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Printer through USB/parallel adapter. Device URI: parallel:/dev/usb/lp0
FTP using browser with login and password: use ftp://usr:password@ftphost.com*** windows browser !!! ftp !!! login !!! ***
If you are trying to get remote access to an old SCO box that doesn't have TCP/IP, a simple and inexpensive solution is to put up a small Linux box for ssh access and then use minicom or Kermit or whatever to get to the old SCO system. Cheaper than an upgrade!
System Defaults database could not be allocated due to: cannot be read is corrupt or missing /etc/auth/system/default. Restore from backup or see http://wdb1.sco.com/kb/showta?taid=125593 (if it is still there!) Sample File:
default:\
:d_name=default:\
:u_pwd=*:\
:u_priority#0:u_cmdpriv=audittrail,su,queryspace,printqueue,mem,terminal:\
:u_syspriv=execsuid,nopromain,chmodsugid,chown:\
:u_minchg#0:u_maxlen#8:u_exp#0:u_life#0:\
:u_pickpw:u_genpwd:u_restrict@:u_nullpw:\
:u_suclog#0:u_unsuclog#0:u_maxtries#99:u_lock:\
:u_singleuserpswd:u_secclass=c2:u_integrity@:u_tcbpw@:\
:u_pwseg#1:\
:t_logdelay#1:t_maxtries#99:t_login_timeout#60:\
:chkent:
Centos 5 LiveCD default password is 12qwaszx
Unix printers from Windows XP: Windows XP Printing via TCP/IP, Using a DSL-connected Linux box with one NIC to do NAT/masquerading on a home network. *** !!! nat !!! ***
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/oss656b Support Level Supplement (SLS) *** OSS656B User and CPU licenses are not accepted after an upgrade to OpenServer 5.0.7 ***
Windows 2000 and XP have a feature called "digital signing": Technet Article on SMB Digital Signing, which is apparently turned on if the server is functioning as a domain controller.
Samba and other non-Microsoft SMB products don't support this yet, though Samba does have it in the 3.0.0 beta: http://us1.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0beta3.html.
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555652 for Win 2003 also
Email client configuration for Spamassassin
Microsoft has "Services for Unix" http://microsoft.com/windows/sfu *** unix on windows unix emulators ***
Changing a vsifax device: vfxadmin device -u -v /dev/tty1a fax1
Microsoft XP pptp connection: http://www.domain-logic.com/support/secure_tunnel_XP.htm
redhat-config-printer-tui is the text based printer config
redhat-config-network-tui is the text based network config
Rsync for SCO OSR5:rsync-2.1.0-SCO3.2v4.2BIN.tar.gz (works on 5.0.x) and http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/index.html#rsync (newer)
To view qmail log files and see the dates, pipe to "tai64nlocal" which will convert the stored date format to readable
You can regenerate a new certificate for SME E-Smith by doing the following:
mv /home/e-smith/ssl.{crt,key} /tmp
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
Or just go to the Directory section and click "Save"
When adding a pci Network card to SCO OSR5, the card should just "pop up" with netconfig - yoyu shouldn't get a whole list of cards to choose from. If it does not, you probably do not have the right driver and should visit ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/openserver5/drivers/ to get it. Also use "hw -r pci" to see what is actually installed.
The trick to using netconfig or any of the SCO admin ("scoadmin") tools in character mode is to understand that the TAB key moves between panes - so to move from a sub-pane back to the menus, hit TAB and vice-versa.
http://dbforums.com/arch/183/2002/6/409937 looks like a good howto for upgrading Openserver to a more recent sendmail but the mc file is badly wrapped: see sco.mc
If Mozilla starts acting really strange (won't load, won't save messages or hangs dead while posting etc), or is running away sucking up more and more memory and cpu time, try removing it's XUL file - you'll find it down in your home directory ; start there and do a "find . -name 'XUL*'. Try removinig it and then starting Mozilla again.
You can use rdesktop to directly access Windows Terminal Server from a Linux machine. You don't need Tarantella or Citrix.
Using Tapes and Tape Drives
A memory checker: http://www.memtest86.com/#download0 *** test memory memory tester check memory ***
SCO btld: Install a btld on a running system from a floppy by "mount /dev/fd0/mnt; /etc/btldinstall /mnt"
SCO: A "bad supplemental group" message from su or su - can be caused by the users home directory having been renamed or replaced by an ordinary file.
It would be very unusual to have to run custom in single-user mode- in fact, many times multi-user is required. You can verify and fix permissions and symbolic links while multi-user.
/dev/rStp0 cannot create /dev/rct0 cannot create cannot open /dev/xct0: the tape driver isn't in the kernel or it is incorrectly configured. If trying to access *ct0 and the tape is SCSI, you didn't make it the default tape.
SCO : remove or add a mount point by running "mkdev fs" (this does NOT create filesystems- divvy does that)
Single-user mode is for maintenance- not for when this is your personal machine. You need to be multi-user for services to start and work properly.
SCO: Replacing a tape drive: if the basic type of drive hasn't changed (ide or scsi, etc, same scsi id) you can replace an older tape drive with a newer or larger or even a different brand without relinking the kernel.
The old SCO TA page is presently at stage.caldera.com/ta
The /etc/services file provides the name mapping for inetd to know what service is required when it sees a connection on a port. For example, all inetd knows is that some network connection is being attempted on port 23. It doesn't know what port 23 is, so it looks that up in /etc/services and finds "telnet". It then checks inetd.conf ( or conceptually in /etc/xinetd.d ) and finds the program that it's supposed to run for telnet.
