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What is .profile in UNIX? How do I set it up? I am using HP  UX Thax. _Esam
I recently 'inherited' an HP900 N-Class server with the OS 'pre-installed' and the install CDs copied onto the hard disk without setting up a depot.  Since the server does not have a DVD/CDROM...
I am running Unix on a RISCSystem/6000 43P-140 and need to know the number of processors that my system has; this is for a maintenance contract that is needed from a new vendor. Is there a Uni...
I need to install and configure Apache web server on a Solaris 10 server (V125 Sun Fire) purchased from Sun.  Is Apache pre-installed on Sun systems?  If so how do I access and configure it?  ...
Hi, An end-user keeps getting the 'Active Desktop Recovery' background screen on his XP Pro machine's Windows Desktop Background, whenever he logs in.  He is using a Roaming Profile with a Wi...
Hi, I would like to understand what is the the difference if i use  "export" for my environment variable compare to I use "setenv" for my environment variable. thanks
Hello, we are using IBM AIX 4.3.3 ML-09 I want to resolve some confusion i have about the syntax of tasks scheduled in a users's crontab file. Below is a command i have scheduled in m...
I have never installed HPUX before.  I am trying to install HPUX 11i on a VMWare instance for testing purposes.  I can not get the CD to boot to begin any type of setup.  Do I need a boot disk?  
Hi All, This has been a long term problem that I've tried to solve with reference to some online documentation and trial and error. Problem: NFS performance between an Informix database...
I am trying to setup an SFTP connection between two HPUX servers that authenticates using a public key.  I used the following command to geneerate the key pair and entered a passphrase: ssh-k...
Hi.......... How do i send email from the command line using mailx. how do specify: to from subject attachements ...R
I have a batch job that is running on a VAX.  We just began experiencing a problem with a Stale NFS file handle.  The script that is running doesn't abort and when the status of the script is ...
Hi,   I am new to UNIX Sys Admin. My question is does UNIX OS allows files greater than 2GB. Or is it necessary to enable large files support. If large file support need to be enabled can som...
I have a SCO Unix box on my network that was never properly configured and I'm trying to fix that.  I was able to get DNS happening (created /etc/resolv.conf).   The problem I'm having now is...
I'm new to Solaris and I'm working remotely using PuTTY and Xming on Windows PC to connect to a Solaris 10 Sun server.  I'd like to use an OS GUI like gnome or similar.  Do I need to install a...
How to copy files on my Windows desktop to a remote Unix location, using Putty??
I'm doing this with GNU SED on XP but I believe it's a generic SED question. I have two files, call them a.txt and b.txt, with data in them.  I want to merge them into one.  The first file ...
I just installed an Xwindows envirionment on my XP machine. I telnet'ed to another unix machine and want to run a gui program while exporting the display to my pc. I've done this before, proba...
In unix, solaris/linux, how do we find  size  (disk space) of raw device?  Need to create table space. need commands. thanks
We have a Netra i5 as our internet gateway machine and wish to have a disaster recovery proceedure.We can use ufsdump and ufsrestore it seems, but we have no tape drive on this box.Is there a ...
Require SCO Unix quick commands, please if anyone have is it possible for me to have it. Regards Kamlesh
Hi, I am able to create a unix environment variable but it always disappears when I exit my unix session. I do this MFG_SITE=01 ; export MFG_SITE then I do env and it shows...
Anybody can tell me the difference between raw device and file system device? And advantages and disadvantages of raw devices and file system devices? And how to create raw devices in unix? ...
Our management has raised that the current naming convention of our servers would reveal the organisation name and OS type & this subject us to security risks  (eg: boasun1  where boa is ou...
Hi, I am new to Unix. We have 2 SCSI drivers installed on a D320. One of the drive is "disappear" after system relocation. I would like to mount the drive again. When I type vgdispla...