ASGAUR

What does HP-UX stand for? Added: 04/16/01 HP-UX is short for Hewlett-Packard UN

Where can I find a good overview of HP-UX? Updated: 08/23/01 For starters, there

What is the release history of HP-UX? Updated: 12/29/03 Rel Date Major Fe

Where can I find definitions of various HP-UX terms? Added: 04/16/01 Refer to th

What is HP's address and phone number? Updated: 10/09/01 The address of HP Corpo

How does HP-UX rank among other enterprise Unixes? Added: 06/17/02 The latest D.

How does the Compaq merger affect the HP-UX roadmap? Added: 06/17/02 HP and Comp

Where can I get a copy of this FAQ file? Updated: 10/09/01 An ASCII text version

What other HP-UX-related FAQs exist? Updated: 11/10/03 There is an HP-UX 11i FAQ

FAQs

Interex, The International Association of Hewlett-Packard Computing

InterWorks Updated: 04/03/01 InterWorks, formerly the Apollo Domain User's Socie

Interex Netherlands HP User Group (AKA DutchWorks) Updated: 03/26/01 The Interex

HP/Works Updated: 04/02/01 HP/Works is the HP Technical Computing User Group, ba

Japanese HP Computer Users Association Updated: 09/12/03 As of March 31, 2002, t

Organizations outside the U.S.

Organizations Subject: 4.10.1 Organizations within the U.S.

Third-Party Vendors Subject: 4.11.1 Hewlett-Packard Vendor Listing Ad

What is the URL of HP's main web site? Added: 04/10/01 There are several mirrors

Where can I browse HP documentation on the Web? Updated: 04/06/01 The HP Technic

Where can I get support from HP on the Web? Updated: 10/09/01 Go to the HP IT Re

Other HP Sites Added: 04/17/01 HP Software =========== HP Software Depot

HP Sites

EnterpriseUnix.org Added: 01/22/03 EnterpriseUnix.org is a website for system ad

EPFL Support HP / HPLine Added: 04/16/01 EPFL Support HP is a Swiss HP-UX Suppor

Non-HP Sites

Web Sites

List of HP-UX-related Usenet newsgroups Added: 04/19/01 ------------------------

What is HP's involvement in the HP-related newsgroups? HP does not, to my knowledge,

The ITRC HP-UX Forum Updated: 01/23/03 The HP-UX Forum on the HP ITRC web site c

Newsgroups

HPUX-Admin Mailing List Updated: 04/30/02 Bart Muyzer runs an HP-UX system admin

HP 9000 series 500 Mailing List There is a mailing list dedicated to the HP 9000 ser

HPMINI-L Mailing List Added: 04/16/01 The HPMINI-L Mailing List is dedicated to

Mailing Lists

hp-ux/usr Updated: 03/29/01 - A newsletter devoted to HP-UX, published by Inte

The HP Chronicle Updated: 01/23/03 The HP Chronicle was a tabloid-sized newspape

Periodicals

HP-UX 11.x Books "HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit", with CD (Au

HP-UX 10.x Books "Learning the HP-UX Operating System" by Marty Poniatowski, 07/

HP-UX 10.x/11.x Books Updated: 04/01/01 "Disk and File Management Tasks on HP-UX

CDE Books Updated: 04/02/01 "Configuring CDE: The Common Desktop Environment"

Books from HP Added: 04/10/01 Prentice Hall PTR publishes books for technical pr

HP Product Manuals Added: 04/10/01 On HP-UX 11.00 and earlier, refer to manuals(

Books

The HP-UX Reference Manual Updated: 09/12/03 An online version of the HP-UX Refe

/usr/share/doc Added: 04/17/01 On HP-UX 10.00 and later, the /usr/share/doc dire

Local Files

HP World Conference & Expo Updated: 03/17/01 The next HP World conference is Aug

InterWorks Conference Updated: 03/17/01 The next InterWorks conference is at the

HP/Works Technical Workshops Updated: 04/02/01 HP/Works holds technical workshop

Conferences and Workshops

Courses offered by HP Updated: 04/02/01 HP offers many courses related to HP-UX.