Linux ipforwarding
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
You can see a file plainly in a listing but you can't copy it etc.- it says "no such file"- that's probably a symbolic link and the thing it points to is missing. Do "ls -l" to see the link. Or, it could be there are spaces or other control characters you don't see: try "ls -b" or redirect ls to a file and vi the file. A ":l" on a line will show you control characters, etc.
dfspace and df -v and du may disagree about space used and space available. The major difference is du, because of its handling of links, and because it doesn't count the wasted space at the end of allocated blocks.
Machines that hang or freeze for no apparent reason: check first that it really is hung by telneting or sshing from another machine- it may just be the console. If it really is frozen solid, then hardware is suspect: power supply, scsi termination, scsi cables, motherboard.
To change the ip of something like an network printer, edit /etc/hosts if you don't have a DNS server configured For SCO OSR5 or 4.2 run "netconfig" but be sure to edit the OLD address out of /etc/hosts after running netconfig.
SCO: All network ports in use: either you need to increase the number of pseudo ttys ( mkdev ptty or scoadmin network configuration or configure) or possibly you are out of STREAMS memory (check with netstat -m, configure with "cd /etc/conf/cf.d; ./configure" or with the kernel manager)
Dynamic DNS services (search Google for that) allow you to have a DNS name for a dynamic dhcp connection. They work by your computer contacting the DNS provider whenever its ip address changes.
Looking for a lost or missing SCO page? Try http://www.caldera.com/company/scofind.html
You can often set your default paging program by setting the variable "PAGER"
For example:
PAGER=/usr/bin/less
export PAGER
There's nothing you HAVE to do when adding memory to a Unix or linux system- the kernel will notice and use the memory. You COULD use that memory for specific tuning needs.
compare files with "diff"- see also diff3, zdiff sdiff
Stuck in a Unix editor? For vi, hit ESCAPE, then ":q!(ENTER)" to get out without writing. If you DO want to write, use ":wq(ENTER)". For emacs, use CTRL-X CTRL-C. If you are stuck in some Emacs command (I HATE Emacs!), try Ctrl-G a couple of times. For "ed", just type "q!(ENTER)", or "wq(ENTER)" if you want to write. If those don't work, just type enter and then ".(ENTER)"
To add a user to a sco system, it's easiest to use "scoadmin" from the command line or the GUI. Use the Account Manager to add the user. You can use "useraddd" from the command line.Adding users on Linux is easy: from the command line, "useradd joe; passwd joe" does a basic user add.
Want to record what you are typing in a shell? Use "script"- see the man pages.
INIT Command respawning too rapidly means that something executed by init is dying immediately- it could be a getty, for example that thinks it sees someone logging in. Look for (for example) both tty1A and tty1a enabled, or similar problems.
SCO Programmers faq and Unixware FAQ temporarily moved to zenez.com
On-line man pages and other documentation:
Sco boot from older kernel: at boot prompt just type "unix.old"- type "dir" to see available kernels Unixware single user mode: hit a key while the Unixware splash screen is displayed and you'll get to the boot manager. Type ? or help for help. To boot single user, do Installing SCO software/patches is often done with "custom" or "scodamin-> Software Manager". Media images have to be owned by bin for some old versions of custom. Several patches require patching "custom" first, and will say "INSTALL THIS FIRST"- be sure to exit custom after installing these, and then come back in (no rebooting) to install the rest of the patch. cron jobs run multiple times: if you haven't done something silly, you might just need a patch. For example, even 5.0.4 through 5.06 had this bug; fixed with oss642a patch eMag SolutionsTape Management, Tape conversion SCO Hardware Compatibility Lists *** compatible hardware listings hardware requirements installation requirements *** SCO: Stopping a long report from printing: First- shut off the printer- POWER OFF, not just off-line. Next, cancel the print job: "cancel printername" or "cancel printername-12345" if you know the jobs number. Then turn the printer back on. SCO: Adding tape drives, disks, network cards, parallel and serial ports etc: Most of this sort of thing is down through "scoadmin". On OSR5, many scoadmin tools can be accessed through "mkdev" shortcuts; for example "mkdev lp" "mkdev parallel" etc. SCO: Meaning of boot letter sequences http://stage.caldera.cpm/cgi-bin/ssl_reference/?106055 - other articles in TA database for older OS versions SCO: Create SCO OSR5 emergency boot disks with "mkdev fd" Record keystrokes and screens using the "script" command- see "man script" SCO: "eeeeeeee" across the screen? Did you leave a floppy in the drive? !!! eeeeeeeeee !!! SCO: See "man resolver" for /etc/resolv.conf client DNS configuration "Bad magic number" probably indicates a corrupt binary or a binary from some other OS, or a corrupt tar or CPIO file. The "magic number" is just a certain sequence of bytes at the beginning of a file that tells the OS or some program (like tar) what type of file this is. Look at /etc/magic (a text file) for examples of "magic numbers". See also "man magic". SCO: "hw -r ram" gives information about how memory is used by the system. "sar -r 5 5" gives snapshots of how much memory is available now. "hwconfig" shows devices from last boot. System information is in /var/adm logs too. *** SCO: "hw -r cpu" will show cpu information. SCO: "hw -r pci" will show pci information. idmkreg error updating space.c: see SCO's TA and search for that. Unexplained lockups or freezing can sometimes be caused by defective power supplies. Network lockups are very often defective NIC cards. You can see the configured disks on a SCO system by examining /etc/conf/cf.d/mscsi or "hwconfig | grep