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SCO OpenServer Handbook
About this book
How this book is organized
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Installing and managing software components
The Software Manager interface
Installing software
Loading software
About products, components, and packages
Removing software
About dependencies
Examining software packages
Examining installed software
Examining software to be installed
Verifying software
About software patches
Licensing and registering SCO OpenServer products
The License Manager interface
Licensing products
Licensing additional users and CPUs
Adjusting system resources for additional users and CPUs
License Manager and kernel parameters
Removing product licenses
Registering products
Displaying login licenses in use
Troubleshooting license and registration problems
License Manager will not accept Registration Key
License Manager will not accept license information
Licensing Policy Manager Daemon (sco_pmd) has terminated
SCO OpenServer license has expired
Checking for SCO OpenServer product license expiration
No user licenses were found on this machine
LOGIN: ERROR- Failed to initialize policy manager
The
/etc/sco_pmd
binary is corrupted or missing
Key files or directories are missing
The root filesystem is mounted read-only
No user licenses exist, or there are no more licenses
The system has run out of STREAMS resources
Using the system
What do I need to know?
Command lines, operating systems, and networks
Starting the Desktop
Exiting the Desktop
Using Desktop features
Using the mouse
Pressing onscreen buttons
Using windows
Scrolling
Using menus
Using icons
An overview of the SCO Panner window manager
Getting help
Getting character-based help
Troubleshooting character-based help
Sending and receiving mail
Sending e-mail
Replying to e-mail
Saving messages
Deleting and restoring messages
Getting more information about Mail
Accessing the World Wide Web
Administering SCO OpenServer
Understanding the basics
What is system administration?
What to read if you are new
Keeping a system log
The superuser account
The keyboard
Running programs simultaneously with multiscreen displays
System security
Administering your system with SCOadmin
Starting SCOadmin from the command line
About Sysadmsh Legacy
Refreshing data in the display
Using point help
Using the toolbar
Using SCOadmin in character mode
Administering other systems with SCOadmin
Problems with multiple invocations
Making selections in character mode
Using the System Defaults Manager
Changing the default editor
Controlling processes with the Process Manager
Viewing processes
Searching for a process
Changing the priority of a process
Signaling a process
Troubleshooting SCOadmin
SCOadmin will not start
Recovering from SCOadmin failures in character mode
Remote administration problems
SCOadmin error trace
The SCOadmin event log
Managing your system with Caldera Volution Manager
Enabling SNMP
Verifying Volution Manager CA certificates
Using the Volution Manager Key Tool
Starting the Volution Manager Client
Troubleshooting Volution Manager Clients
Getting diagnostic information on Volution Manager Clients
Troubleshooting the Volution Manager Client daemon
Educating users
Planning your site
User resource considerations
Network considerations
Hardware considerations
Summary of system administration tasks
Starting and stopping the system
Starting the system
Loading the operating system
Saving/deleting a system memory image
Cleaning filesystems
Choosing the mode of system operation
Single-user mode
Multiuser mode
Setting the time and date at startup
Setting the time and date during normal operation
Changing the system time zone
Checking the security databases
Stopping the system
Using the shutdown command line
Using the haltsys command
Logging in as the superuser
Understanding the hardware information displayed at boot time
Changing the startup process
Changing the system restart options
Changing the default bootstring (DEFBOOTSTR)
Booting an old kernel
Troubleshooting system startup
About missing or corrupted system files
Restoring critical security database files
System fails to boot or displays ``NO OS'' message
boot not found
unix not found
Cannot load floating point emulator
Cannot exec /bin/login: No such file or directory
Cannot open /etc/inittab
/etc/initscript: /bin/sulogin: not found
/etc/initscript: /etc/bcheckrc: not found
no utmp entry. You must log in from lowest level -sh
Fork failed... Resource temporarily unavailable
