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Operating Systems HP-UX Advice on HP-UX system backups Post 302641685 by vbe on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 11:36:16 AM
Old 05-16-2012
Are all the boxes HP-UX 11.00?
As I said, I have a depot file for you if you have somewhere I can upload it for you...

I you have a dozen of identical boxes (or almost) try to put up two Ignite server to backup the lot and so have one server being able to restore the other in case of HW failure...
By default HP installed the minimum in /opt/ignite/bin in order to have print_manifest... at 11.00 (and so you had no make_recovery...) therefore the first thing I did on machine delivery was to install the complete Ignite-UX...( after first boot and default install...) dont remember for 11.11...
 

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dsenableroot(8) 					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					   dsenableroot(8)

NAME
dsenableroot -- enables or disables the root account. SYNOPSIS
dsenableroot [-d] [-u username] [-p password] [-r rootPassword] DESCRIPTION
dsenableroot sets the password for the root account if enabling the root user account. Otherwise, if disable [-d] is chosen, the root account passwords are removed and the root user is disabled. A list of flags and their descriptions: -u username Username of a user that has administrative privileges on this computer. -p password Password to use in conjunction with the specified username. If this is not specified, you will be prompted for entry. -r rootPassword Password to be used for the root account. If this is not specified for enabling, you will be prompted for entry. EXAMPLES
-dsenableroot Your username will be used and you will be queried for both your password and the new root password to be set to enable the root account. -dsenableroot -d Your username will be used and you will be queried for only your password to disable the root account. -dsenableroot -u username -p userpassword -r rootpassword The supplied arguments will be used to enable the root account. -dsenableroot -d -u username -p userpassword The supplied arguments will be used to disable the root account. Mac OS August 08 2003 Mac OS
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