disk". Scsi devices may be probed with "sconf -v' (don't use pre OSR5.0.5) See file systems with "divvy -P -N" Inbound ppp - be sure to set idle= in /etc/ppphosts to more than 1 or it will fail immediately. Disable rip by stopping routed and gated from starting in /etc/tcp on SCO OSR5. It's unlikely that you need it, and routers that are incorrectly configured screw up your routes if you run it. See also http://www.pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/FAQ_noping.html OSR5 custom installable Hylafax binaries can be found at http://www.caldera.com/skunkware/osr5/www/hylafax/ . Add pseudo ttys to OSR5 system: mkdev ptty If you unplug a PS2 mouse from a machine with PCI cards, you may have a problem on reboot because the interrupt (12) could get assigned somewhere that your OS does not expect it- either put the mouse back, or tell the bios that 12 is used by a legacy card. "Broken pipe" means what it says: you had a pipeline running (one or more programs feeding data to another) and one of the programs quit. If you are looking for something like "sudo" in SCO to give superuser privileges to certain users, look instead at the man pages for "asroot", "auth" and "authorize" Most tape cartridges (DAT, QIC, Travan) do not require any formatting step before use. "Cannot stat" simply means that the file trying to be used is not there or is unusable because of permissions, missing symbolic link, etc. In the case of a device file (/dev/cd0 for example) this could mean that the driver is not installed or functional, or simply that no readable CD is in the drive. A locked terminal is unlocked by /etc/ttyunlock or in scoadmin->System->Terminal Manager. The size of a hard drive is calculated by multiplying the number of cylinders times the number of heads times the number of sectors times 512. p>Unlike memory, where a megabyte indicates 1024 x 1024 bytes, a megabyte of hard disk is actually 1,000,000 bytes. You can't make a shell script suid : it's not a technical issue, it's deliberately prevented for security reasons. Unlike Linux distributions, SCO currently doesn't provide any way that you can download the OS: see http://www.caldera.com/offers/ to get an inexpensive CD. Dejawin is James River's ICE
INITSTATE=S
boot
Opensweserver single user- press enter at Boot: prompt and then give root password at CTRL-D prompt. Linux single user- type "linux single" at Boot prompt.
Usage:
mkdev [ aio apc bitpad cdrom cdrom_iiop dda dos dtfs eccd fd flopti fs getns0 graphics hd hd_iiop high-sierra hostmib hpnp hpps htfs ida ipfilter isapnp juke layers lp modem mouse nis parallel pm ptty re2 rlp scoansi serial shl snmp streams tape tape_iiop tcp vpixld xenix ] ***
For Unixware 7, see "man tfadmin" and "man adminuser".
"warning arp info overwritten" means you have more than one machine with the same IP address on your network.
"Can't run netconfig"- is it possible that you have a non-networking version of SCO?- many, many SCO systems were sold as "Host" versions- they can do multiport serial connections but not tcp/ip- no telnet, ftp, etc. You can upgrade these to the Enterprise version.
There's no point in searching for words like "sco", "unix", "openserver", "open server", "OSR5" or "problem"- everything here relates to Unix, "problem" is a useless search word.
People sometimes get confused and turn on auditing (man ADM auditcmd) when what they really want is System Accounting. System Auditing generates tremendously large audit files that contain information about every system call, every file access, etc. Accounting (see "man ADM acct") keeps records of shell commands run, logins, connect time and disk usage: a much smaller log.
Although you can add users with Scoadmin, you can also use the command line "useradd"
scoadm.txt, scotec0.txt, scotec1.txt, scotec2.txt, scotec3.txt, scotec4.txt, scotec5.txt, scotec6.txt, scotec7.txt: ftp://aplawrence.com/pub download text versions of sco faqs.
A segmentation fault means that a program tried to access memory that doesn't belong to it.
"File Table Overflow" shouldn't be seen on modern kernels with dynamic kernels; on older releases change NFILES by
, MAXUP, NCLIST, NINODE, etc.
cd /etc/conf/cf.d
./configure
Unix does not use printer drivers. Unix uses scripts.
The "procmail" program (Skunkware) can do such things as automatic reply, vacation messages, context based forwarding and more.
You can't use wild cards with "dd". However, you can do something like this:
for i in VOL.*
do
echo "next disk"
read ak
dd if=$i of=/dev/fd0135ds18 bs=18k
done
The htepi_daemon relates to the HTFS file system. See http://stage.caldera.cpm/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?109281
By any chance did you mean "P e r l" and not Pearl?
Modify kernel parameters in SCO by cd /etc/conf/cf.d;./configure or see man idtune. *** kernel shmmax ncall streams locks nbuf nhbuf ***
The "/etc/ftpaccess" file controls many aspects of the ftp server daemon, such as who can access the server and how the server acts.*** ftpd ftp ***
bad superblock: without a boot floppy (search for that) and some expert help, you are probably out of luck. The superblock is what says how big everything else is- without it, nothing can happen.
NO OS- operating system not found- boot sector is not being found- could be disk geometry (over 1024 cylinders).
Uninstalling or removing programs is done with "custom" in SCO and "rpm" in many Linux distributions.
I'm no fan of Travan tape drives, but configure them as though they were DAT. *** travan ***
ifor_pmd, failed to initialize policy manager: http://stage.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?104851
*** No utmp entry, must login from lowest level shell ***: http://stage.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?104857
*** can't rewrite terminal control entry, can't obtain database information on this terminal ***: http://stage.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?104588
The Mac OS X "ktrace" and "kdump" are useful for finding out why an application is failing.Linux is "strace".
