Key>F7 f.move
"Size" _S Alt<Key>F8 f.resize
"Minimize" _n Alt<Key>F9 f.minimize
"Maximize" _x Alt<Key>F10 f.maximize
"Lower" _L Alt<Key>F3 f.lower
no-label f.separator
"Occupy..." _O Alt<Key>O f.workspace_presence
"Occupy all" _a Alt Shift<Key>O f.occupy_all
no-label f.separator
"Remove from WS" _e Alt Shift <Key>F4 f.remove
"Close" _C Alt<Key>F4 f.kill
}
And then add this resource:
Vuewm*windowMenu: VueWindowMenu
And restart the window manager.
(Thanks to Bill Bennett, HP)
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Subject: 6.10 How come I can no longer disable the caps lock key with xmodmap?
A common activity in the past has been to disable the, shall we say,
"placement challenged" caps lock key on the ITF keyboard using a simple
xmodmap script. This no longer works consistently at X11R5/VUE 3.0; the best
solution so far:
In file ~/.vue/sessions/lite/vue.session:
/usr/bin/X11/xmodmap - << EOF
clear lock
keycode 55 = Control_L
keycode 86 = Caps_Lock
keycode 39 = grave asciitilde guillemotleft guillemotright
keycode 71 = Escape
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
EOF
This works until logout/login, when Caps Lock toggles the control feature,
even though 'xmodmap -pm' shows that Lock has no assignments. You have to
restart the server to reset completely, which can be automated by setting the
value
Vuelogin*terminateServer: True
in the file /usr/vue/config/Xconfig.
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Subject: 6.11 How come vi behaves strangely in xterms at 9.01?
Apparantly initial invocation of xterm under csh does not set LINES/COLUMNS
correctly, and vi doesn't handle that real well. One workaround is to put the
following in .cshrc:
if ( $?WINDOWID ) then
set noglob;eval `/usr/bin/X11/resize`;unset noglob
endif
PHSS_2753 addresses this problem.
(Thanks to Raymond Nijssen for the workaround.)
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Subject: 6.12 How do I disable HP-VUE?
There have been several recommendations on this base thread. Here is one that
is documented for X terminals (it works for workstations too). This takes
advantage of the fact that Vue sets several environment variables for the
session, one of which is USER.
Modify the /usr/lib/X11/vue/Vuelogin/Xsession (pre-9.0 HPUX) or the
/usr/vue/config/Xsession (9.0 HPUX and later) file:
1) Go to the portion that contains the coment "Determine the startup
if the user didn't specify one." -- approximately line 295 in an
unaltered version of the file.
2) Add a following case statement to fit your needs. It should look
something like:
case $USER in
martha | joe) startup=${HOME}/.x11start''
esac
You can add as much or little intelligence to this as you like. The above
assumes that the users' have a .x11start script in their home directory, that
its permissions are correct, etc. You can build in a fallback machanism. For
example, the script will check to see if the user has a .x11start script and
if not, to fallback to /usr/lib/X11/sys.x11start. To see an example of this
logic, do a more(1) on /usr/bin/x11start.
The above case statement is documented in Ch 2 of the "HP 700/RX System
Administrators Guide".
Anoter method of disabling VUE assumes you have a .xsession file that
starts up your initial xterms, other programs, and window manager.
Replace your ~/.vueprofile with:
#! /bin/sh
exec sh $HOME/.xsession
Note that the first line was needed, since
/usr/lib/X11/vue/Vuelogin/Xsession looks for the shell it want to use.
(Thanks to Bill Morrison, HP and John Bowe <bo...@osf.org>)
------------------------------
Subject: 6.13 What's a good termcap entry for hpterm?
Although it is not supported for hpterm use, the 262x entry in
/etc/newconfig/termcap will work.
(Thanks to Frank Slootweg, HP)
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Subject: 6.14 My screen is wedged. What should I do?
One thing you can try is to unplug the keyboard for ~5 seconds. Note that
you will have to rerun xset -r to get autorepeat to work after doing this.
(Thanks to Paul Liebert, HP.)
------------------------------
Subject: 6.15 How can I get an X client to come up in an alternate workspace?
You can try:
client -xrm "*workspaceList: <name>"
(Thanks to <fin...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>)
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Subject: 6.16 How can I get HP-VUE to not override colors?
The Motif library on HP-UX has extra code added to make the default colors
follow the color schemes that the user selects with the vuestyle controls.
This extra code makes trouble for some applications which don't want this
unique and unexpected behavior.
You can prevent the entire color scheme mechanism from being used in an
application by setting "*useColorObj: False" for the application before
creating the first widget. This can be done by adding the resource to the
application defaults, the fallback resources, or as an extra "-xrm"
"*useColorObj: False" args pair in the argv and argc parameters passed to
XtAppInitialize. If you set the resource in xrdb it would be best to set
it for only specific applications like "MyApp*useColorObj: False".
Setting the useColorObj resource could make programs core dump on some 8.0*
systems. There is a patch that corrects the core dump.
You can use the vue colors and prevent the specific difference between dialog
colors vs. non-dialog colors by setting a resource that specifies the
behavior of the color scheme mechanism. To force the dialogs to use the same
colors as the other windows set the following resources in your app_defaults
file or fallback settings-
*primaryColorSetId: 3
*secondaryColorSetId: 3
This sets the dialog or "secondary" colors to the same set as the primary
colors. This is discussed in the "HP VUE 3.0 User's Guide" in chapter 26.
(Thanks to Mike Stroyan, HP.)
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Subject: 6.17 How can I override the system default printer in vuepad?
cp /usr/vue/types/vuepad.vf $HOME/.vue/types
Edit the file and change the ACTION PRINT_PR_VPAD to:
# The PRINT_PR_VPAD action paginates its arguments using pr(1) and prints
# them with lp(1). It uses arg 2 for a title. It then removes the temp
# file. This action is used by the client vuepad.
ACTION PRINT_PR_VPAD
TYPE COMMAND
WINDOW-TYPE NO-STDIO
EXEC-HOST %LocalHost%
EXEC-STRING /bin/sh -c "pr -h %Arg_2% %(File)Arg_1% | \
lp -d%"Printer:"%; rm %(File)Arg_1%"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
END
This will cause a dialog box to appear to prompt you for a printer name.
However, if you set LPDEST in your .vueprofile, then lp will use that
value instead of the system default.
(Thanks, Dan Mercer, <dame...@mmm.com>)
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Subject: 6.18 What about X11R6?
The basic core distribution of X11R6 is now installed on the Liverpool FTP
archive. See section 3.12 for details.
Current contents:
XR6src-6.0.part0{1,2,3}.tar.gz
XR6built-6.0.tar.gz
Notes:
- the binaries are designed to be installed in /usr/local/X11R6
(use a symbolic link, or grab the source if you want them elsewhere)
- most libraries come with archive and shared versions
(and the built binaries mostly use the .sl versions)
- this is JUST the core distribution (xc/)
- xc/test and xc/workInProgress aren't included in the built package
(the source is present, but hasn't been looked at in the src packages)
(Thanks to Dave Shield, Liverpool)
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Subject: 6.19 How can I set user-specific app-defaults in HP-VUE?
HP-VUE looks in the directory $HOME/.vue/app-defaults in addition
to the default location (/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults).
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Subject: 6.20 How can I get VUE to share colormap entries:
VUE, by default, allocates several read/write colorcells in the default
colormap so that it can change the VUE colors by just changing the colormap
instead of re-writing all the pixels. Read/write colorcells are not
sharable, and if you have the maximum number of colors selected in your
VUE palette, quite a few are going to get soaked up and not be available
for other color hogs like xv.
If you can live with having to restart VUE whenever you change your palette,
then set the following resource:
*dynamicColor: False
This will cause VUE to allocate read-only cells, which other apps can share.
(thanks to Karl Schulz, HP <k...@fc.hp.com>)
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Subject: 6.21 How can I disallow root login at the console with VUE?
Configure your /usr/vue/config/Xstartup as something like this :
if [ -f /etc/securetty ] &&
# pwget is an HP command which checks also for Yellow Pages.
# exit code from awk is inverted (!) since sh's tests are...
# === a more simple test would be [ "$USER" = root ] ===
pwget -n "$USER" | awk -F: '{ exit !($3 == 0) }'; then
echo Root Login not allowed | /usr/lib/X11/ignition/text_dialog ERROR
exit 1
fi
if [ -f /etc/nologin ]; then
exit 1
fi
exit 0
See man vuelogin(1X) for more details.
(Thanks to Cyrille Lefevre <Cyrille...@ici.der.edf.fr>)
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6.22 id/groups doesn't show secondary groups in dtterm/CDE
Under HP-UX10.20 with CDE, if your account (at least with NIS)
has multiple groups associated with it, the "id/groups" command
will not show the secondary groups inside a dtterm window ...
and they in fact do not work. What is confusing is that they
*do* work when you fire up an Xterm. Note that /etc/logingroup
is correctly symlinked to /etc/group.
Turns out the solution is fairly simple ... apply a patch!
PHSS_8667 fixes a number of CDE related problems, including this one.
Alek Komarnitsky got befuddled by this one for a while (! ;-), and
thanx to mike_s...@fc.hp.com & gr...@hpupora.nsr.hp.com for
identifying this as the fix (didn't pop up in a Mayfield search).
------------------------------
6.23 What type of books are available about CDE and oriented toward HP-UX?
A. The following books are available.
Configuring CDE: Common Desktop Environment
by Charles Fernandez ISBN 0-13-102724-7
Common Desktop Environment 1.0 Advanced User's and
System Administrator's Guide
by CDE Documentation Group ISBN 0-201-48952-X
Mentioned by Pat Godwin (pat.g...@lmco.com)
------------------------------
6.24 Getting mouse button cut-n-paste to work correctly with HPUX10/CDE
Cut-n-paste (with the mouse buttons) does not work correctly between
applications under HPUX10.20 & CDE as delivered by HP. The sys.resources
file needs to have the resource 'enableBtn1Transfer' set to False.
You should do this in either {/etc,/usr}/dt/config/C/sys.resources
depending on how you manage this at your site.
Thanx to Luis P. Caamano (luis_c...@hp.com)
------------------------------
Subject: 7. OPERATING SYSTEM
------------------------------
Subject: 7.1 Can I have filenames longer than 14 chars?
Yes, change to long filenames using /etc/convertfs. You can't go back, though.
Here's how to check if an existing filesystem has long filenames enabled:
# tunefs -v /dev/rdsk/XXX | grep magic
magic 95014 clean FS_OK time Tue Mar 23 14:13:01 1993
\__ if = 95014 then long filenames
\__ if = 11954 then short filenames
You can also look at this on a per directory basis with the POSIX
command getconf:
$ getconf NAME_MAX directory
(Thanks to Ken Burke and Masataka Isoya <Masatak...@jpn.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.2 How can I tell what products have been loaded on my system?
Check the /etc/filesets directory. There is a file there for each fileset that
has been loaded that summarizes the files in that fileset. This directory is
used by the /etc/update, /etc/updist, /etc/netdistd, and /etc/rmfn utilities
for loading and unloading software.
For 10.x, use the swlist command.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.3 How do I safely remove software from my system?
The _only_ safe way to remove HP software is to use /etc/rmfn on 9.x.
On 10.x, use the swremove command.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.4 How can I change the order of hostname resolution?
Patches exist for 9.x that allow hostname resolution with the use of
the nsswitch.conf file (similar to how it is done under Solaris 2.x).
See the latest patch listings for details ... but ones of interest
include PHCO_4439, PHCO_8760, PHNE_4487, PHNE_4563, PHSS_5902, PHSS_7751.
This functionality is built-in/included with 10.x.
Updated by Alek Komarnitsky (al...@csc.com) on 1/2/97
------------------------------
Subject: 7.5 How come the LOGnnnn files in /usr/adm keep growing and growing?
The LOGnnnn files in /usr/adm (8.x except 8.02) or /usr/adm/diag (8.02 and
9.0) are the diagnostic event log files. Most likely the files are growing
for one of two reasons: either the diagnostics system was improperly
installed, or there is an actual hardware problem on the system.
(Thanks to Wayne Krone of HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.6 How come I can't lock mail or other files on a Sun?
Believe it or not, Sun's lockd is broken at 4.1.x. The proper Sun patch
number is Patch-ID# 100075-09, called the "lockd jumbo patch".
------------------------------
Subject: 7.7 Why are mail files in /usr/mail are owned by daemon instead of the recipient?
The mail delivery agent /bin/rmail needs to be able to chown(2) these files.
It can not do so if you have removed the privilege CHOWN (see setprivgrp(1m);
removing CHOWN is recommended to prevent cheating on disk quotas). To get
around this, noting that /bin/rmail runs setgid to group mail, you can grant
privilege CHOWN to group mail only by inserting the line "mail CHOWN" in
/etc/privgroup. The change takes effect on the next reboot, or immediately
if you execute the command "setprivgrp -f /etc/privgroup".
