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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:09:20 -0400 
From: Gary Keim <gk5g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Compiling Andrew on AIX 3.2 - no go!

Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aix: 13-Oct-92 Compiling Andrew on AIX
3.2.. Nathan D. Lane@well.sf.c (1725)

> I am trying to compile the latest version of Andrew, the one that has been
> mentioned on this newsgroup several times, on an AIX 3.2 system, specifically
a model 220. 

There is a mail address for reporting such problems:
info-andrew-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu.  The released sources don't build
cleanly on 3.2 but with a little tweaking, and handholding, they will.

Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aix: 13-Oct-92 Compiling Andrew on AIX
3.2.. Nathan D. Lane@well.sf.c (1725)

> I have compiled "imake", and that works okay to make the makefiles.

The AIX3.1, and I believe 3.2, imake has a bug.  Can someone confirm
that the R4 imake.c incorrectly #includes INCLUDE_IMAKEFILE:

 * Theory of operation:
 *   1. Determine the name of the imakefile from the command line (-f)
 *	or from the content of the current directory (Imakefile or imakefile).
 *	Call this <imakefile>.  This gets added to the arguments for
 *	make as MAKEFILE=<imakefile>.
 *   2. Determine the name of the template from the command line (-T)
 *	or the default, Imake.template.  Call this <template>
 *   3. Start up cpp an provide it with three lines of input:
 *		#define IMAKE_TEMPLATE		"<template>"
 *		#define INCLUDE_IMAKEFILE	"<imakefile>"

In the version currently coming from MIT, that last line is:

 *		#define INCLUDE_IMAKEFILE	< <imakefile> >
 
For your output, it looks like the INSTALL Make macro is not defined. 
Send me your site files and the top-level Makefile that is generated. 
Oh yeah, what version of sources are you using.

Gary Keim
Andrew Consortium
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps)
Subject: Re: gto i-2 hardware option
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 11:21:48 GMT
Distribution: comp
Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY

Hopefully this gets out to the outside world; i'm having news-software trouble..

In article <19928.4577.14498@dosgate>, "harry tempelman" <harry.tempelman@canrem.com> writes:
|> Can anyone enlighten me on the following topic.
|> 
|> GTO - High Resolution Colour Graphics Device.
|>       The hardware option in question on this device is called
|>       I-2 & the purpose is to enhance the graphics performance.
|> 
|> 3 Questions:
|> 
|> - Does release #21 (JUN/93) of PGDS support this I-2 hardware option?

I think its gto-2i, but i could be wrong; i just work on 'em.. i don't name them!
Anyhow, PDGS will utilize the 2i hardware; the AntiAliasing performance increases
quite a bit.  In fact, PDGS was the driving force for the AntiAliasing performance
improvement.

|> 
|> - As far as new GTO boards, will it include the I-2 option?

I believe that you have to order the gto-2i to get this.  

|> 
|> - If installed, can CATIA use this I-2 hardware option or will it
|>   interfere with CATIA's graphics?

Catia will take advantage of the increased shading performance, but not the
 antialiasing; Catia doesn't do antialiased lines as far as i know.  In any 
 event, the 2i will not interfere with any existing apps; its changes are 
 transparent to the api interface.

|> 
|> Any response is appreciated.....

If this isn't clear, followup and i'll try to clarify.

|> 
|> Harry Tempelman 
|> APEX METALS INC.
|> 
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|> --
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michael (my opinions.. all mine) via inews
From: jew@rt.sunquest.com (/87336)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Nobody uses PS/2 AIX?  Guess again! (Was Re: >PS/2 AIX article - horror story)
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:24:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Sunquest Information Systems
In-reply-to: wcs@NeoSoft.com's message of 9 Oct 92 20:36:41 GMT

We have 50+ PS/2 AIX systems installed at client sites all over the
US.  Some are 1.2, some 1.2.1.  Actually one of our more reliable
platforms.  After fixing the daily script to clean up file space, we
almost never hear about them.
--
jew@sunquest.com

Every purchase has its price.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Moving my /usr filesystem?
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 22:57:02 GMT

In article <9210091722.AA12775@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> VRBASS@ATLVMIC1.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
>ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes
>> ... attempts to move a filesystem to a new disk deleted ...
>
>The simplest way is to use the command "migratepv", which moves all
>the parts of a filesystem from one disk to another.