Users shown as logged in but aren't, utmpx, wtmpx, pseudottys: http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?105610
If you see "xxevent" errors, and you have a *** Digiboard ***, check to see if you put the cable on the wrong port of the ports module..
*** portmapper *** is not responding means that there is an incorrect or extra ip address in /etc/hosts for this machine. Remove the incorrect address( this usually happens when you change the tcp/ip address). The portmapper is used by NFS.
Because of the way this engine works, you can't effectively search for "html" or "http"- so I changed it to "web"
Older SCO OSR5 releases didn't have a DHCP client (modern releases do have a DHCP server) built in, but it's available as TLS711
gzip and gunzip tools and many other utilities are found at Skunkware in binary and source format
pkzip and pkunzip tools are found at Skunkware
*** GNU *** tools and other programs are found at Skunkware
*** Drivers *** for graphics and network nic cards are found at Sco's ftp site
The perl code for this search engine can be downloaded.
Try SCO's Technical Articles Search page for "utmp" problems.
mtools is available from Skunkware, the builtin equivalents on OSR5 are the "doscp" and related commands.
For beginners, newbies, inexperienced new Unix users; Wildcards, wild cards, regular expressions, upper case, command line, A:, mounting, join, dos windows: New to Unix, PATH, executable, not found, cannot execute commands, file extensions
New to Unix How to create a shell script BAT file, how to make a script executable, how to run execute a script.
News articles New Here
Unix Articles tutorials help files howto's
Linux *** linux ***
Perl Programming programs example scripts scripting binaries ftp free utilities Scripting Shell ksh korn Code
Skills Tests ACE Certification Certify Exams Examinations: Tests
Unix Related Organization Links
data recovery, terminal emulators, emulation, accounting virus general software windows lpd servers : Links/vendors.html
Product Reviews software Reviews
Jobs, employment, work, hire: Unix Help Wanted
Bulletin board messages comments help: Site Forum
World Wide Help: Consultants
Inittab, startup rc scripts scripting : Boot up messages
Publish your articles, programs, scripts code and comments: Publishing Here
Phone numbers, fax, address, shipping telephone email Contact Information
Charges, contracts, billing, services, cost, prices, fees: Consulting Rates, training, support, programming
Banner ads, impressions, hits: Advertising Rates fees, charges, cost.
Sales, Software, Hardware, Consulting:Services
Search, find, help: Site Map
Draw, image, photpograph, retouch, resize, convert formats: The Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
Books:Learning the Bash scripts, scripting
Books:KornShell Programming Tutorial scripts, scripting
Books:Managing Projects with Make
Books:Grokking the Gimp
Books:Termcap and Terminfo terminal control characters, escape sequences.
Mailing lists, bulk email: Majordomo by Kit Haskins
Security, Nat, Masquerade:IPFILTER firewalls for OSR5, ip sharing ipnat ipfilter
Use and Abuse of /usr/local/bin
How to install ldap: LDAP
Convert /etc/passwd to ldap:Passwd to LDAP
Test tcp and udp network connections: NETTEST by Kevin Smith of Shade Tree Software
Books:Linux Firewalls
Books:LDAP Programming
SCOANSI, Wyse, Linux telnet and ssh and and LPD server: AlphaCom 3 Terminal Emulator
Reference Materials: Q-File IT Professional Organiser manuals, documentation.
SCO Printed DocumentationReal books manuals printed documentation sets.
Printing to Windows Printers:Visionfs Printing to LaserJet- J.P. Radley
Books: The Intel Microprocessors-Fifth EditionIntel processors, pentium, x86 cpuid
Programming, Scripting:Around a Perl script to grep for text "around" a pattern.
Opinion: NT is Still Not As Hard As Unix
Books: Maximum Linux Security
Books: Mastering Red Hat 6
Books: (Sun) Resource Management
Books: Cisco IOS Essentials
Books: Linux System Administration
How to Install, Installing Redhat Linux 6.1
Tape Backup, Supertars, verify, fast file restore, crash recovery, emergency boot diskette: Microlite BackupEDGE SS
Tape Backup, Supertars, verify, fast file restore, crash recovery, Airbag, boot diskette: Review of Lone-tar Version 3.2.3.1
Opinion: Web Master
Linux Books: Under the Radar-Robert Young
Linux Books: Linux (Second Edition)- Michael Kofler
Database: MySQL & mSQL
Linux Books: Linux Device Drivers
Linux Books: Star Office
Books: stylesheets css dhtml xml Dynamic HTML
Windows browsing, printing: Samba
Email, smtp: MMDF to Exchange-and Back!
Opinion: What's with all the Linux?
Linux Books: Running Linux-Second Edition
Poor Richard's Internet Marketing and Promotion
Books: Exploring Expect
Books: Sendmail Theory and Practice
Books: Web Site Useability
Books: The Practice of Programming
Books: High Perfomance Computing
Books: cpu, risc, cpuid Pentium Pro Processor System Architecture*** Intel processors, pentium pro, x86 cpuid ***
Books: webservers: Apache (2d Edition)
Windows NT and Unix Integration
Revised Consultants List SCO consultants worldwide!