(Thanks to Jim Richardson <ji...@maths.su.oz.au>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.8 How can I tell if I need more than a 2-user license?
There are several fundamental things to remember about HP-UX licensing:
o Series 700 and Series 800 users are now counted the same way
o Display console counts as one user
o Each ASCII terminal counts as a user, regardless of how it is
connected
o The LAN connection counts as one user
ASCII Terminals
The simple rule to remember is any ASCII terminal that is logged in
counts as a user.
ASCII terminal connections can come in several different forms:
o Direct-connected via a serial terminal multiplexer
o Connected via Data Terminal Concentrators (DTCs) or via
terminal servers
o Personal Computers (PCs) acting in terminal emulation mode,
whether connected via serial line or via Local Area Network (LAN)
X-terminals and workstations
When a customer buys an X-terminal or workstation from HP or from
another vendor, HP acknowledges that the customer has also bought a
single Unix license-to-use.
Therefore, the customer has the right to an unlimited number of logins and
terminal windows _over_the_LAN_ to a Series 700 or Series 800 from either
X-terminals or workstations. These logins can be via X terminal windows
(_hpterm_ and _xterm_), _telnet_, _rlogin_, or other means.
PC's that use X-terminal emulation software such as XView each count the
same as an X terminal. This is because the PC essentially becomes an
X-terminal when it is running the X server software. Therefore, when a PC
is running an X-terminal emulator, the PC has the right to an unlimited
number of logins to an HP-UX system.
Exceptions
The policy of counting DTC users is new for the Series 700. Customers who
purchased Series 700 systems prior to HP-UX 9.0 shipments (late calendar
1992) and use them as host systems for multiple DTC- connected terminals,
may continue to use those configurations without buying a license upgrade.
An update to HP-UX 9.0 will not lock out these configurations.
(Thanks to Tony Hart, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.9 How can I tell what patches are in the kernel?
On 9.x, "what /hp-ux" will present you with patch strings, which you can compare
with the strings called out in the patch text file. A typical patch
string is:
PATCH_8.07 nfs_vnops.c 1.15.61.4 92/01/10 PHKL_0736 PHKL_0942
which shows that PHKL_0942 has been applied to the kernel.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.10 How come I have to hit return after control-d in the Korn shell?
You need to set the "viraw" option.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.11 How do I boot into single user mode?
Press ESC to stop the auto-boot.
When the list of boot devices is presented:
b PX ISL (where X is your root disc)
And at the ISL> prompt:
ISL> hpux -iS disc(;0)/hp-ux
The '-iS' are the flags to init which says come up single user. The rest of
the command is what the bootprocess does automatically.
(Thanks to Stuart Jarriel <stu...@TIVOLI.COM>.)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.12 How come my Korn shell login hangs?
This can happen if the user's home directory is across an NFS mount point; you
can workaround the problem by completely unprotecting (chmod 777) .sh_history,
or by pointing HISTFILE to somewhere local.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.13 How can I avoid those annoying copyright notices on login?
The following code in /etc/profile prints the copyright notice the first
time each user logs in:
NUMLOGINS=`/etc/last -2 $LOGNAME | wc -l`
if [ $NUMLOGINS -lt 2 ]
then
cat /etc/copyright
fi
And, for /etc/csh.login:
set NUMLOGINS=`/etc/last -2 $LOGNAME | wc -l`
if ( $NUMLOGINS<2 ) cat /etc/copyright
(Actually, each user will get the copyright on their first login after each
time the /etc/wtmp file is pruned, but that needn't be often.)
(Thanks to Paul Gootherts <p...@cup.hp.com>, Steve Dum
<stev...@mentorg.com> and John Pelan <J.P...@Queens-Belfast.ac.uk>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.14 How can I turn off quota checking?
Suggestions:
1] rmfn quota fileset. This will still allow you to keep using quotas,
as long as the nfs-server still has quota enabled, and is exporting it
with all the quota stuff turned on, even though the HP itself might not
have it. Watch out tho, since this deletes /usr/bin/quota :) So make
a copy, if you still want to have the ability to do "quota -v" and
stuff around.
2] mv /usr/bin/quota /usr/bin/quota_check. cp /bin/true /usr/bin/quota.
This will still make the login program do the quota-check, but at least
it goes by very very quickly now (as opposed to actualy checking every
single nfs-mount with quota, and so on.) Then, just run quota_check
whenever you want.
3] Remove execute permissions for /usr/bin/quota as in:
$ chmod -x /usr/bin/quota
This prevents quota from running. It's also a self documenting flag
in that a future system manager who tries to run /etc/quota will get
the "can not execute" error message.
4] chmod -x /usr/bin/quote /etc/edquota
This appears to turn quota's completely off (which is what I
suspect the vast majority of people want) and not only speeds
up the login process, but you don't get any annoying messages.
(thanks to Paul Hirose <pthi...@engr.ucdavis.edu>, and
Alek O. Komarnitsky <al...@csc.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.15 How can I track log files and core files?
At 9.x, SAM allows you to track all standard log files and trim them if
desired. It will also find all core files on a file system and allow you
to get rid of them.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.16 How much memory can a process use?
The first limiter is probably swap space. The combined virtual data space
of all running processes can't exceed swap size. Run /etc/swapinfo -t and
look at the total line. That's all you have left.
For FORTRAN programs:
--------------------
1) Increase the kernel's stack limit (maxssiz). You can do this with
sam (Kernel Configuration-> Modify Operating System Parameters->
Process Parameters). The practical limit for user stacks is around
80 Mbytes. Your system probably has an 8 Mbyte limit. Try 16 Mbytes
or 32 Mbytes depending on your expected use. Give sam a number that
is a multiple of the 4096-byte pagesize.
2) Change your array allocation. HP FORTRAN allocates non-common,
non-SAVE'd arrays on the process stack. Common blocks and SAVE'd
variables are allocated in the process data segment (with much larger
size limits). If your arrays are declared in the main program and
passed to subroutines, you can just SAVE the big ones in the main
program, or put them in a common block in the main program, or
recompile with -K since -K puts all local variables in the data
segment. (-K is a sledgehammer approach, but it gives you a quick
indication that stack size is the issue.)
3) Make sure you have enough swap space.
-------------------
(Thanks to Bob Montgomery, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.17 How can I make a ramdisk?
THIS IS UNSUPPORTED. Make sure 'ram' is configured into your kernel, and then
make device files with major 9 (both blcok and char), minor 0xVSSSSS, where
V is the volume number, SSSSS is the number of sectors in the ram disk, and
a sector is 256 bytes. For example,
mknod /dev/ram1m c 9 0x101000
makes a 1 meg ram disk. Of course, you have to make a file system on it and
mount it to make it useful:
mkfs /dev/ram1m 1024
Note that you will have to make a block device also.
This works for all 9.x systems.
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Subject: 7.18 What's a good strategy for clearing /tmp and /usr/tmp?
Two suggestions (to be run from cron) are below. The first being the
optimal solution:
#!/bin/sh
DAYS=7
find /tmp /usr/tmp -depth -hidden -fsonly hfs -atime +$DAYS -exec rm -rf {} \;
The -depth option ensures no directory is removed before its contents,
-fsonly hfs is because occasionally I've NFS-mounted stuff there and
it's better to do the clearing in the machine where it's local,
and -hidden is in case CDF's appear there for some reason.
(Thanks to Tapani Tarvainen and Michael Sternberg <m...@po.cwru.edu>)
#!/bin/sh
DAYS=7
DIRS="/tmp /usr/tmp"
find $DIRS -type d -atime +$DAYS -exec rm -rf {} \;
find $DIRS ! -type d -atime +$DAYS -exec rm -f {} \;
(Thanks to Rich Jennings, HP and Michael Sternberg <m...@po.cwru.edu>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.19 How can I change the timezone?
Edit the entry in /etc/src.sh and /etc/src.csh, and reboot.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.20 How can I look at what my system is doing?
The best tool for monitoring your system is HP GlancePlus. In the U.S. call
(800) 237-3990 for a trial version. Outside the U.S. contact your HP sales
representative. HP sells other performance tools as well including HP
Performance Collection Software, HP PerfRX (for long-term performance
analysis of a single system), and HP PerfView which runs under OpenView
(for simultaneous monitoring of a network of systems including HP-UX, Sun
Sparc, and IBM AIX). You can also use /usr/contrib/bin/monitor if it
exists on your system, but it is not as accurate or reliable as GlancePlus,
and is not an HP supported product.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.21 How can I partition HP-UX disks on 700s at 9.x?
Here is a sample file which lists the sdsadmin commands to partition a disk
into 2 partitions. Note that this is specific to the M2654SA disk;
your mileage may vary. The mediainit is probably not required if the vendor
has formatted/verified the disk. It is not "supported" to partition
the boot disk, and you have to go through some contortions to do it.
Note also that in order to have several partitions on the root disk
AND have swap, you must create another partition which you dedicate
to swap.
Note that 10.x s700 systems support LVM, which allows great flexibility
in partitioning.
#
# SDS configuration file for this node.
#
# To rebuild the /u1 and /news Fujitsu M2654SA disk partitions, do:
# mediainit -v /dev/rdsk/c201d5s0
# sdsadmin -m -C /usr/local/etc/sdsadmin.config.u1news /dev/dsk/c201d5s0
# newfs -L -n -v -m 2 -i 16384 /dev/rdsk/c201d5s1 HP_M2654Su1x1-2
# newfs -L -n -v -m 2 -i 2048 /dev/rdsk/c201d5s2 HP_M2654Su1x1-2
#
# Disk partitions:
#
# 1 /u1 145xxxx 1K blocks (/dev/dsk/c201d5s1, /dev/rdsk/c201d5s1)
# 2 /news 55xxxx 1K blocks (/dev/dsk/c201d5s2, /dev/rdsk/c201d5s2)
# - ----- -------
# 2006016 1K blocks
#
type M2654Su1x1-2
label u1_news
partition 1
size 1450000K
partition 2
size max
(Thanks to Mike Petersen and Timothy Mooney <moo...@pinky.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu>)
Here's some more text on this from "Jeff L. Cooke"<jeff....@lmco.com>
(1) Create an Array Description File (in this case, you might
want to call it a partition description file):
# SDS array description file.
#
type TYPE_NAME # Anything you want to make up
label sample # again, anything you like
# /filesystem1
partition 1
size 100M
# /filesystem2
partition 2
size 100M
# /filesystem3
partition 3
size max
Details on creating ADFs are in man 1M sdsadmin.
(2) Initialize your media (if required): mediainit -v /dev/rdsk/
c201d5s0
(we'll use the name /dev/rdsk/c201d5s0 for the raw device name
in the examples here)
(3) Use the sdsadmin command to create the partitions:
sdsadmin -m -C <filename of your ADF> /dev/rdsk/c201d5s0
(4) Make the filesystems with newfs:
newfs -L -n -v /dev/rdsk/c201d5s1 HP_TYPE_NAME
newfs -L -n -v /dev/rdsk/c201d5s2 HP_TYPE_NAME
newfs -L -n -v /dev/rdsk/c201d5s3 HP_TYPE_NAME
(5) Make these manual additions to /etc/checklist:
/dev/dsk/c201d5s1 /usr/spool/filesystem1 hfs defaults 0 1 #
/dev/dsk/c201d5s2 /usr/spool/filesystem2 hfs defaults 0 2 #
/dev/dsk/c201d5s3 /usr/spool/filesystem3 hfs defaults 0 3 #
(6) Prepare to mount the new filesystems:
If this is a "clean" machine (i.e. these filesystems are not
currently directories), then you must simply create the mount
points (i.e. make empty directories with the same name as the
filesystems you are creating.
mkdir /usr/spool/filesystem1
mkdir /usr/spool/filesystem2
mkdir /usr/spool/filesystem3
If the new filesystems correspond to existing directories,
then you will need to move the content of the directories
aside or remove the content (since, after mounting the
directories will be inaccessible). Make sure you leave the
directories as mount points.
(7) Mount the filesystems: mount -a
(8) Replace all of the files/directories you moved in step (5).
------------------------------
Subject: 7.22 How can I print man pages successfully?
To get the italic and bold fonts from the man file on a LaserJet:
zcat manfile.1 | nroff -man -Tlj | lpr ...
On a PostScript printer ( you need the GNU groff):
zcat manfile.1 | groff -man -Tps | lpr ...
If your man file is a complex one including tables, pipe it through tbl.
Some man pages like ioctl may need the HP macros:
zcat manfile.1 | groff -t -e -C -M/usr/lib/tmac -man -Tps | lp ...
(Thanks to Poul Moller, Markus Gyger)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.23 How can I limit core files?
HP-UX has no built in function to limit core file generation from the standard
shells; one way to limit core file generation is to create a directory called
"core" with 000 permissions in the directory in which you expect a core dump
to occur. Additionally, two programs are available (nocore and corelimit)
that can be used as wrappers around other programs that you may expect to
dump. And, some publicly available shells (tcsh, for example) allow core
file limits. Or, you can place a link called "core" to /dev/null in the
directory you expect the core dump to occur.