Courses on HP-UX

How do group privileges work? Updated: 07/11/01 HP-UX 9.0 and later allows speci

How can I protect my system from viruses? Added: 09/20/01 There are several anti

maximum security? What information is available on configuring HP-UX fo

Does HP-UX support /etc/shadow like Solaris and Linux? Added: 01/22/03

Why are mail files in /var/mail owned by 'daemon' instead of the recipi

How can I restrict regular users from logging in at the console? Adde

How can I disable non-root logins? Add the following to /etc/profile, then 'touch /e

Where can I find a list of all patches corresponding to security adviso

How can I protect my systems against SATAN? Added: 04/17/01 Read CIAC Informatio

What are the major differences between trusted and non-trusted systems?

How can I configure things like minimum password length, password histo

What is the sticky bit's purpose? Added: 08/23/01 A 't' or 'T' as the last chara

Auditing and Security

Why do my processes keep dying at 64 MB memory usage? Updated: 04/08/01 You need

How do I set per-process limits? Added: 09/13/01 Many system-wide per-process li

How can I tell what files, ports, etc.. a process has open? Added:

How can I get the ps command to display more than 64 characters of pro

Process Management Subject: 5.10.1 How much memory can a process use?

What's a good strategy for clearing /tmp and /var/tmp? Updated: 03/29/01 Run the

Routine Tasks Subject: 5.11.1 How can I track log files and core files?

Where can I find out more about Software Distributor (SD-UX)? Upda

How can I tell what products have been loaded on my system? U

How do I safely remove software from my system? Use the swremove command. See swrem

How is the unique node ID used for licensing determined? Added: 04

What is Ignite-UX? Added: 04/16/01 Ignite-UX is an HP-UX administration toolset

Where do I get HP-UX patches? Added: 04/06/01 All customers with a valid softwar

How can I list all installed patches? Updated: 04/16/01 On 10.00 and later, use:

How can I tell what patches are in the kernel? Updated: 03/23/01 Kernel patches

How do I get rid of old 10.x patches or superseded patches? Update

How can I install multiple patches, without having to reboot more th

How do I configure swlist to not display superseded patches? Added

What is the naming convention used for HP-UX patch names? Added: 0

Where can I get OpenView patches? Added: 04/17/01 Patches for the various HP Ope

Patch Management

Software Management Subject: 5.12.1 General Software Management

How can I print yesterday's or tomorrow's date? Updated: 07/31/01 From the comma

How can I convert a timestamp (seconds since the Epoch) to a date/time

What is the purpose of the 'timezone' and 'dst' kernel parameters? A

Time Subject: 5.13.1 How can I change the timezone? Updated: 05/03/02

How can I set up group-based FTP access? Updated: 04/20/01 See-Also: item 7.1.1.3

Has /etc/logingroup functionality changed in 11.x? Added: 05/03/02 HP has confir

Users and Groups Subject: 5.14.1 How can I tell if I need more than a 2-u

Where can I get X11R6? Updated: 04/09/01 Despite the fact that the top of the X(

workspace? How can I get an X app to come up in an alternate

Where can I get the missing X11 header files? Updated: 02/27/02 As you may have

How can I set up an HP-UX workstation as an X terminal? Updated: 01/08/01 Ad

How do I get a scroll bar on hpterms? Updated: 04/01/01 There are two ways to do

How can I change the title in my hpterm titlebar? Updated: 03/25/01 From the com

Why do my terminal windows keep going away by themselves? Updated:

How can I get console messages to go to an hpterm? Updated: 04/01/01 You can avo

What's a good termcap entry for hpterm? Updated: 04/07/01 Although it is not sup

My screen is wedged. What should I do? One thing you can try is to unplug the keybo

What happened to VUE? VUE has been replaced with CDE, which debuted with HP-UX 10.10

How do I start/stop/reset CDE (dtlogin)? Added: 04/03/01 First off, to start/sto

How can I enable/disable CDE (dtlogin)? Added: 04/03/01 To disable CDE:

Why does id/groups not show secondary groups in dtterm/CDE? Update

How can I improve CDE's performance? Added: 04/03/01 Performace can be substanti

Is there a CDE FAQ? Added: 04/11/01 Yes, it lives at: o < http://www.

