[95958] in RedHat Linux List
SCO Zenix tar's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (robert)
Thu Oct 22 13:26:00 1998
Reply-To: <robert@ccaz.com>
From: "robert" <robert@ccaz.com>
To: "'Kevin W. Reed'" <soldo@telesys.tnet.com>
Cc: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:20:48 -0700
In-Reply-To: <19981022092532.A14796@telesys.tnet.com>
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Kevin,
Thanks I appreciate the insight. You're right, I don't need the /usr/bin
files and although that's the way the backup script was written, I will not
extract to original locations. I have the necessary files tar'd from the
SCO Xenix but cannot extract them to Linux due to the
non-prompting/incompatibility for the next media. Linux tar with the -M
option does not recognize the archive as a multi volume set. Any ideas? I
have copied the disks to a /zenix directory on the new Linux drive, and per
a suggestion was going to try to concatenate the files together as one
archive that may allow the extract to function correctly, although it seems
like a longshot.
Sincerely,
Robert Jones
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin W. Reed [mailto:soldo@telesys.tnet.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 1998 9:26 AM
To: robert@ccaz.com
Subject: Re: <OT> OFF - Sendmail and Perl/Scripting question.
Your posted message doesn't match the Subject line, nor the included text.
SCO Xenix can't have Apache running on it as it doesn't have a TCP
stack and few SCO Xenix boxes ever had Sendmail installed on them.
They used MMDF as a default configuration.
You are correct that the tar (SCO Xenix) is very old and not fully
compatible with GNU tar. The SCO Xenix tar most likely would not be
able to extract a GNU tar created file, though it should go the
otherway.
Since you have a dialup connection, you might try instead using UUCP
to send the files or use a file transfer protocol like kermit.
Regardless, I can't imagine why you would want to tar up the /usr/bin
files as those are going to be all Xenix executables and many of them
won't run without the Xenix system (they are protected, and branded).
You should only need to backup the /appl and /mrm2 directories which
would be a lot less data...
Told to us by robert (robert@ccaz.com)
on Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 07:48:43AM -0700
> Ok,
>
> I'm dialed into the SCO Xenix V Host now, the command issued within the
> script is:
> "tar -cv /usr/bin /appl/fp/menus/mrm2* /appl/filepro/mrm2* /mrm2.scripts"
> This backs up all of the necessary database files and scripts.
> The tar executable does not list a version, but it shows:
> "-rwx--x--x 1 bin bin 80662 Nov 12 1990 tar"
> Apparently it does not write information to the disk to indicate to the
> newer GNU tar that there is a continuation of the file on the next extent.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Robert Jones
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon J Mudd [mailto:sjmudd@bitmailer.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 1:49 PM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: <OT> OFF - Sendmail and Perl/Scripting question.
>
> Colin Cyr <ccyr@sycore.ml.org> writes:
>
> > This in and of itself is quite easy, the following task is not (from
what
> I
> > can see). I need to track the message ID's on the outgoing mail so I
can
> > properly handle incoming mail.
> [snip]
> > Both of these solutions are quite messy and not very good
implementations,
> > anyone else have any suggestions?
>
> I think the easiest thing is to generate the full message including
headers
> and Message-ID. This way you know what it is before you start. I don't
> remember which option you need to pass to sendmail for it to except
headers
> to, but the man page should help. Don't forget to make sure the
Message-ID
> is unique (really unique) as this is a prerequisite for e-mail, and also
> make sure you form it of the correct characters.
>
> Simon
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