Note that at 10.10 and newer HP-UX revisions, the csh limit commands
work as you would expect.
Here is the source for corelimit (thanks to John Agosta, HP). It is
completely unsupported; the Response Center will disavow all knowledge
of you and your mission should you call them with a problem relating
to this. Build it in the usual way (cc -o corelimit corelimit.c) and use it
in the format of: "corelimit hpterm 0". This will limit the core file
size of all children of the hpterm process to 0.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
#define RLIMIT_CORE 4 /* core file size */
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
int res;
struct rlimit rlp;
if (argc != 3) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: wrong number of parameters\n", argv[0]);
fprintf(stderr, "\tformat: %s command core_size\n", argv[0]);
exit(-1);
}
rlp.rlim_cur = atoi(argv[2]);
res = setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &rlp);
if (res < 0) {
perror("setrlimit: RLIMIT_CORE");
exit(-2);
}
system(argv[1]);
}
Or, you can edit /etc/vuerc to start all of VUE that way:
at line 22 replace:
exec $VUELOGIN $VL_ARGS </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
by:
exec /usr/local/bin/nocore $VUELOGIN $VL_ARGS </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
(thanks to Jean-Claude Arnouil, <arno...@esiee.fr>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.24 Can I put more than one backup on DDS with fbackup?
No. fbackup always rewinds the tape. Possible alternatives:
(1) Stick with dump/cpio/tar.
(2) Use a pipe: instead of telling fbackup where the DAT is,
let it send its output to stdout (-f -) and pipe it to the DAT, using
Berkeley no-rewind device and dd with a suitable block size (e.g., 10K).
You'll lose fast search and resync after error functionality, though.
Also, the complexities of managing multiple archives per tape make this
a high-risk proposition.
(3) Turn your machines into a cluster served by the one with the DAT
and do all backups there. Unfortunately clusters are
not supported at hp-ux 10.0, so this is not a long-term solution.
(4) Use NFS and mount the disks of the machine without DAT to the other
and back them both up there. You'll have to mount 'em with root
permissions and restoring a completely destroyed root disk will be messy.
(5) Scream at HP until they fix fbackup. :-)
(Thanks to Tapani Tarvainen <t...@math.jyu.fi> and
David Kinsell <kin...@csn.net>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.25 How can I load multiple patches on a machine at the same time?
The easiest way to do it is to set up a netdist server by using /etc/updist
to load all the patches you want into a netdist area, and then starting
/etc/netdistd. At 10.x, use swcopy on each patch to copy the patch into
a central depot, then use swinstall to install from the depot.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.26 How can I set up an HP-UX workstation as an X terminal?
Install minimum OS with network and X11 (without motif or vue).
Edit /etc/inittab, change the following lines
init:2:initdefault:
vue :34:respawn:/etc/vuerc # VUE validation and invocation
to
init:3:initdefault:
vue :34:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/X -query HOSTNAME # X server startup
Replace HOSTNAME by the name of the host running xdm, vuelogin or whatever.
(thanks to Kay Marquardt, <K.Mar...@zhv.basf-ag.de>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.27 What causes "Unable to initialize MI" when running Glance?
This error can occur for many different reasons but it indicates that the
glance program had trouble starting the midaemon process. Further details
are available in ~/glance.err and/or /usr/perf/log/`hostname`/midaemon.err.
See man midaemon(1).
Older revisions of HP GlancePlus (prior to B.09.00 for series 700/800
systems and prior to A.09.07 for series 300/400 systems) had a Known
Problem in which it was occasionally necessary to issue the following
command when the above error occurred:
rm /usr/perf/databases/`hostname`/*.data
Do NOT remove other files in the directory /usr/perf/databases/`hostname`/
because they may be required for other performance tools such as HP PerfRX
or HP PerfView.
This problem has been fixed in the current release of HP GlancePlus (versions
B.09.00 or greater for s700/800).
Please contact your HP Support Representative when you experience problems
with HP software products. Your HP support contact will know how to obtain
additional information to characterize your specific problem. Please
note the product version (ie: "what /usr/perf/bin/glance") when reporting
problems.
(thanks to Doug Grumann <do...@hpptc3.rose.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.28 How come I can't get all of my swap space?
The default value of the kernel parameter "maxswapchunks" limits the swap
accessible by the kernel to 512M; if you configure more swap, you need
to increase maxswapchunks.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.29 How come I can't start my Aserver?
Often this is because "localhost" isn't configured in DNS. Try:
nslookup localhost
If that command fails, you will want to have an entry added to your
name servers for "localhost.your.particular.domain" pointing at
127.0.0.1.
(thanks to rick jones, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.30 How can I get a daemon to successfully start from /etc/rc at 9.x?
A) /etc/rc will kill all child processes on exit; daemons started from
localrc() (for example) must have called setsid() and have been
given time to daemonize (what a word!) themselves.
If your system doesn't have the C compiler you can use a call to nohup to
start the daemon instead of calling setsid().
B) Another trick that works is to include the following command in the rc file:
/usr/bin/at now + 1 minute < /etc/rc.at
Then create a file named /etc/rc.at, which should contain the command to
start the daemon. Your daemon will start 1 minute after the rc file
calls the command. You can use times other than 1 minute.
(thanks to Mike Peterson, <sys...@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, and
Noel Hunter <no...@wfu.edu>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.31 How come my /dev/null keeps getting blown away?
Apparantly this can occur if root invokes the C compiler on a nonexistent
file at 9.x.
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Subject: 7.32 How can I track network packets?
*******************************************************
*
* Network Tracing with nettl - for HPUX 8.x and up
*
*******************************************************
TRACING - trace all packets seen by the device driver
on the HP nodes, except diskless packets.
These packets are those packets sent by the
node, or addressed to the node.
1. Start Trace - put data into 1MB trace file. The data
will be stored in /tmp/raw.TRC0 and /tmp/raw.TRC1
The most recent data will always be in TRC0, when
it fills up, TRC0 is renamed TRC1, and new logging
continues in the TRC0 file. They fill up quickly!
/etc/nettl -tn pduin pduout -e all -f /tmp/raw
If neding to trace LOOPBACK interface as well,
consider:
/etc/nettl -tn pduin pduout loopback -e all -f /tmp/trace
2. Stop trace as soon as an event occurs!
/etc/nettl -tf -e all
3. Format trace into a print file:
/etc/netfmt -N -n -l -f /tmp/raw.TRC0 [ -c /tmp/filter ] > /tmp/fmt0
/etc/netfmt -N -n -l -f /tmp/raw.TRC1 [ -c /tmp/filter ] > /tmp/fmt1
-N - print in "nice" format (e.g. interpret)
-n - print IP addresses, not hostnames
-l - do not highlight fields (for hpterm)
-f - optional, use a filter file (see "filtering", below)
NOTE - netfmt takes a while to run!
There will be plenty of info in the trace file -
Interpretation may be necessary!
3a. Filtering. Create a filter file to tell netfmt what packets you
are interested in seeing.
E.g. only display packets to/from IP address 192.10.10.1:
filter ip_saddr 192.10.10.1
filter ip_daddr 192.10.10.1
Filter out all put NFS packets (to/from UDP port 2049)
filter udp_sport 2049
filter udp_dport 2049
Filter out all but TCP packets to/from port 25 (sendmail)
filter tcp_sport 25
filter tcp_dport 25
Filter on ethernet addresses:
filter dest 08-00-09-49-91-4a
filter source 08-00-09-49-91-4a
You can put these together (e.g. filter all NFS packets to/from IP addr)
filter ip_saddr 192.10.10.1
filter ip_daddr 192.10.10.1
filter udp_sport 2049
filter udp_dport 2049
(thanks to Brian Hackley, <hac...@apollo.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.33 How come my processes keep dying at 67M memory usage?
You need to adjust the kernel parameter "maxdsiz"; by default the per
process data space is limited to 67M. Adding physical memory and swap
will have no effect until you modify the parameter.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.34 Is it possible to artificially limit the memory size?
WARNING: this is non-standard, unsupported, and may change
from release-to-release.
For 9.01 and 9.03, there is a variable in the kernel called
"soft_pages". The value is normally zero. If set to some number
between 256 and the number of pages in your system, only that number
of pages will be allocated as the physical memory in your system.
To use this, first copy your kernel from /hp-ux to something else,
so that you can recover, if necessary (this variable can be set to
a small enough value that the system will be unbootable). Then
to set up a, say, 16 MByte system, do:
adb -w /hp-ux
soft_pages?W 0D4096
or
soft_pages?W 1000
Remember that the number of physical pages is not the only thing that
goes into a minimum configuration---you also have to scale kernel
parameters such as nproc and other tunables appropriately.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.35 How come my alt key combinations don't work in emacs X mode?
Run the following through xmodmap:
!
! The following is modified from some code received from bja...@hsr.no
! (Bjarne Steinsbo):
!
keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
keysym F12 = Multi_key
clear mod1
add mod1 = Meta_L
clear mod2
add mod2 = Alt_R Mode_switch
! This is magic!
keysym Alt_R = Mode_switch
The result is:
- The left Alt key acts as the Meta key.
- The right Alt key (Alt Gr) selects the extra characters Martin is talking
about. (e.g. AltGr-o = o).
- It is even possible to use both Alt keys together, resulting in
Meta-versions of the extra characters.
(Thanks to Geir Atle Storhaug <g...@globus.ffi.no>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.36 I can't get FLEXlm based licensing to work.
For some reason, Flex licensing requires /dev/lan0 to have read and write
permissions for everybody. This is somewhat insecure, but is fixed in FLEXlm
versions after 2.4. You should really upgrade your software, but if you can't,
pls see their Web Site (see below) or here is one workaround:
1. Create a new group call "lan0".
2. chgrp/chmod /dev/lan0 to look like this:
crw-rw---- 1 root lan0 52 0x202000 May 20 1993 /dev/lan0
3. chgrp/chmod g+s on any binaries that need to access /dev/lan0.
For example, for Interleaf, we did this to /interleaf/ileaf5/hp700/bin:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 compsci lan0 5255168 Jan 29 1992 ileaf
Note also that you may or may not get Flex licensing to work with
the FDDI daughter card, particularly if there is no Ethernet card.
Under 9.01, the Flex utility lmhostid would not return the LAN
address from the FDDI daughter card. This may have been fixed at 9.03
or 9.05, but that has not been confirmed. Additionally, PHNE_4003
is supposed to fix the problem for 9.01.
(Thanks to Richard Lloyd, Liverpool and Greg Vasquez, HP)
ri...@globes.com (Rich Mirabella) says that FDDI stuff is mostly fixed
now for more recent versions of HP-UX ... and that more info about
FLEXlm can be found at http://www.globetrotter.com
------------------------------
Subject: 7.37 How can I set up group-based FTP access?
Here is how to set up ftp so that a group of users only have ftp access,
they all have their own individual passwd, but they all access the same
set of files (i.e., the system thinks they are all really the same ftp
user). With only a slight change, you can have a group of users that
only have ftp access, each with their own individual passwd, and access
only to their own set of files (this is left as an exercise for the
reader).
1) Set up anonymous ftp (assumed in later instructions to be at
/users/ftp).
2) Add a user and group to /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
For example, in /etc/passwd:
ftpuser:*:1000:1000:FTP User:/users/ftp/ftpusers:/bin/false
and in /etc/group:
ftpgroup:*:1000:ftpuser
Note that ftpuser login is disabled (a "*" in the password field).
This allows various utilities (such as "ls") to recognize files
that belong to an ftp user (particularly important for backups).
3) In /users/ftp/etc, you must have a group and passwd file, of the same
format as their related system files. For example, in
/users/ftp/etc/group add:
ftpgroup:*:1000:
and in /users/ftp/etc/passwd add:
ftpuser:*:1000:1000:FTP User:/ftpusers:/bin/false
Also, for each individual that you want to give access, add an
additional entry. Note that these have passwords (see passwd(1)
for instructions on setting passwords in this file).
george:3RgfBzfnipJPQ:1000:1000:George Smith \
(FTP User):/ftpusers:/bin/false
A few things to notice. "ftpuser" is disabled. The home directory
for ftpuser is simply "/ftpusers", since anonymous ftp performs a
chroot to the home directory specified for ftp in /etc/passwd (see
chroot(2) and chroot(1M) for details). "george" has the
same uid, gid, and home directory that ftpuser has. "george"
will login as george with his own password.
4) Under /users/ftp, create a directory "ftpusers". Make this
directory with owner "ftpuser" and group "ftpgroup", with 770
permissions. This effectively prevents anonymous ftp access to this
directory, since it is not world readable/writable.
That's it.
Users access the system via anonymous:
$ ftp sysname
Connected to sysname.whatever.
