Paul A. Luzzi - UnixWare7 Information & Other Info

UnixWare7 Informational Center

General Information:

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This is the main page that will link all additional pages with information about the SCO UnixWare7 platform that I have compiled. Much of these are links. Consider this page a bookmark page of sorts. But also included will be any scripts, tools, and solutions, I have compiled along my travels.

If I have wrongly used any links, please let me know. No offense is intended, but since all of these helped me in one way or another, I thought I would pass the charities on the community.

Some Useful notes I have written that help a great deal:

The install instructions for my UnixWare7 Installation.

The install instructions for another of my UnixWare7 Installations.

The extra steps to perform after any installations.

And if you want to know how to recover from a fatal system crash, that is here too. Man is this one a lifesaver !!!

A page dedicated to UnixWare7 Server Side PPP Setup, if you can call a document of this size, a page. Please also see the sister page to this for client side ppp.

A page dedicated to adding a disk, to UnixWare7, after the installation.

Another page dedicated to adding a disk however this time its using Veritas Volume Manager.

Last, but VERY important step, is for 4mm DAT SCSI tape drive machines. You must install the ptf7074a patch for this. It is available at the SCO Web site, just search for ptf7074a. Its real name is "SLS ptf7074a: st01, sc01, and mc01 Driver Supplement" so that will be the one you need. This absolves the need for my fix_tape.sh script that we used to use to unload and reload the kernel drivers.

Please see the patches section this page for information on how I patched and updated my UnixWare7 for Y2K compliance, security issues, and general patches.

Tools and Scripts I have written along the way:

This little script, called fix_tape.sh is used to unload and reload the SCSI tape drivers, while the machine is running live. This script takes care of the problem in 7.0.1 with the "tar -tvf" command, when you break out of it. The device constantly reports a busy status, and the drive is idle. Rather than reboot, and cause disruption and downtime, just reload the tape drivers in this new dynamic kernel.

This little "application", I call web_useradd, I am particularly proud of, because it saves me tons of time. What it does, is allow a privelaged web user (non-root), without Unix access (like NT admins), the ability to add users to the Unix machine. By spooling the user names to a file, and having a root cron job execute every 15 minutes, we can have the users added, and a mail message reporting all status of the commands. Yes, of course it is all logged.

Since I had problems slicing the primary disk on UnixWare7 after performing the initial, I wanted to provide my solution. (you have to right click on the link to download it!!) I could not seem to find a tool to slice the disk, after the original disksetup utility ran. That seemed to be a problem for me, since I needed to slice the disk for Oracle, and didnt perform this step on installation. This tool is a tcl/tk application, so you will of course need to have tcl and tk loaded.

SCO provides precompiled tcl and precompiled tk on the skunkware cd, and using SCOAdmin's software application installer, is by far the easiest way. Just choose the tcl802 and tk802 packages.

My slice tool can be installed anywhere, but I find /usr/local/slice to be the perfect place. It is in tar format. To use, just run the slice.tk program.

This the info for how to configure sendmail for use behind a firewall/proxy server - written specifically for UnixWare7. (actually coming soon)

UnixWare7 Information:

The first section will be a lot of useful links. Most will be specific to UnixWare7 although there will probably be some generic ones too..

An interesting page about some info for UnixWare7 - unsupported and untested, but useful.

And how about a page from SCO PR staff about UnixWare7.

Here is Intel Server Control software. Anyone ever use it? I'm interested in your feedback.

And if you need a place to buy UnixWare7, you can use these guys, Im sure they wont mind.

Oracle information as it pertains to UnixWare7:

I do however, have a link for installation of Oracle 8 on UnixWare7 tips and tricks, provided by Oracle.

This one is also good reading.

Not that I use it, but the OAS 3.0 for UnixWare7 is available too.

And a general documentation page for Oracle8 is available.

Patch, Security, Y2K Supplement Information for UnixWare7:

I finally updated and patched my UnixWare7 system on October 25, 1999.

SCO's UnixWare7 Patch WebSite is where I got the information, on what patches to do. Keep in mind that I dont run any external ftp servers, or some of the other stuff, like sendmail, that are so vulnerable to many companies. These types of fixes didnt apply to me, but may to you.

I installed the following patches, in this order :.

ptf7034a - Y2K supplement

      $ su
      Password: <type your root password>
      # uncompress /tmp/ptf7043a.Z
      # pkgadd -d /tmp/ptf7043a
      # rm /tmp/ptf7043a

sse026 - Web Server security patch.

      $ su
      Password: <type your root password>
      # uncompress /tmp/sse026.tar.Z
      # tar -xvof /tmp/sse026.tar
      # ./sse026.sh

ptf7407b - crash fix

      $ su
      Password: <type your root password>
      # uncompress /tmp/ptf7407b.Z
      # pkgadd -d /tmp/ptf7407b
      # rm /tmp/ptf7407b

ptf7208b - Emergency Recovery.

      $ su
      Password: <type your root password>
      # uncompress /tmp/ptf7208b.Z
      # pkgadd -d /tmp/ptf7208b
      # rm /tmp/ptf7208b

sse030 - Caldendar Manager Security Patch.

      $ su
      Password: <type your root password>
      # uncompress /tmp/sse030.tar.Z
      # uncompress /tmp/sse7030.a.Z
      # pkgadd -d /tmp/sse7030a
      # rm /tmp/sse7030a

ptf7068c - Package Install Patch.

      $ su
      Password: <type your root password>
      # uncompress /tmp/ptf7068c.Z
      # pkgadd -d /tmp/ptf7068c
      # rm /tmp/ptf7068c

ptf7096j - Virtual Memory issues.

      $ su
      Password: <type your root password>
      # uncompress /tmp/ptf7096j.Z
      # pkgadd -d /tmp/ptf7096j
      # rm /tmp/ptf7096j

ptf7433a - hw utility.

      $ su
      Password: <type your root password>
      # uncompress /tmp/ptf7433a.Z
      # pkgadd -d /tmp/ptf7433a
      # rm /tmp/ptf7433a

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This page last updated on 09-08-1999.