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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers SCO OpenServer 5 Will Not Boot Post 303027525 by gull04 on Monday 17th of December 2018 02:46:39 PM
Old 12-17-2018
Hi,

Here's my tuppence worth on the matter;

You'll almost certainly be able to do what you suggest, however a reboot is highly likely to cause lots of things to break - if I'm reading your intentions correctly.

I'd be tempted to clone the VM, bring it up without the legacy application and test the OS bit first - at least that way you'll be relatively sure that the OS is viable when you do it for real.

Attempting to sort out something like a legacy application in a VM is difficult enough, but adding the complexity layer of a potentially broken OS as well is a bit like persuading the Grandparents to tell their Grandchildren that Santa Clause has been assassinated - It's going to bring you a lot of grief from both sides.

Best to tackle these things one at a time.

I suppose if you are going to bring all the /etc/conf directory over, you could knock up a quick script and create a differences file - so what's missing what's added and any files that are different.

Regards

Gull04

Last edited by gull04; 12-17-2018 at 03:51 PM.. Reason: Some Additional Comments
 

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shutdown(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands					      shutdown(1B)

NAME
shutdown - close down the system at a given time SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/shutdown [-fhknr] time [warning-message]... DESCRIPTION
shutdown provides an automated procedure to notify users when the system is to be shut down. time specifies when shutdown will bring the system down; it may be the word now (indicating an immediate shutdown), or it may specify a future time in one of two formats: +number and hour:min. The first form brings the system down in number minutes, and the second brings the system down at the time of day indicated in 24-hour notation. At intervals that get closer as the apocalypse approaches, warning messages are displayed at terminals of all logged-in users, and of users who have remote mounts on that machine. At shutdown time a message is written to the system log daemon, syslogd(1M), containing the time of shutdown, the instigator of the shut- down, and the reason. Then a terminate signal is sent to init, which brings the system down to single-user mode. OPTIONS
As an alternative to the above procedure, these options can be specified: -f Arrange, in the manner of fastboot(1B), that when the system is rebooted, the file systems will not be checked. -h Execute halt(1M). -k Simulate shutdown of the system. Do not actually shut down the system. -n Prevent the normal sync(2) before stopping. -r Execute reboot(1M). FILES
/etc/rmtab remote mounted file system table ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
fastboot(1B), login(1), halt(1M), reboot(1M), syslogd(1M), sync(2), rmtab(4), attributes(5) NOTES
Only allows you to bring the system down between now and 23:59 if you use the absolute time for shutdown. SunOS 5.11 11 Oct 1994 shutdown(1B)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:56 PM.
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