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A SCO Openserver to Red Hat Linux Conversion So, to sum it up, the conversion went well, although it took longer than planned. I had the good fortune that our existing SCO servers continued to work without problems throughout the entire process. Going forward with Linux though, we will be better able to take advantage of new hardware options. The user desktop machines that we have moved from RHEL 4 to Ubuntu 10.10 work very nicely, and, given the same hardware, work more quickly. I was also able to drop some Hardware Maintenance Agreements, and saving money is a good thing.


Title Date Comments
He needs a SCO box   2011 06 
- Keeping an old SCO system running is sometimes necessary. Here is some help -
KCMENU (Kevin Clark's menu generator) in Perl   2011 04 
- Translate old kcmenu files to Perl scripts - a simple Perl based menu script. -
Self defense for SCO users   2004 05 
- If you are running a SCO system, it's long past time to get serious about protecting yourself. -
SCO/Linux Transition Guide   2000 09 
- This is not a porting guide; this is a transition guide: a guide to the major differences between SCO and Linux. -
Converting SCO to Linux - Another one down, two left   2011 04  2011/04/05 BigDumbDinosaur
- Our efforts to get clients off OSR5 and on to Linux commenced in earnest in 2004, which was right after SCO started with their "Linux stole our code" lawsuits. -
A SCO Openserver to Red Hat Linux Conversion   2011 04  2011/04/02 TonyLawrence
- A detailed history of a SCO to Linux Conversion - including desktop users. -
Linux and SCO Termcap Terminfo curses -->Re termconffiles and related matters   1997-2004 
- You might run a SCO binary application from a Linux console and get a pretty messed up result - it's probably termcap or terminfo on the SCO side having bad information about how a Linux console should be treated. -
bad block on jaz drive -->Re Using fsdb on damagedfilesystems   1997-2004 
- Using fsrd to repair damaged filesystems -
Linux|Unix ABI- Using other Unix binaries on Linux   2001 11 
- Linux ABI- pitfalls and considerations of running SCO apps on Linux -
How can I mount a SCO file system in Linux or vice-versa?   1997-2003  2010/07/16 nurray
- Mounting sco fs in linux - not eassy, but can be done -
Data Transfer   1999 05 
- You need to transfer data from machine A to machine B. Maybe you are lucky enough to have networking on both machines, but maybe you aren't -
Reading SCO tapes on Linux   2003 01 
- Reading SCO tapes on Linux requires being aware of hardware compression and tape block sizes. -
 