UnixWare 7 System Administration
Books: Practical Unix & Internet Security security, firewalls, packet filter, bastion host, proxy server
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SCO Books: SCO Unix in a Nutshell
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Reviews network printers configuration configuring printing: NetportExpress 10/100 Print Server
Reviews: Netscape Communicator 4.0.8
Reviews thin clients Winterm 5000 Terminal
Reviews: Multitech's Proxy Server
Using and Installing: Dumb Terminals
tcp wrappers tcp_wrappers tcpd inetd.conf /etc/services /etc/inetd.conf General Internet Security
securetty secure tty restrict root login console /etc/default/login: General Internet Security
Dial back call back dialback callback dial-back call-back modems dialup dial-up passwords /etc/dialups: General Internet Security
Security: COPS Computer Oracle and Password System
Administration, Certification, Quiz, Examination: Unix Skills Test!
Administration, Certification, Quiz, Examination: Mac OS X Skills Test!
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How to install, installation Installing OSR5.0.5
Using inittab, rc2.d scripts, rcd.8 userdef to Automate Program Start Up, run level, run-level 0 1 2, daemons, demons, autologin automatic login, /etc/inittab ,
SCO Books: Unix Internals Based on SCO OSR5!
Books: Unix for the Impatient
Books: Poor Richard's Web Page
Installing and patches: Visionfs
How to do install, upgrade, installation: Upgrades J.P. Radley's savefiles script, data transfer, adding users from old system, copy installing copying installation on new system
Veritas Volume Manager, Unixware d, mkfsisk management, raid, mirrors, striping. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, plexes virtual disk manager, vxfs
Tapes and Tape Drives tapes status xstatus amount retension format
tcpip tcp ip Advanced TCP subnets sub-nets masks netmasks
Understanding Unix Devices, drivers, device files, mknod, major/minor numbers .
Differences between character raw block Devices, which to use, when to use.
"Boot Unix no sync" seen after fsck means power off now and then reboot.
The PS/2 style mouse seen on most modern computers is referred to as a "High Resolution Mouse" in 'mkdev mouse'.
Use the scoadmin license manager to see serial numbers and registration status for installed SCO products. That's available in the GUI or at the command line: scoadmin
*** Create subdirectories with "mkdir" ***. You can create nested subdirectories with all intermediates created with "mkdir -p" , for example "mkdir -p /newdir/another_newdir/another_one"
Remove Directories with "rm -r" or "rmdir"
"hwconfig" and "hw" give hardware information on SCO systems for example *** hw -r pci , hwconfig -c *** "hw" did not exist pre- 5.0.4 .
When establishing user equivalency for rsh, rcp and rlogin, remember that root plays by different rules: you must use a .rhosts file; hosts.equiv will NOT work for root.. Also note that entries in hosts.equiv or .rhosts must match the name that the other computer will be seen as- ping it to see for sure what name will be used. Use fully qualified names when necessary. Finally, .rhosts MUST be owned by the user (root for root logins) and be chmod 700
file name auto completion is a feature of some shells (like bash and ksh), not of the OS itself. Read the man page for your shell or switch to a shell that provides what you want (for example, bash for SCO is availble from Skunkware)
"hwconfig" doesn't necessarily list devices as they are configured in your system for ISA, IDE and scsi devices- it's just what you previously told the driver- so it can say a card is at IRQ 5, but that doesn't mean it really is.
PATH is set in /etc/profile, but may be over-ridden in the user's $HOME/.profile. Also see /etc/default (sets supath) and understand that cron sets its own PATH. Root's PATH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CURRENT DIRECTORY BY DEFAULT!
PATH must be exported ("export PATH") to be passed on to another program.
Visionfs users and Unix users aren't necessarily the same thing, and even if they are, passwords can be different. Check that the user exists by using the /usr/vision/bin/visionfs command to list users and set passwords, etc.
Tape status offline- try a "tape reset ( "mt reset" on some systems).
Panic cannot exec /etc/init ( PID 1) status 9 *can* be caused by a missing symbolic link for /usr/lib/libc.so.1
If so, you need to boot from other media and recreate the link- it's in /opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.*/usr/lib
This can also be caused by /etc/init's link being missing; the real file for that is in /opt/K/SCO/Unix/etc
Other circumstances can also cause this-
SCO: Check disk space with "df -v". Installed memory: "memsize". Memory usage: "sar -r 5 5"
SCO: Generally you can remove a printer with "/usr/lib/lpadmin -x printername". Under some circumstances you may also have to manually edit /etc/printcap, manually remove /usr/spool/lpd/printername and perhaps even remove it from the /usr/spool/lp hierarchy manually.
Find is unusual in that regard- in most cases you would never want to quote wildcards, because ordinarily the shell does the expansion: programs like "ls", for example, don't even understand wild cards at all. Find, however, is a program that needs to see the actual pattern you are trying to match.
To trace binary programs, use "strace" on Linux and "trace" on SCO.
General errors are often specific to the application or program you are running. If it is a numeric Unix error, you can look in /usr/include/errno.h, but that may not really gain you much. On Linux, /usr/include/asm/errno.h is most of what you might need, but there is more spread around in different places.
Programmer FAQS: The UnixWare 1.x and 2.0 Programmer FAQ http://www.freebird.org/faq/developer.html
The comp.unix.sco.programmer FAQ http://www.zenez.com/cgi-bin/scoprogfaq/faq.pl
The comp.unix.programmer FAQ http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_toc.html.
Install termlite by accessing the SCO box from Network Neighborhood (you need to be authenticated properly) and then drill down to Termlite under Vision Tools. Double click on the install icon to install. On some versions, you may need to copy "termlite.no" to the Windows Termlite folder (Windows -> Program Files -> Termlite) also.