System hangs at boot time
Console keyboard locks up
Preventing console keyboard lockup
Wrong console keyboard type
Cannot log into console
Customizing startup of the Graphical Environment
Starting a Graphical Environment session
Running scologin
Configuring scologin's startup behavior
Defining X server sessions
Logging out of scologin
Running the startx script
Using grey-scale monochrome monitors with the X server
Solving problems exiting the X server
Using the session manager
Starting scosession
Stopping scosession
Using scosession options
Using environment variables
Customizing scologin
Using the scologin administration script
Configuring scologin on multiple displays
About XDMCP X server options
Running scologin with XDMCP
Running scologin with the Xservers file
Step 1: Stopping existing scologin processes
Step 2: Editing the Xservers file
Step 3: Enabling access to the remote display
Step 4: Running the X server on the remote display
Step 5: Starting scologin
Using X terminals
Managing an X terminal display with scologin
X terminals that do not support XDMCP
X terminals that support XDMCP
Running a session on an X terminal without scologin
Specifying the locale
The International Settings Manager interface
Setting locales
Localization of system software
Setting the system locale
Setting user locales
About locales
Regular expressions and locales
How mail translates between locales
Setting the system keyboard
Selecting codesets
Setting the internal system codeset
Setting the console codeset
Translating files between different codesets
Setting device character mapping
Device mapping
Creating a character mapping table
Mapping input characters
Getting input from mapchan
Mapping output escape sequences
Mapping dead key sequences
Mapping compose sequences
Mapping function keys
Configuring SCOterm for European languages
Language behavior in SCOadmin
Using mail in 8-bit (European) locales
UUCP dialer scripts
Calendars
Timezones
Clients
Enabling Euro currency symbol support
Setting the ISO8859-15 codeset
Using the Euro currency symbol
Printing the Euro currency symbol
Configuring multi-byte support
Troubleshooting system-level problems
Other troubleshooting documentation
Preparing to recover from problems
Recording your root disk layout
Restoring a corrupted root filesystem
System crashes
Recovering from a system panic
Recovering after a power failure
Automatic reboot
Analyzing system failures
Traps, faults, and exceptions
Console panic information
Getting the EIP number
Checking error messages
Checking system files with error histories
Checking system configuration
Generating a system dump image with sysdump(ADM)
Examining a memory dump with crash(ADM)
Studying a panic
Additional help from Technical Support
Common system-wide problems
cron, at, and batch troubleshooting
cron daemon is not running
at command fails: cannot change mode of job
Runaway processes
Basic hardware configuration
Supported architecture
General compatibility issues
Typical device interrupts
Configuring devices with bootstrings
Using bootstrings
Advanced Power Management bootstrings
SCSI peripheral bootstrings
SCSI host adapter bootstrings
ATAPI/EIDE peripheral bootstrings
EIDE/UDMA host adapter bootstrings
Root hard disk bootstrings
QIC-02 tape drive bootstrings
Disabling drivers with bootstrings
Memory bootstrings
cache bootstring
System console bootstring
Using Boot-Time Loadable Drivers
Adding BTLDs at boot time
Adding BTLDs after initial installation
Configuring drivers with the Hardware/Kernel Manager
The Hardware/Kernel Manager interface
About device driver configuration
Using UDI drivers
Installing and configuring UDI drivers
Configuring UDI network devices
Removing UDI drivers
Using UDI HBA drivers to install SCO OpenServer
Relinking the kernel
Configuring Power Management
Configuring APM using pwrsh
Checking battery status regularly
Adding memory and bus cards
Installing bus cards
DIP switches and jumpers
Installing the hardware
Avoiding interrupt clashes on PCI/ISA bus machines
Using the manufacturer's setup program
Adding more memory
Memory card compatibility notes
Disabled high memory on Corollary architectures
32-bit memory
High-speed cache memory
Adding math coprocessors
Specific math coprocessor issues
Adding an external floppy to an IBM PS/2
Adding SCSI host adapters and peripherals
SCSI addresses
Adding a SCSI peripheral device
Boot time messages from host adapter drivers
Adding SCSI PC Card host adapters
Adding SCSI, ATAPI, and USB CD-ROM drives