This actually works very nicely, though I'm not sure how well it would work
for a basic system filesystem like /usr. Maybe as long as you keep it within
rootvg, you're OK. 

We used it on some RS/6000-560's which came with 3 1-GB disks and rootvg 
spread across all of them. This command allowed us to move all the system 
stuff onto hdisk0 and free up the other two to be put in our own vg.

Where we *did* run into problems was on removing the two disks from rootvg.
On every system, the first disk removed hung, regardless of whether or not we 
told it to first deallocate all existing logical volume partitions (of which 
there were none by that time anyway). In each case, we wound up having to 
abort it, edit the ODM database by hand (!), reboot the system, and do it 
again. The second time around, and on the second disk, it always worked. IBM 
could give us no clue.

>Sounds like you have screwed up your /etc/filesystems, resulting in
>bogus reports from "df".  Go look at it and see if there aren't
>redundant entries with the same device name.

More likely that something somewhere in the boot-time scripts/programs has
"hd2" hardwired into it for /usr, or that the ODM is confused.

What *I* would really like to do is move /tmp in with /usr, where I have lots
of extra space after deleting info, but I have already been told by AIX support
that this can't be done. I wanted to make /tmp a symlink to /usr/tmp, rather
than a whole separate filesystem large enough to accommodate big print jobs, 
but apparently this isn't allowed ...
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Subject: Re: The alleged AIX /etc/bootpd
NntpPostingHost: cdsac
Date: 13 Oct 1992 17:43:00 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA

In article <1992Oct12.211445.16065@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> csfed@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Frank E. Doss / Academic Computing) writes:
>I am trying to use my RS/6Ks as bootp servers.  The man page suggests that
>the driver should live in /etc.  However, I cannot find the little daemon.

Here's the entry for bootpd on our system:

$ ls l /etc/bootpd
[trimmed for space]   16 Jul 30 00:37 /etc/bootpd@ > /usr/sbin/bootpd*


$ ls l /usr/sbin/bootpd
rwxrxrx   1 bin      bin        34833 Jul 29 23:17 /usr/sbin/bootpd*


Are you just missing the symbolic link?

 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		      CableData  Research Center
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
				KC6NFP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.shell
From: mhmann@nyx.cs.du.edu (Me Mann)
Subject: vi in bash
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 20:58:13 GMT


Hi :

I have compiled bash-1.12 from prep.ai.mit.edu for an RS6000.
The shell works but I have problem with vi. When I  run vi
it comes up with a strange window size (8 lines) and
it also echos the keyboard.. so everything appears twice.
(I have set and export TERM  vt100 ).  If Iinstead of bash
as the default shell, I use csh everything is ok.
Can someone tell me what's wrong and suggest what I ca do 
to correct this.  Could it be my terminfo are not right?
Thanks

_Mann
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.questions
From: markus@dxcern.cern.ch (Markus Baertschi)
Subject: Re: Managing Data using Volume Groups
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:15:08 GMT

In <199210162152.AA21414@tuna.wang.com> SYD.FARBER@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Syd M. Farber") writes:

>I am in the process of configuring a RS6000 and would like to know if it is
>feasable to manage data in a single volume group or to set up multiple volume
>groups.  For example, a volume group for application software, a volume group
>for application data, a volume group for paging, and a volume group for the
>system software.  Can someone please tell me the advantages and disadvantages
>to creating multiple volume groups.  Thank you for your help.

