So I found out the reason why my HPUX kernel parameters weren’t sticking the other day.
The steps that I was following to rebuild the kernel looked something like this:
cd /stand/build
/usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep -s system
vi system (make your changes and save the file)
mk_kernel -s system
kmupdate
cd /
reboot your system
Well what was happening was that when I generated the [...]
Fellow co-workers know about my general disdain for HPUX. It’s the OS that seems friendly, until you start working on it, and every step that you need to do turns into a 20 step process. We recently got in a HP PA-RISC box, and I was tasked with getting it setup to meet Oracle pre-reqs. [...]