Adding SCSI, ATAPI, and USB removable storage drives
Troubleshooting SCSI host adapters
Installing when SCSI host adapters share interrupts
Mixing scatter-gather and non scatter-gather host adapters
SCSI peripherals not recognized
Adding PC Card devices
Installing Plug and Play devices
The ISA PnP Configuration Manager interface
Physically adding an ISA PnP card
Selecting a card and device to configure
Modifying resource allocation for a device
Enabling BIOS resource allocation
Disabling a device
Resolving configuration conflicts
Relinking the kernel and rebooting the system
Troubleshooting card configuration
Terminology and concepts
Plug and Play Glossary
Plug and Play files and utilities
Adding hard disks
Supported hard disk configurations
Adding secondary hard disks
Configuring a SCSI hard disk
Configuring a USB hard disk
Configuring IDE disks and disk controllers
Installing a hard disk
Changing default disk parameters using dkinit
Partitioning a hard disk using fdisk
Scanning a disk for defects using badtrk
Dividing a disk partition into divisions using divvy
Overcoming BIOS limitations
Defining IDE and ESDI disk geometry in the BIOS
Overriding the root disk geometry stored in the BIOS
Writing a new masterboot block
BIOS support for disks larger than 1024 cylinders
Replacing the root hard disk
Configuring the root hard disk
Troubleshooting hard disks
Fixing bad tracks and bad blocks on hard disks
Setting hard disk interleave
Formatting hard disks
Adding tape drives
Installing a tape drive
Installing a SCSI tape drive
Installing a QIC-02 cartridge tape drive
Installing an Irwin mini-cartridge tape drive
Installing a QIC-40/80 floppy tape drive
Installing a Compaq CPQS tape drive
Changing the default tape drive
Troubleshooting tape drives
General problems with tape drives
Problems with QIC-02 cartridge tape drives
QIC-02 cartridge tape drive not recognized at bootup
Use of interrupts with the Archive drive
Settings required by the Olivetti drive
Bad octal digit
Tape commands hang
Cannot open /dev/rct0 error message
Problems with SCSI tape drives
SCSI tape drive not recognized
Cannot access SCSI tape drive with /dev/rct0
Using the dd(C) command with Exabyte 8mm tapes
Waiting for DAT and Exabyte 8mm tape drives to initialize
Problems with Irwin and QIC-40/80 tape drives
Irwin or QIC-40/80 tape drive not recognized at bootup
Difficulty backing up Irwin and QIC-40/80 tape drives
Tape formatting fails
Incorrect device nodes for Wangtek QIC-80 tape drives
Configuring video adapters
Adding serial and parallel ports
About serial ports
Adding and configuring serial cards
Configuring a serial card
Configuring a serial port
Serial ports on multi-function cards
Combining single port and multiport serial cards
ISA and EISA serial cards
Micro Channel Architecture serial cards
PCI serial cards
Troubleshooting serial cards
About parallel ports
Adding and configuring parallel ports
Removing ISA parallel ports
Modifying PCI parallel port configurations
Adding mice and bitpads
Serial mice
Keyboard mice
USB mice
Bus mice
Configuring a mouse
Changing mouse ports
Testing a mouse
Removing a mouse
Changing the keyboard mouse resolution setting
Using a mouse
Using a mouse with multiscreens
Using a mouse on serial terminals
Sharing a mouse with several terminals
Using a mouse with keyboard-based programs
Using the pseudo-mouse driver
Installing a bitpad
Troubleshooting mice and bitpads
Solving slow or no response from keyboard mice
Adding printers
Installing parallel and serial printers
Troubleshooting printers
Setting up RTS/CTS protocol (hardware flow control) printers
Adding modems
Installing a modem
Choosing a serial port to use
Connecting a modem to your computer
Configuring a modem
Configuring modems with the Modem Manager
Detecting a modem automatically
Adding a modem manually
Modifying the configuration of a modem
Removing a modem
Configuring modems manually
Dialers file entries
atdialer and dialer programs
Understanding modem commands and setup strings
Creating a new atdial dialer
Creating a new dial dialer
Guidelines for non-supported modems
Setting hardware flow control
Configuring remote connections
Testing your modem connection
Testing whether you can dial out
Testing whether you can dial in
Troubleshooting modems
Problems dialing out
Modem dials, but does not connect
NO DEVICES AVAILABLE message
Modem answers, but terminal displays garbage
DEVICE LOCKED message
Modem does not hang up
Double echo
Problems dialing in
Modem does not answer the phone
Modem answers, but hangs up
