comp.sys.hp.hpux FAQ

• Introduction
• 1. INTRODUCTION
• 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
• 3. FINDING INFORMATION
• 3.1 Where can I get a copy of this FAQ file?
• 3.2 Courses on HP-UX
• 3.3 Interex, The International Association of Hewlett-Packard Computing Professionals
• 3.4 InterWorks, the Technical Users Forum of Interex
• 3.5 Interex HP Users Conferences
• 3.6 InterWorks Conference 1997
• 3.7 HP/Works
• 3.8 HP/Works Conferences
• 3.9 Japanese HP Computer Users Association
• 3.10 German HP User Group
• 3.11 DutchWorks
• 3.12 HP-UX freely available software from InterWorks.
• 3.13 Anonymous FTP Sites for HP-UX, and UNIX related software.
• 3.14 Where can I get a demo CD with software for HP-UX?
• 3.15 HP-UX patch information
• 3.16 How can I send mail to an "hpdesk" address?
• 3.17 What are the known issues with porting BSD-based programs to HP-UX?
• 3.18 What periodicals are available that focus on HP-UX?
• 3.19 Books on HP-UX
• 3.20 HP-UX Sysadmin Mailing List
• 3.21 HP-related WWW Sites
• 3.22 Is there any way to get rid of a frequent poster's posts?
• 3.23 HP 9000 series 500 Mailing List
• 3.24 HP 3000 FAQ
• 3.25 What is HP's involvement in the HP-related newsgroups?
• 3.26 Who were the former maintainers of the FAQ?
• 3.27 Where do i get information on HP's Printers?
• 3.28 Where is the SunOS to HP-UX Porting Guide?
• 3.29 Where can I get support from HP on the Web?
• 4. THIRD PARTY VENDORS
• 4.1 Third party vendors for RAM.
• 4.2 Third party vendors for other things
• 4.3 Do Seagate 9GB drives working with s700 and s800?
• 5. UTILITIES
• 5.1 ASCII to Postscript converter.
• 5.2 How do I make perl on HP-UX?
• 5.3 What is the status of the various gnu items on HP-UX?
• 6. X WINDOW SYSTEM, MOTIF, HP-VUE, AND CDE
• 6.1 X11 libraries (Athena, etc.) and utilities (imake, etc.).
• 6.2 How can I display an image on the root window with HP-VUE?
• 6.3 How do I get a scroll bar on hpterms?
• 6.4 How can I put a title in my hpterm titlebar?
• 6.5 How come my hpterms keep going away by themselves?
• 6.6 How come my HP X/Motif clients take a LONG time to display on a Sun?
• 6.7 How can I get my login stuff to work under HP-VUE?
• 6.8 How can I get console messages to go to an hpterm?
• 6.9 What happened to the vuewm key accelerators at VUE 3.0?
• 6.10 How come I can no longer disable the caps lock key with xmodmap?
• 6.11 How come vi behaves strangely in xterms at 9.01?
• 6.12 How do I disable HP-VUE?
• 6.13 What's a good termcap entry for hpterm?
• 6.14 My screen is wedged. What should I do?
• 6.15 How can I get an X client to come up in an alternate workspace?
• 6.16 How can I get HP-VUE to not override colors?
• 6.17 How can I override the system default printer in vuepad?
• 6.18 What about X11R6?
• 6.19 How can I set user-specific app-defaults in HP-VUE?
• 6.20 How can I get VUE to share colormap entries:
• 6.21 How can I disallow root login at the console with VUE?
• 6.22 id/groups doesn't show secondary groups in dtterm/CDE
• 6.23 What type of books are available about CDE and oriented toward HP-UX?
• 6.24 Getting mouse button cut-n-paste to work correctly with HPUX10/CDE
• 7. OPERATING SYSTEM
• 7.1 Can I have filenames longer than 14 chars?
• 7.2 How can I tell what products have been loaded on my system?
• 7.3 How do I safely remove software from my system?
• 7.4 How can I change the order of hostname resolution?
• 7.5 How come the LOGnnnn files in /usr/adm keep growing and growing?
