Intended purpose

server/mainframe: small to large scale servers; database servers; mainframes

desktop/workstation: workstations (for those with UNIX familiarity)

handheld: not appropriate

real time: not appropriate

Hardware Supported: HP PA-RISC (HP9000 workstations and servers^w36), HP Focus (HP9000/500 family)^e105, Motorola 680x0 (HP9000/300 family)^e105

    “HP-UX started earlier than 1986 on their hp9000/500 family, with the HP Focus CPU, it was a multi CPU system, up to 7 CPUs in one box. Then came the HP9000/300 family, these where workstations, also running HP-UX. These where built on the Motorola 680X0 CPU. After that HP introduced the HP9000/400 family also called Apollo, since they merged with them. At this time the PA-RISC based HP-UX came along. The 300 and 400 family was supported up to HP-UX 9.10, this included some of the new things in HP-UX 10.X.” —Erkki^e105

    680x0 assembly language is discussed in the assembly language section.

Number of bits: 64^w43 (64 or 32 bits for 11.00 or later; 32 bits for earlier than 11.00)

    “Digital UNIX continues to dominate the 64-bit arena, leaving HP-UX and IRIX to contest the second position, followed closely by AIX. Solaris and NT trail significantly behind. HP, having progressed about halfway through its hardware transition to 64-bits, also offering good backwards compatibility for 32-bit applications.” —D.H. Brown Associates^w43†

File Systems Supported:

• preferred file system: VxFS^e40
• file systems can read/write/format: VxFS^e40, jfs^e40, hfs^e40, LIF^e42
• file systems can read/write: FAT^e40, UFS^e40, BFFS^e40, NFS^e40
• file systems read only and can write through optional software: ISO 9660 (Level 1 only)^e40
• file systems can read/write through third party or optional software: AFS^e40, DFS^e118, SMB^e40
• file systems read only through third party or optional software: RockRidge^e42 (“pfs* utils [RockRidge Interchange and High Sierra], which is licensed from Young Minds, Inc, is included for free in all HP-UX from 10.0 and later”)^e105

    “On-line file systems and volume management: HP-UX 11i provides simple and flexible file system and volume management tools that let you manage your environment dynamically — expand your file system, create virtual volumes, and add new hardware components quickly.” —HP-UX 11i Manageability^w86†

User Interface (graphic):

• Visual User Environment (VUE)
• Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

    “VUE has been replaced with CDE, which debuted with HP-UX 10.10. Starting with 10.20, CDE became the default windowing environment, though VUE was still provided as an option. As of 11.00, VUE is no longer part of HP-UX. The design of the CDE desktop incorporates and enhances many HP VUE features. Although the CDE desktop has a similar appearance to HP VUE, there are important differences. The differences include:” —comp.sys.hp.hpux FAQ^w75

• New and more customizable Front Panel
• Graphical MIME-enabled mail application
• Graphical Calendar
• Graphical Print Queue Manager
• New terminal emulator
• Action and datatype syntax changes
• ToolTalk messaging support
• Desktop application registration

Graphic Command Shell:

Disabled support:

Internet Services:

    Businesses and organizations with servers powered by HP-UX: HP (Hewlett Packard), Wal-Mart^w52

    http://www.join.com “JOIN DHCP/DDNS” commercial integrated DHCP and DDNS servers from Join Systems for DHCP and BootP clients running on SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x SPARC and x86, Digital UNIX, HP-UX 10.x using Motif GUI, evaluation copies available online.

    http://www.baynetworks.com/Products/nav/f_netid_3_0.html “NetID” commercial DHCP/DDNS server from Bay Networks that runs on Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 95; links into Oracle and Sybase, with tools for managing IP addresses.

    HP provides strong Internet support within HP-UX, bolstered by its good showing in advanced Internet protocol function and network security, while lagging behind in support for advanced NFS capability. HP-UX, along with AIX, has also established a lead in supporting NDS.” —Digital Equipment Corporation, “AIX 4.3 Leaps To 64-Bits In Dead Heat With Digital UNIX 4.0”^w51

See also chart of internet features.

