About these notes

UnixPulse is a logbook. I run Linux, VMware, AIX and HP-UX systems for a living, and this is where I write down the parts worth keeping.

The fix that finally worked at the end of a long maintenance window. The warning I scrolled past the first time and paid for later. The command whose flags I can never remember. It used to live in scattered text files and screenshots. Now it lives here, sorted by topic, so I can find it again.

Why it stays anonymous

There is no name on this site, and that is on purpose. The notes are the point, not the person who wrote them. A working journalctl incantation is just as useful whether or not you know who typed it first. Keeping myself out of it also means I can write honestly about things that broke without dragging an employer or a vendor into it.

Why it is public

Almost everything I know, I picked up from someone else's blog post or a half-buried forum reply written years ago by a stranger who had hit the same wall. This is me paying that back. If one of these notes saves you the hour it cost me, that is the whole return I am after.

What you will find

Practical notes from real systems. Oracle Linux in production, the VMware stack from vCenter down to Aria Operations, the odd AIX and HP-UX job, and the web work that keeps this site running. What you will not find is filler written for search engines, or a course I am trying to sell you. I am not selling anything here.

If you spot something wrong, or a note saved you some grief and you want to say so, send a message. I read everything.