SCO Unix vs. SUN

[abovebrd]

I was wondering what the major differences are in the day to day administering of SCO Unix vs Sun (Solaris)

Any ideas ?

 

[cassim]

Hi Danny,

There are no real major differences.
Most tasks like backing up and scheduled reboots and cleaning up of temporary files etc can be done by scheduling through cron and/or at jobs.

Solaris uses admintool , SCO uses scosh(I think). Kernel settings are done by editing the /etc/Systems file in Solaris, SCO uses another method.

I know SCO has its own backup tool and Solaris has ufsdump.

When adding new devices(tape drives etc) Solaris is pretty much plug and play(use the
boot -r command) whereas SCO uses the mkdev command.

Hope this was helpful. Please do not hesitate to ask any further questions, it's been a while since I've worked on SCO but I will try to answer your questions.
[sig][/sig]

 

[abovebrd]

Thanks for the input cassim.

Question: Do you know of a command that will force an eject from a command prompt. This question relates to a SCSI DDS3 tape drive

-Danny [sig]<p>-Danny<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br> [/sig]

 

[cassim]

Hi Danny,

I don't know of a way in SCO. The foll will work in Solaris.

Assuming your tape device is /dev/rmt/0.
To eject the tape type: mt -f /dev/rmt/0 offline.

Check the SCO man pages for the &quot;tape&quot; command. [sig][/sig]

 

[abovebrd]

mt -f /dev/rStp0 eject did the trick.

The &quot;tape&quot; man page was also helpful



[sig]<p>-Danny<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br> [/sig]

 

[nedralin]

Hi!
Whats the difference between Solaris and SCO unix? I'm new to SCO, I worked with Solaris before. Thanks!

Niko