Remember when Leland was compiling things on z/OS (USS) and then copying the binaries to CMS (OpenVM)? They ran without further effort. Very nice ... some collab work betweek POK and Endicott (or maybe all LE magic? I don't know).
We're in deep need of an SSH client for CMS. So I copied /usr/bin/ssh from one of our z/OS systems and dropped it into OpenVM. Lo and behold it does execute! Wants to fork, which is OFF by default. SET FORK ON lets it do that, but it ABENDs immediately. Turns out it is trying to seed the pseudo random number generator and punting to a helper app which is causing crashing. (Another executable copied from USS, but does not fly.) I tried to fudge it with a quickly hacked helper (spitting out static seed content, just to get it running). This got SSH further, but still not all the way there. I'm excited!! We do need an SSH server for VM (CMS), but we need an SSH client even more: need it for automation. We also need SCP, which drives SSH under the covers and no doubt plays the fork() game. [sigh] -- R; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
