HPUX 11.0 Install Cleanup

[David Goza]

I am trying to cleanup our system after an HPUX 11.0 cold install. Despite the fact I indicated in the install process that I did not want NFS, NIS, HP Array support ,HP Array Manager, or Native Language Support, these items were installed anyway. How do I go back and clean these items off our system?? A search of the ITRC does not show any doc's for removing these items in relation to HPUX11.0. Also, is there any thing else that the install process "deposted" on my system that I may need to cleanup?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi David:

I assume that you applied a current General Release (GR) or Hardware Critical (HWCR) bundle as a part of the cold installation process. Given this, I'd run the 'cleanup' utility to remove superseded patches. Do a 'man cleanup' for more details. I generally run 'cleanup' without any options.

There shouldn't be any core OS products that you should need to remove. Disk space is really very small for the operating system filesets in my opinion. You have a very viable installation if/when done properly.

If for some reason you do not have the 'cleanup' utility, download patch PHCO_22044 for 11.0.

...JRF...

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

Be careful what you remove since some services are bundled together. For example, support for rpc's (remote procedure calls) is included with NFS, specifically in the NFS.NFS-CORE fileset.

If you are certain that you do not want something, check out cleanup and swremove.

--Bruce

[David Goza]

I tried running cleanup without options and it came back with a message that I needed to specify options. I tried again with " cleanup -p -c 1" and it seemed to indicate this might work as it gave me two columns of patch names, patch sizes(?) and supercede numbers. Should I use " cleanup -n -c 1" next to actually do the cleanup?? How many supercedes is a good number 1,2,3...?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi David:

Ah, sorry, I was thinking about 'cleanup' as run on 10.20.

On 11.0, once you are satisfied that your patches are stable, I'd do:

# cleanup -n -c 1

...JRF...