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From: bpk@evolving.com (Brad Knotwell)
Subject: Problem w/nohup and mksysb
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:43:06 GMT
Organization: Evolving Systems, Inc.
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Hopefully not an FAQ :-).


AIX version: 3.1.5
Problem:     running mksysb in the background with nohup does not work.
Shell:       ksh
Command:     nohup mksysb /dev/rmt0 < cr &
cr:          file containing two carriage returns

BTW: We are running this command remotely.

I have not been able to get this command to work reliably.  Sometimes
it works (nohup.out says it was successful), sometimes it stops and
must be terminated, sometimes it appears to be working but never really
starts.


Brad Knotwell 				bpk@evolving.com
Evolving Systems, Inc.			   	
Denver, CO

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: brad@spike.insci.com (Brad Segal)
Subject: Packaging software on AIX
Organization: INSCI Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:39:49 GMT

I need to write a packaging/installation program to automate
our comapny's on-site installations. The extent of my knowledge is that
this procedure is performed through Smit. What are some of the tools that I 
can use to create a package installable through Smit? Please e-mail....
Thanks for you help.
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From: op@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Olaf  Pors)
Subject: Re: Backups for RS/6000
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:57:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.153018.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.152645.28406@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, op@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Olaf  Pors) writes:
>>>I have to backup my RS/6000 model 220 before a disaster occurs.
>> 
>>   See the discussions in pub/rs6000/rootvg.restores on
>> uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU.
>
>   Olaf, how "current" is the information listed there.  Dates seem
>   to be mostly August/September.  Nothing newer?  b.
>
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>       The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada  N6A 5B7

  The postings are the most recent information.
I've heard nothing in response to my DCR.  However,
I've just now updated the boot tape software in
pub/rs6000/boottape.2.tar.Z to reflect a recent change to
allow boot tapes to be made for a machine without a tape
drive.

Olaf Pors
Academic Computing Center/ITC
University of Virginia
op@Virginia.EDU
From: polk@Metaphor.COM (Ben Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: DNS resolver problems
Date: 28 Jan 93 20:52:45 GMT
Reply-To: polk@Metaphor.COM (Ben Polk)
Organization: m4

I've seen awful performance in this area also, but
don't have a workaround for it.  Please let me know
if you hear anything.

Thanks,

Ben Polk
polk@metaphor.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dchen@vicstoy.UUCP (Daixiang Chen)
Subject: Shared Library for C++ Classes, How?
Organization: vicstoy: Public Access Unix, Orlando, FL
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:01:49 GMT

Specifically for the following C++ code

	=========== try.C ===

	class example {
	public:
		print();
	};

	example::print()
	{
		printf("Do nothing\n");
	}

How to make the try.o a shared library? If the export file is need 
(as needed for C functions) how to say 
"export class example or export class::print" in export file format?

We use XL C++ 1.0, run AIX 3.2.2, I don't have the C++ compiler's user guide.
Any suggestions or ideas are welcome



D. Chen
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From: fuat@news.ans.net (Fuat C. Baran)
Subject: Re: top command on aix?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:09:35 GMT
Organization: Advanced Network & Services, Inc.

In article <01050810.oqc78c@mbeckman.mbeckman.com> mbeckman@mbeckman.com writes:

>I don't have this problem on AIX 3.2. IBM must have fixed it (although I
>can't imagine why they were tampering with the output part of the ps program
>in the first place!). 

Probably tinkering with it to add the "-F Format" support (cool!).

						--Fuat


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From: jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II)
Subject: Re: Question -- gdb 4.7 crashing our rs/6000's
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:33:26 GMT
Organization: AIX Software Support, Austin, Republica de Tejas

In article <9170@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> jonathan@CAD.UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Katz) writes:
|Perhaps someone out there will be able to help me.  We currently have
|a group of RS/6000 machines.  One 520 acting as a /usr server and 3 320h
|clients.  Our OS is 3.2.2.
|
|Here is the problem.  When we try to run gdb-4.7 (from GNU) our machine
|dies.  The 888 error is 102-300.  The crash occurs when we try to 
|run the program.  I.E., start gdb, it loads a.out, we type 'run' and
|the system dies.
|
|This has only been attempted on the client systems and only with 4.7.
|
|Any suggestions, similar experiences, etc.?

