----- Original Message -----
From: "larry scott" <metallik@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <distro@jpr.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: ifdown/ifup for sco OSR 5.0.5?


>> Are you by chance using an old version of samba?
>>
>> run netstat -m
>> anything but 0's in the fail column?
>> Large values in the last 3 lines?
>> I'm not sure what to consider large, It depends on your box and your apps and your usage
>
> In addition to crappy SAMBA code, I've seen SCO 5.0.x boxes wiped out
> from viruses on the network - they'll hammer the server and cause the
> same problems with exhausted streams resources. To the OP, make sure
> you don't have any infected windows machines on the same subnet as the
> SCO server.

Actually, samba 2.x and earlier didn't have bad code itself, merely it tickled a bug in the osr5 kernel that nothing else ever tickled.

I agree about delousing the pc's

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