[NBLUG/talk] SCO 6 / Unix5

[Jordan Erickson]

IMHO one of the best things about *nix is that no OS is the same. It is
awkward sitting in front of an unfamiliar system. Initially I always get
this mental resistance if I can't find or figure out something like,
'Argh, f it were only the same as XYZ, grumble grumble...'. But after I
get over that, I start to learn and things get exciting.

On 02/27/2015 08:38 AM, gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
> Yesterday I got to work on a SCO6 system installing a backup system.
> It was like using a very old, very odd version of Linux, or perhaps
> Linux is odd and that's more normal. Everything was basically
> recognizable, but oddly different in unexpected ways. I was using
> putty terminals and I never could get the settings right which made
> everything double the pain as none of the special keys worked. Did
> learn about x/X in VI which are handy when the backspace and delete
> key don't work. Restarting the ssh daemon was incredibly difficult.
> One person advised to find the pid and kill it, but I didn't want to
> kill my session. I think I did find the script and run it, but it just
> gave me an odd command to run. Worked when I did it though.