ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
in the pub directory other than skunkware &
unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?

Bob

Bob Bailin wrote:
> ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
> in the pub directory other than skunkware &
> unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?
>
> Bob

I know it's killing me.
I have jobs people are waiting for me to do and I can't do them
I need that repository all day every day.
It's killing me.

It was down altogether from around 5pm EST to at least 9 or 10pm when I gave
up waiting for it.
The false alarm and the quick recovery the other day screwed me up, tricking
me into not posting another "why is it down?" post here and just waiting to
see if it comes back like it did the other day.

I was just about to go googling for the directions to set up a "vampiric"
method install server where one sco box supposedly can get custom-installed
software & patches from another server that has installed that software. I
have plenty of boxes with the things I want already installed.

roberto or bela posted a brief note with the key points here sometime last
year or maybe the year before, I think it basically consisted of creating a
user with a special name on one or both boxes and making sure one or both
boxes can get to the other via ftp or rcmd or something.

That should get me anything I need except I'm not sure if I have
gwxlibs-1.3.2Ag installed anywhere yet... aha I do, but it's on a 5.0.7 box
and I want to put it on a 5.0.6 box... not sure if that is allowed or will
work since certain things are chosen from packages like that to be installed
based on the box being installed on, and so maybe the "gwxlibs-1.3.2Ag"
installed on that 5.0.7 box is no longer the complete package and no longer
contains the right files that would have been installed on a 5.0.6 box.

It happens I have the luxury to experiment in this case so we shall see

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On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:39:59 GMT, "Bob Bailin"
<72027.3605@compuserve.com> wrote:

>ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
>in the pub directory other than skunkware &
>unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?
>
>Bob
>

I was just looking for it myself - I think(tm) the openserver stuff is
at ftp://stage.caldera.com, with various things under pub (drivers,
security, etc) for (up to) 5.0.6.


Scott McMillan

Brian K. White typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:15:57PM -0400):
| Bob Bailin wrote:
| > ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
| > in the pub directory other than skunkware &
| > unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?
| >
| > Bob
|
| I know it's killing me.
| I have jobs people are waiting for me to do and I can't do them
| I need that repository all day every day.
| It's killing me.


Whatever you need, I have it (on the assumption that nothing new appeared
yesterday in a directory which has since gone missing). Just let me
know.

| That should get me anything I need except I'm not sure if I have
| gwxlibs-1.3.2Ag installed anywhere yet... aha I do, but it's on a 5.0.7 box
| and I want to put it on a 5.0.6 box... not sure if that is allowed or will
| work since certain things are chosen from packages like that to be installed
| based on the box being installed on, and so maybe the "gwxlibs-1.3.2Ag"
| installed on that 5.0.7 box is no longer the complete package and no longer
| contains the right files that would have been installed on a 5.0.6 box.

Yeah, I installed gwxlibs-1.3.2Ag on a 5.0.6 box a couple of times in the
last week. (If you have the gwxlib package at all, the accompanying
readme files do tell you as much; requires oss646b, of course.)

--
JP

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> Brian K. White typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:15:57PM -0400):
>> Bob Bailin wrote:
>>> ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
>>> in the pub directory other than skunkware &
>>> unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?
>>>
>>> Bob
>>
>> I know it's killing me.
>> I have jobs people are waiting for me to do and I can't do them
>> I need that repository all day every day.
>> It's killing me.
>
>
> Whatever you need, I have it (on the assumption that nothing new
> appeared yesterday in a directory which has since gone missing).
> Just let me know.

Awsome. Thanks a lot. As it happens someone private mailed me with their
mirror too and so I already have what I need for the moment. But since that
was a private mail (even though the ftp site is puplic and allows anonymous
access) I don't feel at liberty to advertize it (IE: "hey in return for
being such a nice guy, lets go swamp his bandwidth!"), so your post here is
very welcome indeed.

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Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:39:59PM +0000):
| ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
| in the pub directory other than skunkware &
| unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?

It's back...


--
JP

Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> expounded in
news:20040413191305.GO21316@jpradley.jpr.com:

> Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:39:59PM +0000):
>| ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
>| in the pub directory other than skunkware &
>| unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?
>
> It's back...

ftp.sco.com is there, but it seems to be virtually empty. I'm using
Netscape 7.02 and all I see on ftp.sco.com is:

Legal_Notice 1 KB 8/8/03 12:00:00 AM
bin/ 3/14/00 12:00:00 AM
etc/ 3/14/00 12:00:00 AM
lib/ 11/19/99 12:00:00 AM
pub/ 1/19/04 5:30:00 PM
welcome.msg 1 KB 9/19/03 12:00:00 AM

bin contains gzip, ls, tar and a directory (?) named zcat.
etc contains group and passwd.
lib is empty.
And when I try to access pub, if NS says anything, it's "the document
contains no data".

Are you seeing more than that?

James

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:49:57 +0000 (UTC), James J
<SPAMMYjajii1@netscape.net> wrote:

>Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> expounded in
>news:20040413191305.GO21316@jpradley.jpr.com:
>
>> Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:39:59PM +0000):
>>| ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
>>| in the pub directory other than skunkware &
>>| unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?
>>
>> It's back...
>
> ftp.sco.com is there, but it seems to be virtually empty. I'm using
>Netscape 7.02 and all I see on ftp.sco.com is:
>
> Legal_Notice 1 KB 8/8/03 12:00:00 AM
> bin/ 3/14/00 12:00:00 AM
> etc/ 3/14/00 12:00:00 AM
> lib/ 11/19/99 12:00:00 AM
> pub/ 1/19/04 5:30:00 PM
> welcome.msg 1 KB 9/19/03 12:00:00 AM
>
> bin contains gzip, ls, tar and a directory (?) named zcat.
> etc contains group and passwd.
> lib is empty.
> And when I try to access pub, if NS says anything, it's "the document
>contains no data".
>
> Are you seeing more than that?
It's fine with me
Also with Netscape 7.02