If only root can print, suspect permissions on the lp binaries themselves- these are setuid on most OSes and if that is lost, or if they have the wrong ownership, ordinary users can't print.
Many unix daemons are written to re-read their configuration files or restart when sent a "kill -1"
"invalid old password"- you aren't paying attention- the first thing passwd asks is for your OLD password- you need to give it that BEFORE you can change it to something new.
You generally don't mount tape drives in Unix/Linux - tape drives usually don't have filesystem drivers.
Intel netport printservers have a bug in their install- the "proprint" software they use should be setuid and it isn't so only root can print- better to use netcat (search for that here) Also see NetportExpress 10/100 Print Server
Trying to change your password but it just bombs out immediately if you aren't root? Check perms on /dev/tty - should be rw-rw-rw
If the tcp/ip service is not starting, it's almost always because the nic card is not recognized. That's often a driver problem- check for newer drivers. For SCO, check ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub
To set up ntp ( Network Time Protocol ), you need a public ntp server to access. The easiest way to find one is to search Google
A warninng from crontab that commands will be exceuted using /bin/sh just means that crontab noticed that you aren't using /bin/sh. As it is possible for a sript designed for ksh (for example) not to work in sh, crontab is just being helpful.
SCO: cannot create /dev/lp0: parallel ports aren't automaticaly in the kernel. Run "mkdev parallel"
Not all file systems support symbolic links (ln -s).
If you get an error referring to /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 you need libraries from the Skunkware Glib set for these to work.
Browser plugins: Netscape, Mozilla, Konqueror (Linux). Codeweaver Crossover Plugin runs native Windows plugins such as QuickTime 5 and Macromedia Shockwave
Quickbooks hidden window X order wrong, beeps at you, hit ALT-Space, window waiting for input is behind this one
Linux: determine or force link speed and duplex with mii-tool *** link speed full duplex half duplex ***
Using the SCO Openserver Duplicate Printer function may create a "users.allow" file that includes all current users. Unfortunately, users added later won't be automatically added to that file, so you may want to delete it.
Linux console screensaver: setterm -blank 3 (or whatever)
http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/es.html *** Stallion terminal server EasyServer ***
http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/axel.html"> *** axel terminal server ***
http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/jaz.html *** jaz drive
http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/apc.html *** apc ups wiring ***
http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/uucptcp.htmlUUCP over TCP/IP *** uucp ***
Morning Star PPP: http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/mst1.html *** ppp ***
http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/bootp.html *** bootp tftp ***
http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/dhcp.html *** dhcp osr5 ***
VESA video drivers osr5: http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/vesa.html *** vesa gui ***
Using custom: http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/custom.html *** custom ***
*** ipx nwlogin netware *** http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/cmds.html
Mac OSX http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107054 *** Mac OS X 10.2: !!! Error 1282 !!! When Adding Printer !!! cups !!! ***
Add startup item to Gnome (Linux) System>Preferenceso>Sessions In Startup Pograms Tab, choose New, save, exit and relogin
Vista: To remove UAC prompt - run gpedit.msc, go to Local Computer Policy - Computer Configuration - Windows Settings - Security Settings - Local Policies - Security Options.
Look for 'User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode' in the list on the right, and set it to 'Elevate without prompting'
Then, run 'gpupdate' from an elevated command prompt.
Cups printer disables by itself with nothing wrong? Try "/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printername -o printer-error-policy=retry-current-job" or "/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printername -o printer-error-policy=retry-job" and change JobRetryInterval in /etc/cupsd.conf to a low value.
SCO FAQ: Are there anyscreen savers?
SCO FAQ: Is tar/cpio a goodbackup program?
SCO FAQ: How do Icompress my backups?
SCO FAQ: What aresome third-party backup/recovery products?
SCO FAQ: I don't like beingrestricted to 14 character filenames
SCO FAQ: How do I get a copy ofadb?
SCO FAQ: What do I need tocompile programs?
SCO FAQ: What does the NCALLkernel parameter affect?
SCO FAQ: How do I reset theroot password if I forget it? (part 1)
SCO FAQ: How do I reset theroot password if I forget it? (part 2)
SCO FAQ: How do I reset theroot password if I forget it? (part 3)
SCO FAQ: How do I crashout of the install script (mount hard drive filesystem from bootdiskettes)?
SCO FAQ: How can Idownload a boot disk?
SCO FAQ: Why can't fsckfind my lost+found directory?
SCO FAQ: I want morespace in my lost+found directory
SCO FAQ: How do I find outserial numbers of my various components?
SCO FAQ: How do I solve an"arglist too long"?
SCO FAQ: Whatversions/configurations am I using?
SCO FAQ: I have a bad block onmy hard drive
SCO FAQ: Why did my regiontable overflow?
SCO FAQ: How do I solve "forkfailed: no more processes"?
SCO FAQ: How are minor devicenumbers assigned by mkdev hd?
SCO FAQ: I need fax software. Whomakes it?
SCO FAQ: How much swapspace do I need?
SCO FAQ: Can I add more swapspace?
SCO FAQ: Do haltsys and reboot doa sync()?
SCO FAQ: How can I get morethan 64k inodes?
SCO FAQ: Where do I getzmodem?
SCO FAQ: Where do I getkermit?
SCO FAQ: I get messagessaying "stat() failed: /tmp/croutPPGa00288: no such file"
SCO FAQ: Does SCO support myhardware?
SCO FAQ: How do I get afile off my distribution diskettes?