220 sysname FTP server
Name (something:someuser): ftp
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>
Then, they use a sublogin to access their files:
ftp> user george
331 Password required for george.
Password:
230 User george logged in.
ftp> pwd
257 "/ftpusers" is current directory.
ftp>
Users are placed in whatever directory is specified as their
home directory in /users/ftp/etc/passwd (relative to the
chroot at /users/ftp).
To remove access, remove their passwd entry from
/users/ftp/etc/passwd.
This is all documented (though poorly) in the various ftp related man
pages.
(thanks to Aaron Friesen of HP <aar...@fc.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.38 How come my 700 doesn't perform as well as I expect?
There are, of course, many answers to that question. Many people
have noticed that HP's conservative choices in some configuration
areas affect performance, especially relevant to Sun workstations.
Two examples:
fs_async kernel parameter. HP-UX by default makes all file system
I/O synchronous. Sun, by contrast, defaults to asynchronous I/O
and depends on the syncer. Setting this parameter to 1 can
significantly increase write speeds, but at the risk of losing
data in a system crash. You can change this parameter with SAM.
SHARE_MAGIC vs. DEMAND_MAGIC. HP binaries by default are SHARE_MAGIC.
This means that ALL pages needed are read in at invocation time.
Sun, by contrast, implements demand paging by default, which
speeds up the invocation time at the cost of page I/O later
in process execution. You can change the behavior on HP binaries
by using the chatr command.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.39 How do I convert the uname string to the model string?
Here's the relationship for the most common HP-UX machines:
Model number on the String returned
outside of the box by uname -m
------------------- ---------------
default ----------> 9000/800
E25 --------------> 9000/806
E35 --------------> 9000/816
E45 --------------> 9000/826
E55 --------------> 9000/856
F10 --------------> 9000/807
F20 --------------> 9000/817
H20 --------------> 9000/827
K400 -------------> 9000/829
F30 --------------> 9000/837
G30/H30 ----------> 9000/847
I30 --------------> 9000/857
G40/H40 ----------> 9000/867
I40 --------------> 9000/877
G50/H50 ----------> 9000/887
I50 --------------> 9000/897
G70/H70 ----------> 9000/887
I70 --------------> 9000/897
G60/H60 ----------> 9000/887
I60 --------------> 9000/897
T500 -------------> 9000/891
9000/800 is the default used when HP-UX cannoot determine the model
number of the machine. Other than prototypes, no properly configured machine
should return 9000/800. A customer machine returning 9000/800 should have its
stable storage updated by Support.
BTW, if you're running 10.0 or later you can use the "model" command to
get an expanded model string. For example:
$ uname -m
9000/829
$ model
9000/829/K400
(Thanks to Wayne Krone (w...@cup.hp.com), and
Colin Wynd (co...@col.hp.com))
------------------------------
Subject: 7.40 Problem with ntalkd and it's handling on /etc/utmp.
The current version of ntalkd (talkd is probably the same here),
and it's handling of /etc/utmp is broken since it doesn't check
the ut_type field. This causes it to send messages to logged out
tty's rather than to those who are logged in on. The patch is easy
luckily and also applies to most other unix's except really BSD4.2
ones and SunOS4.
The patch is availalable on ftp.amtp.cam.ac.uk:/pub/HP/ntalk.tgz.
(Thanks to Bill Hassell <b...@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>,
Jon Peatfield <J.S.Pe...@amtp.cam.ac.uk>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.41 How to get an MS-DOS floppy formatted using HP-UX?
There is no HP-fully-supported way of getting an MS-DOS floppy formatted
on HP-UX. (Once you have a PC-compatible floppy, the series of commands
referenced in the dosif(4) manpage allow you to read and write the floppies).
However, there is a workaround. Perform the basic mediainit with the
-f16 switch (this causes the floppy to be formatted with the full 80
tracks, rather than HP's default safer-but-nonstandard 77+3spare tracks,
512-byte sectors, no sector skew: just like the most basic PC floppies).
Then copy on the FAT, directory, label, and other such magic from an
honest-to-goodness formatted-on-a-real-PC drive into the first N sectors.
For sizes up to 1.44MB floppies, N=20 is more than enough; I don't have
the values for the rarely used 2.88MB size (and I don't think the drives
in the s700 handle that size anyway). This header magic should be copied
off an honest-to-goodness PC floppy once with the command
dd if=/dev/rfloppy of=/a/good/place/to/store/the/header bs=512 count=20
and then written back to each "cloned" floppy with the same command,
reversing "if" and "of". (Slightly faster performance is possible using
the variant:
dd of=/dev/rfloppy if=/the/copied/header ibs=512 count=20 obs=9k conv=sync
This causes floppy I/O to be done in multiples of 9kB, i.e. one cylinder
at a time.)
You should of course have two such headers, one for 720kB and one for
1.44MB floppies: lying to MS-DOS or the dos* utilities about the floppy
capacity would be a bad idea. If you're writing a script to automate
all this, you can determine the capacity of a floppy loaded in the drive
using the following fragment of Korn shell:
kbsize=$( diskinfo -b /dev/rfloppy 2>/dev/null )
if (( $? != 0 || $kbsize == 0 )) ; then
print -u2 "$0: Wot, no media!?"
rm -f core # 9.01s700 diskinfo coredumps
exit 1
fi
(Thanks to Stefek Zaba <sj...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.42 How to get the MAC (station) address programmatically?
Here's some sample LLA code to do this. Note that you can use DLPI to do
the same, and LLA in not supported in HP-UX 10.0. Sample DLPI code
can be found on HPSL, the document id is CWA940907000.
/*
Here's some sample code that you can use to get your own
station address (otherwise known as MAC address or LAN card address).
Be sure to compile this with the -ln option, since the net_ntoa(3N)
call is found in /usr/lib/libn.a.
This program was compiled by doing: cc get.c -o get -g -ln
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <netio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
struct fis s_fis;
struct fis s_fis;
int lanic;
char *ascii[6];
if (argc < 2) {
printf ("Usage: %s <device file>\n", argv[0]);
exit (1);
}
lanic = open(argv[1], O_RDWR);
if (lanic < 0) {
perror("Error in opening %s", argv[1]);
printf("Error = %d\n", lanic);
exit(1);
} else {
s_fis.reqtype = LOCAL_ADDRESS;
s_fis.vtype = INTEGERTYPE;
ioctl(lanic, NETSTAT, &s_fis);
net_ntoa(ascii, s_fis.value.s, 6);
printf("Station address of %s is %s\n", argv[1], ascii);
s_fis.reqtype = PERMANENT_ADDRESS;
s_fis.vtype = INTEGERTYPE;
ioctl(lanic, NETSTAT, &s_fis);
net_ntoa(ascii, s_fis.value.s, 6);
printf("Permanent Station address of %s is %s\n", argv[1], ascii);
close(lanic);
}
}
(Thanks to Colin Wynd <co...@col.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.43 Is there a Transport Level Interface (TLI) interface to TCP on HP-UX?
In HP-UX 10.0 a special module has been created which provides XTI access
over the BSD stack - TLI is not supported. TLI, for the most part after
SVID 3 volume 5, has stopped evolving and is being replaced by XTI in
most implementations. XTI is standardized by X/Open and the current
versions from most vendors should be XPG4 compliant with some being
branded as the branding test suites are made available by X/Open.
Note the reason one needs a streams-based TCP is that both TLI and XTI
rely upon a streams-based module, timod, to provide specific functionality
within the kernel and this module needs to be pushed upon the transport
stack. Since HP-UX uses a BSD transport which is not streams-based and
is therefore incapable of having a streams-based module pushed upon it,
one can not run TLI/XTI directly upon it, and, hence, a special streams
module was created to provide this functionality for HP-UX 10.0.
(Thanks to Mike Krause <kra...@cup.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.44 How do you disable IP Forwarding at 9.x?
To accomplish what you want, use the following commands as root:
adb -w /hp-ux /dev/kmem
ipforwarding/W 0
ipforwarding?W 0
CTRL-D
If you install a new kernel, you have to repeat these steps.
NOTE: These commands disable IP forwarding completely: if the
system is configured as a gateway, no IP forwarding will
occur. This workaround is NOT supported.
(Thanks to Colin Wynd (co...@col.hp.com)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.45 Does HPUX 9.0 have support for threads?
As part of the DCE product, a user-space thread-package was shipped.
This package is also part of 10.0.
(Thanks to Mike Krause <kra...@cup.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.46 How come I can't type an '@' character?
If you do a 'stty -a' and you will see that your 'kill' character is
set to '@'. You need to set your 'kill' character to be something
other than the '@' character by doing something like 'stty kill '^U''.
You should add this to your .profile or .cshrc file.
(Thanks to Michael J. O'Connor <m...@dojo.mi.org>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.47 How come I can't get my machine into boot admin mode?
When i reboot my workstation I do not get the "..push and hold the ESCAPE
key to ..." - why?
The machine is configured in secure boot mode. To get into
boot admin mode you will need to remove all bootable
media (i.e. disconnect disks, LAN, etc.) and then power on - the boot
will fail and you can then get to boot admin and switch off secure boot
mode.
(Thanks to Julian Perry <jp...@J-Sainsbury.co.uk>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.48 What's a quick check to see if a fileset is installed on 9.x?
The following script will check to see if all the files in a fileset
are installed in the correct place. It does not check permissions
or that the kernel files are in the kernel. Certain filesets
have their own verify scripts ie:
NS-SERV has /usr/nettest/nsverify/ver_ns
STREAMS has /usr/bin/strvf
#!/bin/sh
FSET=/etc/filesets/$1
if [ "$FSET" = "" ]; then
echo "syntax of command $0 Filesetname "
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f $FSET ]; then
echo "Fileset $FSET not found"
exit 1
fi
# simple test to see non zero size files of any type
while read File
do
if [ ! -s $File ]; then
echo "$File not found"
fi
done < $FSET
exit
(Thanks to Mike MacFaden <macf...@kalpana.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.49 How does one package a set of files for HP-UX 9.X?
Use the fpkg program to build a special tar file that update can read.
Be sure to use the mkpdf program to create a PDF file and add this to your
psf file as follows:
pn MY-PROD
pd My product description
fv V.1.0.0
F
> <somedir>/PDF /system/MY-PROD/pdf <
pr <somedir>/prod-dir
F *
The pdf file contains a complete file manifest which tech support can use
to verify the files in a product are correctly installed with the command
pdfck.
(Thanks to Mike MacFaden <macf...@kalpana.com>)
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Subject: 7.50 Why is ifconfig giving me errors when I try to configure my LAN?
When I try to configure my lan device on my s700 I get the error
ifconfig: no such interface - why is that?
This is because the interface's hardware state is down. The s700 machines
need to be connected to a network before they can be configured with
ifconfig. Add the s700 machine to the network and then reset the interface
with running /usr/bin/landiag (LAN->RESET). If no errors are reported
then you should be able to ifconfig that interface.
(thanks to Colin Wynd <co...@col.hp.com>)
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Subject: 7.51 What new features are in HP-UX 9.07?
The 9.07 version of HP-UX is 9.05 with a number of X-window and 3D
graphics enhancements for the new graphics announced in June 1995.
Starbase now joins PEXlib in having a formal API call for texture
mapping. VisualEyes series require new device drivers to enable the new
3D accelerators. Freedom series support is also included in 9.07.
The X-window drivers now include Multi-Buffered-X wich is the new
standard method for double-buffering X-window graphics for smooth screen
updates and animations. The new X-drivers also include
Single-Logical-Screen functionality which allows a single X-window to
span two video display. Note that to use Single-Logical-Screen requires
two identical 8-bit graphics devices and two identical video displays.
(thanks to and Andres Cuneo L. <andres...@rimpex.cl>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.52 Why do I get the message "Can't start message server..."
VUE relies on being able to do hostname lookups for the local host
(i.e. both the fully qualified domain name and 'localhost').
If your network is down or your DNS server is unreachable then
VUE will probably fail. This could happen at login
(when you get the above message) or it may manifest itself by
windows opening very slowly or not at all.
The ideal solution is to get HP to fix this sensitivity
but in the meantime the best idea is to make hostname lookups
more robust by installing the 'nsswitch' patches (See question X.Y).
See also http://www.am.qub.ac.uk/users/j.pelan/DNSandVUE.html
------------------------------
Subject: 7.53 How can I disable new logins?
Add the following to /etc/profile; then 'touch /etc/nologin' will disable
all new login other than 'root'
uid=`id -u`
if [ -f /etc/nologin -a $uid -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Sorry, no login allowed, try later!"
sleep 5
exit 0
fi
(Thanks to Nils Gerloff <n...@hcs.de>)
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Subject: 7.54 What is the maximum filesystem size on a 7xx, running HP-UX 9.X HP-UX 10.X?
On a 7xx series, the maximum filesystem size under an *UNPATCHED*
HP/UX 9.01 is 2Gb. There is a patch available which will increase
the maximum filesystem size to 4Gb. Under 9.03, 9.05, and 9.07
the maximum filesystem is already 4Gb.
