Summary: What's wrong with SCO (long)

[Ronald S H Khoo]

sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

> It can.  Try looking at SLS's; the information was posted here.

And no other vendor makes their fixes so readily available.
FTP, UUCP, pick your transport.  Even a local London number too :-)
 
> The csh is *old*.  And, yeah, it's broken.  I've ported tcsh, as have
> others.  No real problem.  Tell people at SCO you want it, and, if they get
> enough requests, they will make it available.

But can you imagine the customer telling the front line folks "Well,
yeah, one of your ex-employees says he ported it ... " :-)

> >The startup file problem ("xxx:
> >cannot execute") is ridiculous, 

> Never seen that.

xxx is setgid and luid wasn't set.  SecureWare strikes.  No need to
rehash the old stories about that one, surely? :-)

[ ObFix: su root -c xxx instead of naked xxx. ]
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