>Please email your information or recommendations.
>       Syd.Farber@office.wang.com

  Syd,

  I would recommend you create two volume groups: One for the operating
system and one for applications software and user data. I don't think it
makes sense to create too many volume groups. This somehow defeats the
advantages of the logical volume manager. Take enough disk space (400M or
more) for the rootvg and hold the boot-, /, /usr, /var and paging volumes
in there and assign the rest to a second volume group to hold your 
applications and /home. If you don't have a large number of disk space
to manage (>5-10G) I would not split it into more vg's.

  Markus
-- 
  Markus Baertschi				| markus@oahu.cern.ch
  CERN (European Particle Research Center)
  Geneva, Switzerland
From: larose@dinah.cs.utk.edu (Brian LaRose)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: osf on RIOS boxes.
Followup-To: larose@cs.utk.edu
Date: 11 Oct 92 16:21:35 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: larose@dinah.cs.utk.edu (Brian LaRose)
NNTP-Posting-Host: dinah.cs.utk.edu
Keywords: osf, AIX.


Has anybody (save IBM employees) installed osf on a risc/6000 box?
We are sick to death of AIX and want it to go away forever.  We're
looking for feedback from osf users on the rioses.   Is it better?
worse?  I know this is a religous thing, so e-mail will do so
we don't get into  aix.vs.osf.net.flame.war.

many thanks!

-brian



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    | Brian LaRose |  974-3647          |
    | Ayres 217    |  larose@cs.utk.edu |
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener)
Subject: Re: Not a TTY errors?
Reply-To: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 12:40:29 GMT

In article <263@sabus.UUCP>, tim@sabus.UUCP (Tim Brown) writes:
|> Since upgrading to AIX 3.2 I have noticed that several "at" and cron
|> jobs fail or don't run right and sometimes I get "not a tty error" in
|> my output.  Does anyone know what is wrong and how to fix this?
|> 
|> Thanks
|> Tim Brown
|> 
|> -- 
|> Tim Brown
|> The SABUS Group
|> 2091 Cliffside Dr.		Anchorage, Alaska 99501
|> (907)277-4232			tim%sabus@uunet.uu.net

Do they source your .profile or rc-file for your shell?
Sounds like "TERMTYPE=`tty | grep hft`" or something like that, which
fails when your process is not associated with a terminal.

        tty -s
        if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
            TERMTYPE=`tty | grep hft`
            ....
        fi

might help in that case.
-- 
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Institute for Physical Chemistry            FAX:   +41 31 65 44 99
University of Berne
Switzerland                                 haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: elder@ecf.toronto.edu (ELDER J David)
Subject: AIX 3.2 Upgrade ... Some advice please?
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:44:25 GMT


Hi there! Like many of you I am now going through the woes of upgrading
to 3.2/3.2.1/3.2.2 (why not do it all at once?) and, as expected, I have
run into more difficulties than I wanted and wasted much more time than
I think it should be worth (kudos to IBM since most of it is their 
responsibility). My first question is how do I get enough space to 
install the OS? /usr is now 215 Mb (This seems much too large for any
Operating system and this does NOT include the infoexplorer files
that are mounted on another filesystem.) I tried to be somewhat 
selective in applying fixes and enhancements, however the filesystem
just seems to keep on growing. Furthermore, the entries on the
tape appear to be labelled simply bos.obj (few have an additional
descriptive line and for those that do - I usually want them for 
present or future purposes.) Are there really any modifications to
something called the "Base Operating System" that I don't want?
Similarly, the packages bosnet, bosadt and X11rte seem to me rather
important and thus corerctions and improvements to these should be applied.

BTW ... I have a RS6000/320 with a 320Mb internal disk where I am 
trying to put the OS and a couple of other disks configured as separate
volume groups. (It is currently running 3.2.0 with a variety of 
updates applied (Does the serial number ever change to 3.2.1?))