• 7.6 How come I can't lock mail or other files on a Sun?
• 7.7 Why are mail files in /usr/mail are owned by daemon instead of the recipient?
• 7.8 How can I tell if I need more than a 2-user license?
• 7.9 How can I tell what patches are in the kernel?
• 7.10 How come I have to hit return after control-d in the Korn shell?
• 7.11 How do I boot into single user mode?
• 7.12 How come my Korn shell login hangs?
• 7.13 How can I avoid those annoying copyright notices on login?
• 7.14 How can I turn off quota checking?
• 7.15 How can I track log files and core files?
• 7.16 How much memory can a process use?
• 7.17 How can I make a ramdisk?
• 7.18 What's a good strategy for clearing /tmp and /usr/tmp?
• 7.19 How can I change the timezone?
• 7.20 How can I look at what my system is doing?
• 7.21 How can I partition HP-UX disks on 700s at 9.x?
• 7.22 How can I print man pages successfully?
• 7.23 How can I limit core files?
• 7.24 Can I put more than one backup on DDS with fbackup?
• 7.25 How can I load multiple patches on a machine at the same time?
• 7.26 How can I set up an HP-UX workstation as an X terminal?
• 7.27 What causes "Unable to initialize MI" when running Glance?
• 7.28 How come I can't get all of my swap space?
• 7.29 How come I can't start my Aserver?
• 7.30 How can I get a daemon to successfully start from /etc/rc at 9.x?
• 7.31 How come my /dev/null keeps getting blown away?
• 7.32 How can I track network packets?
• 7.33 How come my processes keep dying at 67M memory usage?
• 7.34 Is it possible to artificially limit the memory size?
• 7.35 How come my alt key combinations don't work in emacs X mode?
• 7.36 I can't get FLEXlm based licensing to work.
• 7.37 How can I set up group-based FTP access?
• 7.38 How come my 700 doesn't perform as well as I expect?
• 7.39 How do I convert the uname string to the model string?
• 7.40 Problem with ntalkd and it's handling on /etc/utmp.
• 7.41 How to get an MS-DOS floppy formatted using HP-UX?
• 7.42 How to get the MAC (station) address programmatically?
• 7.43 Is there a Transport Level Interface (TLI) interface to TCP on HP-UX?
• 7.44 How do you disable IP Forwarding at 9.x?
• 7.45 Does HPUX 9.0 have support for threads?
• 7.46 How come I can't type an '@' character?
• 7.47 How come I can't get my machine into boot admin mode?
• 7.48 What's a quick check to see if a fileset is installed on 9.x?
• 7.49 How does one package a set of files for HP-UX 9.X?
• 7.50 Why is ifconfig giving me errors when I try to configure my LAN?
• 7.51 What new features are in HP-UX 9.07?
• 7.52 Why do I get the message "Can't start message server..."
• 7.53 How can I disable new logins?
• 7.54 What is the maximum filesystem size on a 7xx, running HP-UX 9.X HP-UX 10.X?
• 7.55 What is the current revision of HP-UX?
• 7.56 What's different between HP-UX 9.x and 10.20?
• 7.57 What's different between HP-UX 10.01 and 10.2?
• 7.58 What happened to /usr/local? What's this /usr/contrib directory?
• 7.59 What happened to "less"?
• 7.60 Remote mounts and the automounter -- What's new?
• 7.61 Why does tcsh have problems with 'bind'?
• 7.62 How do I change the hostname, IP address, DNS Server, etc?
• 7.63 What should go in my PATH and MANPATH environment variables?
• 7.64 What happened to 'lpr' and other misc. lp hints?
• 7.65 Lpstat reports the printer down, even though it's not (?)
• 7.66 Misc. HP-UX10.x gotcha with root's shell
• 7.67 cksum command is a bit "squirrely" in HPUX09
• 7.68 HPUX10 generate copious "Sti_save" syslog messages
• 7.69 Why does pfs_mount fail with the message 'Not Owner' when I try to use it?
