Most Frequently Asked Questions

Full FAQ

These are the more commonly needed SCO FAQS:

The Full FAQ has many, many more entries so do look there too. The BEST way to find anything here is to use one of our on-site Search Tools.

• Root Password
  • How do I reset the root password if I forget it? (part 1)
  • How do I reset the root password if I forget it? (part 2)
  • How do I reset the root password if I forget it? (part 3)
  • How do I crash out of the install script (mount hard drive filesystem from boot diskettes)?
  • How can I download a boot disk?
  
  
• Installation
  • What does "interrupt is private" or "no root hd controller" mean ?
  • How can I find my Activation Key? ( license data serial number activation key )
  • How do I find out serial numbers of my various components?
  • How much swap space do I need?
  • How do I install a BTLD on a running system?
  • I licensed an additional CPU but the system doesn't see it or use it.
  
  
• TCP/IP problems
  • User login hangs for many seconds before password prompt comes up (SCO 5.0.5 and 5.0.6 )
  • Ping is really slow
  • Telnet/FTP is very slow to connect
  • How do I add a default route?
  • How to setup resolv.conf for DNS configuration
  • How do I find out what IP address a user logged in from?
  • Why do I get "portmapper is not responding" errors?
  • How can I tell what process has a network port in use?
  • Why do I see "ttloop: peer died" in syslog?
  • Why does this "224" route show up in netstat -r? What's this 127 address?
  • Is there a packet sniffer (tcpdump) available?
  • Is a DHCP client available?
  • Can OSR5 do NAT or IP filtering (function as a firewall)?
  • TCP/IP gives messages like "Notice: TCP SUM: SRC 89270107 SUM 0000D7AD"
  
  
• Printing
  • What are printer interface scripts?
  • How do I stop banners from printing?
  • Print jobs fail, and I get mail complaining "tcgetattr failed: No such device" or "inappropriate I/O control operation"
  • Why does printed output garble or stop after several pages?
  • Why do I lose the last few lines of my print job?
  • What are the escape sequences to select the trays on my HP printer? Where can I find a list of other escape codes?
  • How can I make a device that will print to a network printer?
  • How do I stop extra form feeds that spit out blank pages?
  • How do I make a printer send a form feed at the end of the job?
  • How do I stop a print job and restart it from the beginning?
  • How can I get the file from the print spooler before it prints?
  • What is a virtual printer?
  • How do I stop staircase output on the printer?
  • My printer doesn't work at all!
  • Can I use "Windows" printers?
  • How do I use a printer that's shared on a Windows network?
  • How do I capture program screens to a file or print them?
  • How do I install a HP Network Printer or Print Server?
  • How can I add a formfeed or other control to jobs sent to a Visionfs printer?
  • Where do I get "netcat" and how do I use it?
  
  
• Mail
  • How can I send email attachments from the command line?
  • How do I test a popd mail connection?
  • How do I test an imap server?
  • How do I test a smtp mail connection?
  
  
• Kernel
  • What causes a trap 0x00000008 ( double panic )?
  • How do I fix a kernel panic trap 0x00000006?
  • My machine had a panic. How do I find out why?
  • Does Openserver support USB devices?
  • Can OSR5 and Unixware run Linux binaries?
  • Can Linux run OSR5 binaries?
  • I've added more RAM, do I need more swap?
  
  
• Disks and Tapes
  • I see an error message on the console that starts with %Stp-0 and seems to be referring to my tape drive.
  • My tape drive doesn't work
  • Can I have both IDE and SCSI Drives?
  • I need to transfer a hard drive to another machine as a secondary, mount it and recover the data.
  • What are the symptoms of a drive geometry problem?
  • How do I repair a drive geometry problem?
  • How do I learn the drive geometry of an old drive?
  
  
• Shell and command line, terminal emulation etc.
  • Why doesn't CTRL-C work to interrupt my programs?
  • I have one application that doesn't work with "scoansi"; how can I fix that?
  • My ANSI terminal emulator doesn't work properly
  • Where can I get a Linux terminfo for "scoansi"? or a SCO terminfo/termcap for Linux
  • How can inactive users be automatically logged out?
  • I can't login in with Scologin; my shell is bash or tcsh
  • Why do I get "can't find user in protected password database" in syslog?
  • When a user tries to log in, they get "Account is disabled -- see Account Administrator"
  • I get an error "Cannot obtain database information on this terminal"
  • How can I tell if a user logged in locally, used rlogin, telnet or ssh?
  • How can I automate an ftp transfer?
  • How do I find out what IP address a user logged in from?
  • How can I recursively grep through sub-directories?
  • How can I rename multiple files using wildcards?
  • What causes "No utmp entry, must login from lowest level shell?"
  • What does "ifor_pmd, failed to initialize policy manager" mean?
  
  
• Misc.
  • Why does my cron job fail while "at" works?
  • How can I write an image diskette from a Windows OS?
  • I've downloaded a driver.dd or driver.img file, what do I do with it?
  • When applying multiple SLS's, is it necessary to reboot between each patch application or could one apply all patches at once and then reboot?
  • Killall doesn't work!
  • What patches should I use?
  • What patches are on my system?
  • People log out but still show up in who
  • Can I perform an in-place upgrade?
  • How do I change the system's name or IP address?
  • How can I get pci bus information?
  • How can I mount Windows shares on the SCO server using Visionfs?
  • Where can I get ssh?
  • How do I change my SCSI host adapter?
  • How do I get the latest version of Visionfs for Unixware 7 and OSR5 5.0.4 or greater?
  • Why can't I get my dialin modem to work above 9600 baud?
  • I can't use the GUI because the mouse doesn't work!
  • How do I prevent the Scologin screen from starting at boot ?
  • What do I need to compile programs?
  
  

The Full FAQ has many, many more entries so do look there too. The BEST way to find anything here is to use one of our on-site Search Tools.

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