Application Programs:

Security:

Safely leveraging internet opportunities

Security information

» HP-UX 11i System Security white paper (253KB, PDF, 5/03) » HP-UX 11i Network Security white paper (560KB, PDF, 2/04) » HP-UX and Windows security interoperability whitepaper (713KB, PDF)

    HP-UX 11i is a highly secure commercial UNIX operating system that provides the fortification your e-business needs to prevail against hacking and cyber attacks. Designed to enable this new era of Internet-based technologies and e-security, HP-UX 11i can meet your security requirements in the areas of policy, authorization and access control, identification and authentication, audit and alarms, and privacy and integrity.^w87

» System security
» Network security
» Directory enabled computing
» Netscape Directory Server v6.2 for hp-ux
» HP-UX 11i additional security technologies
» HP-UX 11i system security features and benefits summary table

System security

Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)
    Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) is a standard feature of HP-UX 11i security capabilities, making HP the only systems vendor to offer its own host intrusion detection product. HIDS enhances host-level security with near real-time automatic monitoring of each configured host for signs of potentially damaging intrusions.^w87

» HP-UX HIDS solutions brief (147KB, PDF)
» Download HIDS

Other system security highlights include:

• Stack buffer overflow protection—uses a combination of highly efficient software and existing memory management hardware to protect against both known and unknown stack buffer overflow attacks. Eliminates need to modify a program’s code to get stack buffer overflow protection, unlike other products that require time-consuming program modifications, recompilation, or relinking.^w87

» Stack buffer overflow protection in HP-UX 11i white paper (104KB, PDF, 11/01)

• Security patch check—Perl script that performs analysis of file sets and patches installed on an HP-UX machine and generates a report of recommended security patches.^w87
• HP-UX Bastille—is a security hardening/lockdown tool that enhances the security of an HP-UX Unix host. It accommodates the various degrees of hardening required of servers used for webs, applications and databases. By answering a series of security and usability questions, the server is tightened appropriately for its use. It configures daemons, system settings, and firewalls to be more secure. It turns off unneeded services such as pwgrd and printing, and it configures client software such as rcp and rlogin to be more secure. It also helps create “chroot jails” that help limit the vulnerability of common Internet services such as Web servers and DNS.^w87

» Download this software

• HP-UX Install-Time Security
      Install-time Security (ITS) is available to HP-UX 11i version 2 customers as an install option to lockdown systems during installation. ITS makes HP-UX more secure out-of-the-box when customers select higher security levels. There are four choices, including a maximum compatibility level which provides security tools, but doesn’t apply a security level, because they represent tradeoffs between security, functionality, productivity, and usability.^w87

  When the customer selects a level, Bastille will fit it to their system. Here are some examples of what ITS does:

  • Run Security Patch Check and setup a cron job to help them become and stay current with security patches announced in security bulletins.^w87
  • Configure IPFilter at higher security levels to block incoming network connections. A new Bastille HP-UX11iv2 feature.^w87
  • Shutdown services with security tradeoffs. — Enhanced in HP-UX 11iv2^w87
  • Allow, at customer option, select authenticated management network connections into the machine.^w87

  The security level choices for Install-time Security are:

  • Tools Only — Installs HP-UX Bastille, Security Patch Check, HP-UX Secure Shell, and HP-UX IPFilter for the customers later use either individually or by running Bastille interactively.^w87
  • Host, — Performs roughly 50 host-based lockdown including turning off many services with security tradeoffs other than telnet and ftp, and many settings to their more secure state.^w87
  • DMZ applies the Host level then disables telnet and ftp. It then uses IPFilter to block all inbound network connections except Secure Shell. This level is suitable for deployment in a network De-Militarized Zone: a firewall-protected “neutral zone” typically between the Internet and an intranet. It does this by implementing the automatable portions of the General Configuration Policy section of the SANS consensus model “Internet DMZ Equipment Policy.”^w87
  • Managed DMZ. This level is the same as DMZ but allows select authenticated management protocols inbound.^w87

  Install-time Security is available in the foundation HP-UX 11i version 2.