Under HP/UX 10.X, the maximum filesystem size is also 4Gb.
The maximum size of any file (not filesystem) is either 2Gb, or the
size of the filesystem on which that files resides, whichever is smaller.
Ie: You can not store a 1Gb file on a 500Mb filesystem.
The maximum size of the *boot* system is 2Gb under both 9.x and 10.x
You can play with this, if you have a > 2Gb disk, by allocating swap
equal to the balance, or some other such feature. But in general, it's
probably best (at least for now) to use a 2Gb boot disk, and use that
bigger disk for something else.
>From: Tom Lane <tgl@netcom7>
>
>Well, I *didn't* get it to boot off the Micropolis disk. The key fact in
>all of this is that the HP S700 boot roms will not boot off a disk bigger
>than 2GB. (I surmise that they use signed rather than unsigned longs in
>evaluating disk addresses.) HPUX 9.03 and later can build filesystems
>on disks up to 4GB, so the HPUX filesystem code is unsigned-clean.
>But the boot roms ain't.
>
>HP's /etc/mkboot doesn't warn you about this; if you invoke mkboot on a
>4GB disk it will happily plop a bootstrap loader at the end of the disk.
>The bootstrap is useless, though. The upshot is that you can use a 4GB
>disk as addon file storage but not as your root disk; the root disk must
>have a working bootstrap so it must be <= 2GB.
>
>All this is in the comp.sys.hp.hpux FAQ. What isn't in the FAQ is that
>/etc/swapon also examines the bootstrap address (so as to avoid
>overwriting the bootstrap with swap space) and rejects the disk if
>the bootstrap address is invalid *according to the bootrom definition*.
>
>So, although you should be able to use part of a 4GB disk as swap space
>(by making the filesystem be smaller than 4GB), it's critical that you
>*not* have run mkboot against the disk, or else swapon will fail.
>I ran mkboot on the theory that it couldn't hurt. Wrong!
>
>It turns out that /etc/rmboot will zero out the bootstrap pointer, so
>if you've made this mistake you can undo it with rmboot without
>damaging your filesystem. Then swapon is happy.
>
Further confusing the issue under HP/UX 9.x on 7xx systems is not being
able to access more than 4Gb on any physical device without some wierd
manipulation (via sdsadmin). In general, a driver from MDL (See 4.2)
is currently your best option if you have > 4Gb disk drives. Under 10.x
this limitation is not there as you have access to LVM.
(thanks to Paul Hirose <pthi...@ucdavis.edu>)
( Tom Lane <tgl@netcom7> )
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Subject: 7.55 What is the current revision of HP-UX?
10.10 was unleashed last February 1996.
10.20 current and was released in August of 1996.
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
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Subject: 7.56 What's different between HP-UX 9.x and 10.20?
Common Desktop Environment -- CDE is the new industry-standard UNIX desktop,
which will replace VUE in future releases. Differences from VUE include:
New and more customizable Front Panel
Graphical MIME-enabled mail application
Graphical Calendar
Graphical Print Queue Manager
New terminal emulator
Action and datatype syntax changes
ToolTalk messaging support
Desktop application registration
more standard X-Windows stuff is part of the installation
Athena Widget library (Xaw)
X Miscellaneous Utilities library (Xmu)
Imake
New Filesystem Layout -- modeled after the AT&T SVR4 and OSF/1 file systems
and is implemented on both Series 700 and Series 800 computers.
There are fewer differences between the layouts of other vendors' file systems
and that of HP-UX Files are organized into categories such as static versus
dynamic, executable versus configuration data, and so forth. Operating system
software is kept in separate directories from application software Files
that are meant to be shared by different hosts are kept in separate
directories from host-specific files Restricted SAM -- Non-superusers
can be given limited access to SAM functionality or other custom utilities
added to SAM. Where appropriate, these users are promoted to superuser
while they are executing SAM functionality.
Modified Commands
du -k -- reports disk usage in 1024-byte blocks instead for 512-byte blocks
csh -- the "limit" builtin command is available, LINES and COLUMNS
are set when csh starts up.
passwd -- New password aging options
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.57 What's different between HP-UX 10.01 and 10.2?
Large Filesystems -- the maximum filesystem size has been increased from 4GB to 128GB
Large Files -- the maximum file size is 128GB.
Large User IDs -- the maximum UID is 2,147,483,646 or (2^31)-2
Lots of patches are incorporated into 10.20
du -k -- reports disk usage in 1024-byte blocks instead for 512-byte blocks hooray!
Common Desktop Environment -- CDE is the new industry-standard UNIX desktop,
which will replace VUE in future releases.
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.58 What happened to /usr/local? What's this /usr/contrib directory?
Things have been moved around some -- probably for the better:
/opt
optional HP software packages like the ANSI C & C++ compilers and debuggers.
/opt/hppd
pre-compiled HP public-domain sofware downloaded from the anonymous server
at http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/ or http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/
/usr/contrib
Unsupported, 3rd-party or public-domain software compiled and maintained
by the local operations group on their software depot. For example:
nn, gzip, Gnu tools, perl5
/usr/local
workstation-unique software packages that the user has installed himself
or are local to a specific machine. This directory is world writable.
(Alek Comments: world-writeable ... ack! ;-)
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.59 What happened to "less"?
Use "more". Under HP-UX 10, it seems to be as robust as "less".
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
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Subject: 7.60! Remote mounts and the automounter -- What's new?
HP-UX 10.x ships with an automounter running with a -hosts option, so it's easy
to just say "/net/hostname/directory/...", and the automounter will do the rest.
If you like, you can put symbolic links in to make things easier, for example:
/x1 -> /net/x1/x1
/usr/valid -> /net/x1/valid
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
Alek comments: While this is convienent and easy to do, using explicit
automount maps (ex: /home/username) is usually a better idea in terms
of keeping things "tight" and maintaining server/disk independance.
------------------------------
Subject: 7.61 Why does tcsh have problems with 'bind'?
The syntax got changed. Bind commands like:
bind backward-delete-word ^W
need to be changed to:
bindkey ^W backward-delete-word
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.62 How do I change the hostname, IP address, DNS Server, etc?
To change the hostname:
# /sbin/set_parms hostname
To change the IP address:
# /sbin/set_parms ip_address
To change DNS Server, domain, etc.:
# /sbin/set_parms addl_netwrk
or to set everything just like doing the first-time install:
# /sbin/set_parms initial
WARNING Don't do this without your local IT/Operations people knowing about it.
The potential for messing up the network and/or your workstation is great.
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
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Subject: 7.63 What should go in my PATH and MANPATH environment variables?
at least: /usr/bin /usr/contrib/bin /usr/bin/X11 /usr/contrib/X11/bin
/usr/contrib/bin/X11 /usr/local/bin
If you have the HP ANSI C compiler installed:
/opt/ansic/bin /usr/ccs/bin /opt/CC/bin /opt/langtools/bin
And, for system management stuff:
/usr/sbin
Alternately, you can start with:
setenv PATH `cat /etc/PATH` # for tcsh
at the beginning of your shell's startup 'rc' file. The "/etc/PATH" file
is supposed to be updated every time new software is installed in "/opt".
This will get everything mentioned above, except for "/usr/sbin".
MANPATH works the same way:
setenv MANPATH `cat /etc/MANPATH`
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.64 What happened to 'lpr' and other misc. lp hints?
The Berkeley printer queue system is being phased out over the next few years.
All new workstations and printers will have the HP-UX LP printer utilities
instead. Here's a short cheatsheet:
lpr -Pvaxps -> lp -dvaxps
lpq -Pvaxps -> lpstat vaxps
lprm -Pvaxps ID -> cancel vaxps ID
Why would I want to switch over to the System-V-style HP-UX LP spooler?
Because you can do neat things like:
% lp -dvaxps -odouble FILENAME
which will print double-sided, that is, on both sides of the paper,
if your printer supports it.
How do I send output from nroff to HP LaserJet printers?
Try this: nroff -Tlj ... | lp -onroff
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 7.65 Lpstat reports the printer down, even though it's not (?)
You probably need the following line in your /etc/passwd:
lp:*:9:7::/var/spool/lp:/sbin/sh
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
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Subject: 7.66 Misc. HP-UX10.x gotcha with root's shell
Root's shell has to be /sbin/sh as defined in /etc/passwd, like so:
root:r92hS4musPTNM:0:10:Superuser:/:/sbin/sh
or another shell (/bin/csh) that resides on the root partition because /usr isn't
mounted when init needs to use the root shell to run the startup scripts.
Make sure that /etc/passwd defines the correct shell.
(Thanx to Brad Bass <ba...@convex.hp.com>)
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Subject: 7.67 cksum command is a bit "squirrely" in HPUX09
The chsum (1) command produces a different checksum on HPUX09 than HPUX10.
The 9.x cksum was defective, it did not correctly implement the POSIX
spec. That is understandable, because the POSIX cksum spec does not
supply a test suite to easily verify an implementation is correct.
The 10.x cksum is correct. Unfortunately that means it can not match 9.x
cksum. A special option for 10.x "sum" was suggested to match 9.x bogus
cksum, but that did not get in.
Another implementation that did not match POSIX spec was in AIX 3.*; I
haven't checked AIX 4.* or Solaris.
Other good implementations (they give the same answer as 10.x cksum):
- gnu cksum
- HP Software Distributor swpackage program, on both 9.x and 10.x
Thanx to Michael Taylor (t...@cv.hp.com)
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7.68 HPUX10 generate copious "Sti_save" syslog messages
HPUX10 generates a FLOOD of syslog messages that look like this:
vmunix: Warning! [82194698 ticks since boot] Sti_save:IteLock not available for 60 seconds
One way to turn this off (any suggestions for others?) is to uncomment
the "Dtlogin@grabServer: False" line /in /usr/dt/config/Xconfig.
You can also do this in /etc/dy/config/Xconfig if you have an
automounted /etc/dt like we do! ;-)
After this, reboot the machine ... and you won't see 'em again! ;-)
From what I can gather, these are spurious messages than can be ignored.
Tested by Alek Komarnitsky (al...@csc.com) ... but I can't credit the
person who originally posted this solution 'cause I lost their name.
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7.69 Why does pfs_mount fail with the message 'Not Owner' when I try to use it?
You (root) are probably in more than 8 groups. Run groups(1) to check.
PFS was linked using HP-UX 8.0 RPC libraries which allowed only 8 groups.
Reducing the number of groups fixes this problem."
Thanx to Duncan Missimer <miss...@xsvr2.cup.hp.com>
------------------------------
7.70+ What is the HP equivelent of ldd (determine shared library dependancy)?
Check out the man page for chatr - not only shows stuff,
but allows you to do more! ;-) (added by alek)
------------------------------
7.71+ PHKL_4413 breaks xntp
I ran into this about three years ago running timed on 9.x systems. The
PHKL_4413 patch is a patch that correct "hardware clock drift" if I
remember correctly. What it did to my systems running timed was to start
massive clock drifting between a minute or two fast and a minute or two
slow, cycling so fast that the clock ran probably 50% fast for a few minutes
then 50% slow! I assume there was some sort of interaction between what
timed was doing to correct the clock and what this patch did, and that
interaction may also affect ntp.
I remember this well since this is the only time I have ever had to back
out a patch on HP-UX, despite always just taking every patch there is when
I'm doing a system load.
------------------------------
Subject: 8. COMPILERS AND LINKERS
------------------------------
Subject: 8.1 What's a P-FIXUP error?
Several questions in comp.sys.hp.hpux have involved the Gnu C compiler
and the linker message below :
gcc test_h.o -o test_h ../libg++.a -lm
ld: R_DATA_ONE_SYMBOL fixup in file ../libg++.a(streambuf.o) for code unsat
symbol "abort" - use P' fixup
collect: /bin/ld returned 1 exit status
This is caused by the code generator emitting assembly code in a data
subspace to initialize a function pointer, equivalent to :
.word foo
where (in this case) foo() is an extern, and shared libraries are referenced
by the executable being built (usually libc.sl).
NOTE:
This problem has been fixed in gcc-2.4.5.u5; if people are still running
into this error, then:
1) They've got an old version of gas (pa-gas-1.36.u8 I believe is the
first one do handle this correctly).
2) They're linking with a library built with some old combination of
gcc and gas.
The solution is to make sure gcc and gas are up-to-date and any libraries
have been built with the latest gcc/gas combination. For a temporary
workaround the option "-static" to gcc will suppress dynamic linking and
thus avoids the error.
(thanks to Carl Burch, HP for the original, and Jeff Law
<l...@snake.cs.utah.edu> for the followup)
------------------------------
Subject: 8.2 Where is regcmp on HP-UX?
RTFM - from man regcmp:
regcmp and regex are kept in /lib/libPW.a, and are linked by using the
-lc and -lPW options to the ld or cc command. See WARNINGS below.
