SUMMARY: SunScreen EFS 2.0 on Solaris 7

From: David L. Markowitz (David.Markowitz@litronic.com)
Date: Tue Jul 06 1999 - 15:49:06 CDT


I received three replies. Thanks to:

        Rick Reineman <e18a186@avlisim.llnl.gov>
        William Jennings <wcjennings@earthlink.net>
        Mimmo Palma <palma@ssi.it>

Original question:
> SunScreen EFS 2.0 claims in its installation manual, and also on Sun's
> web page, that it requires Solaris 2.5.1 or 2.6. No mention of "or
> later".
>
> Is it okay to use it on Solaris 7?

The replies split. William said:

> I set up sunscreen on a sparc20 that was running solaris7 to test it out.
> It worked fine.

while Rick said:
> No, not OK. I called Sun and asked. EFS 3.0 which isn't released yet will
> work on Solaris7. I did try installing it, couldn't even get it to startup
> correctly much less configure it.

and Mimmo said:
> ...No, the installation fails!.. and seems that there is no patch available.
> Sun says to use ver. 3.0.

So, your mileage may vary. I chose to stick w/ 2.6 for now. According
to Sun's web pages, it appears that 3.0 either is shipping now or will
shortly.

        David L. Markowitz Director, UNIX Software
        David.Markowitz@litronic.com Litronic Industries
        http://members.home.net/rttrek http://www.litronic.com/



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