When I log on to CDE, I want certain applications to automatically s

How do I get cut-n-paste to work correctly with CDE? Updated: 04/22/03 Text cut-

Why do NCD X-terminals hang when trying to connect via XDMCP to an H

Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

X-Windows and CDE Subject: 5.15.1 X Window System (X11)

Can I put more than one backup on DDS with fbackup? No. fbackup always rewinds the t

How can I use dump with a DDS tape? dump was written to assume 9-track tapes, so som

Why do cpio/tar/dump/pax all backup to tape painfully slowly? Added:

What CD burning software is available? Updated: 02/03/03 You can use Cdrecord (a

Backup and Recovery

How can I enable long file names? Updated: 04/02/01 HP-UX 10.00 or later creates

disks? Where can I get updated disktab entries for third-party

How can I determine whether a disk is bootable? Added: 08/29/01 To display the d

How do I defragment my filesystems? Added: 05/02/02 VxFS filesystems can be defr

Is it possible to create a RAM disk? Updated: 05/10/01 Yes, HP-UX 9.00 and later

What happened to DUX and context dependent files (CDFs)? Added: 03/29/01 As of H

Why can't I use all of my swap space? Updated: 04/08/01 The default value of the

How can I determine which disk is the boot disk? Updated: 01/03/02 There are at

Why does pfs_mount fail with the message 'Not Owner' when I try to use

What's new with remote mounts and the automounter? HP-UX 10.00 and later ships with

Why are CDROM filenames all UPPERCASE with ;1 attached? Updated: 11/20/02 CD-ROM

How can I start the PFS daemons automatically at system startup? Upda

Disks and Filesystems

How do I define a new terminal type? Added: 04/26/01 In HP-UX 10.0 and later, th

How can I change the video mode on my workstation? Added: 06/17/02 Use the follo

Display

How can I tell if I have a 32-bit or 64-bit kernel? Added: 04/19/01 First off, i

How do I determine if a system supports a 32 and/or a 64-bit kernel?

Where can I find detailed documentation of the various kernel parameter

Kernel Configuration

How can I look at what my system is doing? Updated: 04/08/01 The best tool for m

What happened to the sysdiag command? Updated: 03/27/01 For HP-UX 10.01 and late

How can I improve overall system performance? Updated: 05/03/02 There are, of co

Monitors, Diagnostics, and Performance

How can I change the order of hostname resolution? Updated: 03/22/01 Edit /etc/n

interface? How can multiple IP addresses be configured on one

How can I enable the LAN interface on a 700? This can be problem when the LAN isn't

Where can I get STREAMS for HP-UX? Updated: 03/30/01 STREAMS/UX is included with

What version of BIND (named) comes with HP-UX? Updated: 12/11/02 HP-UX 11.20 com

What version of sendmail comes with HP-UX? Updated: 12/11/02 HP-UX 11.20 comes w

What version of NFS comes with HPUX? Updated: 01/03/02 o HP-UX 11.00/10/11 come

What is the difference between automount and AutoFS? Updated: 09/12/03 There are

subnet? Can I configure multiple network interfaces on the same

Does HP-UX come with a DHCP server? Added: 08/23/01 Yes, bootpd can act as a DHC

How can I track network packets? TRACING - Trace all packets seen by the device driv

How to get the MAC address for a particular network interface? Added:

Is there a Transport Level Interface (TLI) interface to TCP on HP-UX?

How do I disable IP Forwarding? For HP-UX 10.x, one uses nettune to set the variable

Why is ifconfig giving me errors when I try to configure my LAN?

How do I change the hostname, IP address, DNS Server, etc? Updated: 06/20/01

How do I determine the speed and duplexity of my network interface? U

How do I display all active Internet (TCP and UDP) connections? Added

Networking and Communications

How do I use the floppy drive on my HP-UX workstation? Updated: 04/30/01 HP9000

Is there a trackball for the 700? Updated: 04/04/01 Yes, there are two options.

What keyboards and mice are compatible with HP9000 workstations? Add

German How do I change the keyboard type (e.g. from UK to German or

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive? How do I ascertain which device file correspon

How can I format a floppy under HP-UX? There is no HP-fully-supported way of getting

How can I get an Exabyte to work on an HP? Updated: 01/23/03 A number of Exabyte

How can I get a stuck DDS tape out of the drive? 1) Power down your machine (rememb

Do I need to terminate the internal SCSI on a 700? According to some people, an unte

How can I play audio CDs on an HP workstation's CD-ROM drive? Updated

How can I set up /dev/audio to point to the external jack on a 700?

How can I configure the parallel port handshake on a 700? Check out cent(7).

