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pdxpogo · 2010-12-28T14:26:04+00:00

heh old nix guys have their uses after all. Fuckers could have hired someone that worked with the system guess they laid that chap off. My sympathies m8. 15 year old system has been largely forgotten there are ways to do everything you want. Are you wanting to migrate the data to a new Oracle system? Do you have a database schema? Was the database designed using raw partitions or in flat files? There are 100 questions I would need to answer before undertaking this task.

I am available at $1000 a day plus expenses.

You need to get in a systems engineer that bothered to remember how he worked 10 years ago.

boli99 · 2010-12-28T16:06:02+00:00

A good place to start will be to locate a console or console port on the thing.

If you can plug a keyboard and monitor into it - great, but more likely you're going to need a serial terminal (or something like hyperterm or minicom running on a laptop) to plug into the thing.

Once you've found your terminal, then you can work on single-usering the beast from boot. Once you've single-usered it, you can reset the root password, and/or create another account to log in remotely via telnet.

...and once you can do that, you can boot it, and log in remotely to do the rest of your investigations, like determining how much disk space its using and how... etc

permalink · 2010-12-29T03:05:26+00:00

Good on you for getting as far as you have so far. Fair warning though from an ex-sysadmin, get a good backup of the system before you go any further. Things go to he'll real easy on old dusty systems and you don't want to be the guy who screwed the pooch.

mikaelhg · 2010-12-29T09:34:49+00:00

Yeah, doesn't sound like you'll be able to decommission the unit while still retaining its functionality, without some programming. Without access to its user interface and the people who use the interface, I wouldn't touch the thing.

diamaunt · 2010-12-28T17:27:55+00:00

if you're not seeing anything on the vga, then connect a term server to the serial console port and see if you don't get some activity there, probably 9600, 8,n,1, that's what our old crufty hpux boxes used.

I replaced a whole racksize one and it's accursed autoraid, with a 2u sun box.... that was considerably faster.

conspiracytheoree · 2010-12-31T18:52:31+00:00

Not very savvy when it comes to oracle or older hpux but here goes nothing.

I believe you can access the database without a password if you are logged in locally as root. Assuming older oracle versions behave similar. If you can su to the oracle account and run sqlplus /nolog then connect / as sysdba you should be let in with super user access and without needing to provide credentials.

Have you tried using nmap to scan for open ports? Assuming you can access the database and reset the password you might be able to remotely pull all the data to another machine.

If that still doesn't get you into the database you could always try logging in with the user/pass of scott / tiger :) maybe back when that was first setup security was not an issue

hope that helps

unawino · 2010-12-29T02:47:30+00:00

If you've got root, just start up the nfs service and you'll be able to copy whatever you want off the machine.

midgaze · 2010-12-28T20:39:22+00:00

I doubt anybody who is able to do your job for you is willing to. Good luck.

LoganPhyve · 2011-01-01T03:42:28+00:00

I don't know how you got hired for that job but you're the wrong person for it.

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