Questions tagged [sco]
A closed source version of UNIX. Named after the company that originally created it, Santa Cruz Operation
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Writing SCO Unix ISO file to USB failed
I have downloaded OpenServer 5 from this link.
I created a vm machine (Vmware workstation) and used this ISO file as CD-ROM image file(IDE). Everything works fine and the vm boots from CD-ROM normally ...
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SCO OpenServer for consumers?
The title says it all; I cannot find a way to purchase SCO OpenServer 6 without being affiliated with a company.
How does one go about purchasing a license key for SCO OpenServer 6 just by ...
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TCP/IP quits after 48 hours
I have a problem with a (remote) server running SCO UNIX. It's been working for years, but was recently moved, and I changed its IP address & gateway address. Since then it works perfectly until ...
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SCO Unix 5.0.5, Progress 7 - partly broken terminal view after virtualization
I've got a problem with ancient app build in SCO Unix 5.0.5 Server based on Progress 7 database after trying to virtualize environment. Problem is similar to messed up terminal after trying to cat or ...
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Transfer Files from SCO Unix to VirtualBox / VMware
I have an old Unix SCO running some 5.06 version on some IBM hardware. I want to clone the hard drive into an .iso image so that I can use it in VMware or VirtualBox on a brand new machine. I want to ...
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SPB is inaccessible: SCO OpenServer Migration
I have an old SCO OpenServer (5.0.7) UNIX server running archaic proprietary software and we are trying to virtualize it through Fedora KVM. We have successfully gotten it to boot simply by dding the ...
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Xenix / SCO V running in contemporary machines as VMs
I am trying to install Xenix 386 and/or SCO V Unix in a VM for historical/research/reviving old times/curiosity purposes.
I have already tried to download a couple of media installation images from ...
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How to enter single user mode with a suddenly disabled root user?
Suddenly, my Unix root user account seems to be disabled. At startup, the system presents a prompt to change the date, but the maintenance prompt to insert the password does not show. My OS is Unix ...
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Two files in same folder with same name - need to delete one but not both
We appear to have two files in the /var/spool/lp/logs folder named "requests".
One is owned by lp, the other by root.
We need to remove the requests file owned by root - how do we reference it?
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SCO binaries on linux
I have a situation where we are moving our sco based server to linux but need 3 sco programs to run. I know there is a kernel patch that should allow me to do that but that is where I am stuck.
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Migrating data from SCO OpenServer 5.0.6
I've been tasked to migrate data from an old HP NetServer LH3000 running SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 (circa 1998).
I've had a good amount of experience dealing with Unix/Linux systems. However, this is ...
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How to get the group that a user belongs to in SCO
I can see how to add a user, but is there a way to get information on a user, such as the group that it belongs to?
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Unzipping a TAR file, causing an error
I am trying to unzip a .tar.gz file using tar xvzf, as hhaamu said in his answer to my other question about Installing GCC on SCO.
When I type:
bash-3.1$ tar xzf gcc-2.95.2pl1-dist.tar.gz
tar: z: ...
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Setting BASH as the default in SCO
I have tried countless times, trying to get bash as the default shell in SCO, and have failed.
I have tried the following:
Installed Bash - using bash-2.05a.pkg
Installed Readline - using readline-4....
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Data extraction of entire DB on SCO Openserver 6
Firstly apologies if this question seems like a wall of text, I can't think of a way to format it.
I have a machine with valuable data on (circa 1995), the machine is running UNIX (SCO OpenServer 6) ...
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