In short, I am looking for data on what should be applied and how 
large /usr can get as well as what I can delete. The largest size
/usr can be on my machine is 230Mb (without moving the /tmp 
logical volume to another drive/volume group. BTW...I had it set up
this way under 3.1.5 (/tmp in another VG) and this resulted in 
a preservation installation being impossible - though of course the
IBM Customer Support was completely clueless - I had to go through
archives of this newsgroup to find out what was wrong.)

Thanks, any responses will be very appreciated.

David


-- 
David Elder                                University of Toronto
                                           Institute for Aerospace Studies
elder@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu               Fusion Research Group 
stange@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.shell
From: mhmann@nyx.cs.du.edu (Me Mann)
Subject: Re: vi in bash (Problem Solved)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 01:32:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.205813.20353@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mhmann@nyx.cs.du.edu (Me Mann) writes:
>
>Hi :
>
>I have compiled bash-1.12 from prep.ai.mit.edu for an RS6000.
>The shell works but I have problem with vi. When I  run vi
>it comes up with a strange window size (8 lines) and
>it also echos the keyboard.. so everything appears twice.
>(I have set and export TERM  vt100 ).  If Iinstead of bash
>as the default shell, I use csh everything is ok.
>Can someone tell me what's wrong and suggest what I ca do 
>to correct this.  Could it be my terminfo are not right?
>Thanks
>
>_Mann

Thanks for those whose responded.  The problem was using
bash that was compiled on an RS6000 running AIX 3.1 on an
RS6000 running AIX 3.2.  The problem vanished after
recompiling bash on the RS6000 running AIX 3.2. Another 
eccentricity of AIX I guess 8).

Thanks
-Mann


Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Survey... RS/6000
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 21:51:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.174343.48028@slate.mines.colorado.edu> bware@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Bob Ware) writes:
>bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ( Hari Seldon ... psychohistorian) writes:
>: In <1992Oct7.213852.7050@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> jogi@austin.ibm.com (Vijay Joglekar) writes:
>: 
>: >I need your help.  I am trying to find out what kind of problems
>: >you folks face with you RS/6000.  Did you have any tools that helped you
>: >to solve the problem?  If not what would they be.
>: 
>Smit and the odm are great up to a point.  But when something does not
>work right, it becomes a real turkey.  A frequent answer I get is
>"reload the system from backup tape", 

Which of course is a completely unacceptable response.

Half the time this happens because something got out of sync and the system 
can't boot.

Here's an idea: a sanity check of the system files and databases during 
shutdown (yeah, I know, it doesn't take long enough now) to be sure that the 
system will be able to reboot the next time. It must give you the option to 
abort the shutdown if it finds any problems (and preferably tell you what 
they are) so you have a chance to fix them. 

Naturally, something like this really must work if it's to be of any use.
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
From: perrottib@cpva.saic.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: <None>
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:29:26 PST
Organization: Science Applications Int'l Corp./San Diego










Does anyone know where I can purchase a graphical rendering
package for our company's 6000/530? Ideally, the package will
work like "Infinity" on the Macintosh. It should also  take advantage
of our RISC station's high performance 3D 24 bit color graphics
processor and Z buffer card. Thanks in advance for any info.

perrottib@torva.saic.com

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: geuder@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Uwe Geuder)
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2 MIT X11/R4 xterm
Organization: IPVR, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:30:13 GMT

Pat> invoke an xterm, it comes up not recognizing ENTER, and I need
Pat> to "stty sane ^J" to get things to behave.  What's everyone else
Pat> doing about this (besides running R5 - that's a little more fuss 
Pat> than I can deal with at this point)?

We are using R5. Although Enter has always been working, I wouldn't
call our default terminal settings sane either. Where do these
defaults come from? It appears to me that they should come from the
pty-driver. Can they be changed?