• Certification — HP-UX 11i is Hewlett-Packard’s UNIX®-based operating environment specifically targeted at Internet applications. HP-UX 11i delivers an end-to-end scalable, manageable, and secure infrastructure for developing, deploying, and brokering mission-critical e-services. HP-UX 11.11 is evaluated and certified to the Common Criteria evaluation assurance level EAL4, against the functional requirements in the Controlled Access Protection Profile (EAL4-CAPP). The target environment is for systems that may execute on a single HP 9000 Server or be connected to other HP 9000 Servers identically configured to form a local distributed system implementing a unified security policy. The details can be viewed at http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/vpl_type.html.^w87
  
  HP also offers a version of HP-UX that is B1 certified.

Network security

HP demonstrates its commitment to network security with HP-UX 11i’s rich set of standards-based and directory-enabled network security features that enable you to build your e-business without compromising corporate security:^w87

» Network security features of HP-UX 11i white paper (560KB, PDF, 02/04)

• HP-UX kerberos server—provides key distribution facilities to implement the Kerberos authentication protocol in network-distributed enterprises.

» HP-UX kerberos server white paper (627KB, PDF)
» HP-UX kerberos server product brief (105KB, PDF)
» Download this software

• HP-UX ipsec—provides secure and private communication over the Internet and within the enterprise-without modifying existing applications.^w87

» Download this software

• HP-UX ipfilter—is a stateful firewall system that filters IP packets to control packet flow in or out of the system. It works as a security defense by minimizing the number of exposure points on a system.^w87

» HP ipfilter solutions brief (64.3KB, PDF)
» Download this software

• HP-UX AAA server provides authentication, authorization, and accounting services using the RADIUS protocol; enables service providers or enterprises to authenticate users and then account for time and billing use of network services. In addition to the features described in the product brief, release 6.1.x provides the following new features:^w87


    Support for the following major wireless-LAN authentication types: PEAP, TLS, TTLS, GTC, MSCHAP (in addition to already supported LEAP, MD5)^w87

    A GUI wireless LAN Advisor provides instructions to configure user based authentication and WEP/WPA key distribution in a wireless LAN environment. This “Advisor” is an HTML tutorial/help system that simplifies the process for securing WLANs with the AAA server.^w87

    “Self-signed” AAA server digital certificates created during installation. Users now deploy a secured TTLS and PEAP environment without a having to generate digital certificates^w87

    DHCP Interface. The AAA server can now assign IP addresses generated by a DHCP server.^w87

    Support for Microsoft NT domain name syntax. Users can authenticate with either the standard network access identifier syntax (user@domain) or NT domain syntax (domain\user).^w87

    » HP-UX AAA server product brief (174KB, PDF)
    » Designing a secure wireless LAN with the HP-UX AAA RADIUS server
      (HP-UX 11.0, HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2) (4.9MB, PDF, 02/04)
    » Introduction to diameter (HP-UX 11.0, HP-UX 11i v1) (PDF)
    » Executive briefing: wireless network security (HP-UX 11.0, HP-UX 11i v1) (PDF)
    » Download this software

• HP-UX mobile AAA server—HP-UX mobile AAA server is a wireless data authenticator based on the emerging Diameter protocol. This advanced implementation provides authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) functions in 3GPP2 wireless data networks. It is the first Diameter implementation available, and is designed for next generation mobile operators and OEMs for use in 3G wireless test labs.^w87
• HP-UX secure shell—HP-UX Secure Shell is a powerful software-based approach to encrypted network security. It provides secured remote login. Data sent over the network is encrypted by SSH-1 or SSH-2 protocols and decrypted once it reaches its destination.^w87

New Features in HP-UX Secure Shell A.03.50.000

• Privilege separation
• Enhanced ls support for sftp
• SSH protocol enhancements

