12-17-2018
So my legacy machine is now humming along great, but I still want to try one more thing to get the VM I've been working on fully operational. The details are in another thread, but since this is my most recent question I will make an attempt to be brief about what I would like to try. I suspect that the reason my VM is not fully functional with our legacy program is because I have not copied over the entire /etc directory. The reason I did not do this is because I was told one time not to copy the /etc/conf directory, which makes sense because the configurations would be different for the two machines. I have an idea to try with cpio, and I just want to make sure I'm not going to break anything before I try, so here is my plan:
1) make a cpio archive of the /etc/conf directory in the VM and save it to a /tmp directory
2) maka a cpio archive of the entire /etc directory in the Physical, and then FTP the archive over to the VM
3) cpio "in" the archive from the Physical to the /etc of the VM
4) then either delete the /etc/conf directory from the VM and immediately cpio "in" the backup archive I created in step 1; or just cpio "in" and overwrite the /etc/conf directory with the backup from step 1
Will this work to try and see if this clears up my problems? It seems possible just from the way SCO operates that messing with the /etc/conf directory without doing a reboot or relinking the kernel might be OK, but I'd like to know for sure.
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