The rcp worked fine.. Ulimit conquiered....

[John Esak]

Thanks to all responding to the ulimit problem...  My problem with rcp was a
simle one Ken White spotted.  I had an error in my .rhosts file.  Fixed it,
fixed the problem. 

As for the 2Gb ulimit, it is hard and fast in terms of file size. I do not
know any way around that other than buying a different O/S.  It's funny,
though, I got in my head that filePro's 5.6 broke the limit... And so
something in me must have concluded that SCO 5.7 was also enhanced in that
way. It was an all new "buy" in terms of money outlay and new licensing
protocol, so I guess I just did that bad link up and never expected to run
into the problem.  I was never going to just tarball the file system and ftp
it across to the other machine, that was only a fallback because I couldn't
make rcp work.  I thought for some reason because the machines were
clones... It had to do with that.  Well, the simple typo in .rhosts made all
this unneccessary, and rcp worked fine.  Later I suppose I will work out
some kind of rsync thing if that's needed, but it really isn't.  The machine
is to accept backups and be a share stop for lots of PC's 

I will say this... It is the exact machine he bought several years ago.
First I tried to make a DELL work and couldn't on 5.7 SCO... So we moved to
an HP and it flew just fine.  The machine is beyond awesome.  It had 6 73Gb
drives, a DVD, 2 3.0 CPU's, two redundant PS's... A million or maybe more
GIANT fans.... And it to this day is the fastest machine I have ever seen...
On all counts.  It was several grand when he got it say in 2007.  Now, he
got this clone, well it's a super clone.  All the same guts motherboard,
backplane, etc. But 2 3.6Gb CPU's and 8Gb of memory instead of 2Gb on the
original mahcine. It has 15k drives instead of 10k... And all the same
elsewise..... I suppose because of the CPU's, this machine is actually even
faster... Just amazingly so.  Maybe the faster drives, too, but I had always
thought that the speed of drives is not too much of an issue when you are
RAID 5'ing them.  For whatever reasons, it's a monster. I spent 10 minutes
trying to fix a problem with one of my "ffind/cpio" scripts because it kept
returning to the prompt... And not working.  Turns out it *was* working. It
was just instantly returning to the prompt after dumping hundreds of megs of
data into a tarball.... !!!  I simply couldn't believe it was actually doing
it until I looked.  :-)  
And the point of all this, is... He bought two of these machines last week
for $799.  that's it, oh yeah, they also had a second 6400 2 channel
controller for the tape drive.  Yes, using a 30 unit SCSI adapter for a
single tape drive... A little overkill, but the thing was essentially free.
Also, the guy through in some DAT4 drives for the machine as well.  I mean
$799, I almost bought one, too. First because this machine has been
absolutely bullet proof, and second because $799!!!!!!!!

Jeez, that has got to be the best deal ever on servers... And I believe the
guy had 10 of them. He may have some left. I suppose you could query Dale
Egan as to who on the net is selling these things.  Man, if my apartment
wouldn't have been blown away by the fans and the noise... I'd have one this
minute.  You would all have to see this monster rack item to understand why
$799 is such a good deal.  If you can't imagine it, just take my word for
it. Of course having a giant rack to put it in is another concern. I have
only worked with the little racks from olden days.... The big ones are
pretty damn big. Oh by the way, all the rack hardware to slide the whole
machine out came included in the $799. yeesh.

Okay, I'm done.

Well, not quite.

Now, I just need to sell him my SCO license, and my FP license and get all
that stuff rebranded to him, and he'll be off and running.

John