OT: SCO Release 5 reboots upon printing from filePro

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014, fpgroups . wrote:
>Marked OT since the problem stems from the OS not filePro.
>
>If I do:  l |lp
>
>directory listing prints no poblem ...  If I print a report or anything
>from within my filePro application server reboots.
>
>My printer is defined as lp -dlazen -o raw -s within printer configuration.
>
>Same happens if I attempt to run a backup using
>
>tar cfF - /tmp/list |gzip > /my_full_backup.gz
>
>One more point is as it gets to "login" prompt after rebooting, it goes
>through boot cycle again.  Not sure why but if I let it boot by itself, it
>is less likely to reboot before it gives me a "login" prompt - When I go
>through the motions of pressing ENTER and CTRL-D, it reboots after pressing
>CTRL-D.
>
>I am in trouble I know, but how/what can I do to at least get a clean
>backup?

I have done the backup part of this moving the OpenServer system
to VMware running under Linux.

Use 'dd' to copy the OpenServer disk(s) to files which can then
be accessed with VMware.  This can be done by booting the SCO
system with a Linux live CD such as Knoppix and copying to an
external HD or by putting the hard disk(s) from the SCO box in an
external chassis accessible from a Linux box.

You will need to get the disk geometry from the SCO box as this
isn't the same as displayed by linux fdisk and such.  You will
need to manually create a vmdk file for this image which can be
used by VMware to handle it.  I've attached one that I used when
I moved a FilePro client over to CentOS and VMware Workstation.

The way I did this was to make a first pass creating the VMware
VM with OpenServer 5.0.6a, all the users, and FilePro on it.  We
used this for testing before making the final cut-over.  When we
were ready to move production to this, I did a fresh 'dd' image
which I could mount and use 'rsync' to copy the live FilePro data
to the new machine with a minimum of down time.

Bill
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