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Directory-enabled computing

    As your enterprise extends outward to include partners, customers and suppliers for information sharing and increased collaboration, you need the protection to allow only the right people in. HP provides this added protection through directory-enabled computing. HP includes Netscape Directory Server for HP-UX with the HP-UX 11i operating environment.^w87

    In addition, LDAP Services are integrated through LDAP UX integration. LDAP is integrated with:^w87

• Local OS login authorization as pam_authz
• Cluster management
• With sendmail
• With BIND 9.2.0
• With NIS
• With Network Quality of Service (QoS) management
• With Virtual Private Network (VPN) management
• AAA (RADIUS) Server

» Download this software

NIS+ Server is available as a directory server.^w87

Netscape Directory Server V6.2 for hp-ux

    Netscape Directory Server for hp-ux is an LDAP server that centralizes application settings, user profiles, group data, policies, and access control information into a network-based registry. Directory Server simplifies user management by eliminating data redundancy and automating data maintenance. It also improves security enabling administrators to store policies and access control information in the directory for a single authentication source across enterprise or extranet applications.^w87

» Netscape Directory Server for hp-ux (104KB, PDF)
» Download this software

Novell eDirectory for hp-ux

    Novell® eDirectory™ is the foundation for the world’s largest identity management deployments-allowing businesses to manage identities and control access for employees, customers and partners. With Novell eDirectory, the industry’s first and most advanced full-service directory, businesses lay the groundwork for complete secure identity management solutions and multi-platform network services. Now HP-UX customers can implement this popular directory on systems running the HP-UX operating system.^w87

» Learn more at the Novell eDirectroy web site
» Download this software

HP-UX 11i additional security technologies:

• HP-UX PAM Kerberos is implemented under the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) framework. PAM gives the system administrators the flexibility of choosing any authentication service available on the system to perform.^w87

» Download this software

• LDAP-UX integration
  LDAP-UX Integration for HP-UX is bundle consisting of two products, which provide access to the directory services of an LDAP directory server. These are NIS/LDAP Gateway and LDAP-UX Client Services.^w87

» Integrating HP-UX 11.x account management and authentication with Microsoft Windows 2000 (HP-UX 11.0, HP-UX 11i v1) (PDF)
» Integrating HP-UX account management and authentication with LDAP (PDF)
» Download this software

HP-UX 11i system security features and benefitsw87
HP-UX secure shell	Encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks Provides a myriad of secure tunneling capabilities Protects a variety of authentication methods Secure remote logins Secure file transfer Secure remote commands execution Authenticate users using keys and agents Access control Port forwarding (tunneling)
HP-UX bastille	Answer security questions Answer usability questions Lock-down appropriate to hp-ux server use Produce a profile script Use the script to harden many servers in the same category
Stack buffer overflow protection	Uses a combination of highly efficient software and existing memory management hardware to protect against both known and unknown stack buffer overflow attacks. Eliminates need to modify a program’s code to get stack buffer overflow protection, unlike other products that require time-consuming program modifications, recompilation or relinking Provides a “trial mode” that can be used to gain confidence that it will not interfere with legitimate applications Provides a “zone bypass” feature that allows application owners to mark their binaries as having a legitimate need to execute code located on their stack(s) Programs so marked are exempt from the HP-UX stack buffer overflow protection
Security_Patch_Check	Perl script that performs analysis of file sets and patches installed on an HP-UX machine and generates a report of recommended security patches
Access Control List (ACL)	Stores a series of entries that identify specific users or groups and their access privileges for a directory or file Specifies detailed access permissions for multiple users and groups Supports Journaled File System (JFS 3.3)
Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS API)	Contains all the GSS APIs in RFC 2743 and is implemented as C programming language interfaces Provides security services for client/server applications independent of various underlying security mechanisms and communication protocols, including authentication, integrity and confidentiality services Enables application developers writing secure applications to write code only once, eliminating need to change it whenever the underlying security mechanism changes
Sendmail-8.9.3	Uses the first sendmail release to include anti-spam rule sets, which give mail administrators significantly more power to reduce spam
Cryptographic algorithms	HP implementation of RSA cryptographic algorithms for DES and Triple-DES uses advanced features in the enhanced assembly language for PA-RISC 2.0 that takes advantage of 64-bit registers Achieves almost twice the encryption speed of other leading software implementations




