need older version of red hat

bradholman · External Since: Sep 15, 2009 Posts: 4

I need a red hat distro that contains the CCVS credit card processing
software. The reason is, we are running CCVS on our AIX server, and
it's initial configuration is unknown to me. I cannot decipher it's
CCVS.CONF file, as it is binary, and I hope to install CCVS under a PC
platform, install CCVS, then use the CCVS_VIEWCONF program to view our
CCVS.CONF file from our AIX server. I know it sounds convoluted, but
it's the only way I know of to find our how our credit card processing
software is configured. Any help appreciated!

Brad Holman
bholman.TakeThisOut@cebridge.net

bradholman · External Since: Sep 15, 2009 Posts: 4

On Sep 15, 4:13 pm, bradholman <bhol....TakeThisOut@cebridge.net> wrote:
> I need a red hat distro that contains the CCVS credit card processing
> software. The reason is, we are running CCVS on our AIX server, and
> it's initial configuration is unknown to me. I cannot decipher it's
> CCVS.CONF file, as it is binary, and I hope to install CCVS under a PC
> platform, install CCVS, then use the CCVS_VIEWCONF program to view our
> CCVS.CONF file from our AIX server. I know it sounds convoluted, but
> it's the only way I know of to find our how our credit card processing
> software is configured. Any help appreciated!
>
> Brad Holman
> bhol....TakeThisOut@cebridge.net

I believe that 5.2 includes this software. Where can I find a copy?

Greg Russell · External Since: Mar 10, 2009 Posts: 9

"bradholman" <bholman RemoveThis @cebridge.net> wrote in message
news:82e297ea-c349-4e1e-b8c8-40ccc325970b@j9g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...

> I need a red hat distro that contains the CCVS credit card processing
> software. The reason is, we are running CCVS on our AIX server, and
> it's initial configuration is unknown to me. I cannot decipher it's
> CCVS.CONF file, as it is binary, and I hope to install CCVS under a PC
> platform, install CCVS, then use the CCVS_VIEWCONF program to view our
> CCVS.CONF file from our AIX server. I know it sounds convoluted, but
> it's the only way I know of to find our how our credit card processing
> software is configured. Any help appreciated!

Actually, it sounds more like you're trying to do something that you
shouldn't be doing, as your AIX installation has the necessary software to
view its "CCVS.CONF" configuration. If "it's initial configuration is
unknown to" you, then there's a reason for it.

Moe Trin · External Since: Aug 12, 2004 Posts: 1732

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<b8613b95-dd76-4279-a1df-1b8f35be8a2d.TakeThisOut@33g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>,
bradholman wrote:

NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically
reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server.

>bradholman <bhol....TakeThisOut@cebridge.net> wrote:

>> I need a red hat distro that contains the CCVS credit card processing
>> software.

>I believe that 5.2 includes this software. Where can I find a copy?

Name : CCVS Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.1.8 Vendor: HKS, Inc.
Release : 4 Build Date: Thu 08 Oct 1998 06:55:42 AM MST
Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: roy.hks.net
Group : Applications Source RPM: CCVS-2.1.8-4.src.rpm
Size : 2110821 License: commercial
Signature : (none)
Packager : Doug DeJulio <ddj.TakeThisOut@hks.net>
Summary : processes credit card transactions
Description :
CCVS allows you to process credit card transactions in exactly the
same way that a point-of-sale termnial does. It includes development
kits for C, TCL/Tk, and Perl, so you can incorporate live credit card
processing into just about any application.

That's the package description data from the "Vendor Disc Oct 1998",
so it was included in the 'demo' disk that came with an official
version. Now, _where_ you're going to find a copy is another matter
entirely. That's nearly eleven years old, and we long since disposed
of the CDs. I notice it has a "commercial" license what-ever that
means, but is a source rpm. The hks.net domain still exists, but it
looks to be parked and inoperative.

