In article <XB2Na.32859$ZS3.3039966@news2.telusplanet.net>, Skot
<skot@canada.com> wrote:

>I installed the service patch supplement thingy oss656b so I
>could use the old license on a new OSR5.0.7 server. Restarted
>the server, because of a kernel relink (what is this NT?).

I'll only make one comment on this one line.

Any OS of which I'm aware has to be reloaded when you change
the 'engine'. That's about the only thing you should ever have to
restart on a modern Unix system - though some things in SCO OSR5
require restarts because of the way things are handled in the
kernel. Not needed in the UW series.

The MS things require so many restarts you'd think it was
a race track on a Sunday afternoon.


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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:27:24PM +0000, Bill Vermillion wrote:
....
>The MS things require so many restarts you'd think it was
>a race track on a Sunday afternoon.

You must be talking about sprint cars on dirt.

Bill
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In article <20030704111432.A20960@barryg.mi.celestial.com>,
Bill Campbell <bill@celestial.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:27:24PM +0000, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>...
>>The MS things require so many restarts you'd think it was
>>a race track on a Sunday afternoon.

>You must be talking about sprint cars on dirt.

Actually I was thinking of horse races. I've never seen a regular
one live, but many years ago there was a huge group of us for a
presentation in NYC and the company chartered a three or four
busses and took us all out to Roosevelt Raceway to see the
trotters.

But sprint cars fit that. Or demoltion derbys too.


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Update:

Bill Vermillion wrote:

Hi Bill,

> In article <XB2Na.32859$ZS3.3039966@news2.telusplanet.net>, Skot
> <skot@canada.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I installed the service patch supplement thingy oss656b so I
>>could use the old license on a new OSR5.0.7 server. Restarted
>>the server, because of a kernel relink (what is this NT?).

SCO was very kind in assisting me with this problem, even updating my
anitique licenses.

> I'll only make one comment on this one line.
>
> Any OS of which I'm aware has to be reloaded when you change
> the 'engine'. That's about the only thing you should ever have to
> restart on a modern Unix system - though some things in SCO OSR5
> require restarts because of the way things are handled in the
> kernel. Not needed in the UW series.

Exactly why it reminds me of NT. I'd rather not have to relink a
kernel/colonel/kernal just to allow more connections/pseudo users.

> The MS things require so many restarts you'd think it was
> a race track on a Sunday afternoon.

Heh, yeah, the last Win2KPro thing I built took 16 restarts by the time
I installed all the softwarez, drivers, Network ID, users, etc. Better
than the 30 it would have taken NT4, but still...

(hypothetically) Linux took two restarts, one after build, another for
relocation. =P

Skot.

In article <bXBPa.55531$ZS3.6036661@news2.telusplanet.net>,
Skot <skot@canada.com> wrote:
>Update:

>Bill Vermillion wrote:

>> Any OS of which I'm aware has to be reloaded when you change
>> the 'engine'. That's about the only thing you should ever have to
>> restart on a modern Unix system - though some things in SCO OSR5
>> require restarts because of the way things are handled in the
>> kernel. Not needed in the UW series.

>Exactly why it reminds me of NT. I'd rather not have to relink a
>kernel/colonel/kernal just to allow more connections/pseudo users.

OSR5 came from a SysVR3 background and parts of that pre-date NT.

I just looked at the copyright on an NT3.5 box on the shelf and it
is 1995 - about the time OSR 5.0 came out.

OTOH a year or so ago on a *n*x system I aliased a new IP from a
different block and provider onto the unit, made sure it worked,
and then removed the original IP.

All while it was running and all without a reboot, or even going
into single user.

That's the way computers should be.

Things are getting better.

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