Having just completed a port of our server product from Debian to Solaris (I wanted to try to keep the entire package environment as close as possible) I _strongly_ suggest you try to find a port of screen for your breed of SunOS. Trying to port sanely from GNU/Linux to Solaris is very trying. In particular, any cool optimisations will bite you hard when Sun Workshop gets a hold of them (.
My own opinion is the Solaris needs to be put down or retired. Diabolical OS, diabolical environment. And the hardware isnt _that_ good - not compared to the price anyway: we used a e3500 (4 way) with list price of AUD$260,000 and it performs no better than a Dual 733 Coppermine PIII with Mylex Raid card running Debian. which cost us about AUD$7500. Disk IO on the e3500 is a little faster 'cos it uses Fiber Channel instead of UW160. But not quarter of a million dollars worth!! David Z Maze wrote: > Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HS> There's a Sun Sparcstation at work that I would like to use > HS> "virtual terminals" on, if it's even possible. So, is it ?? > HS> > HS> 'uname -a' tells me this: > HS> > HS> SunOS fred 4.1.3 1 sun4m > > The Linux virtual terminal support is provided by the Linux kernel > directly, so you're not going to get something identical on a machine > running Solaris (or SunOS 4). It also has the annoying misfeature > that it only works on the physical console of the machine. :-) > > One common way around this is to use an excellent program called > "screen". You can get source from GNU, or [[ObDebian]] 'apt-get > source screen' on a Debian box and somehow export the source to your > Sun machine. Screen lets you run multiple programs under a single > terminal window in pretty much any environment, and even lets you > detach a session, log out, and come back to it later. It's a godsend > for working with, say, a VT320. > > (And in fact right now, since I've just moved and we have no real > connectivity, I'm sending mail from Gnus in XEmacs running in a screen > on a Solaris 8 machine, with the connection being a 14.4kbps modem > plugged directly into a VT320. Having found the relevant frobs, life > is good, or would be for 10-year-old technology. :-) > > -- > David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." > -- Abra Mitchell > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
