I had been running 5.0.7, MP3, update 3, pretty much everything
current as of this past spring.

I decided I'd install the latest gwxlibs, openssh, and Perl from
SCO's site. After doing that, I had a couple of problems, one severe
enough that I had to roll it all back and restore the previous
versions.

The not-so-severe problem is that spamd (SpamAssassin's daemonized
version; this is from SpamAssassin 2.63, since SA3 has
problems running on 5.0.7 with SCO's version of Perl) says
"unix passed to setlogsock, but path not available" and becomes
unable to write to syslog. Other than the error message and lack
of logging, spamd works. This seems to be a common problem on
Solaris but I can't find any reference to it for SCO systems.

But while trying to sort that out, I found a bigger problem:
Mozilla* thinks that every time I hit the letter q, I'm actually
hitting the Tab key. There's nothing wrong with my keyboard; the q
key works fine on a text screen, or even in a Unix command prompt
window on the same multiscreen as Mozilla. This is a bit of a bizarre
problem; the other keys I tried (including at least most of the rest
of the alphabet) work properly. I can fix this by rolling back
gwxlibs and reinstalling the older version, and I can break it again
by reinstalling the newer version, so clearly something in gwxlibs
is the issue. FWIW, this is with a Microsoft Internet Keyboard
with a PS/2 connector.

Anyone else seen odd problems like this from installing these
updates?

*: And a slap to SCO for not taking updates and security bugs
seriously when it comes to Mozilla. They made a big deal out of
including Mozilla in 5.0.7, yet the latest version they make available
is 1.6, in MP3. That was over a year ago. 1.7 came out over a year
ago. Why the delay?
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Stephen M. Dunn wrote:
> I had been running 5.0.7, MP3, update 3, pretty much everything
> current as of this past spring.
>
> I decided I'd install the latest gwxlibs, openssh, and Perl from
> SCO's site. After doing that, I had a couple of problems, one severe
> enough that I had to roll it all back and restore the previous
> versions.
>
> The not-so-severe problem is that spamd (SpamAssassin's daemonized
> version; this is from SpamAssassin 2.63, since SA3 has
> problems running on 5.0.7 with SCO's version of Perl) says
> "unix passed to setlogsock, but path not available" and becomes
> unable to write to syslog. Other than the error message and lack
> of logging, spamd works. This seems to be a common problem on
> Solaris but I can't find any reference to it for SCO systems.
>
> But while trying to sort that out, I found a bigger problem:
> Mozilla* thinks that every time I hit the letter q, I'm actually
> hitting the Tab key. There's nothing wrong with my keyboard; the q
> key works fine on a text screen, or even in a Unix command prompt
> window on the same multiscreen as Mozilla. This is a bit of a bizarre
> problem; the other keys I tried (including at least most of the rest
> of the alphabet) work properly. I can fix this by rolling back
> gwxlibs and reinstalling the older version, and I can break it again
> by reinstalling the newer version, so clearly something in gwxlibs
> is the issue. FWIW, this is with a Microsoft Internet Keyboard
> with a PS/2 connector.
>
> Anyone else seen odd problems like this from installing these
> updates?

I had the problem with 'q' in mozilla but I don't know when it
appeared. Very annoying. It's gone in the mozilla in OSR6, but also
gone is unix kill line control-u functionality. Typing ctrl-u in the
address bar now opens the page-source window instead of erasing the
line.

Roger Cornelius typed (on Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:49:27AM -0700):
| Stephen M. Dunn wrote:
| > I had been running 5.0.7, MP3, update 3, pretty much everything
| > current as of this past spring.
| >
| > I decided I'd install the latest gwxlibs, openssh, and Perl from
| > SCO's site. After doing that, I had a couple of problems, one severe
| > enough that I had to roll it all back and restore the previous
| > versions.
| >

.....

| > But while trying to sort that out, I found a bigger problem:
| > Mozilla* thinks that every time I hit the letter q, I'm actually
| > hitting the Tab key. There's nothing wrong with my keyboard; the q
| > key works fine on a text screen, or even in a Unix command prompt
| > window on the same multiscreen as Mozilla. This is a bit of a bizarre
| > problem; the other keys I tried (including at least most of the rest
| > of the alphabet) work properly. I can fix this by rolling back
| > gwxlibs and reinstalling the older version, and I can break it again
| > by reinstalling the newer version, so clearly something in gwxlibs
| > is the issue. FWIW, this is with a Microsoft Internet Keyboard
| > with a PS/2 connector.
| >
|
| I had the problem with 'q' in mozilla but I don't know when it
| appeared. Very annoying. It's gone in the mozilla in OSR6, but also
| gone is unix kill line control-u functionality. Typing ctrl-u in the
| address bar now opens the page-source window instead of erasing the
| line.

Use Ctrl-Delete to erase the line in the address bar.

--
JP

Stephen M. Dunn typed (on Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:56:03AM +0000):
| I had been running 5.0.7, MP3, update 3, pretty much everything
| current as of this past spring.
|
| I decided I'd install the latest gwxlibs, openssh, and Perl from
| SCO's site. After doing that, I had a couple of problems, one severe
| enough that I had to roll it all back and restore the previous
| versions.
|
| The not-so-severe problem is that spamd (SpamAssassin's daemonized
| version; this is from SpamAssassin 2.63, since SA3 has
| problems running on 5.0.7 with SCO's version of Perl) says
| "unix passed to setlogsock, but path not available" and becomes
| unable to write to syslog. Other than the error message and lack
| of logging, spamd works. This seems to be a common problem on
| Solaris but I can't find any reference to it for SCO systems.

In my /etc/rc.d/7/udaemons, I have:
/usr/local/bin/spamd -d --syslog-socket=inet -r /u/etc/spamd.pid

--
JP

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> Roger Cornelius typed (on Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:49:27AM -0700):
> | Stephen M. Dunn wrote:
> | > I had been running 5.0.7, MP3, update 3, pretty much everything
> | > current as of this past spring.
> | >
> | > I decided I'd install the latest gwxlibs, openssh, and Perl from
> | > SCO's site. After doing that, I had a couple of problems, one severe
> | > enough that I had to roll it all back and restore the previous
> | > versions.
> | >
>
> ....
>
> | > But while trying to sort that out, I found a bigger problem:
> | > Mozilla* thinks that every time I hit the letter q, I'm actually
> | > hitting the Tab key. There's nothing wrong with my keyboard; the q
> | > key works fine on a text screen, or even in a Unix command prompt
> | > window on the same multiscreen as Mozilla. This is a bit of a bizarre
> | > problem; the other keys I tried (including at least most of the rest
> | > of the alphabet) work properly. I can fix this by rolling back
> | > gwxlibs and reinstalling the older version, and I can break it again
> | > by reinstalling the newer version, so clearly something in gwxlibs
> | > is the issue. FWIW, this is with a Microsoft Internet Keyboard
> | > with a PS/2 connector.
> | >
> |
> | I had the problem with 'q' in mozilla but I don't know when it
> | appeared. Very annoying. It's gone in the mozilla in OSR6, but also
> | gone is unix kill line control-u functionality. Typing ctrl-u in the
> | address bar now opens the page-source window instead of erasing the
> | line.
>
> Use Ctrl-Delete to erase the line in the address bar.

Thanks, I hadn't considered that. Ctrl-backspace also works, and,
having now looked at the mozilla help, ctrl-l followed by delete works
regardless of where on the line the cursor is. But it will take a
while to break the ctrl-u habit.

Another mozillaism I discovered is typing about:config in the address
bar. It displays, and allows you to edit, the mozilla config
parameters.