Reading the World Wide Name (WWN) / World Wide Identifier (WWID) of a controller or a LUN is not always easy unter HP-UX - depending on the release. Especially under the older releases 11.11 and 11.23 additional tools are required to get the requested information - this is much easier under 11.31.

Controller …

There are plenty of changes that have to be made after a fresh HP-UX 11i v1/v2 installation because of missing pre-configuration. For example:

Name resolution

By default, the file /etc/nsswitch.conf doesn't exist and has to be created and modified using a template. If this isn't done, neither XF86 nor the sw utility …

It is possible that a system update for a Google Nexus device can't be found and - according to this - downloaded, even if the update was definitely released.

A reason for this issue might be the "Google Services Framework" - it forces an error while communicating with the Google update servers. A solution …

A few days ago I wanted to use my HP C8000 workstation after a long time - but a defect changed my plans. Instead of showing the Boot Console Handler (BCH) the C8000 only presented a black screen. Even the serial interface was not working at all - no good sign.

I had a deepter look at the issue and unplugged all …

Depending on SSH client configuration and HP-UX release it is possible that the backspace control key (which is used for deleting erroneous inputs) is not working as expected.

1# mn^?^?man
2mn^?^?man: command not found

A possibility is to modify the configuraton of PuTTy - but this requires resetting the current …

Using Kerberos it is possible to "kerberize" services and applications to enhance security. Compared to classical username/password authentification Kerberos uses time-limited tickets which are applied per-user for authentificating against services and applications.

In combination with SSH the encrypted …

After the original release date and 6 other dates were canceled, Fedora 18 was released today.

Time to have a look at the anticipated operating system. The latest version of the RedHat supported project introductes some new features which might be also included in the upcoming version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and …