HP-UX 11i network security features and benefitsw87
HP-UX IPSec	Provides secure and private communication over the Internet and within the enterprise-without modifying existing applications Incorporates Internet Key Exchange (IKE) as an automated protocol for dynamically negotiating the IPSec parameters. IKE provides dynamic secret key generation and exchange for IPSec and allows for scalability Interoperates with over 25 other IPSec implementations, including those of Cisco Systems and Microsoft®
HP-UX IPFilter	A stateful inspection host-based firewall system that provides filtering of selected IP traffic and streaming UDP protocols into or out of the system
HP-UX Kerberos server	Provides key distribution facilities to implement the Kerberos authentication protocol in network-distributed enterprises Provides strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography Enables encryption of all communications to assure privacy and data integrity Provides the foundation for secure single sign-on to applications and multi-platform resources
HP-UX AAA server	Provides authentication, authorization and accounting services using the RADIUS protocol Enables service providers or enterprises to authenticate users and then account for time and billing use of network services Supports EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) for Wireless LAN Security
Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)	Industry-standard authentication framework gives system administrators the flexibility to choose any authentication service available on the system Allows new authentication service modules to be plugged in and made available without modifying the applications
BIND9.2.0	Provides data integrity and authentication to applications using cryptographic digital signature Prevents non-authorized access to DNS and prevents name-to-address mapping tampering over the wire Restricts DHCP updates to those authorized to perform them Guarantees the integrity of zone data using digital signatures

references within this web site

(for your convenience, look for this symbol marking passages about HP-UX)

•     Hardware Supported
•     File Systems Supported
•     Release Date
•     Hardware (Physical) Layer of an Operating System

further reading: web sites

Please send recommendations on additional URLs to Milo.

official web sites

    HP: http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/, “HP-UX”^e121

    HP: http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/, “HP-UX”^e52

    HP: http://www.docs.hp.com/, on-line documents^e52

    HP: http://www.software.hp.com^e11

    HP: http://www.hp.com/go/unix^e11

FAQs

(Frequently Asked Questions)

    HP: http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/content/osfaq.html, “HP-UX FAQ”

    http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/FAQ/^e11

    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/preamble.html, “comp.sys.hp.hpux FAQ”

