Errors after migrating from SCO 5.0.5 top Openerver 6

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cesar Baquerizo" <ces at cescom.com>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: Errors after migrating from SCO 5.0.5 top Openerver 6


>
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:22:37PM -0500, Cesar Baquerizo wrote:
>>
>>> /etc/defaul/fppath is set properly.
>>>
>>
>> That is never a valid thing to put in a trouble ticket.  :-)
>>
>> Please show us the contents of that file?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
>>
> Good point :)  To the best of my knowledge :)
>
> Here it is...I left the # to show the newlines.  This is how it also
> exists in the original system:
>
> # cat /etc/default/fppath
> /hd1/appl
>
> /hd1/appl
>
> #

Like they said, you don't get to just say "foo is configured properly" :)

To wit: if /hd1 is a filesystem, then the fppath shown above is wrong and it 
should be this:
-------
/hd1/appl
/hd1
/appl

-------

The other way is correct if  /hd1 were just a directory, as it was on the 
old system.

This may not be your only problem. If this doesn't fix it, well, it still 
needs to be like this so don't undo it, but now look for other possible 
problems.
One thing I would do is run setperms, as root, after the filepro user was 
created on the new system.
Next I would try to create a new filepro file and try to create a new index 
in it.
If that works then I would scrutinize the files you copied, are they 
actually good copies? I'd scrap the nfs/copy copy of the data and do it with 
rsync, then run setperms again. I rsync whole filepro trees several times a 
day every day, between different OS's (linux/sco/freebsd) even, and never 
have this problem. I also use tar, star, gnu tar, and cpio, sometimes piped 
through ssh or rsh or netcat, and tapes with backuedge or ctar, and never 
have this problem with those either. I don't happen to ever use copy or nfs.

Also, since this is osr6, there was a bug just recently fixed mentioned on 
the com.unix.sco.misc newsgroup that specifically has to do with osr5 
emulation and record locking. You may want to look at this and contact sco 
to get this patch:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.sco.misc/browse_thread/thread/5ce1b7ce18e39539/7bf66b28029ccb0e

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