SCO FAQ: Will I have problemsupgrading my hardware?
SCO FAQ: I typed in thewrong serial number!
SCO FAQ: Why does fsck want ascratch file?
SCO FAQ: What books are thereabout SCO systems?
SCO FAQ: How can I bootmultiple operating systems?
SCO FAQ: How do I set diskspace quotas?
SCO FAQ: How do I find out whatIP address a user logged in from?
SCO FAQ: My ANSI terminalemulator doesn't work properly
SCO FAQ: Can I replace csh withtcsh?
SCO FAQ: How do I make themanual pages work for things installed from Skunkware?
SCO FAQ: Is my system Year 2000compliant?
SCO FAQ: How do I makeenvironment variables global?
SCO FAQ: How can Irestrict logins?
SCO FAQ: How can I preventroot logins over telnet?
SCO FAQ: Why can't I unmount myCDROM?
SCO FAQ: What do "hangup"messages mean during shutdown?
SCO FAQ: What does "interruptis private" or "no root hd controller" mean ?
SCO FAQ: How can I sendemail attachments from the command line?
SCO FAQ: Why doesn't the"mutt" I got from Skunkware work?
SCO FAQ: What is an "xxevent"error?
SCO FAQ: How do I configure aTravan Tape Drive?
SCO FAQ: Why does my cron jobfail while "at" works?
SCO FAQ: Why does my screenget confused if I login in UPPER CASE?
SCO FAQ: Why can't I kill aprocess with -9?
SCO FAQ: What is a zombieprocess?
SCO FAQ: Where do I get a bettervi?
SCO FAQ: How can I have a'command line history & editing' shell under SCO Unix/OS5?
SCO FAQ: Is it possible touse the mouse in a character application?
SCO FAQ: Are there anyantivirus programs for Sco Unix/OpenServer?
SCO FAQ: How can I testvirus scanning software?
SCO FAQ: I need to remotelyassist a customer; what can I do?
SCO FAQ: Is it possible toswitch screen from an application?
SCO FAQ: Are there anyWinzip compatible tools?
SCO FAQ: I can't access myWindows 9x FAT32 partition from the SCO's one!
SCO FAQ: Are there any'Office'-like packages for SCO?
SCO FAQ: How can I back upto a tape drive on another machine?
SCO FAQ: Can I changeroot's shell to something else?
SCO FAQ: How do I add a Zip orJaz drive?
SCO FAQ: Where can I getolder versions of SCO products?
SCO FAQ: How do I captureprogram screens to a file or print them?
SCO FAQ: How can Iincrease the number of characters that are significant inpasswords?
SCO FAQ: How do I mount aCDROM?
SCO FAQ: How do I find outwho or what shutdown or halted my system?
SCO FAQ: How can Iregularly and reliably transfer data to a program running onanother machine?
SCO FAQ: Why do I get "can'topen /dev/tty" errors? cpio
SCO FAQ: How can I changeuppercase file names to lower case?
SCO FAQ: Why do I get "AlarmCall" messages at startup boot or shutdown?
SCO FAQ: How can I mount a SCOfile system in Linux or vice-versa?
SCO FAQ: How can I increasethe size of my root or other filesystem?
SCO FAQ: How can I transferSCO accounts (passwd information) to Linux?
SCO FAQ: What does "Error5" mean (or any "Error xx") ?
SCO FAQ: What is a watchdogtimer panic or error message?
SCO FAQ: I've burned a CD butcan't see long filenames when I mount it on SCO
SCO FAQ: How do I formata floppy diskette?
SCO FAQ: How can I make a shellscript setuid so that ordinary users may use root privilegecommands?
SCO FAQ: How do I clear logfiles?
SCO FAQ: Why didn't my machinechange time for daylight savings time (or any time change)?
SCO FAQ: How can I monitor cpuusage?
SCO FAQ: I'veforgotten or don't know the Internet Manager Password
SCO FAQ: When should I usekill -9?
SCO FAQ: How can I find out what a user's password is?
SCO FAQ: How can inactiveusers be automatically logged out?
SCO FAQ: User login hangsfor many seconds before password prompt comes up (SCO 5.0.5 and5.0.6 )
SCO FAQ: How can I control thesound of the console bell or turn on keyclicks?
SCO FAQ: Why doesn't CTRL-Cwork to interrupt my programs?
SCO FAQ: How can I write animage diskette from a Windows OS?
SCO FAQ: I licensed an additionalCPU but the system doesn't see it or use it.
SCO FAQ: Where can I getinformation about how to control or program the scoansiconsole?
SCO FAQ: I've downloaded adriver.dd or driver.img file, what do I do with it?
SCO FAQ: Why do I get mailsaying my message had too many hops?
SCO FAQ: When a newuser tries to login, it says the account is disabled- but it isnot.
SCO FAQ: I get anerror message "Can't access shared library"
SCO FAQ: How can I findtomorrow's or yesterday's date in a script?
SCO FAQ: I have oneapplication that doesn't work with "scoansi"; how can I fixthat?
SCO FAQ: Does Openserver supportUSB devices?
SCO FAQ: How can I get thevalue of autotuned configuration variables?
SCO FAQ: What causes a trap0x00000008 ( double panic )?
SCO FAQ: How can I renamemultiple files using wildcards?
SCO FAQ: How can Iinstall a new disk controller that requires a different driver?
SCO FAQ: What consumes auser license? What uses do I need to buy more licenses for?
SCO FAQ: What are thesymptoms of a drive geometry problem?