(thanks to Andre Srinivasan, <an...@cs.pitt.edu>)
------------------------------
Subject: 8.3 How come the default C compiler is brain-dead?
The C compiler shipped with HP-UX is intended only to rebuild the kernel
with, not for program development. To get a "real" C compiler, you must
buy the ANSI C program development bundle or get gcc.
------------------------------
Subject: 8.4 How do I deal with "too many defines"?
Use the "-Wp,-Hxxxxxxx" where xxxxxxxx is the number of bytes to add
to cpp's table size.
There is no equivalent in lint or cflow to the cc driver's -W flag to
pass options to subprocesses like cpp. However, both lint and cflow
invoke cpp via the cc driver, so you can achieve the same effect by
setting the CCOPTS environment variable. For example,
CCOPTS="-Wp,-H500000"
export CCOPTS
lint large_file.c
------------------------------
Subject: 8.5 How come I get "_builtin_va_start" undefined when I build with gcc?
The <varargs.h> and <stdarg.h> include files define va_start in terms of
this function, which is built-in on the HP C compiler.
If you're using GCC you should be picking up include files
from the gcc library directory. These include files do the right
thing for both GCC and HP C.
More often than not these files were never installed, or someone has
placed a copy of varargs.h/stdarg.h into /usr/local/include (gcc searches
there *first*).
When all else fails, you can replace the definition of va_start as follows,
depending on whether you are using varargs or stdarg (K&R or ANSI,
respectively).
#include <varargs.h>
#ifdef __hppa
#undef va_start
#define va_start(a) ((a)=(char *)&va_alist+4)
#endif
#include <stdarg.h>
#ifdef __hppa
#undef va_start
#define va_start(a,b) ((a)=(va_list)&(b))
#endif
For <varargs.h>, this replacement should always work.
For <stdarg.h>, this replacement will work unless the last fixed
parameter ("b" in the call to va_start) is a structure larger
than 8 bytes. Large structures are passed by reference, with the
callee responsible for copying the structure to a temporary area
if it will be modified. In this case, "&b" will take the address
of that temporary area instead of the position in the argument
list, and va_next won't work. That's why HP uses a compiler
built-in.
(Thanks to Cary Coutant, HP for the original and Jeff Law
<l...@snake.cs.utah.edu> for the followup)
------------------------------
Subject: 8.6 How can I tell if something was built debuggable?
If the output of "/usr/contrib/bin/odump -spaces file.o" shows a space
named $DEBUG$, then it was compiled with -g.
(Thanks to Fran Litterio <fr...@centerline.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 8.7 Is there some kind of problem with using FLT_MIN in ANSI mode?
The C compiler dislikes this construct in ANSI mode:
x = FLT_MIN; /* <---- warning here */
The problem is that the ANSI mode (_PROTOTYPES) version of FLT_MIN/FLT_MAX in
<float.h> end their constants with an F, which seems to upset the compiler.
The workaround ? Temporarily undef _PROTOTYPES around the <float.h> inclusion:
#ifdef _PROTOTYPES
#undef _PROTOTYPES
#include <float.h>
#define _PROTOTYPES
#else
#include <float.h>
#endif
(Thanks to Richard Lloyd of the Liverpool archive.)
------------------------------
Subject: 8.8 What's the deal with _INCLUDE_xxxx_SOURCE?
The ANSI standard clearly states what identifiers it reserves, and says the
rest are available to you, the programmer. Many "important things" like
"ulong" are *not* specified by ANSI, so ANSI header files are not allowed by
the standard to define them. Each standard supported by HP-UX (POSIX1,
POSIX2, XPG2, XPG3, XPG4, AES, etc) has its own set of reserved identifiers
and header files, and the convention is to require "-D_POSIX_SOURCE" (et al)
to enabled their respective namespaces. Since HP could not predict what
future standards would come along and claim more header files and identifiers,
it proved much simpler to make the namespace as restrictive as possible
unless "-D_HPUX_SOURCE" is specified. While this has turned into one the
most frequently asked of FAQ's about HP-UX, at least once you learn this,
you don't have to deal with inconsistencies again. Whereas, had we allowed
all non-standard headers to define all non-standard symbols, you'd find
identifiers randomly "disappearing" from headers over time as they were
claimed by various standards.
Also check the man page for "cc -Ae"; it enables the the HPUX_SOURCE
namespace.
(Thanks to Marc Sabatella, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 8.9 How come I need to explicitly specify -I/usr/include?
You have most likely not updated your C compiler correctly. Patches PHSS_3773
(A.09.63), 4061 (A.09.64) and 4151 (A.09.65) REQUIRE that you first install
the C compiler from the April 1994 Application CD-ROM (A.09.61).
(Thanks to Richard Lloyd)
------------------------------
Subject: 8.10 Is there an equivalent for getrusage()?
>From the BSD porting tricks document (thanks, Mike):
#ifdef hpux
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#define getrusage(a, b) syscall(SYS_GETRUSAGE, a, b)
#endif /* hpux */
------------------------------
Subject: 8.11 Why is syslog() call not doing what i want it to?
My program looks like:
#include <syslog.h>
void main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
syslog(LOG_EMERG,"This is an emergency message\n"));
syslog(LOG_ALERT,"This is an alert message\n");
syslog(LOG_CRIT,"This is a critical message\n");
syslog(LOG_ERR,"This is an error message\n");
syslog(LOG_WARNING,"This is a warning\n");
syslog(LOG_NOTICE,"This is a notice\n");
syslog(LOG_INFO,"This is an informal message\n");
syslog(LOG_DEBUG,"This is a debug message\n");
}
It does log all the messages to /usr/adm/syslog - why not?
First of all, the LOG_EMERG can not be used with user processes and should
return -1 (if you check the return status). This is not documented in the
man page! All the other message should appear, but you're /etc/syslog.conf
file might not be configured correctly. To test it replace the
/etc/syslog.conf with the following line:
*.debug /usr/adm/syslog
Then do: kill -HUP `cat /etc/syslog.pid`
Then run the test program and then tail the /usr/adm/syslog file
and you should see all the messages, ie:
Nov 23 09:02:54 orca syslogd: restart
Nov 23 09:02:58 orca syslog: This is an alert message
Nov 23 09:02:58 orca syslog: This is a critical message
Nov 23 09:02:58 orca syslog: This is an error message
Nov 23 09:02:58 orca syslog: This is a warning
Nov 23 09:02:58 orca syslog: This is a notice
Nov 23 09:02:58 orca syslog: This is an informal message
Nov 23 09:02:58 orca syslog: This is a debug message
(Thanks to Colin Wynd)
------------------------------
Subject: 8.12 Is trace on HP-UX?
Trace is available from Interworks ftp site (interworks.org).
For those of you unfamiliar with trace, here's the README:
trace prints out system call (and optionally kernel) traces of programs. It
compiles and installs fairly easily. It should work fine on 700s running HP-UX
9.X, and probably not at all otherwise.
To run the header file generation scripts, you'll need Perl 4.0pl36 or better,
installed as /usr/local/bin/perl.
If you have problems with "too much defining", uncomment HFLAGS in the
Makefile. Older 9.X C compilers had broken a cpp utility.
If you encounter undefined ioctls, just comment them out and send me mail
about them and what version of HP-UX you're running. fixheader will make
sure that nonexistent header files aren't included.
trace needs to be installed setuid root so that users can run it.
The KI code, provided in object format, is copyright Hewlett-Packard. The
software is provided as is, subject to change without notice, and totally
unsupported.
(Thanks to Kartik Subbarao, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 8.13 How to get C programs automatically generate stack dumps?
Here is how you get a C program automatically generate a stack dump
when they abend:
U_STACK_TRACE() is an undocumented function that resides in libcl.a.
Set up the signal handling like this:
#include <signal.h>
extern void U_STACK_TRACE();
signal(SIGSEGV, U_STACK_TRACE);
(Thanks to <matt...@cadcam.pms.ford.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 9. HARDWARE AND PERIPHERALS
------------------------------
Subject: 9.1 Are alternate keyboards available for HP workstations?
Yes, HP has two keyboards available for their workstations and X Terminals.
A1099B - Workstation style keyboard (Default on workstations.)
A2205A - PC-101 style keyboard (Default on X Terminals.)
The 712, 715, and newer machines support PS/2 compatible keyboards and mice.
------------------------------
Subject: 9.2 How can I play audio CDs on an HP workstation?
A contributed application ("xcd") exists that presents a X-window CD player
front panel. xcd runs on HP-UX 7.0 and 8.0, on Series 300, 400 and 700, with
either SCSI or HP-IB CD-ROM drives. The SCSI drives must be HP-supplied or
Toshiba XM-3201B or XM-3301B. xcd does not yet officially work on HP-UX 9.0,
but I've tried it and it seems to work just fine. Note that xcd plays only
through the CD player's headphone jack and not through the workstation's
speaker.
xcd is available from the InterWorks workstation user group (see above),
on their ftp site, CD-ROM, and via DDS tape.
Note that source is not available.
Additionally, two new programs that provide similar functionality have
recently appeared, called xdp and xmcd. I use xmcd and it's great.
(Thanks to Bob Niland and others)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.3 How can I enable the LAN interface on a 700?
This can be problem when the LAN isn't connected at boot time. To
resolve the problem, use the "reset" command in "landiag".
------------------------------
Subject: 9.4 How can I get an Exabyte to work on an HP?
People have under HP-UX 8.07 used device files with major number 54,
minor numbers 0x201202 and 0x201203 for /dev/rmt/2m and /dev/rmt/2mn,
respectively, for low density. Other people had used 0x201242 and 0x201243.
Note that with HP-UX 9.01, low density means 8200 format in 8500 drives.
Major #54, minor numbers 0x201202 and 0x201203 are low density handles.
With 8200 drives the density does not matter. Software compression
control with 8505 drives will require a patch to HP-UX 9.01.
Caveats: some Exabyte drives will not support a "dump" blocking factor
greater than 64 from the HP. Others are apparently limited in the commands
they will accept (e.g. TTI noted that their 8501 tape drive will not properly
interface with the HP under all conditions; however, the TTI 8510 does
interface correctly). TTI had a firmware problem which should be
corrected in recent 8510s.
Note that 8500 drives act as SCSI-2, while 8200s are SCSI-1. People appear
to have been more successful with getting the 8500s to work with 9.01.
Experience has also shown that you may need PHKL_2898. People have
also reported that you need patch PHKL_2838 for HP_UX 9.x to get
compression to work.
(Thanks to Mike Peterson for much of this.)
According to jer...@Exabyte.COM
just letting you know we are working on drivers for s800 systems for
exabyte products (tape and changers) for hpux 9 and 10. When they are
fully tested we will make them available on our web site.
------------------------------
Subject: 9.5 Is there a "node ID" on 700s?
Yes. Most licensing systems (FLEXlm and NetLS, for example), are driven from
the LLA, available from /etc/lanscan or /usr/etc/netls/ls_targetid. There is
also a CPU ID number that HP uses for /etc/update; it may be a transformation
of the LLA, but this is not guaranteed to remain the case, and may be
disturbed by replacement of the LAN board. Additionally, the LLA can be reset
by a CE using the proper secret magic program.
------------------------------
Subject: 9.6 How can I get a stuck DDS tape out of the drive?
1) Power down your machine (remember shutdown!!! ;-))
2) Open it up (you'll prob. need Torx screwdrivers).
3) on the side of the drive, you should see a small rectangular piece
of plastic. gently pry it off... it should come off quite easily.
4) the aforementioned piece of plastic covers a hole, which houses a
small dial. spinning this dial ejects the tape.
5) replace plastic piece, close machine... and bob's your uncle.
p.s. the dial has very little torque (ie. the tape comes out quite slowly,
but you can see it move. It'll take about 2-3 minutes of spinning before
the tape comes out.
(Thanks to Edlin Seebick.)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.7 How can I use dump with a DDS tape?
dump was written to assume 9-track tapes, so some fudging has
to be done for DDS tapes. The following has the info you need
along with several alternatives for dump parameters.
Approximate capacity of 60m DDS tape = 1.3G bytes
Approximate DDS tape density = (1.3G bytes) / (60 m) = (550K bytes/in)
dump assumes an inter-record gap (IRG) of 0.3 in for density = 6250,
0.7 in otherwise.
dump uses a default blocking factor of 10 for density < 6250,
32 otherwise.
