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SCO Unix: OSR5 Index

SCO has made several Unix versions: Xenix, Open Desktop, Open Server, and Unixware. The SCO Unix 3.2v4.x and the 3.2v5.0.x versions are very similar, so articles in this directory cover both of these.

SCO Unix is basically a Sys V Unix with some BSD additions. If you are accustomed to SunOS or Solaris, SCO will seem to have odd commands and directory structures (see New to SCO Unix for some basic orientation).

Sco is, of course, involved in a nasty and ill-advised lawsuit with IBM.

I no longer follow SCO closely so you probably won't find much new here.

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Title	Author	Date	Views	Monthly	Last comment

Contrasting opinions on SCO and	Tony Lawrence	2004 08	3060	57

Booting OSR5	Tony Lawrence	1999 12	4941	45	2005/07/19 11:23 TonyLawrence

Re rs505a, Media File, error	(various authors)	1997-2004	2829	19

Re Installing UOD426D remotely.	(various authors)	1997-2004	2329	16

Legacy BBx apps and Y2K they live!	(various authors)	1997-2004	2302	15

SCO upgrade and CUPS	Bill Mohrhardt	2006 03	3194	93






Configuring Network Printers	Tony Lawrence	1998	30833	231

Why is SCO OSR5 Unix so ancient?	Tony Lawrence	2004 07	2405	44

Re sco openserver - communication	(various authors)	1997-2004	1721	11

Hang in there	Anthony Lawrence	2007 10	2188	145	2007/10/09 15:01 TonyLawrence

How can i mount a ISO Image CD	Tony Lawrence	2004 07	20168	373	2005/05/09 02:42 Brian

A remote upgrade with rcp	Tony Lawrence	2004 08	2738	51

SCO Openserver release 5.0.7	Tony Lawrence	2003 03	17229	246

Overview of Visionfs	Tony Lawrence	1998 08	22513	180

Essential SCO Unix Administration	Tony Lawrence	1999 02	5516	46

Re Y2k patch oss601a	(various authors)	1997-2004	1858	12

Replacing hard drive	Tony Lawrence	2004 06	5038	91

UnixWare 7 System Administration	Tony Lawrence	1999 02	4251	35	2007/11/04 15:01 BigDumbDinosaur

Re restore sco opem 5.05 to new	(various authors)	1997-2004	3769	26

Wrapper scripts	Anthony Lawrence	2006 12	3353	134

Re System Maintenance	(various authors)	1997-2004	3178	22

Re divvy.	(various authors)	1997-2004	1998	13

Re OpenServer5.05 Remote control	(various authors)	1997-2004	2825	19

They're b-a-a-a-ack..	Tony Lawrence	2004 12	2796	57	2005/07/21 19:46 anonymous

SCO Microsoft's Puppet?	Tony Lawrence	2003 09	1337	20

Get SCO TA by Number	Tony Lawrence	2004 06	2150	39

More bad news for SCO	Tony Lawrence	2004 12	2909	59

SCO Compiling error	NickV	2008 04	1113	123	2008/04/17 11:30 TonyLawrence

WINDOWS NETWORKING: Doing It the	Steggy	2003 10	11529	183	2006/12/17 18:00 BigDumbDinosaur

Is it time to switch SCO systems to	Tony Lawrence	2005 07	2341	55

Panic- Trap 0x0000000E	Tony Lawrence	1999 07	17270	151

How can i mount a ISO Image CD	Tony Lawrence	2004 07	70049	1297	2007/09/06 18:02 TonyLawrence

