Digital Unix Legacy

[A.H. Martinez]

Hi.

I got a little bit old Alpha Server with Digital Unix (I guess).

This is its uname -a:

OSF1 GCPC V4.0 1530 alpha

and this is some info from kernel

# strings /vmunix | grep '(Rev.' | cut -f1 -d';'

V4.0G (Rev. 1530)
Digital UNIX V4.0G (Rev. 1530)
TruCluster Software V1.6 (Rev. 227)

Currently, this machine has SAP in production yet for legacy reasons, so I can't upgrade soon.

Questions:

- This is my first time with DEC/Compaq/HP unices and I need to know where I can get software and software updates (security updates mostly).

- Is this Digital UNIX 4.0G the same Tru64 4.0G?

- The Open Source Software Collection for Tru64 UNIX <> can run in my machine?

That's all. Best regards.
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[Mark Poeschl_2]

Yes, Tru64 4.0G is the same as Digital Unix 4.0G.

As for the Open Source S/W collection, the link in your post is broken so I can't tell what version you're trying to use. Ideally, you'd have the OSSC (or whatever it was called way back then) that shipped with 4.0G. In any case, if you can build a particular package on your box chances are it'll run.

[A.H. Martinez]

Oops.

Seems the web interface modified the link including the gt character.

Please follow this: http://h30097.www3.hp.com/demos/ossc/html/0Welcome.htm

BTW I can see this disclaimer in the README page: "The RPM packages on the CD-ROM REQUIRE Tru64 UNIX V5.1 as a minimum version of the operating system for installation." So I'm not feeling lucky.

Is there any chance to run this software?
Is there exist something like that for Digital Unix 4.0?

[Hein van den Heuvel]

>>> Currently, this machine has SAP in production yet for legacy reasons, so I can't upgrade soon.

What SAP version? Maye it is supported on later Tru64? I poked around at service.sap.com/pam for a while, but got lost in twisty maze of passages, all alike.
We shoudl be able to find out a support matrix for you.

www.hp.com/go/sap will get you going at the sap - hp alliance page.

You already found the starting point for tru64 on the hp.com site: http://h30097.www3.hp.com/index.html
It has good pointers to support and patches.


According to its support matrix ( http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/11779-0-0-225-121.aspx ) you should be able to get the support with your contract in place.



>>>> The Open Source Software Collection for Tru64 UNIX

Most of that stuff has not change for years and years. I expect most, if not all, to work but it really depends on the tool in question. You may want to (re)build from the sources to work with the right libraries and such.

hth,
Hein.

[A.H. Martinez]

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> According to its support matrix (
> http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/11779-0-0-225-121.aspx ) you should be able to get the support with your contract in place.

This is useful. I though its support was ended.

[...]

> Most of that stuff has not change for years and years. I expect most, if not all, to work but it really depends on the tool in question.

I need mostly TCP-Wrappers and OpenSSH. I can´t stand to live without they as well as bash, PAM, GNU tar, etc. All cool stuff we can find in a humble linux distribution.

> You may want to (re)build from the sources to work with the right libraries and such.

I figure it. ¿Some piece of advi

[A.H. Martinez]

Ok.

I started building TCP-Wrappers from original sources. There was not any problem and TCP-Wrappers works fine.

Now I'm trying the same with bash. Configure, make and make install stages was succesfull, but when I try to execute bash there is a segmentation fault and core dumped. After a strong STFW I didn't find some references.

Does anybody have a clue? BTW I will appreciate some horror history compiling and running OpenSSH on Tru64 4.0.

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[Han Pilmeyer]

Just to remove any confusion around the support of V4.0G: standard support of V4.0G has ended, however PVS (Prior Version Support) is still available through a special contract with HP Services.

At least some patches for V4.0G are available on http://itrc.hp.com/. Look under Software/Drivers, Software, Tru64 or something like that.

[A.H. Martinez]

OpenSSH installed from sources and working ;-)

Just needed OpenSSL and zlib, both from sources as well. OpenSSL needs some perl interpreter, and a pre-built perl version for OSF1 ready to use worked fine ( http://people.netscape.com/richm/nsPerl/ ).

This is enough for me right now in order to lockdown Digital Unix 4.0g.

I will trying with bash where be possible.

Thanks to all you people.