On 26 Mar, 22:47, CLH wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with adding a network card into an SCO OS5
> system using an automated script? *The documentation on the command
> line interface is scanty with no examples of what to use for 'chains',
> 'elements', etc. *We have no problems adding the nics using the
> interactive interface, but would like to automate the process as we
> need to add new cards to a lot of systems. *If you have done this
> successfully or have knowledge in this area, please respond.

Umm. *WHY*? Given the age of the OS, its limited capabilities, and the
fiscal state of SCO, why not set up a virtual server (such as VMware),
create one pre-installed OS image, and clone that as needed for
additional virtualized installations? That can automate your process
and save you a multi-hour installation process of CD handling, update
installation that is order sensitive from the various installation
media, the lunacy of having to go back and manually re-install the
developer or SMP packages, etc.

I'm not saying this is trivial: you'll need to reset your licenses,
andn ideally rename the OS. And I'd live to find out myself how to
rename a server: my experiments resetting /etc/default/tcp didn't get
very far before I had to work on other projects.

On Mar 26, 6:47 pm, CLH wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with adding a network card into an SCO OS5
> system using an automated script? The documentation on the command
> line interface is scanty with no examples of what to use for 'chains',
> 'elements', etc. We have no problems adding the nics using the
> interactive interface, but would like to automate the process as we
> need to add new cards to a lot of systems. If you have done this
> successfully or have knowledge in this area, please respond.

The "chains" and stuff ends up getting written to /usr/lib/netconfig/
chains
and looks like this:

sco_tcp#lo0
nfs#sco_tcp
sco_tcp#net0

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Tony Lawrence
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