10.20 to 11.0 upgrade

[Bruce Troutman]

If I have a system with many scripts written in the bourne shell. should I be concerned about compatibility with the upgrade.

Also, I recently posted a question on whether you can make an image on a d-box and build an e-box with it and the concensus was "I wouldn't recommend it". After I upgrade the D-class to 11.0 could I use that image to build other revisions of D-classes (d220,d230,d320,d330)?

thanks

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Your scripts should run just fine although I would actually run the POSIX shell.

The answer to your D-box question is that it depends on how similar the hardware configurations are.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

If the hardware configuration for the D-class is same than there will not be any problem with the image.

For the script written in 10.20 should run on 11.00 without any problem

-USA

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

You should not have too many problems with
scripts that were created on 10.20 being
run on an 11 server.

In the attached link there information on
which servers can run 1 in 64 bit and the
ones that can't

-Michael

http://devresource.hp.com/STK/serversupport.html

[Bill Hassell]

You might check whether the scripts were really written with the bourne shell. In order to use the bourne shell in any version of 10.xx, you must have the statement:

#!/usr/old/bin/sh

in every script. If you have:

#!/bin/sh

you are runing the POSIX shell (a partial superset of ksh) but the (obsolete) form of /bin/sh is not the real location (it is /usr/bin/sh). /bin does not exist in any version of HP-UX 10.xx or higher. See: man tlinstall.

[Sebastian Galeski_1]

Hi when You will be prepared an image You have to remember that d220 is PA Risc 1.1 architecture and d250, d270 etc. are PA RISC 2.0 architecture and image made on 1.1 will not work on 2.0
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