Up to higher level directory
LTP 08/08/2003 00:00:00
Legal_Notice 2 KB 27/10/2003 16:53:00
OpenLinux3.1 02/12/2003 15:25:00
OpenLinux3.1.1 13/04/2004 17:07:00
OpenLinux311 27/10/2003 16:54:00
README 1 KB 09/09/2003 00:00:00
authentication 19/01/2004 17:30:00
du-s 1 KB 03/07/2001 00:00:00
eDesktop 27/10/2003 16:24:00
eServer 27/10/2003 16:24:00
info 02/06/2001 00:00:00
ls-lR 4770 KB 03/07/2001 00:00:00
ls-lR.gz 595 KB 03/07/2001 00:00:00
office 10/02/2003 00:00:00
openserver5 13/04/2004 13:54:00
opensource 18/12/2001 00:00:00
openunix8 05/03/2004 18:58:00
pgp-keys 02/06/2001 00:00:00
scolinux 13/01/2004 15:04:00
scox 14/08/2003 00:00:00
security 05/06/2002 00:00:00
unixware7 05/03/2004 16:03:00
updates 30/03/2003 21:26:00
volution 04/01/2002 00:00:00




Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com

James J typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 08:49:57PM +0000):
| Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> expounded in
| news:20040413191305.GO21316@jpradley.jpr.com:
|
| > Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:39:59PM +0000):
| >| ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
| >| in the pub directory other than skunkware &
| >| unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?
| >
| > It's back...
|
| ftp.sco.com is there, but it seems to be virtually empty. I'm using
| Netscape 7.02 and all I see on ftp.sco.com is:
|
| Legal_Notice 1 KB 8/8/03 12:00:00 AM
| bin/ 3/14/00 12:00:00 AM
| etc/ 3/14/00 12:00:00 AM
| lib/ 11/19/99 12:00:00 AM
| pub/ 1/19/04 5:30:00 PM
| welcome.msg 1 KB 9/19/03 12:00:00 AM
|
| bin contains gzip, ls, tar and a directory (?) named zcat.
| etc contains group and passwd.
| lib is empty.
| And when I try to access pub, if NS says anything, it's "the document
| contains no data".
|
| Are you seeing more than that?

Considerably more, absol;utely.

Don't use a browser for such searches, because you might end up looking
at what you last cached. Did you force a refresh, or try ncftp or ftp?


--
JP

Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> expounded in
news:20040413211322.GR21316@jpradley.jpr.com:

> James J typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 08:49:57PM +0000):
>| Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> expounded in
>| news:20040413191305.GO21316@jpradley.jpr.com:
>|
>| > Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:39:59PM +0000):
>| >| ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
>| >| in the pub directory other than skunkware &
>| >| unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?
>| >
>| > It's back...
>|
>| ftp.sco.com is there, but it seems to be virtually empty. I'm using
>| Netscape 7.02 and all I see on ftp.sco.com is:
>|
>| Legal_Notice 1 KB 8/8/03 12:00:00 AM
>| bin/ 3/14/00 12:00:00 AM
>| etc/ 3/14/00 12:00:00 AM
>| lib/ 11/19/99 12:00:00 AM
>| pub/ 1/19/04 5:30:00 PM
>| welcome.msg 1 KB 9/19/03 12:00:00 AM
>|
>| bin contains gzip, ls, tar and a directory (?) named zcat.
>| etc contains group and passwd.
>| lib is empty.
>| And when I try to access pub, if NS says anything, it's "the document
>| contains no data".
>|
>| Are you seeing more than that?
>
> Considerably more, absol;utely.
>
> Don't use a browser for such searches, because you might end up looking
> at what you last cached. Did you force a refresh, or try ncftp or ftp?

This is really odd. Yes, I have told NS to "refresh" several times and it
says that it's connecting to ftp.sco.com and all seems to go well, but I
keep getting the same list. I exited NS and restarted. Same list. Then I
started IE 5 and tried it and I get exactly the same list of files. IE 5
is obviously not using the NS cache and I don't know that I've ever gone to
ftp.sco.com with IE before, certainly not any time recently, so it's a
pretty safe bet that IE is not reading that abbreviated list from its
cache. Trying to open pub in IE gives me the standard IE "page cannot be
displayed" error page.
I don't know if this is relevant, but when I try to go to ftp.sco.com in
IE, IE gives me a message about wanting to install some kind of "browsing
enhancements". I've seen this before. The problem is, if I click on OK it
just fails and says to use "Windows Update" to install that component. But
I've used "WU" before and I've never seen that there. Maybe it's buried in
something else that I haven't installed. IAC, since the install doesn't
work, I click on Cancel and IE displays ftp.sco.com and I see exactly the
same list that I see in NS. I'm wondering if maybe ftp.sco.com is doing
something that IE 5 and NS 7.02 (at least, my copy) don't understand.
Maybe that's what the "browsing enhancements" box in IE is referring to?

I tried opening ftp.sco.com in the DOS/Win FTP program (I'm writing this
under Windows and that was the first alternative I thought of) and at first
I couldn't get a directory listing. I could connect and login, but when I
tried dir or ls I would get "425 Unable to build data connection: Invalid
argument". But I just tried it again and it's working now. The root
directory is exactly the same, but FTP.EXE does show me stuff in pub (ie.
"dir pub" gives me a long list). NS and IE still won't show me what's in
pub. They don't say it's empty. They can't seem to open it at all. But
they have no problem opening the other directories (although lib appears to
be empty).

I'm stumped.

James