================
density = 550000
blocking factor = 32 (default)
assumed IRG = 0.7 in
Block length = (32K bytes/block) / (550K bytes/in) + (0.7 in) = (0.76 in)
Effective tape length =
(1.3G bytes) / (32K bytes/block) * (0.76 in/block) = (2511 ft)
================
density = 6250
blocking factor = 32 (default)
assumed IRG = 0.3 in
Block length = (32K bytes/block) / (6250 bytes/in) + (0.3 in) = (5.54 in)
Effective tape length =
(1.3G bytes) / (32K bytes/block) * (5.54 in/block) = (18325 ft)
===============
density = 1600
blocking factor = 10 (default)
assumed IRG = 0.7 in
Block length = (10K bytes/block) / (1600 bytes/in) + (0.7 in) = (7.10 in)
Effective tape length =
(1.3G bytes) / (10K bytes/block) * (7.10 in/block) = (75113 ft)
===============
density = 1600
blocking factor = 32
assumed IRG = 0.7 in
Block length = (32K bytes/block) / (1600 bytes/in) + (0.7 in) = (21.18 in)
Effective tape length =
(1.3G bytes) / (32K bytes/block) * (21.18 in/block) = (70022 ft)
(Thanks to Cary Coutant, HP.)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.8 What is the correct major number for DDS drives on 9.x?
For reasons too detailed to go into here, the major number for DDS drives
has changed to 121 (from 54) at 9.01. Note that 54 had partition support,
while 121 does not, but has lun support. This only works for 700s.
------------------------------
Subject: 9.9 How can I set up /dev/audio to point to the external jack on a 700?
Alter the /dev/audio device file as follows:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 57 0x208011 /dev/audio ; external jack
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 57 0x208000 /dev/audio ; internal speaker
The commands are:
mknod /dev/audio c 57 0x2080?? <- replace ?? with 00 or 11 as shown above.
(Thanks to Lou Kvitek.)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.10 How can I configure the parallel port handshake on a 700?
Check out the man page for "cent".
------------------------------
Subject: 9.11 What are the specs of the audio hardware on the 700 series?
This is a summary of the audio features supported by the models 715, 725, 735,
and 755 workstations. The 705 and 710 also have audio, but the specs are
not available. The 720, 730, and 750 models DO NOT have audio.
Audio features Programmable sample rates (kHz): 8, 11.025, 16,
22.05,32, 44.1, 48
Programmable output attenuation: 0 to -96 dB in 1.5 dB steps
Programmable input gain: 0 to 22.5 dB in 1.5 dB steps
Input monitoring
Coding formats: 16-bit linear, 8-bit mulaw, or A-law
Audio inputs Line in
(not on all models) Mono microphone with 1.5V phantom power
(Editorial comment - a Sun microphone appears to work just fine.)
Audio outputs Line out
(not on all models) Headphone
Mono speaker jacks
Built-in mono speaker
Audio CODEC Crystal CS4215
Typical specifications measured on a stock 715. Values will differ only
slightly on other models.
Frequency response 25 - 20,000 Hz
Input Sensitivity/Impedance
Line In 2.0 V(pk) / 47 kohms
Microphone 22 mV(pk) / 1 kohm
Output Impedance (nominal)
Line out 619 ohms
Headphone 118 ohms
Speaker (ext) 11 ohms
Max Output Level/Impedance
Line Out 2.8 V (p-p) / 47 kohms
Headphone 2.75 V (p-p) / 50 ohms
Speaker (ext) 5.88 V (p-p) / 48 ohms
Signal to Noise
Line In 61 dB
Line Out 65 dB
Microphone 57 dB
Headphone 61 dB
Speaker (ext) 63 dB
THD (at nominal load)
Line In -75 dB
Line Out -73 dB
Microphone -73 dB
Headphone -70 dB
Speaker (ext) -68 dB
(Thanks to Rocky Craig, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.12 What are the various revisions of PA-RISC?
PA-RISC 1.1 is an extension to the PA-RISC 1.0 architecture, and is
fully backwards-compatible (i.e., *all* PA-RISC 1.0 programs will
execute without change on PA-RISC 1.1 machines). The biggest difference
is that PA-RISC 1.1 added 16 more floating-point registers, the ability
to address each double-precision floating-point register as two
single-precision registers, and a few new floating-point operations, so
the floating-point performance is greatly improved. There were a few
changes on the integer side, but nothing major.
The first machines to be shipped with PA-RISC 1.1 CPUs were the first
Series 700 machines (the "Snakes" series). Shortly after that, however,
the "Nova" series of Series 800 (8x7) machines was introduced using the
same PA-RISC 1.1 CPU. Since then, every new PA-RISC machine that HP has
produced is based on the PA-RISC 1.1 architecture.
Thus, all Series 700 machines are PA-RISC 1.1, and the newer Series 800
machines are PA-RISC 1.1. If you compile a program on a Series 700
machine, the compiler will generate PA-RISC 1.1 code by default, but if
you compile a program on a Series 800 machine (even a newer 1.1
machine), the compiler will generate PA-RISC 1.0 code to ensure that the
program will run within the entire 800 family.
To force the compiler to generate PA-RISC 1.0 code, you use the +DA 1.0
compiler option. This is all you need to do, as long as you are careful
not to link your code with any libraries that were compiled for PA-RISC
1.1. If *any* object module in your program is compiled for PA-RISC
1.1, your entire program will be marked as a PA-RISC 1.1 program. The
"file" command will tell you which architecture is required to execute
your program. Most system archive libraries that HP ships are compiled
for PA-RISC 1.0; an exception is the math library, which is shipped in
both forms (a PA-RISC 1.1 version is in /lib/pa1.1), although the 1.1
version contains a few entry points that are not available in the 1.0
version.
The scheduling option, +DS xxx, does not affect the compatibility of the
object code. It affects only how the optimizer schedules instructions
that have long latencies, so it is usually to your advantage to schedule
the code for the fastest machine currently shipping, even if you are
generating 1.0 code.
When compiling code on one platform for another platform, the thing
you do have to worry about is the operating system release. In general
you can compile a program on a Series 700 machine with +DA 1.0, and it
will run correctly as long as the program will execute on the same or
a later release of the OS as the one on which it was compiled. Thus,
you can not expect a program compiled on a 700 running 9.0 to run on
an 800 running 8.0.
(Thanks to Cary Coutant, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.13 How do I read an SGI-written tar format DDS tape?
The secret (at least in this case) is to byte-swap the tape before
passing it to tar:
dd if=/dev/rmt/0m conv=swab | tar -xvf -
Byte swapping is believed to only be necessary if the device which
created the tape was a swapping one. (Swapping tape devices are the
default on IRIX 4, but not in IRIX 5). One can use /dev/nrtapens on
either system to produce tapes which are not byte-swapped.
If the SGI is running Irix 5.0x and above, a large (512k) block
size is used:
dd if=/dev/rmt/0m ibs=512k obs=10k| tar -xvf -
(thanks to Paul Booth <pa...@eye.com> and
Christian L Claiborn <clai...@ctron.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.14 Is there a trackball for the 700?
>From the 'hp-ux/resource directory' published by Interex:
"BKS manufactures and markets THE ORIGINAL HP M1309A HP-HIL Trackball.
Plug-compatible with HP's standard 3-button HP-HIL mouse. BKS acquired
manufacturing and marketing rights to this product from Hewlett-Packard in
June 1993. Another 'no-problem' product from BKS--the specialists in
hardware accessories for HP systems"
BKS Electronique
20 Rue A. Berges/Z.1.DES 1LES
Le Pont De Claix, France 38800
+33 76 98 30 99, FAX: +33 76 98 57 79
>From the September 1994 issue of 'hp-ux/usr' magazine also published by
Interex:
"HP Serial MOUSE-TRAK now Available For 700 Series. No Quad Port Adapter
Required.
Call for information"
ITAC Systems, Inc.
3113 Benton Street
Garland, TX 75042
(800) 533-4822 FAX: (214)494-4159
yvo...@mousetrak.com
(too many international distributors to type in) U.K., Norway, Germany,
Switzerland, Denmark, Australia, Sweden, Seoul Korea, France, Israel
------------------------------
Subject: 9.15 Where can I get disktab entries for third party disks?
Generally, the supplier should provide a disktab entry. Andataco does a good
job of this. One place to try:
http://hpwww.epfl.ch/HPUX/tools/disktab.html
Additionally, Ion has set up a mail service; to access it, send e-mail to
<mai...@hpwww.epfl.ch> and respect the following syntax for the subject
field:
disktab table - returns the available disktab file
disktab how - returns two methods to create a new disktab entry from scratch
Send any comments, remarks, problems AND new tested disktab entries to
<ion.c...@sic.adm.epfl.ch>
Patch PHSS_4981 has the disktab entries for the following drives:
Seagate ST32430WD, Seagate ST32430N, Seagate ST31230WD,
Seagate ST31230N, HPC3324A, HPC3324W, HPC3325A, HPC3325W
Seagate ST31200N, Seagate ST31200W, Seagate ST12400N,
Seagate ST12400W, DEC DSP3107LS, DEC DSP3107LSW, DEC DSP3210S,
DEC DSP3210SW, Quantum LPS1080S, Quantum LPS1080WD
(thanks to Ion Cionca, and Colin Wynd <co...@col.hp.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.16 Do I need to terminate the internal SCSI on a 700?
According to some people, an unterminated internal SCSI on a 700
will cause interrupts which are ignored but slow down the machine.
Terminate to be safe.
------------------------------
Subject: 9.17 What is the largest disk partition I can have at 9.x?
On a 700, you can get 2Gbytes, unless you have the SCSI patches
that allow 3.7Gbytes. You can safely put any size disk on the system
you want, but the OS will only allow you to access 2G (or 3.7G).
(thanks to Mike Lampi, MDL <la...@mdlcorp.com>, and
Seth LaForge <set...@ugcs.caltech.edu>)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.18 How can I determine how much RAM I have non-interactively?
Here is a short program that returns the RAM size:
#include <sys/pstat.h>
main()
{
struct pst_static buf;
pstat(PSTAT_STATIC, &buf, sizeof(buf), 0, 0);
printf("Physical RAM = %ldMB\n", buf.physical_memory/256);
}
If you are root, you can use adb as follows:
echo "physmem/D" | adb /hp-ux /dev/kmem | tail -1 | \
awk '$2 > 0 { print $2 / 256 }'
Or if /etc/dmesg is still current, you can grep it:
/etc/dmesg | grep "real mem" | tail -1 | awk '$4 > 0 { print $4 / 1048576 }'
(thanks to Richard Lloyd <r...@csc.liv.ac.uk> and
Mike Frison <mike_...@mentorg.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.19 How can I turn off the lpspooler cover page?
1) For one job/user only:
Alias your "lp" command to "lp -onb"
2) For all the print jobs:
Depending on the type of spooler script do either:
a) Edit your /usr/spool/lp/interface/"printer name" file and
comment out the banner page. Note that if you are using
the JetAdmin tool the real script will be:-
/usr/spool/lp/interface/model.orig/"printer name"
b) The newer interface files (in /usr/spool/lp/interface/*)
call /usr/lib/rlp and if your model script has that then
insert the following line before the /usr/lib/rlp statement:
BSDh="-h"
The model script would now look something like:-
...
shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
#Added the no banner option here
BSDh="-h"
/usr/lib/rlp -I$requestid $BSDC $BSDJ $BSDT $BSDi $BSD1 $BSD2 ...
...
(thanks to Dan Silva <d...@lamar.colostate.edu>, and
Daniel Wexler <dwe...@siac.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.20 Why are CDROM filenames all UPPERCASE with ;1 attached?
The filenames appear as UPPERCASE filenames with ;1 versions numbers in
HP-UX. That's because HP-UX only supports ISO 9660 and does not translate
the all UPPERCASE 8.3 character filenames to lowercase nor does it remove
the ;version-numbers as they are stored in exactly this manner on the
CDROM.
These names, while perfectly acceptable to HP-UX as filenames (albeit a bit
inconvenient since most shells see the ; as a command separator), can be a
problematic for software not written to handle the CDROM native filename
format. Many other vendor offer switches to perform the lowercase and
version number removal but HP-UX does not.
There are 3 workarounds:
a. Write a script (or use cdrutil.ksh available at many archive sites) to
perform the translation by creating a series of symbolic links. These
links would have to be created and removed after mount and umount
commands, respectively. Some CDROMs may require 15-45 minutes to
complete this task.
b. Get the patch:
PHKL_6075: s700 at 9.03, 9.05, 9.07 (no 9.01 or earlier)
PHKL_6272: s700: 10.01
PHKL_6076: s700: 10.00
PHKL_6338: s800: 9.04 (none prior to 9.04)
PHKL_6077: s800: 10.00
PHKL_6273: s800: 10.01
These add a modification to the cdfs code which can translate all
mounted CDROMs (not selectively) to accomplish the same task. This
patch adds no additional filesystem support such as POSIX or the
RockRidge Extensions. This patch can only be activated by modifying
the kernel with adb. An example of how to modify the 9.xx kernel is
shown in the patch. Note that this patch affects every mounted CDROM
in the system at the same time.
c. Through an agreement with Young Minds, Inc, the Portable File System
(PFS) code has been made available to 700 and 800 series systems
running 9.xx and 10.xx. This code accomplishes not only the lowercase
translation and version removal (both are separate options and can be
specified on or off for each CDROM), but also provides RockRidge
Extensions (long filenames, ownerships, permissions). This code is
available on the Nov-Dec 1995 application CDROM and tapes for the
700's, and on the Jan-Feb 1996 Application CDROM/tapes. The media can
be purchased at any time for a nominal fee.
