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Operating Systems SCO Strange behaviour on Openserver 5.0.2 after 09/2015 Post 302957263 by bsmith15 on Thursday 8th of October 2015 01:40:16 PM

10-08-2015

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If upgrading from 5.0.2 to 5.0.6 is not possible, one way to guarantee that the system will be able to boot by forcing a "safe" date/time is to add the following line to the top of the /etc/inittab file:

Code:

date::sysinit:/bin/date -t 201508310101 </dev/null >/dev/console 2>&1

This will set the date/time to August 31, 2015 with time 01:01:00 no matter what the BIOS RTC clock was set to.

Once booted, log in as root and set the date/time to the correct value.

Note: In my testing, any attempt to set the date/time to the correct value during bootup (such as the normal method in the /etc/tcp init script and its starting of the xntpd daemon or use of ntpdate commands) will result in ifor_pmd crashing when you log in the first time and the system will only allow logins on tty01 console only. However, if you log in to the system as the root user manually after booting has finished and then set the date (via any method), ifor_pmd will not crash. It is acting as if there has to be a successful login (which causes mgetty to communicate with ifor_pmd to check license limits) once before the date can be modified without crashing ifor_pmd.

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mkfs.bfs

MKFS.BFS(8)						Linux System Administrator's Manual					       MKFS.BFS(8)

NAME

       mkfs.bfs - make an SCO bfs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       mkfs.bfs [-N nr-of-inodes] [-V volume-name] [-F fsname] device [size-in-blocks]

DESCRIPTION

       mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs file-system on a block device (usually a disk partition or a file accessed via the loop device).

       The  size-in-blocks  parameter  is  the	desired size of the file system, in blocks.  If nothing is specified, the entire partition will be
       used.

OPTIONS

       -N     Specify the desired number of inodes (at most 512).  If nothing is specified some default number	in  the  range	48-512	is  picked
	      depending on the size of the partition.

       -V volume-label
	      Specify the volume label. I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -F fsname
	      Specify the fsname. I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -v     Be verbose.

EXIT CODES

       The exit code returned by mkfs.bfs is 0 when all went well, and 1 when something went wrong.

SEE ALSO

       mkfs(8).

AVAILABILITY

       The mkfs.bfs command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

Util-linux 2.9x 						   12 Sept 1999 						       MKFS.BFS(8)