What are the specs of the audio hardware on the 700 series? This

Peripheral Devices

What happened to lpr? Updated: 04/05/01 lpr is part of the BSD-style print queue

Why does lpstat report the printer down, even though it's not? Y

How can I turn off the LP banner page? Updated: 04/04/01 Depending on the type o

How can I print man pages without losing the formatting? Updated: 04/07/01 To ge

Printers and Plotters

What threads support is provided? Added: 04/13/01 The HP DCE package (version 1.

What's the deal with _INCLUDE_xxxx_SOURCE? The ANSI standard clearly states what ide

Where can I find a list of all available system calls? Added: 04/19/01 o On 11.x

How can I tell if something was built debuggable? If the output of "/usr/contrib/bin

Why is syslog() call not doing what i want it to? My program looks like: #i

How can I get C programs to automatically generate stack dumps?

HP C++ email discussion lists Rich Rauenzahn < mailto:rrauenza@cup.hp.com > has set

HP-UX development email discussion lists Rich Rauenzahn

General

Why is the default C compiler brain-dead? Updated: 04/13/01 The C compiler shipp

How do I make Perl on HP-UX? Updated: 04/02/01 Reply like this to the Configure

How do I deal with "too many defines"? Use the "-Wp,-Hxxxxxxx" where xxxxxxxx is the

Why do I get "_builtin_va_start" undefined when I build with gcc?

Is there some kind of problem with using FLT_MIN in ANSI mode? T

Why do I get the error "*Initialization* token-sequence in `#assert'" when I c

How can I detect the HP-UX version at compile time? Added: 05/02/02 The below ma

Compiling and Linking

Porting from an Earlier Release of HP-UX Updated: 01/10/03 See the HP-UX 11.x ST

Porting from Other Platforms (Solaris, AIX, etc..) Updated: 06/12/02 Porting Gu

How do I know if binaries built on a one release of HP-UX are compatibl

Porting

Where can I get Interviews for HP-UX? Updated: 03/28/01 HP released a product ca

Is there a disassembler included with HP-UX? Added: 01/23/03 First off, if you h

Tools

Patches Updated: 04/22/03 Individual patches for HP-UX, MPE/iX, and HP firmware

Drivers Added: 04/19/01 Drivers are normally found on the HP-UX Applications CDs

I heard there is a new ftpd available. Where do I get it? Added: 0

HPRC FTP Site Added: 04/20/01 The HP Response Center (HPRC) maintains an FTP sit

GNOME Added: 12/30/03 Ximian GNOME for HP-UX is a modern, highly customizable de

HP Freeware

The Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX Updated: 01/22/03 The Software

Added TTCP Added TTCP (Test TCP Program) can be used to test network TCP and UDP t

Added Free SCSI utilities for HP-UX workstations Added MDL Corporation provides severa

Added PSCREEN/uX Added PSCREEN/uX is a screen-capture utility for HP-UX. pscreen runs

Added GNU software Added Check the Liverpool archive (see question 7.1.2.1) for the la

Updated Web browsers Updated HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 come with Netscape Navigator Gold 3

Added Miscellaneous freeware Added URL: < ftp://ftp.lut.fi/pub/hpux/ > Conte

Added RealAudio Player Added RealPlayer can be downloaded from: o < http://

Updated CD Burning Software Updated Please see section 5.2.4.

InterWorks FTP site Updated: 04/18/01 The anonymous FTP server for what used to

Netperf Added: 04/04/01 Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the p

SLIP and CSLIP Both SLIP and CSLIP come with HP-UX 10.00 and later. As of HP-UX 10.

PPP Updated: 11/24/01 PPP comes with HP-UX 10.30 and later. The PPP man

SMTP Added: 08/24/01 Sendmail comes with HP-UX. See item 5.7.14 for information

POP and IMAP Updated: 08/24/01 QUALCOMM[R], makers of the Eudora[R] email client

Sudo Added: 03/26/01 Sudo binaries can be downloaded from the Sudo FTP site

Ntalk Updated: 03/26/01 There are several problems with the version of Ntalk tha

Non-HP Freeware

Shareware

Where can I find release histories for various HP software products?

