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From: lindner@cs.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Tips for a new HP admin?
Summary: Send me useful info please!!
Keywords: HPUX 400 series
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.093001.25983@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 90 09:30:01 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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I've been "appointed" to take care of a brand new batch of HP 400 Series.
I've had some experience with HP-UX in the past.  (Specifically a
HP9000/320 with a couple of 310 clients!).  I didn't really do much 
sysadmin stuff on em though.  I've done quite a bit of admin work on
Suns, Nexts, and RS/6000's though, so I'm not completely in the dark.

What I'd like is any information that you think is imperative for the
first time HP admin.  Basically if you've got a nugget of information
that saved you a bunch of time, by all means let me know!  I'm
looking for information in the following areas.  (Hopefully some
of these questions will be answered by the Manual set which hasn't
arrived yet.)

1) Printing appears different.  What does an old lpd hacker have to do?
2) HP NCS, what is this?  NFS support is there, after I reconfigged the
   kernel.  Is NCS better?  I seem to recall that OSF liked it.
3) In the same vein, what about YP, errr NIS.  It's there, I tried it
   but it doesn't seem to work correctly.
4) finger seems broken, "finger lindner@mermaid.micro.umn.edu" doesn't
   want to work.  (My resolv.conf file is correct so it ain't that).
5) Will rdump/rrestore work correctly for a remote Exabyte tape drive?
6) .....

I could go on and on.  I've got the machines here and I'm itching to
get them up and running correctly.  Right now they're in that booted
but not the way I like them state.  Any tips and techniques will be 
greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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