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Old 04-09-2008, 11:52 PM
Zbigniew Sienkiewicz
 
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Default Re: Progress9.1 on SuSE9.1 using IBCS

Scott Auge wrote:
> In article <o_NNd.314602$Xk.49325@pd7tw3no>,
> Zbigniew Sienkiewicz <zsienkiewicz@procomsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Bernd Felsche wrote:
>>
>>>Zbigniew Sienkiewicz <zsienkiewicz@procomsoftware.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Did anybody successfully run Progress9.1 on SuSE9.1 using IBCS and SCO
>>>>libraries? I keep getting "Segmentation fault" error.
>>>>I'll appreciate any help.
>>>
>>>
>>>Why oh why are you using a SCO perversion under SuSE?
>>>
>>>Danger. Danger. Danger. If it scrambles your database, it's YOUR
>>>problem.
>>>
>>>You should use the Progress version for Linux and set
>>>LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 in your environment.

>>
>>I appreciate your effort but what kind of advise is this?
>>I know that running any application in the environment it was design to
>>work in is the best choice. Any emulation is just an emulation and has
>>some risks associated with.
>>But my reality is at the moment that I have a Progress installed on SCO
>>Unix and a spare system with SuSE on it which I try to use as a
>>temporary backup system.
>>In theory, IBCS supposed to allow running SCO Unix applications on Linux
>>and that's what I try to do. (I've actually been successful with that
>>about 6 years ago on Caldera OpenLinux but that was just an experiment
>>and I didn't keep any notes on it.)
>>Thanks anyway.

>
>
> You know SCO figures that to be illegal. You are using SCO libraries on
> a non-SCO licensed machine?

That's probably debatable as I have a license for those libraries.

>
> You really need to get the linux version.

I know that's the best solution.

I don't have much more time to spend on this issue on my own and it
doesn't look like there are too many experts which could help me so I'm
dropping it and think about something else to solve my problem.
Thanks to all for the advises.

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