Where can I find a list of all applications that are available for HP

HP Commercial Software

Interex FastStart Toolbox Updated: 03/24/01 Interex is now packaging HP-UX freel

Is there anything remotely like the Apollo DM editor available? Upd

Non-HP Commercial Software

How can I find the HP-UX equivalent for a given Solaris/AIX/etc.. command

Why can't I start Aserver? Often this is because "localhost" isn't configured in DNS

script? How can I get a daemon to successfully start from an rc

How do I convert the uname string to a model string? Updated: 04/09/01 BTW, if y

Is Perl included with HP-UX? Added: 04/09/01 Yes, HP-UX releases 10.10 through 1

Why can't I type an '@' character? If you do a 'stty -a' and you will see that your

Why can't I get my machine into boot admin mode? When i reboot my workstation I do n

What happened to "less"? Updated: 04/05/01 Use "more" or "pg" instead. Under HP

variables? What should go in my PATH and MANPATH environment

checksum than the 9.x cksum command? Why does the 10.x/11.x cksum command

Can I run Linux on an HP9000 system? Updated: 04/22/02 Yes! PA-RISC Lin

What do I need to do to make my HP-UX system Year 2000 compliant? Updat

Can I run *BSD on an HP9000 system? Added: 04/18/01 Yes! There are HP90

What happened to /usr/local? What are these /usr/contrib and /opt dir

Is it OK to change root's shell? Updated: 04/05/01 No! root's shell has to be /

messages? Why does HP-UX 10 generate copious "Sti_save" syslog

How can I tell which kernel was booted? Updated: 01/02/02 In 11.x, this can be d

What is the equivalent of ldd under HP-UX? Updated: 04/05/01 In 10.x, you can us

shutdown when the system starts up or shuts down? How do I configure a pr

How can I do regular expression matching? Added: 04/13/01 First of all, refer to

How can I play MP3s? Added: 03/29/01 Use mpg123. mpg123 is a real time

How can I use audio on HP-UX 10.x/11.x without a network? Updated: 04/24/01 The

How do I boot into single user mode? Press ESC to stop the auto-boot. When the l

Is there a tool to trace system calls? Yes, for HP-UX 11.x, the tusc command provide

What OS capacity limits exist? Updated: 12/11/02 Attribute 10.01

How can I determine how much RAM my system has? Updated: 06/14/02 From SAM =

What are the various revisions of PA-RISC? Updated: 01/23/03 Rev Bits Rel M

How do I find the clock speed of my system's CPU(s)? Updated: 04/03/01 From the

How can I view/print PDF files? Added: 04/16/01 You must install the HP-UX versi

How do I read an SGI-written tar format DDS tape? The secret (at least in this case)

Is the Euro supported? Added: 04/17/01 11i, as well as later 11.00 refresh relea

Excel spreadsheets, etc..) on an HP-UX system? How can I view various Win

and top commands, calculated? How is the system load average, as reported

How can I send mail to an MPE/iX HPDESK address? For a person whose DESK address is:

Where can I get HP9000 firmware updates? Added: 04/19/01 Firmware updates can be

Where can I look up HP part numbers? Added: 12/18/01 Go to the HP PartSurfer web

How can I create a /dev/zero special file? Updated: 10/14/02 Prior to 11.11, HP-U

Why is tail's output truncated for large amounts of input? Added: 05/02/02 From

summarizing What commands or scripts exist for gathering and summarizing

How can I convert numbers from one base to another? Added: 05/03/02 You can use

What are the machine ID and serial number used for? Added: 05/03/02 The machine

hood? How can I tell what commands SAM is executing under the

How can I view a file in octal or hexadecimal? Added: 07/08/02 For octal, use:

core.? How do I configure the kernel to write corefiles as

How can I limit core files? Updated: 04/03/01 In the POSIX shell (/usr/bin/sh):

How do I analyze a system crash dump? Added: 07/24/02 The tool to read them is c

etc..)? Is HP-UX free for non-profit users (students, hobbyists,

Where can I obtain a free HP-UX shell account? Added: 08/14/02 The HP/Compaq tes

Linux? How do I grep for an exact word as with "grep -w" in Linux? Added: 09/12/03

How do I disable the Caps Lock key? Updated: 04/07/01 To disable the "placement

Why does my Korn shell login hang? This can happen if your home directory is across

How can I avoid those annoying copyright notices on login? The following code in /et

How can I turn off quota checking? There are a few ways to go about this: 1

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