Hi Subrata

Thanks for your reply.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Subrata Modak
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 08:16 -0700, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This list may be a fruitful place to ask this question.
>>
>> For the purposes of writing and verifying Linux man pages, I sometimes
>> want to run test programs on other Unix systems in order to verify
>> portability details.  I currently have access to some versions of
>> FreeBSD, and also, thanks to www.testdrive.hp.com, HP-UX.  I also have
>> private access to Solaris 8.  However, I'd very much like to get
>> access to other systems -- especially Solaris 9 and/or 10, but other
>> Unixes are also of interest.
>
> I have access to only IBM hardwares like the i386, x86_64, ppc, ppc64,
> ia64 & s390x only.

I'm not sure whether you've misunderstood my question in this mail (as
opposed to the mail I sent to you offlist).  Here I'm asking about
access to Unix systems *other than* Linux -- especially Solaris 9, 10,
but others Unixes also.  I suspect that the systems you list above are
all running Linux, right?

Cheers,

Michael

>> Ideally what I'd be looking for is ssh access to said systems, so that
>> I can login and run the tests myself.  (If I need to do things such as
>> ask someone else to run them, then that slows my workflow down, and
>> also disinclines me from running too many tests, since I don't want to
>> be in the position of bothering people each time I have a new test.)
>>
>
> Unfortunately, none of them can be accessed from outside IBM network
> without proper authentication, and off course without being a valid user
> of the system.
>
>> All of the tests I'm thinking of are the ones that would require at
>> most a few seconds of CPU time (no stress tests), and most would be
>> runnable under non-privileged accounts.  (For the rare occasions when
>> I wanted to run a test that required superuser privs, which I realize
>> I'm unlikely to get, then I wouldn't mind having to pester someone to
>> run the test for me, if there is anyone willing to oblige.)
>>
>> Can anyone help out?
>
> I do not mind running tests on your behalf. Infact it will give me
> opportunity to access to more no. of tests buckets, which i can infact
> add to LTP later. So, whenever you have such tests to run, i will take
> time to do it for you.
>
> Regards--
> Subrata
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
>



-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html
Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html

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