Hmmm... I don't know it this might be helpful, but at sunsite, in

/pub/linux/docs/LuCaS/Postgresql-es/web/navegable/programmer:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mirror mirror 4077 Apr 28 2002 ref.ccvs.html

/pub/linux/docs/LuCaS/Postgresql-es/web/navegable/todopostgresql:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mirror mirror 3849 Oct 12 2001 ref.ccvs.htm
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mirror mirror 4112 Apr 28 2002 ref.ccvs.html

I suspect that's something completely different and irrelevant.
Looking at my other archive directory listings, there _used_to_be_
a directory on the Red Hat ftp server in August 2001:

drwxrwsr-x 7 mleach ccvs 4096 Mar 28 20:08 ccvs/

../ccvs:
drwxrwsr-x 2 mleach ccvs 4096 Mar 28 20:08 3.0.3/
drwxrwsr-x 2 mleach ccvs 4096 Mar 28 20:08 3.2.1/
drwxrwsr-x 2 mleach ccvs 4096 Mar 28 20:08 3.3/
drwxrwsr-x 3 mleach ccvs 4096 Aug 28 2000 3.3.1/
drwxrwsr-x 3 mleach ccvs 4096 Feb 9 2001 3.3.2/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mleach ccvs 5 Jan 3 2001 current -> 3.3.2/

that contained:

868100 Mar 30 2000 ccvs-3.2.1-i86-redhat42.tar.gz
962507 Mar 30 2000 ccvs-3.2.1-i86-redhat51.tar.gz
1075544 Mar 30 2000 ccvs-3.2.1-i86-redhat6.tar.gz
870591 Mar 30 2000 ccvs-3.2.1-i86-suse52.tar.gz
1314530 Mar 30 2000 ccvs-3.2.1-rs6k-aix42.tar.gz

and

1269133 Dec 20 2000 ccvs-3.3.2-i86-redhat6.tar.gz
1260518 Nov 27 2000 ccvs-3.3.2-i86-redhat7.tar.gz
2700893 Feb 9 2001 ccvs-3.3.2-rs6k-aix42.tar.gz

(among others) these were apparently related to Red Hat 6.2 and 7.0,
although I don't show any listing on the 6.2 or 7.0 CDs. Perhaps
poking around the Red Hat site might be useful.

Old guy

bradholman · External Since: Sep 15, 2009 Posts: 4

On Sep 16, 2:35 pm, ibupro... DeleteThis @painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin) wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
> <b8613b95-dd76-4279-a1df-1b8f35be8... DeleteThis @33g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>,
>
> bradholman wrote:
>
> NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically
> reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server.
>
> >bradholman <bhol... DeleteThis @cebridge.net> wrote:
> >> I need a red hat distro that contains theCCVScredit card processing
> >> software.
> >I believe that 5.2 includes this software. Where can I find a copy?
>
> Name :CCVS Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version : 2.1.8 Vendor: HKS, Inc.
> Release : 4 Build Date: Thu 08 Oct 1998 06:55:42 AM MST
> Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: roy.hks.net
> Group : Applications Source RPM:CCVS-2.1.8-4.src.rpm
> Size : 2110821 License: commercial
> Signature : (none)
> Packager : Doug DeJulio <d... DeleteThis @hks.net>
> Summary : processes credit card transactions
> Description :CCVSallows you to process credit card transactions in exactly the
> same way that a point-of-sale termnial does. It includes development
> kits for C, TCL/Tk, and Perl, so you can incorporate live credit card
> processing into just about any application.
>
> That's the package description data from the "Vendor Disc Oct 1998",
> so it was included in the 'demo' disk that came with an official
> version. Now, _where_ you're going to find a copy is another matter
> entirely. That's nearly eleven years old, and we long since disposed
> of the CDs. I notice it has a "commercial" license what-ever that
> means, but is a source rpm. The hks.net domain still exists, but it
> looks to be parked and inoperative.
>
> Hmmm... I don't know it this might be helpful, but at sunsite, in
>
> /pub/linux/docs/LuCaS/Postgresql-es/web/navegable/programmer:
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 mirror mirror 4077 Apr 28 2002 ref.ccvs.html
>
> /pub/linux/docs/LuCaS/Postgresql-es/web/navegable/todopostgresql:
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 mirror mirror 3849 Oct 12 2001 ref.ccvs.htm
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 mirror mirror 4112 Apr 28 2002 ref.ccvs.html
>
> I suspect that's something completely different and irrelevant.
> Looking at my other archive directory listings, there _used_to_be_
> a directory on the Red Hat ftp server in August 2001:
>
> drwxrwsr-x 7 mleach ccvs 4096 Mar 28 20:08ccvs/
>
> ./ccvs:
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mleach ccvs 4096 Mar 28 20:08 3.0.3/
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mleach ccvs 4096 Mar 28 20:08 3.2.1/
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mleach ccvs 4096 Mar 28 20:08 3.3/
> drwxrwsr-x 3 mleach ccvs 4096 Aug 28 2000 3.3..1/
> drwxrwsr-x 3 mleach ccvs 4096 Feb 9 2001 3..3.2/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mleach ccvs 5 Jan 3 2001 current -> 3.3.2/
>
> that contained:
>
> 868100 Mar 30 2000ccvs-3.2.1-i86-redhat42.tar.gz
> 962507 Mar 30 2000ccvs-3.2.1-i86-redhat51.tar.gz
> 1075544 Mar 30 2000ccvs-3.2.1-i86-redhat6.tar.gz
> 870591 Mar 30 2000ccvs-3.2.1-i86-suse52.tar.gz
> 1314530 Mar 30 2000ccvs-3.2.1-rs6k-aix42.tar.gz
>
> and
>
> 1269133 Dec 20 2000ccvs-3.3.2-i86-redhat6.tar.gz
> 1260518 Nov 27 2000ccvs-3.3.2-i86-redhat7.tar.gz
> 2700893 Feb 9 2001ccvs-3.3.2-rs6k-aix42.tar.gz
>
> (among others) these were apparently related to Red Hat 6.2 and 7.0,
> although I don't show any listing on the 6.2 or 7.0 CDs. Perhaps
> poking around the Red Hat site might be useful.
>
> Old guy