• Preamble
• Table of Contents
• General Information
• What does HP-UX stand for?
• Where can I find a good overview of HP-UX?
• What is the release history of HP-UX?
• 4.10 Organizations [NOTE: See the individual subsections for organizations throughout the world]
• Auditing and Security
• How do group privileges work?
• Why are mail files in /var/mail owned by ‘daemon’ instead of the recipient?
• How can I restrict regular users from logging in at the console?
• How can I disable non-root logins?
• Where can I find a list of all patches corresponding to security advisories?
• How can I protect my systems against SATAN?
• What are the major differences between trusted and non-trusted systems?
• Backup and Recovery
• Can I put more than one backup on DDS with fbackup?
• How can I use dump with a DDS tape?
• Why do cpio/tar/dump/pax all backup to tape painfully
• Disks and Filesystems
• How can I enable long file names?
• Is it possible to create a RAM disk?
• What happened to DUX and context dependent files (CDFs)?
• Why can’t I use all of my swap space?
• How can I determine which disk is the boot disk?
• Why does pfs_mount fail with the message ‘Not Owner’ when I try to use it?
• What’s new with remote mounts and the automounter?
• Why are CDROM filenames all UPPERCASE with ;1 attached?
• How can I start the PFS daemons automatically at system startup?
• Where can I get updated disktab entries for third-party disks?
• Display
• How do I define a new terminal type?
• Kernel Configuration
• How can I tell if I have a 32-bit or 64-bit kernel?
• Monitors, Diagnostics, and Performance
• How can I look at what my system is doing?
• What happened to the sysdiag command?
• How can I improve overall system performance?
• Networking and Communications
• How can I change the order of hostname resolution?
• How can I track network packets?
• How to get the MAC address for a particular network interface?
• Is there a Transport Level Interface (TLI) interface to TCP on HP-UX?
• How do I disable IP Forwarding?
• Why is ifconfig giving me errors when I try to configure my LAN?
• How do I change the hostname, IP address, DNS Server, etc?
• How do I determine the speed and duplexity of my network interface?
• How do I display all active Internet (TCP and UDP) connections?
• Can multiple IP addresses be configured on one interface?
• How can I enable the LAN interface on a 700?
• Where can I get STREAMS for HP-UX?
• What version of BIND (named) comes with HP-UX?
• What version of sendmail comes with HP-UX?
• What version of NFS comes with HPUX?
• What is the difference between automount and AutoFS?
• Can I configure multiple network interfaces on the same subnet?
• Peripheral Devices
• How do I use the floppy drive on my HP-UX workstation?
• How can I format a floppy under HP-UX?
• How can I get an Exabyte to work on an HP?
• How can I get a stuck DDS tape out of the drive?
• Do I need to terminate the internal SCSI on a 700?
• How can I play audio CDs on an HP workstation’s CD-ROM
• How can I set up /dev/audio to point to the external jack on a 700?
• How can I configure the parallel port handshake on a 700?
• What are the specs of the audio hardware on the 700 series?
• Is there a trackball for the 700?
• What keyboards and mice are compatible with HP9000 workstations?
• How do I change the keyboard type (e.g. from UK to German or vice versa) after HP-UX is already installed?
• Printers and Plotters
• What happened to lpr?
• Why does lpstat report the printer down, even though it’s not?
• How can I turn off the LP banner page?
• How can I print man pages without losing the formatting?
• Process Management
• How much memory can a process use?
• Why do my processes keep dying at 64 MB memory usage?
• Routine Tasks
• How can I track log files and core files?
• What’s a good strategy for clearing /tmp and /var/tmp?
• General Software Management
• Where can I find out more about Software Distributor (SD-UX)?
• How can I tell what products have been loaded on my system?
• How do I safely remove software from my system?
• How is the unique node ID used for licensing determined?
• What is Ignite-UX?
• Patch Management
• Where do I get HP-UX patches?
• How can I list all installed patches?
• How can I tell what patches are in the kernel?
• How do I get rid of these old 10.x patches since I upgraded to 11.x?
• How can I install multiple patches, without having to reboot more than once?
• How do I configure swlist to not display superseded patches?
• What is the naming convention used for HP-UX patch names?
• Where can I get OpenView patches?
• Time
• How can I change the timezone?
• How can I print yesterday or tomorrow’s date?