Another old SCO box	Anthony Lawrence	2006 10	3076	113	2006/10/04 20:15 bruceg

Printer Problems/Solutions	Tony Lawrence	1999 01	42109	350

Why pay for pain?	Tony Lawrence	2005 10	1977	50	2005/10/19 17:13 BigDumbDinosaur

SCO Lawsuits Reviewed	Tony Lawrence	2004 06	1833	33

SCO 5.0.5 media needed	qube	2008 10	970	323	2008/10/22 12:48 qube001

SCO 6isms!!!!	AlexLopez	2008 10	1078	359	2008/10/11 21:16 BigDumbDinosaur

New Linux Skills Test Question (SCSI ID)	Tony Lawrence	2004 08	708	13

Finally SCO understands the problem -	Tony Lawrence	2004 08	2314	43

Re SCO in Trouble?	(various authors)	1997-2004	1648	11

Jim Mohr's SCO Companion	James Mohr	2005 07	5589	133

Accidental lockout	Anthony Lawrence	2008 03	991	99

Booting OSR5- Definitions	Tony Lawrence	1999 09	7650	68

IS THIS THE END?	BigDumbDinosaur	2004 11	4147	82

SCO and MySQL	Tony Lawrence	2005 09	2161	54	2005/09/26 14:00 bruceg

SCO Unix/OSR5 Installation FAQ	Tony Lawrence	2001 01	11900	123

Microlite BTLD	Anthony Lawrence	2006 06	2567	82	2006/06/14 20:30 TonyLawrence

SCO's City to City Tour	Tony Lawrence	2004 10	2597	50

I'm not following SCO any longer	Anthony Lawrence	2006 08	3975	137	2006/10/10 14:52 TonyLawrence






A Change of Address	Anthony Lawrence	2008 03	1360	136

Rob Enderle again	TonyLawrence	2005 05	1700	38	2005/06/01 05:02 drag

SCO Openserver 6 hang on crontab init 6	Greg	2008 10	830	276	2008/10/29 13:47 BigDumbDinosaur

A simple script for adding SCO users	Dirk Hart	2003 09	10264	160

Using clri to reset an inode problem	Tony Lawrence	2004 06	2690	48

SCO User Surveys	Tony Lawrence	2005 01	1882	39

SCO Blames losses on competitive	Tony Lawrence	2004 12	1825	37

Detailed procedure for installation of	Lytle David Smith	2004 03	7506	129

Questions on ssh	tporter	2008 10	1008	336	2008/10/08 15:27 BigDumbDinosaur

SCO Companion	Tony Lawrence	1997	5874	40

SCO Marketplace and Skunkware	Tony Lawrence	2004 08	2736	51

What's with all the Linux?	Tony Lawrence	1999 05	2447	21	2008/12/25 20:58 BigDumbDinosaur

How long can SCO last?	Tony Lawrence	2005 07	1650	39

Re Plugins for Netscape on SCO 5.0.4	(various authors)	1997-2004	1684	11

OSR5 Boot Up Messages	Tony Lawrence	1998	16319	122

SCO/Linux Transition Guide	Tony Lawrence	2000 09	29983	299

Visionfs licensing expires message	Tony Lawrence	2005 10	1614	41	2005/10/22 15:54 BigDumbDinosaur

SCO Lawsuits drag on	Tony Lawrence	2004 06	1817	33

Getting near to the end?	Anthony Lawrence	2006 12	3565	142	2006/12/03 11:35 TonyLawrence

Performing OS Upgrades	Tony Lawrence	1998 08	12165	97

And the SCO case keeps on twitching	Tony Lawrence	2005 10	1741	44	2005/10/10 22:09 drag

Old SCO licenses	Tony Lawrence	2004 09	2410	46

Unixware and the Open Server Kernel	Roberto Zini	2004 01	5387	89

Sco OpenServer 6 Console Terminal	Mwango Mutale	2008 04	1732	192	2008/04/02 12:18 TonyLawrence

Canopy vs. Novell	Tony Lawrence	2004 05	1356	24






Controlling disk space with symbolic	Anthony Lawrence	2006 11	5303	203	2006/11/23 02:13 drag

Transferring to new hardware with a	Tony Lawrence	2003 11	7043	113	2006/08/18 21:08 TonyLawrence

