What are common SCO to Linux commands?

07/16/2000

Problem: What are common SCO to Linux commands?

Solution:

The HOME dir for root is: /root rather than / as with SCO.
By default root cannot login except form the console. To change this edit the /etc/security to add individual ttys or remove the file to allow all
The default HOME directory for all other users is /home. To change this, edit /etc/default/useradd
The default .profile for all new users is loaded from the /etc/skel dir
The default login shell is bash rather than sh, but /bin/sh is linked to bash, so shell scripts that call #!/bin/sh should be OK.
If you delete a user’s password by running passwd -d <user>, you can’t assign a passwd to this user until you edit the /etc/passwd file and add "!!" in the password field.
Login prompt settings are in /etc/issue and doing a man on mingetty gives a plethora of options for information to be included in the login prompt (i.e. tty name, date, time, etc.)
Root cannot login via ftp unless you edit the /etc/ftpusers file and remove root.
Pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del on the console will reboot the system. To prevent this edit the /etc/inittab and comment out the section referencing ctrl+alt+del.
There is no pg command. Alias or link less to pg.
To Alias use the following in the .profile:
alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias l='ls -l'
alias more='less'
alias pg='less'
LESS="-sec -P u/d UP/DOWN 1/2 page, f/b FORWRD/BACK 1 page, g/G TOP/BOTTOM, q QUIT\:"; export LESS
cat the info in the /proc dir yields tons of useful info.
Log messages are in the dir /var/log and have the files: dmesg (for boot-up messages) and messages (for error and status messages) and secure (for login attempts).
To have the BS and Del keys behave normally (SCO-like) on the console, run:

    # /usr/bin/loadkeys << EOF
    keycode 14 = Back Space
    keycode 111 = Delete
    EOF
    # stty intr 0177
The loadkeys command can be put in the rc.d routines and the stty in the .profiles.
There are only 6 console multi-screens by default, more can be added by modifying /etc/inittab and /etc/securetty (to allow root logins on terminals other than the console and on the console for ttys higher than tty8).
The SCSI tape device nodes are /dev/st[0-31] (rewind on close) and /dev/nst[0-31] (no rewind on close).
The SCSI CD-ROM device names are /dev/scd[0-31]
The commands procinfo and pstree -Ghpu give very good system information.
The SCO haltsys command can be aliased to halt. There is also a reboot command.
The timeout for autoboot is set in /etc/lilo.conf and is in tenths of a second.
The scoadmin Administration tool is linuxconf.

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