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Moving serial settings from one system to another

I want to know how to move a customized serial configuration from one Sun Sparc5 (SunOS 5.4) to a Sun Ultra (SunOS 5.6). Could I do this just by moving /etc/remote, or would there be more commands involved?

Background info...I have inherited a dusty old system with what appears to be some kind of serial multiplexer hanging off of a serial port. There are 5 modems attached to the mux via RJ-11 cable. I need to move it to a newer box with a newer OS. It's also running PERL 5.003 scripts.

So what I was thinking was...move /etc/remote to the new machine, plug in the mux, restore the custom /etc and rc.d scripts, install PERL, and I'm done.

But I know it can't be that simple. Am I totally oversimplifying?

marimba

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tfewster

Apart from configuring a serial port on the Ultra with the same settings as the one on the Sparc & ensuring all the files you copy reference the new port mapping - But don't waste too much time on my humble suggestion, as I'm not familiar with /etc/remote and I've never seen a mux that can handle multiple connections on a single standard serial port. How does it sort out the terminal IDs?

BTW, are the modems used for remote access or dial out from the server?

jonke

I'd compare the existing sparc5 machine /etc/remote to the 2.6 machine first. Just see what the differences are. I reckon you are gonna have some problems if you try and copy over the /etc/rc$.d files directly- the machine might not even boot- there are some fundamental differences between 2.4 & 2.6. Why do you want to do this anyway? What is in the rc scripts, that you think you will need?

What do these perl scripts do?

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