• How can I convert a timestamp (seconds since the Epoch) to a date/time string?
• Users and Groups
• How can I tell if I need more than a 2-user license?
• How can I set up group-based FTP access?
• X Window System (X11)
• Where can I get X11R6?
• X11 libraries (Athena, etc.) and utilities (imake, etc.)
• How can I set up an HP-UX workstation as an X terminal?
• How do I get a scroll bar on hpterms?
• How can I change the title in my hpterm titlebar?
• Why do my terminal windows keep going away by themselves?
• How can I get console messages to go to an hpterm?
• What’s a good termcap entry for hpterm?
• My screen is wedged. What should I do?
• How can I get an X app to come up in an alternate workspace?
• Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
• What happened to VUE?
• How do I start/stop/reset CDE (dtlogin)?
• How can I enable/disable CDE (dtlogin)?
• Why does id/groups not show secondary groups in dtterm/CDE?
• How can I improve CDE’s performance?
• Is there a CDE FAQ?
• When I log on to CDE, I want certain applications to automatically start. How can this be done?
• How do I get cut-n-paste to work correctly with CDE?
• Why do NCD X-terminals hang when trying to connect via XDMCP to an HP-UX 10.20 host running CDE?
• General
• What threads support is provided?
• What’s the deal with _INCLUDE_xxxx_SOURCE?
• Where can I find a list of all available system calls?
• How can I tell if something was built debuggable?
• Why is syslog() call not doing what i want it to?
• How can I get C programs to automatically generate stack dumps?
• Compiling and Linking
• Why is the default C compiler brain-dead?
• How do I make Perl on HP-UX?
• How do I deal with “too many defines”?
• Why do I get “_builtin_va_start” undefined when I build with gcc?
• Is there some kind of problem with using FLT_MIN in ANSI mode?
• Why do I get the error “*Initialization*:1: missing token-sequence in ‘#assert’ ” when I compile with gcc?
• Porting
• Porting from an Earlier Release of HP-UX
• Porting from Other Platforms (Solaris, AIX, etc…)
• Tools
• Where can I get Interviews for HP-UX?
• Is there a disassembler included with HP-UX?
• HP Freeware
• Patches
• Drivers
• Where do I get the new ftpd?
• HPRC FTP Site
• Non-HP Freeware
• The Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX
• InterWorks FTP site
• Netperf
• SLIP and CSLIP
• PPP
• POP
• Sudo
• Ntalk
• TTCP
• Free SCSI utilities for HP-UX workstations
• PSCREEN/uX
• GNU software
• Web browsers
• Miscellaneous freeware
• Non-HP Commercial Software [NOTE: see subsections]
• Miscellaneous
• How can I find the HP-UX equivalent for a given Solaris/AIX/etc. command?
• What do I need to do to make my HP-UX system Year 2000 compliant?
• How do I boot into single user mode?
• How can I send mail to an MPE/iX HPDESK address?
• How can I limit core files?
• How do I disable the Caps Lock key?
• Why does my Korn shell login hang?
• How can I avoid those annoying copyright notices on login?
• How can I turn off quota checking?
• Why can’t I start Aserver?
• How can I get a daemon to successfully start from an rc script?
• How do I convert the uname string to a model string?
• Is Perl included with HP-UX?
• Why can’t I type an ‘@’ character?
• Why can’t I get my machine into boot admin mode?
• What happened to “less”?
• What should go in my PATH and MANPATH environment variables?
• Why does the 10.x/11.x cksum command produce a different checksum than the 9.x cksum command?
• Can I run Linux on an HP9000 system?
• Can I run *BSD on an HP9000 system?
• What happened to /usr/local? What are these /usr/contrib and /opt directories?
• Is it OK to change root’s shell?
• Why does HP-UX 10 generate copious “Sti_save” syslog messages?
• How can I tell which kernel was booted?
• What is the equivalent of ldd under HP-UX?
• How do I configure a program to automatically start up or shutdown when the system starts up or shuts down?
• How can I do regular expression matching?
• How can I play MP3s?
• How can I use audio on HP-UX 10.x/11.x without a network?
• Is there a tool to trace system calls?
• What OS capacity limits exist?
• How can I determine how much RAM my system has?
• What are the various revisions of PA-RISC?
• How do I find the clock speed of my system’s CPU(s)?
• How can I view/print PDF files?
• How do I read an SGI-written tar format DDS tape?
• Is the Euro supported?
• How can I view various Windows-format files (Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, etc.) on an HP-UX system?
• How is the system load average, as reported by the uptime and top commands, calculated?
• Where can I get HP9000 firmware updates?