Garbage or loose cable
Modem answers, but no login prompt is displayed
Screen displays a series of login prompts
System displays meaningless characters
Adding serial terminals
Installing serial terminals
Testing a terminal connection
Changing default terminal line characteristics
Changing entries in /etc/gettydefs
Checking terminal settings
Changing serial line operation
Setting the terminal type at login
Setting the terminal type automatically
Removing terminals
Setting up serial consoles
Setting up scancode-compatible terminals
Installing scancode-compatible terminals
Using function keys in scancode mode
Running applications on scancode terminals
Troubleshooting terminals
Restoring non-functional terminals
Fixing hung terminals
Fixing scrambled terminal display
Unlocking locked terminals
Restoring non-echoing terminals
Correcting hung scancode-compatible terminals
Wyse 60 terminal in scancode mode
Configuring Internet Services
Starting the Internet Manager
Configuring network connections
Accessing the network
Configuring network cards
Deferred TCP/IP configuration
Using a modem to connect to the Internet
Creating an outbound PPP connection
Configuring an inbound PPP Connection
Testing your Internet connection
Troubleshooting your PPP connection
Disabling automatic gateway configuration
Configuring Internet Services
Mail
FTP
Net
Security
Providing access to unlisted packet filter services
Web
Netscape FastTrack Server installation defaults
Starting and restarting Netscape FastTrack servers
Deferring or reconfiguring network configuration
Manually configuring Netscape servers
Improving Internet server performance
Configuring Domain Name Service (DNS)
Internet Services notes
Internet Services system configuration limitations
Internet Services software limitations
Managing virtual domains
Enabling virtual domains
Adding and deleting virtual domains
Configuring services
Configuring SYSTEM-WIDE
Configuring interfaces
Viewing properties of virtual domains
Virtual domain name and DNS
Administrative users
Configuring e-mail
Locking and unlocking an interface
Remote administration of virtual domains
Virtual domain notes
Configuring network connections
Configuration parameters
Supported mass storage devices
Mass storage device notes
UDMA mode with Acer Labs M1543 IDE controllers
Installing on a machine with an Adaptec 1542CP
Adaptec 154x series clone devices
Adaptec 3960 dual channel SCSI host adapter
Adaptec Arrow SCSI chip sets
Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460/1480 PC Card adapters
Adaptec Ultra160 series host adapters
DPT PM 2022 SCSI host adapter
ISA bus support disabled for DPT SCSI host adapters
Disabled LSI Logic (formerly Symbios) controller
Bootstring needed to boot off Mylex controller
Mass storage devices no longer supported
Supported video adapters
Video adapter notes
Default graphics mode incorrect for Intel 810 chipset
Use ATI and Diamond DOS setup programs for higher graphics resolution
NCR Microchannel systems using NCR 77C22 or 77C22E video chip
Getting full graphical functionality for the NCR VGA adapter
Notes on older video adapters
ATI Mach64 chip set based adapters
ATI Rage 128 video adapter hangs
ATI Ultra Pro or Ultra Plus
ATI Ultra Pro or Ultra Plus -- Early 92
Chips & Technology 6430x chip set based adapters including BOCA Voyager
Cirrus Logic GD 5428 chip set based adapters
Compaq QVision 1280 (2MB)
Diamond SpeedStar PRO
Diamond Viper PCI (2MB VRAM)
STB Horizon VL
Graphics devices removed from SCO OpenServer
Serial adapters
AMI lamb serial adapter
Arnet serial adapter (MCA)
AST serial adapter
CTC Versanet serial adapter
Digiboard serial adapter
Olivetti RS232C multiport adapter
Quadram serial adapter
Stargate serial adapters on the Apricot Qi (MCA)
Tandon serial adapter
Mice and bitpads
Logitech bus mouse
Microsoft bus mouse
Olivetti bus mouse
Logitech serial mice
Modems
Smartmodem 1200 or compatible
Smartmodem 2400, V-series 9600 or compatible
Telebit Trailblazer
Supported network adapters
Supported network adapters by manufacturer
Supported network adapters by media and bus type
Supported Ethernet adapters
Supported FDDI adapters
Supported Token-Ring adapters
Network adapter notes
Supported adapters for network installation
Network card not detected
Hewlett-Packard HP J2585A 10/100VG PCI Network Adapter
IBM PCI Ethernet adapter support
SMC 8432/8434 EtherPower PCI network adapters
Media speed on some SMC 9332 not autodetected correctly
Kernel initialization check letters
vi command summary
Index