On Tue, 25 Nov 1997 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:

: I must admit that I do not by any means possess the full recipe for
: doing this.  What I do know is that you can create /dev/socksys (or
: perhaps more appropriately, /emul/ibcs2/dev/socksys) to get basic
: TCP/IP networking to function.  This plus a faked-up (inappropriately
: formatted) /etc/mnttab is enough to get Veritas (formerly Aria)
: NetBackup to limp along on my i386/NetBSD (well, it actually works as
: it should, from all we can see.  ;-)

I'm actually perfecting a mount(8) wrapper that creates an /etc/mnttab (to
be used by iBCS2 and SVR4) on the fly.  That'll be along with a pwd_mkshadow
script that does the same for SVR4 passwd and shadow files....

: I do know that to get ibcs2 curses-based programs to work we had to
: install ncurses, primarly to be able to generate the terminfo files
: these programs look for.

Then grab the terminfo tree from the SCO CD.  :)

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