Booting OSR5- Filesystems	Tony Lawrence	2000 01	23955	221

Another Filepro Conversion	Anthony Lawrence	2008 11	716	358

Questions on Vnc and bootstrings	Phil	2008 08	1847	369	2008/08/12 10:37 Phil

Booting OSR5- CPU	Tony Lawrence	1999 12	10795	99

Re OSS497c Install Causes k-trap	(various authors)	1997-2004	2326	16

Re HELP SCO Unix startup commands	(various authors)	1997-2004	3128	21

Re Probs upgr 5.0.4 to 5.0.5	(various authors)	1997-2004	1731	12

Setting up High Speed Modems	Tony Lawrence	1998	14047	105

My SCO Knowledge (and interest) is	Anthony Lawrence	2008 05	1505	188	2008/05/11 22:17 TonyLawrence

Installing SCO OSR5.0.6	Tony Lawrence	2001 02	12146	127

Re oss600a patch	(various authors)	1997-2004	1816	12

Installing SCO OSR5.0.5	Tony Lawrence	1998 10	15686	127

New SCO Skills Test Question (ksh)	Tony Lawrence	2004 08	592	11

Booting OSR5- Swap and Dump	Tony Lawrence	1999 09	13440	120

The upgrade that wasn't	Anthony Lawrence	2008 01	1349	112	2008/02/01 20:18 BigDumbDinosaur

Using Secondary drives	Tony Lawrence	1998	30180	226

SCO Timezone changes	Anthony Lawrence	2007 01	11094	462	2007/03/08 17:13 jhesswallacehainescom

Review of Netscape Proxy Server	Tony Lawrence	1999 02	7141	60

SCO bumbles along	Anthony Lawrence	2007 11	1673	119	2008/12/12 18:18 BigDumbDinosaur

A SCO Medical Manager System Dies	Anthony Lawrence	2008 01	1305	108	2008/01/12 11:46 TonyLawrence

Re SCO System ID	(various authors)	1997-2004	1672	11

Visionfs Printing	UniTech Informatica Ltda	1999 03	13112	111

3.3 volt PCI slots, old drives and a	Anthony Lawrence	2006 12	2825	113	2006/12/15 22:44 TonyLawrence




Unix and Linux Support


IPU's vs. Fresh Installs	Tony Lawrence	2003 08	4665	71

Unix Internals Based on SCO OSR5!	Tony Lawrence	1998 10	5193	42

SCO's stock price is up	Tony Lawrence	2004 12	2630	53

Kevin Smith's pcloverlay	Kevin Smith	2001 11	644	7	2008/04/11 09:35 wg

SCO and OpenServer 6	Tony Lawrence	2005 08	1959	47	2005/08/18 02:54 drag

Re Samba on SCO	(various authors)	1997-2004	2442	16

Determining clients IP address by	BigDumbDinosaur	2004 11	4892	97

SCO 5.0.4 on VMware	Jonathan Moore	2006 11	11340	436	2008/09/29 18:50 TonyLawrence

Popper Fix for SCO 5.0.7	Tom	2004 11	2913	58

Reorganizing the SCO Newsgroups	Tony Lawrence	1999 10	3796	34

Installing Hylafax for OSR5	Tony Lawrence	2001 04	10070	108

SCO's still kicking?	Anthony Lawrence	2008 02	1503	136	2008/04/05 12:18 TonyLawrence