PFS handles exporting of CDROM filenames as well as importing these
names from other HP-UX systems, and is the most versatile solution
to the CDROM compatibility problems in HP-UX.
Thanks to Bill Hassell (b...@atl.hp.com)
------------------------------
Subject: 9.21 DIP Switch Settings for HP 7475 Plotter (RS-232)
DIP Switch Settings for HP 7475 Plotter (RS-232)
================================================
S S U A B B B B
2 1 Y S 3 4 3 2 1
+-------------------------------------+
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ | 1
| | | | | | | | | | | |X| | | |X| | | |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
| |X| |X| |X| |X| |X| | | |X| | | |X| |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ | 0
+-------------------------------------+
-+---+- D M A -+---+---+---+-
|PAR| | E 4 | BAUD |
| | | T | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
none(*)0 0 | | | 0 0 0 0 external, 2 stop bits
even 0 1 | | | 0 0 0 1 75 bps, 2 stop bits
none 1 0 | | | 0 0 1 0 110 bps, 2 stop bits
odd 1 1 | | | 0 0 1 1 150 bps, 1 stop bit
| | | 0 1 0 0 200 bps, 1 stop bit
"D" is for ----+ | | 0 1 0 1 300 bps, 1 stop bit
Direct (vs. "Y" | | 0 1 1 0 600 bps, 1 stop bit
for Y-connector). | | 0 1 1 1 1200 bps, 1 stop bit
You'll want "D". | | 1 0 0 0 2400 bps, 1 stop bit
| | 1 0 0 1 4800 bps, 1 stop bit
| | 1 0 1 0 9600 bps, 1 stop bit(*)
Paper Size: | | 1 0 1 1 300 bps, 2 stop bits
(*)ISO A4 --- 0 0 1 1 0 0 600 bps, 2 stop bits
ISO A3 --- 0 1 1 1 0 1 1200 bps, 2 stop bits
ANSI A --- 1 0 1 1 1 0 2400 bps, 2 stop bits
ANSI B --- 1 1 1 1 1 1 4800 bps, 2 stop bits
Cabling
=======
The 7475 uses a non-standard cable (HP P/N 17255A).
Mine rings out like this:
Computer Plotter
Female Male
25-pin "D" 25-pin "D"
================================
1 ---------------------- 1
2 ---------------------- 3
3 ---------------------- 2
5 --+------------------- 20
|
6 --+
7 ---------------------- 7
------------------------------
Subject: 9.22 Why inserts HP-UX 4 spaces when I print using a parallel port?
HP-UX inserts 4 spaces at the beginning of each line when I print
using the parallel port. To fix it look at /etc/rc, and search for "slp"
and change it to be "slp -i0".
(Thanks to Nils Gerloff <n...@hcs.de>).
------------------------------
Subject: 9.23 How do I find the speed of my system?
I just inherited a second hand 715, but I don't know what the CPU speed is
(the label on the front case has come off). Is there a way to find this out?
Login as root on a 9.x system and try:
echo itick_per_tick/D | adb /hp-ux /dev/kmem | tail -n1 \
| awk '{print $2 / 10000, "MHZ"}'
(thanks to Bruce W. Smith <bruce...@delphi.com>)
------------------------------
Subject: 10. LOOKING FOR...
------------------------------
Subject: 10.1 Where did xline go at 9.x?
We don't know. The 9.x Motif version of Glance Plus has what xline had
(and more).
------------------------------
Subject: 10.2 How about the VUE 2.01 man page help index?
The man pages will show up in the index if you copy over pre-9.X copies
of the files "/usr/lib/X11/vue/help/C/manpage.cat", and
"/usr/lib/X11/vue/help/C/manpage/*".
(Thanks, Mike Stroyan, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 10.3 Is there anything remotely like the Apollo DM available?
HP had a product called DMX which is somewhat like the DM. Enabling
Technologies has a product called "ce" which seems to be a more faithful
interpretation.
------------------------------
Subject: 10.4 Where can I get SLIP for HP-UX?
On HP 9000 systems (both workstations and servers) SLIP is called ppl
and is a part of the LAN/9000 Link product.
(Thanks to Mike Taylor and Alec Henderson, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 10.5 Where can I get pcnfsd on HP-UX?
It's part of the standard NFS distribution.
------------------------------
Subject: 10.6 Where can I get ppp for HP-UX?
Morningstar has a commercial implementation available. See
ftp://ftp.morningstar.com for more details.
There's also some software available from:
ftp://ee.utah.edu/ppp/iijpp.0.93.hp.tgz
(thanks to Cricket Liu, <cri...@nsr.hp.com> and
David D. Kilzer <ddki...@iastate.edu>)
------------------------------
Subject: 10.7 Where can I get STREAMS for HP-UX?
STREAMS/UX is currently a separate product that can be purchased for use
with HP-UX 9.x. STREAMS/UX is based on the OSF/1 STREAMS code (which
in turn is based on STREAMS code from Mentat). You can obtain a
STREAMS/UX datasheet from the HP FIRST fax-back service: 800-333-1917
or 208-344-4809, document 31502. HP currently plans to bundle it
with 10.x.
(thanks to Alec Henderson, HP)
------------------------------
Subject: 10.8 What about POSIX threads?
POSIX user-space threads are currently available as part of the DCE
product, which includes thread-safe C libraries.
------------------------------
Subject: 10.9 Where can I get Interviews for HP-UX?
HP has a product called Interviews Plus. The product number is B2625A for
Series 800 and B2626A for Series 700 systems.
(Thanks to Rob Slotemaker, HP).
------------------------------
Subject: 10.10 Where can I get POP for HP-UX?
pop3d is available from the Interworks archive site listed in 3.12.
Qualcomm, makers of the Eudora email client for Macs and PCs, is
currently maintaining qpopper, a modified version of Berkeley's
1.831beta popper. Current version is 2.1.4-r3. It can be found at:
ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/popper/
Use the ``sysv'' target for HP/UX (i.e. ``make sysv'').
(Thanks to David D. Kilzer <ddki...@iastate.edu>)
------------------------------
Subject: 10.11 Where can I get sudo for HP-UX?
CU sudo 1.3 and higher supports hpux. See section 3.13 for FTP sites.
(Thanks to Todd Miller, <mil...@cs.Colorado.EDU>)
------------------------------
Subject: 10.12 Where can I get ntalk for HP-UX?
See section 3.13 for an FTP site.
------------------------------
Subject: 10.13 Where can i get disktab entries for certain seagate drives?
Patch PHSS_4981 has the disktab entries for the following drives:
Seagate ST32430WD, Seagate ST32430N, Seagate ST31230WD,
Seagate ST31230N, HPC3324A, HPC3324W, HPC3325A, HPC3325W
Seagate ST31200N, Seagate ST31200W, Seagate ST12400N,
Seagate ST12400W, DEC DSP3107LS, DEC DSP3107LSW, DEC DSP3210S,
DEC DSP3210SW, Quantum LPS1080S, Quantum LPS1080WD
------------------------------
Subject: 10.14 Where can I get information on a public domain PPP?
A version of PPP that's public domain can be retrieved from:
ftp://ftp.uni-frankfurt.de/pub/networking/HP-UX/iijppp.0.93.hp.tgz
If this site is unreachable, this alternate site can be used:
------------------------------
10.15 Where can I get generic information about PPP on HP-UX?
Check out Barthold Lichtenbelt's "ppp on hpux" Web Page at
http://www.verinet.com/~barthold/ppp.html
Note that he works for HP in the Workstations Systems Division
(the Graphics Software Lab), but maintains the page in his free
time on his personal account. HP doesn't have anything to do with it.
Thanx to Barthold Lichtenbelt <bart...@verinet.com>
------------------------------
Subject: 11. HP-UX 10.x INFORMATION
------------------------------
Subject: 11.1 Can you have Multiple IP addresses on one interface?
HP ServiceGuard allows you to configure multiple IP addresses on one
interface.
First, all primary network interfaces must have "stationary" IP addresses
"ifconfig"ed on them. Say for example, you have a system with 2 ethernet
interfaces (one primary and one for backup) and 2 FDDI interfaces (one
primary and one backup) and they are interfaces lan0, lan1, lan2 and lan3
respectively. Your /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file would have lan0 having
an IP address/subnet, etc (say 15.13.169.15) and lan2 would have an IP
address/subnet, etc (192.6.144.15)
lan1 and lan3 would not be specified in the netconf file as they will not
initially have any IP addresses on them.
ServiceGuard has a "cmmodnet" command which will ADD IP addresses to existing
interfaces. For example, to add a "Package IP" address to the ethernet
lan you would:
cmmodnet -a -i 15.13.169.16 15.13.143
Where -a is add -i 15.13.169.16 is the IP address to add and 15.13.143 is the
subnet where to add it. The cmmodnet command (via the ioctl()s) then figures
out that the SUBNET is currently on lan0 and magically you have 2 ip addresses
on the same SUBNET. Both going through lan0.
This feature is only currently available through the ServiceGuard product.
------------------------------
Subject: 11.2 What version of named is running at HP-UX 10.0?
Version 4.8.3 is running at HP-UX 10.0.
$ what /usr/sbin/named
/usr/sbin/named:
Copyright (c) 1986, 1989, 1990 Regents of the University of California
named 4.8.3 Tue Nov 1 17:03:51 GMT 1994
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Subject: 11.3 What documents are available on HP-UX 10.0?
Check:
http://support.mayfield.hp.com/
The URL for a specific document is :
http://us.external.hp.com/kdb-bin/wwwsdoc.pl?<Document ID>
To get it by mail, send a message to sup...@us.external.hp.com
with
send doc <Document ID>
in the text portion of the message.
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Subject: 11.4 What is SD-UX and why does it replace /etc/update?
For HP-UX 10.0, the distribution of HP-UX software has been completely
revised. HP Software Distributor 2.0 is used to install, update, remove, and
package HP-UX software. This product is called SD-UX, often informally
shortened to just SD (even though there is also an unbundled product called
SD-OV offering enhancements over SD-UX).
All HP-UX 10.0 software is shipped on media compatible with SD. SD media
can not be read by installation tools from previous HP-UX releases like
/etc/update, nor can you use previous installation tools with HP-UX 10.0
software. The /etc/update program and its associated tools (/etc/updist,
/etc/filesets/, /system/, and so on) are obsolete, replaced by SD.
SD provides enhanced functionality, added features, and greater ease of use
than that provided by previous installation tools. The concept of
installing, configuring, removing, and otherwise managing software has not
changed. However, the set of commands and some of the capabilities that SD
brings to HP-UX are all new.
SD offers three user interfaces:
1. An interactive graphical user interface available for the swinstall,
swcopy, and swremove commands.
2. An interactive user interface suitable for ASCII terminals (on S800)
for the swinstall, swcopy, and swremove commands.
3. A non-interactive command-line user interface for all commands.
For additional information on SD commands and features, see the individual SD
command manual pages, SAM's online help, the "Installing HP-UX 10.0" manual
(B2355-90050), and the "Managing HP-UX Software with SD-UX" manual
(B2355-90054).
The release notes shipped at 10.0 in /usr/share/doc/10.0RelNotes also contain
this information.
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Subject: 12. S300/400 SPECIFIC INFORMATION
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Subject: 12.1 When will HPUX 9.10 be available?
HP-UX 9.10 MR'd on 3/1/95. It will be shipped on April 17 1995 on DART 22.
This release is the latest PCO in the 9.X stream for the 68k platform,
and completely replaces the 9.03 release of last spring.
This release provides: defect fixes, patch roll-up, selected
enhancements, and additional peripheral support, while maintaining
binary and script compatibility, providing improved interoperability
with 10.0, and satisfying the top 10 customer requests as allowed.
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Subject: 12.2 What are the highlights of HP-UX 9.10?
The HP-UX 9.10 release for Series 300/400 provides many tools
to improve interoperability with Series 700/800 10.x systems:
* Interoperability Links - A set of symbolic links for your
9.x system which provide a 10.x view of the file system directory.
Load from the TLINKS fileset in the new INTEROP partition.
* SD 9.10 - A subset of HP-UX 10.x Software Distributor (SD-UX) is
provided for compatibility with the 10.x. Load from the new INTEROP
partition.
* Common User Environment - A fileset of scripts to help you
create common .profiles.
* Remote SAM - Allows you to run single-mode SAM in mixed 9.x/10.x
environments.
* XTERM300 - Loading this fileset from the new INTEROP partition. to a
Series 700 10.x server allows booting your Series 300/400
workstations as Xterminals.
* Network Time Protocol (NTP) - Implements the XNTP precision
time-of-day function available with HP-UX 10.0 on your Series
300/400 workstation.