My issue is that CCVS was installed many years ago at my business,
before I arrived. All configuration information (including license
keys) is gone. We are in a situation where we need to change the
phone number CCVS is using to dial out for our credit card
authorization, but this information is locked in the .CONF file. We
did run the CCVS VIEWCONF utility, which dumped out our config
information, but it does not tell us what our license key information
is. Also, the only other tool we have available is the CCVS Setup
program, which creates a .CONF file and installs CCVS. Since we do
not know the license key information, this utility does us no good.
We don't know of a utility that will modify the .CONF file (to for
instance change the phone number). We are stuck!

Greg Russell · External Since: Mar 10, 2009 Posts: 9

In news:c42f7cca-7eaa-442e-981a-730fc57d1093@o13g2000vbl.googlegroups.com,
bradholman <bholman DeleteThis @cebridge.net> typed:

....
> We are in a situation where we need to change the
> phone number CCVS is using to dial out for our credit card
> authorization, but this information is locked in the .CONF file.
...
> We don't know of a utility that will modify the .CONF file (to for
> instance change the phone number). We are stuck!

strings - filename | grep $phone_number

will show if the phone number exists in the binary file in text form. If it
does, then sed is your friend, e.g.:

sed -e 's|$123$-456-7890|(765)-321-4980|g' filename > newfilename

I've used sed to make such changes on binary files before with great
success, if you take care to replace with the exact same number of
characters.

bradholman · External Since: Sep 15, 2009 Posts: 4

On Sep 21, 3:55 pm, "Greg Russell" <m....RemoveThis@privacy.net> wrote:
> Innews:c42f7cca-7eaa-442e-981a-730fc57d1093@o13g2000vbl.googlegroups.com,
> bradholman <bhol....RemoveThis@cebridge.net> typed:
>
> ...
>
> > We are in a situation where we need to change the
> > phone numberCCVSis using to dial out for our credit card
> > authorization, but this information is locked in the .CONF file.
> ...
> > We don't know of a utility that will modify the .CONF file (to for
> > instance change the phone number). We are stuck!
>
> strings - filename | grep $phone_number
>
> will show if the phone number exists in the binary file in text form. If it
> does, then sed is your friend, e.g.:
>
> sed -e 's|$123$-456-7890|(765)-321-4980|g' filename > newfilename
>
> I've used sed to make such changes on binary files before with great
> success, if you take care to replace with the exact same number of
> characters.

I appreciate the feedback. Unfortunately, the .CONF file appears to
be encrypted. I have loaded it into a hex file editor, and cannot
tease any of the data out of it that I know are contained in the file.

Greg Russell · External Since: Mar 10, 2009 Posts: 9

In news:f58800eb-b8b2-4463-bd22-c1c2290acffc@d21g2000vbm.googlegroups.com,
bradholman <bholman.TakeThisOut@cebridge.net> typed:

> I appreciate the feedback. Unfortunately, the .CONF file appears to
> be encrypted. I have loaded it into a hex file editor, and cannot
> tease any of the data out of it that I know are contained in the file.

What does "file $filename.CONF" return by way of information?

Sometimes these old puzzles can be solved with some diligence and creativity
....

General Schvantzkoph · External Since: Dec 29, 2004 Posts: 1207

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:42:09 -0700, bradholman wrote:

Isn't there a substitute for this application? How can you run your
business on a program that's not supported? Have you got it running in a
virtualized environment or are you counting on 11 year old hardware to
keep running forever?