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- Are there anyscreen savers?
- Is tar/cpio a goodbackup program?
- How do Icompress my backups?
- What aresome third-party backup/recovery products?
- I don't like beingrestricted to 14 character filenames
- How do I get a copy ofadb?
- I can't find crypt
- What do I need tocompile programs?
- What does the NCALLkernel parameter affect?
- 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 crashout of the install script (mount hard drive filesystem from bootdiskettes)?
- How can Idownload a boot disk?
- Why can't fsckfind my lost+found directory?
- I want morespace in my lost+found directory
- How do I find outserial numbers of my various components?
- How do I solve an"arglist too long"?
- Whatversions/configurations am I using?
- I have a bad block onmy hard drive
- My system is slow
- Why did my regiontable overflow?
- How do I solve "forkfailed: no more processes"?
- How are minor devicenumbers assigned by mkdev hd?
- I need fax software. Whomakes it?
- How much swapspace do I need?
- Can I add more swapspace?
- Do haltsys and reboot doa sync()?
- How can I get morethan 64k inodes?
- Where do I getzmodem?
- Where do I getkermit?
- I get messagessaying "stat() failed: /tmp/croutPPGa00288: no such file"
- Does SCO support myhardware?
- How do I get afile off my distribution diskettes?
- Will I have problemsupgrading my hardware?
- I typed in thewrong serial number!
- Why does fsck want ascratch file?
- What books are thereabout SCO systems?
- How can I bootmultiple operating systems?
- How do I set diskspace quotas?
- How do I find out whatIP address a user logged in from?
- My ANSI terminalemulator doesn't work properly
- What isSkunkware?
- Can I replace csh withtcsh?
- How do I make themanual pages work for things installed from Skunkware?
- Is my system Year 2000compliant?
- How do I makeenvironment variables global?
- How can Irestrict logins?
- How can I preventroot logins over telnet?
- Why can't I unmount myCDROM?
- What do "hangup"messages mean during shutdown?
- What does "interruptis private" or "no root hd controller" mean ?
- What areinterrupts?
- How can I sendemail attachments from the command line?
- Why doesn't the"mutt" I got from Skunkware work?
- What is an "xxevent"error?
- How do I configure aTravan Tape Drive?
- Why does my cron jobfail while "at" works?
- Why does my screenget confused if I login in UPPER CASE?
- Why can't I kill aprocess with -9?
- What is a zombieprocess?
- Where do I get a bettervi?
- How can I have a'command line history & editing' shell under SCO Unix/OS5?
- Is it possible touse the mouse in a character application?
- Are there anyantivirus programs for Sco Unix/OpenServer?
- How can I testvirus scanning software?
- I need to remotelyassist a customer; what can I do?
- Is it possible toswitch screen from an application?
- Are there anyWinzip compatible tools?
- I can't access myWindows 9x FAT32 partition from the SCO's one!
- Are there any'Office'-like packages for SCO?
- How can I back upto a tape drive on another machine?
- Can I changeroot's shell to something else?
- How do I add a Zip orJaz drive?
- Where can I getolder versions of SCO products?
- How do I captureprogram screens to a file or print them?
- How can Iincrease the number of characters that are significant inpasswords?
- How do I mount aCDROM?
- How do I find outwho or what shutdown or halted my system?
- How can Iregularly and reliably transfer data to a program running onanother machine?
- I see an errormessage on the console that starts with %Stp-0 and seems to bereferring to my tape drive.
- Why do I get "can'topen /dev/tty" errors? cpio
- How can I changeuppercase file names to lower case?
- Why do I get "AlarmCall" messages at startup boot or shutdown?
- How can I mount a SCOfile system in Linux or vice-versa?
- How can I increasethe size of my root or other filesystem?
- How can I transferSCO accounts (passwd information) to Linux?
- What does "Error5" mean (or any "Error xx") ?
- What is a watchdogtimer panic or error message?
- I've burned a CD butcan't see long filenames when I mount it on SCO
- How do I formata floppy diskette?
- How can I make a shellscript setuid so that ordinary users may use root privilegecommands?
- How do I clear logfiles?
- Why didn't my machinechange time for daylight savings time (or any time change)?
- How can I monitor cpuusage?
- I'veforgotten or don't know the Internet Manager Password
- When should I usekill -9?
- How can I find out what a user's password is?
- How can inactiveusers be automatically logged out?
- User login hangsfor many seconds before password prompt comes up (SCO 5.0.5 and5.0.6 )
- How can I control thesound of the console bell or turn on keyclicks?
- Why doesn't CTRL-Cwork to interrupt my programs?
- How can I write animage diskette from a Windows OS?
- I licensed an additionalCPU but the system doesn't see it or use it.
- Where can I getinformation about how to control or program the scoansiconsole?
- I've downloaded adriver.dd or driver.img file, what do I do with it?
- Why do I get mailsaying my message had too many hops?
- When a newuser tries to login, it says the account is disabled- but it isnot.
- I get anerror message "Can't access shared library"
- I have a modemdirectly connected to a WY-60 terminal, but I don't get any displayof AT commands on the screen.
- How can I findtomorrow's or yesterday's date in a script?
- I have oneapplication that doesn't work with "scoansi"; how can I fixthat?
- Does Openserver supportUSB devices?
- How can I get thevalue of autotuned configuration variables?
- What causes a trap0x00000008 ( double panic )?
- How can I renamemultiple files using wildcards?
- How can Iinstall a new disk controller that requires a different driver?
- Why does my Compaq withan HP tape give "NOTICE: cha: SCSI bus has been reset ha=0 "messages?
- What consumes auser license? What uses do I need to buy more licenses for?
- I need totransfer a hard drive to another machine as a secondary, mount itand recover the data.
- What are thesymptoms of a drive geometry problem?
- How do I repair adrive geometry problem?
- How do I learn thedrive geometry of an old drive?
- Why do I see "ttloop:peer died" in syslog?
- How can I tell if auser logged in locally, used rlogin, telnet or ssh?
- How can I backtrace a process to its parents?
- How can I automate anftp transfer?
- How can Irecursively grep through sub-directories?
- When applyingmultiple SLS's, is it necessary to reboot between each patchapplication or could one apply all patches at once and thenreboot?
- I ssh to a Linuxbox and am immediately disconnected
- Is rm final? Are thefiles gone forever?
- My tape drivedoesn't work
- Killall doesn'twork!
- What are someterminal emulators I can use from windows?
- How can I reconnectto a disconnected session?
- I can't findcertified hardware for version X
- How can I run differentconsoles in single-user mode so that Alt+Fx works?
- How can I prevent acertain tty from being used?
- sshd fails with "This command does not have an entry in /tcb/files/no_luid/cmdtable"
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