SCO FAQ: How do I repair adrive geometry problem?
SCO FAQ: How do I learn thedrive geometry of an old drive?
SCO FAQ: Why do I see "ttloop:peer died" in syslog?
SCO FAQ: How can I tell if auser logged in locally, used rlogin, telnet or ssh?
SCO FAQ: How can I backtrace a process to its parents?
SCO FAQ: How can I automate anftp transfer?
SCO FAQ: How can Irecursively grep through sub-directories?
SCO FAQ: I ssh to a Linuxbox and am immediately disconnected
SCO FAQ: Is rm final? Are thefiles gone forever?
SCO FAQ: My tape drivedoesn't work
SCO FAQ: What are someterminal emulators I can use from windows?
SCO FAQ: How can I reconnectto a disconnected session?
SCO FAQ: I can't findcertified hardware for version X
SCO FAQ: How can I run differentconsoles in single-user mode so that Alt+Fx works?
SCO FAQ: How can I prevent acertain tty from being used?
SCO FAQ: Graphical characters
SCO FAQ: My emergency
SCO FAQ: I'm having trouble
SCO FAQ: sysadmsh is
SCO FAQ: Will Release
SCO FAQ: I loaded a patch
SCO FAQ: What patches
SCO FAQ: What patches are
SCO FAQ: What's this free copy of
SCO FAQ: I'm having trouble
SCO FAQ: My >2GB ATA hard
SCO FAQ: My floppy drive
SCO FAQ: People log out but still
SCO FAQ: Can I perform an in-place
SCO FAQ: How do I access
SCO FAQ: Can I use the
SCO FAQ: Is there a packet
SCO FAQ: What can I do about
SCO FAQ: Can I have both IDE
SCO FAQ: Is a DHCP client
SCO FAQ: Can OSR5 do NAT or
SCO FAQ: How can I find
SCO FAQ: Can OSR5 and Unixware
SCO FAQ: Can Linux run OSR5
SCO FAQ: A Xenix or ODT legacy
SCO FAQ: How can I
SCO FAQ: I've added more RAM,
SCO FAQ: Why do I get
SCO FAQ: Why do I get
SCO FAQ: How do I change the
SCO FAQ: What causes "No utmp
SCO FAQ: What does "ifor_pmd,
SCO FAQ: Does SCO OpenServer5
SCO FAQ: What is the
SCO FAQ: Why do I have to relink
SCO FAQ: How Can I stop
SCO FAQ: Is it possible to
SCO FAQ: How can I access the
SCO FAQ: I need information
SCO FAQ: Why does the
SCO FAQ: How can I assign
SCO FAQ: How can I get pci bus
SCO FAQ: Why do I get
SCO FAQ: Why doesn't "man"
SCO FAQ: I upgraded Merge
SCO FAQ: I need to make a copy
SCO FAQ: Why can't I
SCO FAQ: I installed gcc from
SCO FAQ: How can I mount
SCO FAQ: Where can I get a
SCO FAQ: How can I make
SCO FAQ: Do modern versions of
SCO FAQ: Can Unixware 7
SCO FAQ: Why do I have files
SCO FAQ: How can I display
SCO FAQ: How can I add a
SCO FAQ: I am trying to
SCO FAQ: How do I get rid of
SCO FAQ: I am using the OSR5
SCO FAQ: How can I send
SCO FAQ: When a user tries to
SCO FAQ: I can't read a cpio
SCO FAQ: How do I convert
SCO FAQ: I have a system
SCO FAQ: How do I save kernel
SCO FAQ: At boot time,
SCO FAQ: My pre-EAFS filesystem
SCO FAQ: I just upgraded to 3.2v4
SCO FAQ: The permissions on
SCO FAQ: I get an error "Cannot
SCO FAQ: I need help configuring
SCO FAQ: What is the new "low"
SCO FAQ: My AHA154x/174x isn't
SCO FAQ: How do I
SCO FAQ: How do I get MMDF to
SCO FAQ: My system is slow or
SCO FAQ: My system
SCO FAQ: Where do I get POP
SCO FAQ: How do I fix a kernel
SCO FAQ: How do I configure
SCO FAQ: How do I change
SCO FAQ: My machine had a
SCO FAQ: How do I find out the
SCO FAQ: How do I install a
SCO FAQ: My keyboard locks
SCO FAQ: My machine locks up
SCO FAQ: How can I use a PC
SCO FAQ: How much RAM can my
SCO FAQ: How do I find out what
SCO FAQ: telnet doesn't work
SCO FAQ: How do I know if I
SCO FAQ: TCP/IP gives messages
SCO FAQ: How do I get
SCO FAQ: What does
SCO FAQ: How to setup
SCO FAQ: Ping is really
SCO FAQ: Telnet/FTP is very
SCO FAQ: Dial in PPP
SCO FAQ: How do I add a
SCO FAQ: How do I test a popd
SCO FAQ: How do I test an
SCO FAQ: How do I test a smtp
SCO FAQ: Why can't my other
SCO FAQ: How do I get
SCO FAQ: Why do I get
SCO FAQ: What do "can't get
SCO FAQ: I've telnetted to
SCO FAQ: Why do I have
SCO FAQ: How do I configure
SCO FAQ: Why doesn't ping
SCO FAQ: What can I check if
SCO FAQ: How can I force
SCO FAQ: How can I tell what
SCO FAQ: Why does this "224" route
SCO FAQ: How can I assign
SCO FAQ: I see in netstat
SCO FAQ: I don't
SCO FAQ: How do I secure