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Operating Systems HP-UX Unable to change root password Post 302234892 by jagan_kalluri on Wednesday 10th of September 2008 04:59:19 PM
Old 09-10-2008
Thank You Very much Ikon... It worked for me


Quote:
Originally Posted by Ikon
This is what is used on the HP Nxxx systems here. Depending one your system and HPUX version it may vary a little bit.

Reboot server

When booting at somepoint it will ask if you want to interupt booting "Interact".

press "y"

at the prompt type "hpux -is"

you will then need to mount the filesystem

This should work, unless you need to fsck the partitions.

mount -a

Then you will need to fingure what you can remove to clean up the file system.
 

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fsck.xfs

fsck.xfs(8)                                                   System Manager's Manual                                                  fsck.xfs(8)

NAME

       fsck.xfs - do nothing, successfully

SYNOPSIS

       fsck.xfs [ filesys ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       fsck.xfs  is  called by the generic Linux fsck(8) program at startup to check and repair an XFS filesystem.  XFS is a journaling filesystem
       and performs recovery at mount(8) time if necessary, so fsck.xfs simply exits with a zero exit status.

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SEE ALSO

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