• 7.70 What is the HP equivelent of ldd (determine shared library dependancy)?
• 7.71 PHKL_4413 breaks xntp
• 7.72 How do I get rid of these old 10.X patches since I upgraded OS's?
• 7.73 How to install multiple patches on a 10.x system without rebooting?
• 7.74 How can I determine how much memory there is in my HP-UX system?
• 8. COMPILERS AND LINKERS
• 8.1 What's a P-FIXUP error?
• 8.2 Where is regcmp on HP-UX?
• 8.3 How come the default C compiler is brain-dead?
• 8.4 How do I deal with "too many defines"?
• 8.5 How come I get "_builtin_va_start" undefined when I build with gcc?
• 8.6 How can I tell if something was built debuggable?
• 8.7 Is there some kind of problem with using FLT_MIN in ANSI mode?
• 8.8 What's the deal with _INCLUDE_xxxx_SOURCE?
• 8.9 How come I need to explicitly specify -I/usr/include?
• 8.10 Is there an equivalent for getrusage()?
• 8.11 Why is syslog() call not doing what i want it to?
• 8.12 Is trace on HP-UX?
• 8.13 How to get C programs automatically generate stack dumps?
• 9. HARDWARE AND PERIPHERALS
• 9.1 Are alternate keyboards available for HP workstations?
• 9.2 How can I play audio CDs on an HP workstation?
• 9.3 How can I enable the LAN interface on a 700?
• 9.4 How can I get an Exabyte to work on an HP?
• 9.5 Is there a "node ID" on 700s?
• 9.6 How can I get a stuck DDS tape out of the drive?
• 9.7 How can I use dump with a DDS tape?
• 9.8 What is the correct major number for DDS drives on 9.x?
• 9.9 How can I set up /dev/audio to point to the external jack on a 700?
• 9.10 How can I configure the parallel port handshake on a 700?
• 9.11 What are the specs of the audio hardware on the 700 series?
• 9.12 What are the various revisions of PA-RISC?
• 9.13 How do I read an SGI-written tar format DDS tape?
• 9.14 Is there a trackball for the 700?
• 9.15 Where can I get disktab entries for third party disks?
• 9.16 Do I need to terminate the internal SCSI on a 700?
• 9.17 What is the largest disk partition I can have at 9.x?
• 9.18 How can I determine how much RAM I have non-interactively?
• 9.19 How can I turn off the lpspooler cover page?
• 9.20 Why are CDROM filenames all UPPERCASE with ;1 attached?
• 9.21 DIP Switch Settings for HP 7475 Plotter (RS-232)
• 9.22 Why inserts HP-UX 4 spaces when I print using a parallel port?
• 9.23 How do I find the speed of my system?
• 10. LOOKING FOR...
• 10.1 Where did xline go at 9.x?
• 10.2 How about the VUE 2.01 man page help index?
• 10.3 Is there anything remotely like the Apollo DM available?
• 10.4 Where can I get SLIP for HP-UX?
• 10.5 Where can I get pcnfsd on HP-UX?
• 10.6 Where can I get ppp for HP-UX?
• 10.7 Where can I get STREAMS for HP-UX?
• 10.8 What about POSIX threads?
• 10.9 Where can I get Interviews for HP-UX?
• 10.10 Where can I get POP for HP-UX?
• 10.11 Where can I get sudo for HP-UX?
• 10.12 Where can I get ntalk for HP-UX?
• 10.13 Where can i get disktab entries for certain seagate drives?
• 10.14 Where can I get information on a public domain PPP?
• 10.15 Where can I get generic information about PPP on HP-UX?
• 11. HP-UX 10.x INFORMATION
• 11.1 Can you have Multiple IP addresses on one interface?
• 11.2 What version of named is running at HP-UX 10.0?
• 11.3 What documents are available on HP-UX 10.0?
• 11.4 What is SD-UX and why does it replace /etc/update?
• 12. S300/400 SPECIFIC INFORMATION
• 12.1 When will HPUX 9.10 be available?
• 12.2 What are the highlights of HP-UX 9.10?