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Does anyone have experience with adding a network card into an SCO OS5
system using an automated script? The documentation on the command
line interface is scanty with no examples of what to use for 'chains',
'elements', etc. We have no problems adding the nics using the
interactive interface, but would like to automate the process as we
need to add new cards to a lot of systems. If you have done this
successfully or have knowledge in this area, please respond.

On 26 Mar, 22:47, CLH <bxmt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with adding a network card into an SCO OS5
> system using an automated script? *The documentation on the command
> line interface is scanty with no examples of what to use for 'chains',
> 'elements', etc. *We have no problems adding the nics using the
> interactive interface, but would like to automate the process as we
> need to add new cards to a lot of systems. *If you have done this
> successfully or have knowledge in this area, please respond.

Umm. *WHY*? Given the age of the OS, its limited capabilities, and the
fiscal state of SCO, why not set up a virtual server (such as VMware),
create one pre-installed OS image, and clone that as needed for
additional virtualized installations? That can automate your process
and save you a multi-hour installation process of CD handling, update
installation that is order sensitive from the various installation
media, the lunacy of having to go back and manually re-install the
developer or SMP packages, etc.

I'm not saying this is trivial: you'll need to reset your licenses,
andn ideally rename the OS. And I'd live to find out myself how to
rename a server: my experiments resetting /etc/default/tcp didn't get
very far before I had to work on other projects.

On Mar 26, 6:47 pm, CLH <bxmt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with adding a network card into an SCO OS5
> system using an automated script? The documentation on the command
> line interface is scanty with no examples of what to use for 'chains',
> 'elements', etc. We have no problems adding the nics using the
> interactive interface, but would like to automate the process as we
> need to add new cards to a lot of systems. If you have done this
> successfully or have knowledge in this area, please respond.

The "chains" and stuff ends up getting written to /usr/lib/netconfig/
chains
and looks like this:

sco_tcp#lo0
nfs#sco_tcp
sco_tcp#net0

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Tony Lawrence
http://aplawrence.com