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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
