I use the TOP command as a good initial 'start point'. Once you see a problem there then you start using other commands like SAR for cpu utilization,memory and disk utilization. Also vmstat for more memory checks. ... View more

Dusko, Is your Server ML350 G2 ?? As I am getting conflicting information as to whether the G2 will take SmartStart 7.10 and Server 2003. Thanks kyris ... View more

$$ is the process number of the current shell. This is useful for creating unique temporary work files e.g ls >temp$$ ... View more

In simple terms Zombies are dead processes which should be monitored and removed. Otherwise they can create havoc with your system's performance. If they are still on your system, remove them using the kill command or kill -9 command. If they keep re-appearing then you need to find out what causes them. kyris ... View more

You have 4 Zombies...Kill those Zombies and see the difference... ps -el | grep Z. Hopefully once removed your system will be ok, otherwise more investigation is needed. kyris ... View more

Please see attached file for info required. Have fun!! ... View more

The trap command can be used in a shell script in order to trap incoming signals : trap kyris ... View more

Online JFS... Luxury for some of us!!! Please see attached file which I hope will help. ... View more

I had a similar problems on V11.00 and it was due to the fact that some large files-logs- were present that pushed the amount backed beyond the tape capacity. But it should tell you at some point that you need to insert a new tape. See if you can do some housekeeping of old files, trim log files etc. There is a ignite log file....have you checked to see if there is anything useful in there ? ... View more

Try /usr/sbin/dmesg | grep -i Physical =for memory [small p for page size] OR grep Physical /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log ... View more

Please see atached file, which should be useful to u. kyris [ JUST as a side line, I hope u ALL know by now GREECE 1 - Portugal 0 ] ... View more

I am sure a combination of ioscan, lanscan commands already given and the /etc/ifconfig lan0 or lan1 etc should get u what u need.. ... View more

I had a similar problem a few months back and what it was for me, was that the workstation I was trying to log onto, had a Zombie process, taking up 100% CPU, caused by a UPS monitoring process. Get someone to monitor this when trying to log onto it. ... View more

Yogeeraj code should work ok...Are u sure u set the : set serveroutput on ?? ... View more

If it's a one off, then do as others have suggested. I do a lot of file transfers from unix to windows and I either use QVT/FTP or Reflection for Unix and Digital. Both just like using Windows Explore. ... View more

What about the 'old' way using cmp[-l -s] fileA fileB. The -l option will report the position(in decimal) in the file where the difference occurred. ... View more

I ahve a simple procedure to create a mirrored boot disk. Please see attached file. Hope it helps.. ... View more

Srikanth, Thanks for the 5 points !!!! It's my first.... kyris ... View more

This is what I use and works ok..It's written for my collegues, so it contains a lot of explanations as to why something is done.. See file attached.. ... View more

Have a look at my attached document...I have done it and it worked... kyris ... View more

I found it easy to put the job in a script and cron it. Simple example is: sqlplus -s kp/exa@db << EOF spool /tmp/kak/hel_new/sort.lst @/tmp/kak/hel_sql/check_sort_types.sql spool off exit EOF # Renaming the File and adding date for it # mv /tmp/kak/hel_new/sort.lst /tmp/kak/hel_new/sort.lst.`date +%a%d%b` # if [ -r "/tmp/kak/hel_new/sort.lst.`date +%a%d%b`" ] then lp /tmp/kak/hel_new/sort.lst.`date +%a%d%b` else echo " Cant Locate File /tmp/kak/hel_new/sort.lst.`date +%a%d%b`" > /tmp/kak/hel_new/sort.err fi You can play around with the date part i.e sort.lst.`date +%a%d%b` till u get what u are after. kyris ... View more

I have been looking after an HP-UX systems and I have a document which I have set up. This has been very useful to me when I had various disk failures. Sending this to you and I hope it will also be of some use. It contains other stuff which might also be of use. Unfortunately not to me any more as our company scraped all unix systems and moved to NT and VMS !! Please dont take it as bible...I am only human !! kyris ... View more

In very rear occassions that I need to use it....a file can be displayed in one or more formats by using the od (octal dump) command. If no file name is specified, the standard input is used: od [ -oxc ] [filename] --> -o will interpret words in octal; default option --> -x Interpret words in hex --> -c Interpret words in ASCII e.g od -x infile ... View more