 
Kerio Connect Mailserver
 
 
mount sco eafs filesystem with linux   1997-2004 
- Oddly enough, I was doing something very similar (extracting data from a 3.2v4.2 system using Linux) last week. It took a lot of false starts, but the eventual technique I used was: -
gcc compiling tips -->Re gcc compiling notes   1997-2004 
- General advice on porting code from one operating system to another0 -
Linux drivers for SCO HTFS filesystems   1997-2004 
- The original HTFS driver module for Linux was written back in 2001 by Andrzej Dereszowski. I knew that I had seen it before, but I think you're correct that there's no opensource driver available at the moment. I very much doubt the reason for the absence of this driver is technical, but rather due to the threat of legal action from the litigious bastards at SCO. Apparently SCOG licenced this tech to a company called CrosStor, who developed a closed module for Linux, but I think they've since gone out of business (maybe little/no demand for that particular proprietary product? ;-) -
xenix   1997-2004  2012/12/16 BigDumbDinosaur
- Just to point out for those unfamiliar with Xenix, the OS itself is actually under 50, heck, under 10!. An entire Xenix filesystem can not even exceed 512M, though you can have multiple 512M fs's mounted for a total system that exceeds 512M. -
Transferring to new hardware with a Supertar   2003 11 
- Transferring iUnix and Linux to new hardware with a Supertar -
Ancient Pick on Ancient SCO   2009 03 
- With Pick, there are better options. Pick can run on modern operating systems and that's the other reason I didn't want to get involved in this. -
Getting near to the end?   2006 12 
- SCO lawsuit nears end after dragging on longer than any of us thought it should. -
Filepro conversion   2006 07 
- Converting Filepro from Windows to Linux - Reports that used to run overnight now take seconds! -
Transfer SCO Acucobol to Linux   2004 06 
- The customer also told me that everything was written in Acucobol, and that he had source code too, and he had already bought Acucobol run-time for Linux -
Time to dump SCO?   2004 05 
- So is it time to dump SCO if you are still running it? -
Moving from SCO to Linux   2001 10 
- However, it was time to change. I've known for sometime that I needed to pay more attention to Linux. I had installed Linux on spare machines, and played with it here and there, but that isn't enough. To become as conversant with Linux as I am with SCO, I needed to use it every day; I needed to experience the problems, to learn the glitches, to discover the ins and outs. The only way to do that was to make it my personal desktop. -
I can't read a cpio archive created on a Linux box- it fails with premature end of file   1997-2003 
- I can't read a cpio archive created on a Linux box -
Where can I get a Linux terminfo for scoansi? or a SCO terminfo/termcap for Linux   1997-2003 
- How to obtain terminfo and termcap files for using Linux from SCO or using SCO from Linux. -
Can Linux run SCO binaries?   1997-2003 
- This is an old article about running SCO Unix binaries under Linux and is only left here for historical purposes. -
Can SCO_OSR5 and Unixware run Linux binaries?   1997-2003 
- This is an old article about running Linux binaries on SCO Unix and is only left here for historical purposes. -
How can I transfer SCO accounts (passwd information) to Linux?   1997-2003 
- If the SCO passwd file has the encrypted password in its second field (in other words, the system isn't using /etc/shadow), then this simple script will work. Normally, however, the encrypted passwords will be in /etc/shadow. This needs a little more work. -
linux redhat caldera sco -->Re Caldera and SCO, was Linux on AMD   1997-2004 
- I doubt that SCO needs any assistance in reaching its own demise, at least on the OSR5 side anyway :-) -
telnet from linux to sco   1997-2004 
- telnet from linux to sco; on linux your backspace key emits ^? which the sco box sees as the Del key. -
deblocker program   1997-2004 
- deblocker program to extract data from fixed length data files. -
SCO Ansi application on Linux   1997-2004 
- I have finally found the perfect combination of commands that gets a linux console to work perfectly with a SCOANSI app that needs line drawing and how to re-map the keyboard etc... -
transferring passwd file from aix to sco   1997-2004 
- If you look at the man for ap you can get some hints. That's normally used for migrating from one SCO system to another - but I can envision that some creative editing on the file it generates might just do the trick. -
linux abi patch -->Re Linux Abi   1997-2004 
- In any case, 2.4.3 patch works flawlessly against the 2.4.3 kernel (from kernel.org), as this is the patch that I used on the laptop by my side over a year ago. It's been running stably ever since, with our production SCO binaries running without a hiccup -
colorado jtape -->Re 3.2v4.2 + Colorado 250 tapedrive   1997-2004 
- colorado jtape -->Re: 3.2v4.2 + Colorado 250 tapedrive -
osr5 applications on unixware and Linux -->Re OS5 --> UnixWare??   1997-2004 
- You can run OSR5 apps on Unixware and (more importantly) on Linux. -
porting sco ncurses to linux   1997-2004 
- Back to ncurses - the problem is older than ncurses 4.2, apparently from the original implementation of the feature in ncurses 1.9.2d in June 1995. -
mbox vs. maildir format   1997-2004 
- But for a specific app that wants mbox, it's usually easy enough to examine its peculiarities and write a simple shell script to glom together mail messages into one "mbox" file. It will have some method of distinguishing individual messages, usually triggering on the initial "From" and with some way of obfuscatiing any "From's" in the body of a message. -
abi sco binaries onm linux -->Re osr5 binaries run onlunux how to?   1997-2004 
- OK, both 2.4.x kernels, so no iBCS, both use linux-abi once on each system, run this command just to see fi the vendor has possibly included the abi patch for you and compiled the abi support in the form of modules. (I doubt it but it's worth checking just in case) modprobe binfmt_coff if you get an error, then you don't already have abi support so you will have to add it if you get nothing, then run lsmod and verify that binfmt_coff shows up in there if lsmod shows the module loaded, then skip to the section labeled "Using Loadable Modules" below, otherwise, like above you do not already have abi support and it needs to be added. -
foxbase excel delimited -->Re foxbase   1997-2004 
- export foxbase as flat file or as excel delimited -
maximum uid -->Re Maximum UID   1997-2004 
- Account Manager complained that I was using a UID larger than the recommended maximum. If converting from SCO to Linux and you desire to retain user id's, you need to be aware of these files. -
null pointers -->Re pointer sisters...ah...question   1997-2004 
- null pointers -->Re: pointer sisters...ah...question -
makefiles confused by gcc on osr5 -->Re SSH on SCO5.0.5   1997-2004 
- Gcc compliing confusing on SCO Unix system.0 -
compiling ssh gcc -->Re ssh 2.0.13 & illegal asms   1997-2004 
- Assembler issues in ssh code affect Openserver compile -
Comparisons of file systems -->Re Why v5.0.x emergency floppies take so long to load ? (solved)   1997-2004 
- SCO Unix and Xenix file system details, including floppy disk formats.0 -
 
 
Kerio Control Firewall
 
 
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