Some values can be overridden with either the -tm option or ttyModes
resource (in R5 at least). I'm not sure whether the possibilities offered
there are sufficient for the strange behaviour Pat mentioned.
--
Uwe Geuder, geuder@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Anonymous ftp site creation?
From: graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Graeme Moffat)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 07:27:10 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen) writes:

>There's a script in /usr/lpp/tcpip/samples called "anon.ftp" that sets up
>your system for anonymous ftp.  Some of the things the generic unix book
>might not include that this does is the copying of the shared libraries,
>message catalog, and national language support files.  One thing to check,
>however, is the protection on the pub directory- you may want to change it
>from 777 if don't want people to be able to drop off files anonymously.

And don't have the ftp directory (or any other) owned by 'ftp'. That's the
userid of the anonymous ftp'er!  I believe the anon.ftp script with 3.2
corrects this problem.

-- 
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Computer Aided Design Centre,  Fax: +64-9-366-0702 /  our bodies & our wits
School of Engineering,    Ph: +64-9-737-999 x8384 /  But we waste time,
University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, NZ \   so time & we are quits
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rasumner@zeno21.math.UWaterloo.ca (Reuben Sumner)
Subject:  Performance on 220s
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:55:44 GMT

The university of waterloo has a lab of 30 RISC/6000s each one is a
220 with 16 megs of ram and an internal 400meg HD which holds all of the
programs and the operating system itself. Users home directories are NFS mounted
as well as the man pages. The problem is performance, to give an example
executing ps takes consistenly over 4 seconds (as reported by both time
and my stopwatch). Does this performance seem reasonable? If not could anyone
give me an idea of what is causing it to be so poor. My one thought is that
it is paging everything, however, I don't hear the hard drive going and I
don't know how to determine how often it is paging. Any ideas? I am just a
frosh here but it seems to me that it shouldn't take 25.9 SPECmarks 4 seconds
to tell me what is running.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rick@mel1.geg.mot.com (Rick Rankin)
Subject: Re: How to change number of pty's?
Organization: Motorola, inc. - Scottsdale, AZ
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:06:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.035700.29498@colorado.edu> cary@aurora.Colorado.EDU (John R. Cary) writes:

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   From: cary@aurora.Colorado.EDU (John R. Cary)
   Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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   I would like to increase the number of pty's on aix3.2
   on an rs6000/320.  The problem is that I always get that
   the pty is busy, and I am not allowed (via smit) to change
   the number.  I thought of the following possible method:
   change the pty to be unavailable at the next reboot, reboot,
   change the number, change to be available at the next
   reboot, reboot.  Will this work?  Is there an easier way?

   .
   -- 
   --------------------------
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   Department of Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences
   University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0391
   ph. (303) 492-1489                                   fax (303) 492-0642


I have seen this as well.  Run "ps -ef".  If there are any processes
attached to a pty (i.e., the TTY is listed as pts/?), then the pty is
indeed busy.  In general, X-Windows and remote logins use ptys, as
well as many other process.  All of these must be killed.

It may not always be the case, but I have in general found that if
"ps -ef" doesn't show any processes attached to a pty, then I can
manipulate them in SMIT.  Hope this helps.

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From: aroby@andersen.co.uk (Tony Roby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Debuging Segmentation Violation Fault
Keywords: Segmentation Violation
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:50:01 GMT
Organization: Andersen Consulting (UK Practice)

In article <1992Aug14.040021.25316@mcs.kent.edu> 
jhuang@Chaos.mcs.kent.edu (Jing Huang) writes:
>:>
>:>	I have this HUGE C program (20,000 lines). Everything worked fine
>:>until the other day I added a few (about 10) lines to it. Then all of a sudden,
>:>it keeps giving me this "segmentation violation". I ran "dbx" to see if I can
>:>get some clue, it gave me something like:
>:>
>:>segmentation violation in malloc_y at 0xd00d43f0
>:>0xd00d43f0 (malloc_y+0x2a8) 7c7c45aa       stsi   r3,r28,0x8

We recently obtained a library of routines called malloclib from the Free
Software Foundation.  This produces detailed reports of malloc problems.  Try
getting this library and compiling your code against it.


Tony
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