Re rs505a, Media File, error	(various authors)	1997-2004	1418	9

Replacing SCO 5.05 older machine with	Leroy Janda	2004 02	3927	66

Transferring Data from an Old Hard Drive	Dirk Hart	2001 03	31831	338

Groklaw reports SCO not developing Unix	Tony Lawrence	2004 06	3131	56

Booting OSR5- Kernel	Tony Lawrence	1999 09	10724	95

How to make money with Open Source	Tony Lawrence	2004 09	8335	160

Re *** HELP! HTFS Filesystem Crashed.	(various authors)	1997-2004	2206	15

Microsoft and SCO	Tony Lawrence	2004 11	3242	64

Re braindead OS5 install	(various authors)	1997-2004	1669	11

3.2v4.2 System Recovery	Tony Lawrence	2002 11	8059	108

Configuring SCO's GUI	Tony Lawrence	1998 04	18221	141

SCO Bankrupt	Anthony Lawrence	2007 09	2481	155	2008/11/23 23:45 anonymous

Re Why v5.0.x emergency floppies take so	(various authors)	1997-2004	2009	13



Lone-Tar Backup and Disaster Recovery for Linux and Unix


Mounting Xenix Filesystem with Linux	Tony Lawrence	2004 07	5242	97

SCO Web site defaced	Tony Lawrence	2004 11	2447	48

Re SCO question	(various authors)	1997-2004	1569	10

'makekey' for Linux	Steggy	2008 12	391	391

Re SCO System ID	(various authors)	1997-2004	1471	10

New To Unix	Tony Lawrence	2005 01	49059	1022	2007/03/03 19:54 anonymous

Microsoft proprietary information in	Bruce Garlock	2004 11	2117	42

SCO's ACE program	Tony Lawrence	1999 01	41224	343

OSR5 Tape Autoloaders	D.Thomas Podnar	2000 05	6218	59

Lady and the Scamp (SCO does the Web)	Anthony Lawrence	2006 03	2671	78	2006/03/14 21:52 anonymous

Re SCO Unix V/386 R3.2 V4.2	(various authors)	1997-2004	2576	17

[Fwd Probs upgr 5.0.4 to 5.0.5]	(various authors)	1997-2004	1621	11

SCO gets to see the code	Tony Lawrence	2005 01	2778	57

Re Defrag Software For Sco	(various authors)	1997-2004	2645	18

Reading SCO tapes on Linux	Rob Fantini	2003 01	13007	180	2005/03/23 00:17 anonymous

Understanding Device files	Tony Lawrence	1998	13214	99	2007/11/14 09:27 anonymous

Waiting too long to upgrade	Tony Lawrence	2004 11	2585	51

Some common Unix network ports on my	Dirk Hart	2003 08	19139	294

nwho for 5.0.x	(various authors)	1997-2004	1969	13

OpenServer 6 - Who will buy it?	bruceg	2005 07	1053	25	2005/07/13 09:34 TonyLawrence

Re sco-list pseudo devices.	(various authors)	1997-2004	2739	19

RE ICVerify and Feb 29	(various authors)	1997-2004	1755	12

Re visionfs over ppp and smb	(various authors)	1997-2004	1779	12

Why use that primitive Vi?	Anthony Lawrence	2008 05	2552	319	2008/09/26 21:09 TonyLawrence

VNC on Sco Open Server	Ted Summers	2005 08	4166	101



Control Spam and Viruses Run your own mailserver


Adding Memory	Tony Lawrence	1999 03	19941	168

Interesting thread (ls vs. ls -l) -	Tony Lawrence	2004 12	2312	47

Transfer SCO Acucobol to Linux	Tony Lawrence	2004 06	5416	98

OSR5 PPP Setup	Tony Lawrence	1998 11	20573	168

Mysterious lockups	Anthony Lawrence	2006 12	2835	113	2007/03/16 18:55 MarkH

SCO Unix in a Nutshell	Tony Lawrence	1999 02	3290	27

Kevin Smith's Netcat	Kevin Smith	2001 11	2391	27

Dual Boot Vista	Brian Mutero	2008 02	1522	138	2008/02/28 20:35 TonyLawrence

SCO port numbers sco_cpd copy	(various authors)	1997-2004	2410	16

Printers Down	Anthony Lawrence	2008 09	2704	676	2008/09/19 14:15 TonyLawrence

OpenServer 5.0.7 reboots itself	dave	2008 10	874	291	2008/10/26 15:18 BigDumbDinosaur

Simplified OSR5 Printing	BigDumbDinosaur	2005 01	4828	100

Is there any hope left for SCO?	Anthony Lawrence	2008 01	2166	180	2009/01/04 12:08 authname

Finding large files	Anthony Lawrence	2006 12	28031	1121	2006/12/06 14:34 BigDumbDinosaur

