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Re: Shared Storage LVM Problem

You've now learned that Linux LVM does not work the same as HP-UX LVM, although many of the commands are named the same. In particular, the VG detection and VG import/export logic are very different...

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Re: Move SAN partition formatted with ext3 from on server to another

Your /proc/mdstat output indicates that the RAID1 mirror set is built up on top of two device-mapper devices, dm-5 and dm-14. Those might be basically anything: I'm guessing they are probably multipath...

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Re: Script for mail

Hi all , is it possible to do it ?thanks

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Linux how to manage passwords -automatically change password on linux servers

How to easily manage your passwords on the Linux server? I wonder how or what tool it was good to  change password on linux servers, a time to change the password on 100 servers. 

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Re: Linux how to manage passwords -automatically change password on linux...

Most Linux distributions include a "chpasswd" tool, which is useful when changing a large number of passwords at once. First, you create a file which contains one line for each user whose password you...

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Re: Move SAN partition formatted with ext3 from on server to another

Okay But now it is too late... :-)  At the last weekend I just did the ugly way to move the content of the affected filesystem from one to the other machine (backup & restore). But thank you for...

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Re: Linux System Information

Hello, Patrick gave you very good reference. By the way, cfg2html project is run by ex-HP staff Ralph Roth,who is a dear colleague of mine. Ralph now works at SUSE in Germany. Two months ago, I joined...

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Re: How to get Serial number in Linux w/o using dmidecode

Hello, Let me add another, not well-known tool - facter. Here is an example from my own CentOS 6.5 server.dmidecode you already said you do not want to use... # dmidecode -s...

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file move

for HOST in `cat /tmp/newhostdetails.txt`    -- #since i am running from other OS ,I used evil cat.doecho $HOSTecho "#########"ssh -q -o ConnectTimeout=60 user@$HOST ls -l...

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Re: file move

Where are you setting 'i' ?

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Re: file move

You say "for HOST in ..." but then use $i in your SCP / SSH commands.  You should probably use $HOST

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Re: Linux how to manage passwords -automatically change password on linux...

Hello,  Matti gave you a simple and good advice. On Linux, there are other nice ways to change password to "newpass"for user "username". For example: # echo newpass | passwd --stdin username  If you...

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HP Probook 430 G1 compatibility with Ubuntu Linux

Hello... has anyone tried Ubuntu Linux on HP Probook 430 G1?Is this notebook fully compatible with Ubuntu Linux?

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Proliant DL360p G8 Intelligent Provisioning with Oracle Linux 6.4

Hello, I'm trying to install Oracle Linux 6.4 with the Intelligent Provisioning. I chose Red Hat Linux as operating system but if I go forward I obtain a screen that the system doesn't recognize the...

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Re: Proliant DL360p Gen8 Intelligent Provisioning with Oracle Linux 6.4

While OEL and RHEL are similar in most things, during the OS selection Intelligent Provisioning checks the media for specific data which doesn't match. Run ACU and configure your drives, boot OEL and...

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Re: Proliant DL360p Gen8 Intelligent Provisioning with Oracle Linux 6.4

Thanks Jimmy for your support: I follow your suggestion.   --Regards, Marco Mangiante

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Re: Dual Boot

Hello fren, I have similar query. I was trying to dual boot red hat OS in my current HP Elitebook 8470w . For this i created a new partition tried both with NTFS and FAT32 file system. However my red...

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Dual Booting redhat in HP Elitebook 8470w

Dear HP support team I was trying to dual boot red hat OS in my current HP Elitebook 8470w . For this i created a new partition and tried both with NTFS and FAT32 file system. However my red hat OS...

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Re: How to get Serial number in Linux w/o using dmidecode

Something that just came up yesterday... If you are using a newer version of the HP BIOS (in this case a DL360p with BIOS P71) you might get the following problem: [root@USE406RK54 ~]# dmidecode -s...

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iSCSI SAN LUN not detected during RHEL installation via PXE

Hi, Here is the issue I experience. I want to do a CentOS 6.5 or RHEL 6.5 in a Boot From SAN configuration.The server is a BL460c Gen 8 with Emulex 554FLB (iSCSI HBA).I boot the server via PXE on a...

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