user group web sites

other related web sites

    http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/^e11

    http://www.triolet.com/HPVend/hpvend.html, “Hewlett-Packard Third-Party Vendor Listing”

    http://www.unixguide.net/unixguide.shtml “UNIXguide.net (AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, LINUX, SOLARIS & Tru64)”; a guide for comparable commands and directories in several popular forms of UNIX.

    http://home.earthlink.net/~bhami/rosetta.html “Rosetta Stone for Unix”; a guide for comparable commands and directories in several popular forms of UNIX (AIX, Darwin, DG-UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SCO OpenServer, Solaris, SunOS, Tru64, and ULTRIX).

    HP-UX/Sun Interoperability Cookbook: a detailed comparison of commands, OS calls, data structures, directories, and other parts of Sun-OS and HP-UX, especially for those going from one OS to the other.

    AIX/HP-UX Interoperability Guide, Version 2: a detailed comparison of commands, OS calls, data structures, directories, and other parts of AIX and HP-UX, especially for those going from one OS to the other.

    SunOS to HP-UX 9.05 Porting Guide: a detailed comparison of commands, OS calls, data structures, directories, and other parts of Sun-OS and HP-UX, especially for those going from one OS to the other.

    Stokely’s HP-UX System Administrator FAQ links

    http://www.linuxrx.com/WS_Linux/OS_comparison.html “The Linux resource exchange — Operating systems comparison” LINUX, HPUX, Windows NT, BSDi, FreeBSD, IRIX, Digital UNIX, Solaris, Macintosh, OS/2, UnixWare, OpenServer^e83

    http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/ John Kirch’s article “Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX”

    http://www.dhbrown.com/pdfs/osscorecard.html “Operating System Scorecard — D.H. Brown Associates”

    http://www.join.com “JOIN DHCP/DDNS” commercial integrated DHCP and DDNS servers from Join Systems for DHCP and BootP clients running on SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x SPARC and x86, Digital UNIX, HP-UX 10.x using Motif GUI, evaluation copies available online.

    http://www.baynetworks.com/Products/nav/f_netid_3_0.html “NetID” commercial DHCP/DDNS server from Bay Networks that runs on Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 95; links into Oracle and Sybase, with tools for managing IP addresses.

further reading: books

    For more UNIX book listings, see also the general book listings on the UNIX web page.

If you want your book reviewed, please send a copy to: Milo, POB 1361, Tustin, CA 92781, USA.

Price listings are for courtesy purposes only and may be changed by the referenced businesses at any time without notice.

further reading: books: introductory/general

    Five Steps to HP-UX/Book and Disk; by Onword Press Development Team, Jim Rice; OnWord Press; December 1993; ISBN 0934605246; paperback (with disk); 120 pages; $24.95

    Learning the HP-UX Operating System (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books); by Martin Poniatowski; Prentice Hall Press; July 1996; ISBN 0132585340; paperback; $36.00

A Practical Guide to the Unix System; by Mark G. Sobell; Addison-Wesley Pub Co; October 1994; ISBN 0805375651; paperback; 800 pages; $37.95

further reading: books: administration

    HP-UX System Administration Handbook and Toolkit (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books); by Marty Poniatowski; Prentice Hall Computer Books; January 1998; ISBN 0139055711; paperback (with 2 CD-ROMs); 700 pages; $53.00

    HP-UX 10.X System Administration: ‘How To’ Book (Hewlett Packard Professional Books); by Marty Poniatowski; Prentice Hall Press; October 1995; ISBN 0131258737; paperback; $45.00

Essential System Administration: Help for Unix System Administrators (Nutshell Handbook); 2nd edition; by Aeleen Frisch; O’Reilly & Associates; December 1996; ISBN 1565921275; paperback; 788 pages; $27.96

The Complete Guide to Netware 4.11/Intranetware; 2nd edition; by James E. Gaskin; Sybex; December 1996; ISBN 078211931X; paperback; $47.99; includes information on getting NetWare working with Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and OS/2

further reading: books: internet

Building a Unix Internet Server; by George Eckel; New Riders Publishing; June 1995; ISBN 1562054945; paperback (with CD-ROM); 325 pages; $30.40

further reading: books: enterprise/business

further reading: books: content creation

further reading: books: programming

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series); by W. Richard Stevens; Addison-Wesley Pub Co; June 1992; ISBN 0201563177; hardcover; 744 pages; $63.95

further reading: books: hardware

further reading: books: miscellaneous

If you want your book reviewed, please send a copy to: Milo, POB 1361, Tustin, CA 92781, USA.