Call the 800 number and ask for U412815.  It will give you a new /unix
which has this bug fixed.

The problem has to do with ptrace()'ing a file where the data size is
larger (smaller?) than the text size.
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From: stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger)
Subject: How to install a 220 from a install server
Keywords: install 200 server
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:04:52 GMT

Does anybody know how to install a 220 via the net?

I tried a few things that work fine for a 530, but didn't get over
the initial setup menu.

I want to do the installation without any media. Is this possible?

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From: copeland@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey Copeland)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM for audio
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:41:31 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University
Keywords: CD-ROM, Audio


I started to convert xcdplayer, but gave up.  Since I'm also root I just use
play.  The problem (If I can remember) was in trying to find register and/or
port flags/addresses for the cd-rom.  If someone could get ahold of the source
code for IBM's play it shouldn't be too difficult,  I just couldn't 
locate the appropriate header files.

Jeff Copeland -- Atmospheric Science
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From: jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II)
Subject: Re: * IDLE OUT ON RS/6000 *
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:37:10 GMT
Organization: AIX Software Support, Austin, Republica de Tejas

In article <117@DSM530.UUCP> sts@DSM530.UUCP (sts) writes:
>A common strategy is to SIGHUP, wait, SIGTERM, wait, SIGKILL.

It is assumed that the person (or process ...) asking to have everything
nuked wants it done right away.  The revoke/frevoke calls are used to
remove trojan horses and other things that go bump in the night.  They
aren't supposed to be used as a general part of process management ...
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From: kate@wavefront.wti.com (Kathy Samec)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: NIS(YP) and AIX
Date: 20 Jan 93 19:15:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Wavefront Technologies Inc, Santa Barbara, CA

I have heard that AIX 3.2 has some problems with NIS. What have any of you
seen with regards to serving or as a client?

Thanks

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From: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM (Frank Kraemer)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 09:50:23 CET
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re. AIX Function Equivalent To VM's "RETRIEVE" Function
         Re: AIX Function Equivalent To VM's "RETRIEVE" Function
Reply-To: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM
Organization: IBM Germany, BO-89 ACIS South
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: Usenet 3.0

Ron Wigmore <SYST8103@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> writes:

>On a VM system we can set up a PFkey to recall any commands just
>entered *AND* modify them.  AIX's 'history function' only lets me
>re-issue commands just entered *unmodified*.

Try,

$ set -o emacs  # for emacs command line editing

  use <Ctrl-p>  # retrieve the last line
  use <Ctrl-b>  # move one character backwards
  use <Ctrl-f>  # move one character forwards
  use <Ctrl-d>  # delete one character
  use <Ctrl-a>  # move cursor to the first character
  use <Ctrl-e>  # move cursor to end of line
  use <......>  #

$ set -o vi     # for vi style command line editing

  <try yourself>

-frank-








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From: daler@Armstrong.EDU (Dale Reagan)
Subject: "cannont open /vdl6384/unix" message?
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:53:30 GMT

After a shutdown the above message is displayed by an RS6000 box...
I am headed for the manuals and would appreciate any pointers...

I can go in using the maintenance disk and the partitions seem to
be fine...

Thanks!
Reply via mail/news.

