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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 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?  ...
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 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?  
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...
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 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...
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
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...
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...
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 ...
For Solaris 10 (11/06) we are trying to create a netmask of 255.255.240.0 but cannot seem to get it to work.  Here is what is configured so far: root@03# cat netmasks # # The netmasks fil...
This can be accomplished  by piping zero or any other character to a file. But I really dont know how to do it.
Require SCO Unix quick commands, please if anyone have is it possible for me to have it. Regards Kamlesh
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...
In unix, solaris/linux, how do we find  size  (disk space) of raw device?  Need to create table space. need commands. thanks
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...
Hi.......... How do i send email from the command line using mailx. how do specify: to from subject attachements ...R
How to copy files on my Windows desktop to a remote Unix location, using Putty??
I am trying to setup new memory in our Sun Ultra I. We have 64 MB Sun memory and 64 MB of the proper Kingston memory. But on booting i always get only 64 MB diplayed. How do i setup the new me...
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...
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...
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 ...
Hi All I need to unmount a nfs share on a solaris server because the NFS server is down. I tried umount -f /share but it just freezes I also tried fuser -c /share to see what process ...