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I edit with vi, i save changes but after reboot the changes are gone.... What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the answer....What of the OS boots as default on tty02 ?

Is there any way I can make my SCO 5.0.6 boot with a default <user> without prompting me for login? (I have already disabled the user's password)

Plus I just want to know why his works and mine not! Not trying to steal anything!

No it is a friends laptop and he does not remember his password

I forgot to tell you that the HDD I am making eventhough it does not boot in my laptop, it boots to the other laptop. Here is the script I use to format the HDD: cd / umountall # # Initialization of Hard Disk # echo echo "Initializing Harddisk for Unix ..." echo echo "Be sure disk size is...

FACTS: 1)If I put a HD installed with SCO and some apps from another laptop to mine it boots ok but I have no graphics due to incorrect display drivers and I don't have the root password in order to change the display driver. 2)When I make a same HD in my laptop it says "Dump not Complete"...

Thanks a lot!!! I'll try this tonight as soos as go home. I'll post results. Thanks again!

i dont know what that is!

No, on tty02

I fixed it!!! I copied the eval line from a user that does not have the same problem and gets the command prompt without enter. I had to change the "-ansi" to "-scoansi" in some cases! Is there any problem with that? It looks to work fine! LAST think I am trying to do is to make my system boot...

Thanks..."asroot" did the job I wanted. I gave the "shutdown" with an "-y" parameter in order to avoid confirmations. The shutdown commences after 60seconds which is the default and the minimum...I think. Can I reduce that time to less than 60 secs?

Thanks to all of you I managed to disable the password nad autorun startx after I login! There are two thinks more I want to ask you. When I login as "user" I get a "TERM=scoansi" messageand and I have to press enter to proceed to the prompt. Can I skip this step? How can I tell my system to...

Thanks for your answers... I tryed the su but it doesn't work. From within scoadmin I gave every possible privilege and authorization to the "user" but...nothing! I sorry to bother you with simple questions but I am very new to SCO and Unix in general. When I login as root I get the # prompt...

My "user" cannot issue a "init 0" or "init 6" I have to be logged in as "root" to do that! Can I Fix this? Can I shut down or reboot my system as "thatuser"?

Thank for your response!!! To be honest with you I don't even know where to find the user profile and how to edit it, but I won't bother you explaining me that, I think I can find that! BUT can I make my system automatically login as "that" user without prompting me for a pawwsord?

Hi! I am new here and in SCO! I have a stand-alone PC running SCO Open Server! I use following BOOT script DEFBOOTSTR=hd(40)unix swap=hd(41) dump=hd(41) root=hd(42) TIMEOUT=0 FSCKFIX=YES PANICBOOT=NO MAPKEY=YES SERIAL8=NO SLEEPTIME=0 BOOTMNT=RO # # To enable login as root in single user mode...