Portserver 8 and SCO

Question

Hello all,

I have inherited a SCO Openserver 5.05 machine that is currently running two Portservers at remote offices. I need to add another Portserver at a new office. I have looked around on this subject but I have found conflicting docs. Some docs say to use /usr/bin/drpadmin other docs say that the entire driver needs to be reloaded. I cannot find drpadmin on the box does this mean I have a very old driver? If so how can I tell what version of the driver I have?

Thanks

--michael kotschi

Answer 1

If drpadmin does not exist, chances are you are using an older driver. This can be confirmed with the following command from the UNIX root prompt:

# swconfig | grep igi

If it is the older 2.x version of the driver, simply remove it and install the latest available for download from our web-site so a reinstallation will not need to be performed in the future.

Answer 2

Thanks, Yes it looks like the older driver, this is what I get:

DigiWARE for RealPort Driver 2.4.4 installed

What is the best way to backup the config if something gets hosed up? Any particular directories to backup etc?

--michael kotschi

Answer 3

You will want to back up the /etc/inittab, /etc/ttytype and the /etc/conf/init.d/ncxa files to keep the existing port settings. Print spoolers will not be affected.

The /etc/rc2.d/S86ncxa file will contain the current PortServer configuration information that will not need to be restored, however it should be kept for the IP and port information when re-adding the units in the new driver.