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- Are there any screen savers?
- Is tar/cpio a good backup program?
- How do Icompress my backups?
- What are some third-party backup/recovery products?
- I don't like being restricted to 14 character filenames
- How do I get a copy of adb?
- I can't find crypt
- What do I need to compile 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 out serial numbers of my various components?
- How do I solve an"arglist too long"?
- What versions/configurations am I using?
- I have a bad block on my hard drive
- My system is slow
- Why did my region table overflow?
- How do I solve "fork failed: no more processes"?
- How are minor devicenumbers assigned by mkdev hd?
- I need fax software. Who makes it?
- How much swap space do I need?
- Can I add more swap space?
- Do haltsys and reboot do a sync()?
- How can I get more than 64k inodes?
- Where do I get zmodem?
- Where do I get kermit?
- I get messages saying "stat() failed: /tmp/croutPPGa00288: no such file"
- Does SCO support my hardware?
- How do I get a file off my distribution diskettes?
- Will I have problems upgrading my hardware?
- I typed in the wrong serial number!
- Why does fsck want ascratch file?
- What books are there about SCO systems?
- How can I boot multiple operating systems?
- How do I set diskspace quotas?
- How do I find out what IP address a user logged in from?
- My ANSI terminal emulator doesn't work properly
- What is Skunkware?
- Can I replace csh with tcsh?
- How do I make the manual pages work for things installed from Skunkware?
- Is my system Year 2000 compliant?
- My ANSI terminal emulator doesn't work properly
- What is Skunkware?
- How do I make environment variables global?
- How can I restrict logins?
- How can I prevent root logins over telnet?
- Why can't I unmount myCDROM?
- What do "hangup" messages mean during shutdown?
- What does "interrupt is private" or "no root hd controller" mean ?
- What are interrupts?
- How can I send email attachments from the command line?
- Why doesn't the "mutt" I got from Skunkware work?
- What is an "xxevent"error?
- How do I configure a Travan 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 zombie process?
- Where do I get a better vi?
- How can I have a'command line history & editing' shell under SCO Unix/OS5?
- Is it possible to use the mouse in a character application?
- Are there any antivirus programs for Sco Unix/OpenServer?
- How can I test virus scanning software?
- I need to remotely assist a customer; what can I do?
- Is it possible to switch screen from an application?
- Are there any Winzip compatible tools?
- I can't access my Windows 9x FAT32 partition from the SCO's one!
- Are there any 'Office'-like packages for SCO?
- How can I back up to a tape drive on another machine?
- Can I change root's shell to something else?
- How do I add a Zip orJaz drive?
- Where can I get older versions of SCO products?
- How do I capture program screens to a file or print them?
- How can I increase the number of characters that are significant inpasswords?
- How do I mount a CDROM?
- How do I find out who or what shutdown or halted my system?
- How can I regularly and reliably transfer data to a program running onanother machine?
- I see an error message on the console that starts with %Stp-0 and seems to bereferring to my tape drive.
- Why do I get "can't open /dev/tty" errors? cpio
- How can I change uppercase file names to lower case?
- Why do I get "AlarmCall" messages at startup boot or shutdown?
- How can I mount a SCO file system in Linux or vice-versa?
- How can I increase the size of my root or other filesystem?
- How can I transfer SCO accounts (passwd information) to Linux?
- What does "Error5" mean (or any "Error xx") ?
- What is a watchdog timer panic or error message?
- I've burned a CD but can't see long filenames when I mount it on SCO
- How do I format a floppy diskette?
- How can I make a shell script setuid so that ordinary users may use root privilegecommands?
- How do I clear logfiles?
- Why didn't my machine change time for daylight savings time (or any time change)?
- How can I monitor cpuusage?
- I've forgotten or don't know the Internet Manager Password
- When should I use kill -9?
- How can I find out what a user's password is?
- How can inactive users be automatically logged out?
- User login hangs for many seconds before password prompt comes up (SCO 5.0.5 and5.0.6 )
- How can I control the sound of the console bell or turn on keyclicks?
- Why doesn't CTRL-C work to interrupt my programs?
- How can I write an image diskette from a Windows OS?
- I licensed an additional CPU but the system doesn't see it or use it.
- Where can I get information about how to control or program the scoansiconsole?
- I've downloaded a driver.dd or driver.img file, what do I do with it?
- Why do I get mail saying my message had too many hops?
- When a new user tries to login, it says the account is disabled- but it is not.
- I get an error message "Can't access shared library"
- I have a modem directly connected to a WY-60 terminal, but I don't get any displayof AT commands on the screen.
- How can I find tomorrow's or yesterday's date in a script?
- I have one application that doesn't work with "scoansi"; how can I fixthat?
- Does Openserver support USB devices?
- How can I get the value of autotuned configuration variables?
- What causes a trap 0x00000008 ( double panic )?
- How can I rename multiple files using wildcards?
- How can I install 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 a user license? What uses do I need to buy more licenses for?
- 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?
- Why do I see "ttloop:peer died" in syslog?
- How can I tell if a user logged in locally, used rlogin, telnet or ssh?
- How can I backtrace a process to its parents?
- How can I automate an ftp transfer?
- How can I recursively grep through sub-directories?
- When applying multiple 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 the files gone forever?
- My tape drive doesn't work
- Killall doesn't work!
- What are some terminal emulators I can use from windows?
- How can I reconnect to a disconnected session?
- I can't find certified hardware for version X
- How can I run different consoles in single-user mode so that Alt+Fx works?
- How can I prevent a certain tty from being used?
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