Re NAT for SCO Openserver 5.0.4 and	(various authors)	1997-2004	2221	15

Misunderstanding partitions and divisions	Tony Lawrence	2004 06	2612	47

FTP Problem	Josh	2008 04	1204	133	2008/04/18 02:16 TonyLawrence

clfree panic and no logins at console	Tony Lawrence	2003 11	3261	52

Watch those domain names	Tony Lawrence	2003 08	4607	70

Self defense for SCO users	Tony Lawrence	2004 05	7774	138

ICE.TEN and ICE.OFF.SITE	Tony Lawrence	1999 09	3054	27

Re rs505a, Media File, error	(various authors)	1997-2004	1816	12

Printing to a remote printer with a	Tony Lawrence	2003 06	33957	506	2008/07/15 05:29 AnupKatariya

Re FoxBase 2.1.2 running on OpenServer	(various authors)	1997-2004	2877	19

Another one bites the dust	Anthony Lawrence	2007 11	2075	148	2007/11/27 19:18 TonyLawrence

Converting SCO to Linux	Tony Lawrence	2004 12	5640	115

dird- dumps OSR5 directories	Tony Lawrence	1997	2572	17

Please say it's over	Anthony Lawrence	2007 09	1778	111

Using the spooler to print to email	Dirk Hart	2003 12	8329	136

SCO Performance Tuning Handbook	Tony Lawrence	1997	4374	30

Free Consultants List	Anthony Lawrence	2008 02	6339	576	2008/11/03 01:12 TonyLawrence

BackupEDGE 2.1	Tony Lawrence	2005 01	5145	107

Adding another hard drive	Tony Lawrence	1998	44859	337

Visionfs Printing to LaserJet- J.P.	Jean Pierre Radley	1999 12	11133	102

Understanding Device Drivers	Tony Lawrence	1998	18644	140

New Linux Skills Test Question (include	Tony Lawrence	2004 08	478	9

Install SCO OpenServer under VMware	Lytle David Smith	2004 04	33679	590	2008/12/02 18:43 WLC

SCO Lawsuit Index	Tony Lawrence	2004 07	260	4

Opinions vs. Hopes	Tony Lawrence	2004 07	3424	63

Re SCO System ID	(various authors)	1997-2004	1670	11

Kernel Link Failures	Tony Lawrence	2000 09	8096	80

SCO Apologist	Tony Lawrence	2003 10	1549	24

Re 5.0.5 MP system running slowly with	Bela Lubkin	1997-2004	2477	17

Writing Unix Device Drivers	Tony Lawrence	1997	6543	45

Strange problems with IDE CDROM on	(various authors)	1997-2004	1770	12

SCOoffice Mail Server	Tony Lawrence	2004 10	3642	71

Re rs505a, Media File, error	(various authors)	1997-2004	1704	11

Lost Root Password	Tony Lawrence	1997 12	30871	232	2008/07/20 20:18 nachmanziskind

Installing SNMP	Jeff Liebermann	2000 09	8359	83

Re Multibooting redhat linux 5.2 and SCO	(various authors)	1997-2004	3651	25



Control Spam and Viruses Run your own mailserver


SCO DST script	Raouf Bishay	2007 03	7959	361	2007/03/06 18:27 TonyLawrence

Re OSR 5.0.4 and MSTPPP 2.1.3a	(various authors)	1997-2004	1552	10

SCO OpenServer-The Windows Network	Tony Lawrence	1997	3503	24	2007/11/03 23:27 TonyLawrence

Legacy ISA	Anthony Lawrence	2006 07	2900	96	2006/07/24 13:27 TonyLawrence

IPFILTER Firewalls for OSR5	Tony Lawrence	2000 02	30065	280

Kevin Smith's scanmail	Kevin Smith	2001 11	1261	14

SCO Roadmap	Tony Lawrence	2004 06	1948	35

Script to transfer printers from old	Tony Lawrence	2000 11	0	0

Re xntpd config help on 2 SCO	(various authors)	1997-2004	2043	14

Re Info about upgrade (5.0.5 to 5.0.6)	(various authors)	1997-2004	1640	11

Changing System Name	Jeff Liebermann	2000 09	56063	560	2007/03/15 07:47 anonymous

Re NBUF and NHBUF tuning on	(various authors)	1997-2004	2469	17

Visionfs and Samba	Tony Lawrence	2003 08	6039	92

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