[NBLUG/talk] SCO 6 / Unix5

[gandalf at sonic.net]

Yeah it was very much like that. The terminal weirdness was VERY 
annoying though as I had to type everything exactly right or start over, 
backup was not an option. I was logged in as root and there was no /root 
it just dumped in / (and I ended up configuring .shh in /). There was an 
/etc, but everything in there was a link to something like /opt. It did 
have bash on it. My job was very simple to set up a ssh key so the 
backup server could log in and backup everything (excpt for proc, 
system, mnt and cdrom). Instead of sys it had system. What should have 
been a ten minute job took hours (well two or so).

On 2015-02-27 09:49, Jordan Erickson wrote:
> IMHO one of the best things about *nix is that no OS is the same. It is
> awkward sitting in front of an unfamiliar system. Initially I always 
> get
> this mental resistance if I can't find or figure out something like,
> 'Argh, f it were only the same as XYZ, grumble grumble...'. But after I
> get over that, I start to learn and things get exciting.
> 
> On 02/27/2015 08:38 AM, gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
>> Yesterday I got to work on a SCO6 system installing a backup system.
>> It was like using a very old, very odd version of Linux, or perhaps
>> Linux is odd and that's more normal. Everything was basically
>> recognizable, but oddly different in unexpected ways. I was using
>> putty terminals and I never could get the settings right which made
>> everything double the pain as none of the special keys worked. Did
>> learn about x/X in VI which are handy when the backspace and delete
>> key don't work. Restarting the ssh daemon was incredibly difficult.
>> One person advised to find the pid and kill it, but I didn't want to
>> kill my session. I think I did find the script and run it, but it just
>> gave me an odd command to run. Worked when I did it though.
> 
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