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From: RadleyRobot@jpr.com (RadleyRobot)
Subject: SCO Technical Articles released on 20000429
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:35:18 GMT


The following problems are addressed in Technical Articles that appeared
on SCO's web site in the week ending 20000429.

Each problem is preceded by the URL reference to get the relevant article
from the WAIS database at caldera.com.



        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?101598
        created 10 Jul 1997
        revised 27 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  Where can I find drivers for new network cards that I want to
          install on my SCO OpenServer system? If a driver for a supported
          card is revised, where can I find the revised driver?  I have
          heard that there will be no more releases of the Advanced
          Hardware Supplement (AHS).

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?105671
        created 16 Jul 1997
        revised 24 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  I am using mmdf(ADM) as my mail transport, and I noticed that
          when I send an email containing 8-bit characters, for example,
          German special characters, it appears to be corrupted when it
          is received.  All the special characters have been replaced by
          strings similar to "=C4".

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?105755
        created 13 Sep 1997
        revised 26 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  who(C), finger(C), and other commands, show users as logged in when
          they are not.

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?105899
        created 15 Jan 1998
        revised 28 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  I understand that Intel has released fixes to the Pentium II
          family of processors.  How can I get these fixes on my SCO
          OpenServer Release 5 system?

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?109645
        created 11 Sep 1998
        revised 28 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  When installing the UnixWare/OpenServer Development Kit on SCO
          OpenServer 5.0.5, portions of the installation fail.

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?109855
        created 23 Dec 1998
        revised 24 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  My system contains an IDE disk which has a size of greater than
          eight gigabytes (8GB).  Although I can install SCO OpenServer 5.0.4
          or 5.0.5 onto it and use the disk, I find that I only have access
          to 8GB.

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110688
        created 11 Dec 1999
        revised 26 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  What problems are addressed by Support Level Supplement (SLS)
          ptf7604c, the Hot Plug NIC Supplement for UnixWare 7.1.1?

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110831
        created 24 Feb 2000
        revised 24 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  When booting the dependent node using SCO UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters
          Dependent Node Boot Diskettes, I enter diskette 2 when prompted. I
          then enter the applicable license information when prompted. When I
          exit the license manager, the system attempts to do the Cross-node
          mirror of the local disk; however, this step fails with these errors:

    NSCInstall:INFO:Ready to set up local disks and filesystems
    NSCInstall:INFO:Setting up local disk as cross-node mirrored failover
    root

    NSCInstall:INFO:Beginning root mirror to n2c0b0t0d0s0. This may take
    a long time. Please wait.

    /etc/vx/bin/vxrootmir: Disk n2rootdisk not found in configuration.
    NSCInstall:ERROR:Couldn't mirror n2c0b0t0d0s0 at n2rootdisk
    NSCInstall:ERROR:Cross-node mirror setup failed!

    UX:umount:WARNING: /stand/2 not in mnttab
    UX:umount:ERROR: /stand/2 no such file or directory
    NSCInstall:INFO:Dependent Node Setup is Complete
    NSCInstall:INFO:This node must be rebooted before it can rejoin the
    cluster

    NSCInstall:INFO:Ready to reboot

    Please remember to remove the dependent node diskette
    NSCInstall:INFO:Hit Enter to reboot -

          The console screen on the root node at the time the above errors
          are encountered displays this message:

    vxvm: vxconfigd: WARNING: error
    autoconfiguring node2 devices: system error occurred in the client.

          This additional error has also been reported in conjunction with
          the above listed errors:

    Disk device n2c0b0t0d0 failed, error: ux: disk setup error no active
    partition in disk partition table.

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110861
        created 06 Mar 2000
        revised 24 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  When I choose to have a notification sent to me via email in the
          Desktop Calendar Manager for any appointment, I never receive it.

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110873
        created 10 Mar 2000
        revised 24 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  In UnixWare 7.1.1, a line beginning with:

                descr

          is missing from:

                /etc/netmgt/snmpd.conf

          which is necessary for some Management Information Base (MIB)
          utilities.  Consequently, whenever an snmp management station
          performs snmp-get on the MIB variable mib-2.system.sysDescr,
          the snmpd agent responds with the string "Generic SNMPD Version
          9.4.0.3" instead of "SCO UnixWare 7.1.1".

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110881
        created 14 Mar 2000
        revised 24 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  Is there a way to determine which package installed which binary?

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110943
        created 06 Apr 2000
        revised 28 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  It is not possible to install SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.5 on some
          Toshiba portable computers.  When booting from the installation
          diskette, the initial boot and hardware summary complete
          successfully, but are followed by the error message:

             Starting Initial Load from: Floppy Disk

             System Error 5
             while getting fs type

          It is not possible to proceed any further with the installation.

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110962
        created 10 Apr 2000
        revised 24 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  During an initial UnixWare 7.1.1 install, or when using the
          mouseadmin(1) utility, if I select bus mouse as the desired mouse
          type for my system, the subsequent detection will not work, and
          consequently, I will not have a mouse available on the system.
          However, when I use UnixWare 7.1.0, my system works correctly.

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110977
        created 19 Apr 2000
        revised 27 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  When virtual domains are configured under SCO OpenServer 5.0.5,
          the Internet Configuration Manager displays duplicate entries
          for each domain under the section "Select an interface to
          configure:" on the "Internet Services" page.

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110981
        created 20 Apr 2000
        revised 27 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  scoterm(XC) looks for IBM437 line-draw fonts on the X server where
          it displays its output. If it fails to find them, possible side
          effects may include line-draw characters appearing as foreign
          language characters and Font Sizes in the Options pull-down menu
          being greyed-out.

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        http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110982
        created 21 Apr 2000
        revised 27 Apr 2000
PROBLEM:  I have renamed a virtual domain in DNS and /etc/hosts, but now
          when I bring up the Virtual Domain User Manager, it shows both
          the correct and incorrect virtual domain names.

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