Monthly Archives: April 2015

Create swap on HP-UX

HP-UX MBYTE=300 VG=vg00 LV=lv_swap2 LVOL=/dev/$VG/$LV ORG_DSKS=/dev/dsk/c0t12d0 MIRR=1 MIR_DSKS=/dev/dsk/c2t12d0 PRI=1 Option -s only works if physical VGs are defined only in EMC or Clariion disk type sudo lvcreate -n $LV -s y -r N /dev/$VG If it is not EMC nor … Continue reading

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Booting an HP 4440 up in Single User mode

Booting HP-UX in Single-User Mode To boot to HP-UX in single-user mode, follow these steps: 1. At the BCH Main Menu, enter command or menu> bo pri. The following message displays: Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> 2. To … Continue reading

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Editing ulimit variables permanently

If you want to edit ulimit variables that return with the ulimit -a command: You can do it temporarily from the command line with the ulimit command, but to make it permanent, you have to put the change in /etc/security/limits.conf. … Continue reading

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Chage

1) Set the password expiry date for username (*-M will update both “Password expires” and “Maximum number of days between password change”): chage -M number-of-days username *If the password expiry date is reached and user doesn’t change his password, the … Continue reading

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How to determine the RHEL version

[root@vickistan ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.6 (Final) If that doesn’t produce results, try this: [root@vickistan ~]# lsb_release -i -r Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseServer Release: 5.5

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