:)
Dale
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From: elrick@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Bruce Elrick)
Subject: Re: IBM 7206 DAT - notes
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:06:27 GMT

In article <107748@bu.edu> amelcuk@buphy.bu.edu (Andre Melcuk) writes:
>For the people who are wondering:
>I'm using the DAT drive with a 340, the internal 1G drive and a slow
>external Toshiba.
>2. Tapes: The IBM tapes work fine. They are Part No. 21F8758, $25 each
>   Maxell makes a tape that looks identical to the IBM one (including the
>      Media Recognition System stripes). They work just as well, price
>      $16 to $13 from APS (800) 443-4461
>   Non Media Recognition System tapes (i.e., 3M, Sony, etc) that are still
>      data certified can be used by flipping a switch on the drive itself
>      (read the service manual - you will have to open the unit up). Haven't
>      tried it myself.
I wouldn't recommend flipping the switch.  I tried on our 320 with Sony
'computer grade' DDS tapes.  I was able to do a small tar and restore it
but the system backup died a half GB into it with a rather non-descript
i/o error---the drive had the 'disturbance' light on which means it thinks
the heads are dirty.  Even after cleaning it several times it didn't work.

The service person couldn't figure out what was wrong so she decided
to flip back the switch---in consultation with her support she said if
I decided to flip it then the warranty would be void.  Anyway, it
worked on the full system backup (1.2 GB) although I haven't tried
booting from that yet.

Cheers...
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From: tye@spillman.uucp (E. Tye McQueen)
Subject: Re: Is there Purify for RS/6000?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:18:41 GMT
Organization: Spillman Data Systems
Keywords: Purify

pkim@gagme.chi.il.us (Peter Kim) writes:
)Is there Purify or something like it for RS/6000? I asked someone what
)purify was and this was his answer:
)
[...]
)as info@pure.com, and phone # (408)720-1600.

Call them.  They would know.  Last time I called them they only had
a Sun Sparc version and were working on an HP version and were planning
to start on the RS/6000 version after that.  I suspect they will not
have an RS/6000 version before the end of the year.

They also will be happy to E-mail you a comparison of their product
and the SENTINEL Debugging Environment (mentioned in another follow-up)
so you can decide which is right for you.

 tye@spillman.com                         Tye McQueen, E.
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From: jwang@sys.toronto.edu (Jingwen Wang)
Subject: top command on aix?
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:16:12 GMT

   Is there a command similar to "top" on aix?  This command is useful to
find out which processes are consuming most of the cpu time.

Thanks.

jwang

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Subject: Re: Copying DOS files.
From: dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:56:12 GMT
Organization: Weizmann Institute of Science, Computation Center.
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tye@spillman.uucp (E. Tye McQueen) writes:
: [stuff deleted]
:
: And SCO's and System V R4's doscp is far superior to IBM's dosread/
: doswrite.  You can do:
:
:         doscp a:file1.dat b:file1.bak
:
There is the mtools public domain package which provides mcopy, mdir, mdel,
mformat, etc. I don't remember where I originally got it from but it is
available by anonymous ftp from my machine somewhere (menora.weizmann.ac.il:
/pub/??)

It works beatifully and is much, much faster than the IBM provided tools.

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From: newman@otto.ycc.yale.edu (Andrew Newman)
Subject: FDDI configuration and the RS/6000
Organization: Yale University
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:47:23 GMT

Greetings,

We recently took shipment of 6 RS6000/560s each with FDDI Single Ring
Cards in them.  These machines run AIX 3.2.2.  Acting on early
information, a series of cables were ordered that had FDDI flat
connectors on one end and a pair of ST connectors on the other.  The
idea was that you could create a passive ring by wiring the transmit
side of one into the receive side of it's neighbor and form a large
daisy chain.  I can't get this to work.

A support person from IBM Austin told me that the only two plausable
(supported?) configurations were:

	1. Attaching all 6 machines to an intelligent hub.
	2. Purchasing the FDDI Dual Ring Upgrade Kit which is
	   purported to have a second FDDI flat connector bulkhead
	   on it.  (And producing an FDDI <--> FDDI cable to
	   daisy chain the machines)

Our local sales rep. received information conflicting information
from AIX Systems Support that suggested the passive ring WOULD
work.  Their solution looked logically just like mine but involved
a whole collection of IBM parts in lieu of the custom cables we
had made.

Sooo.....

What's the story?  Does anyone have an FDDI ring made up of RS/6000s
that resembles any of these?  I've fallen into a chasm of conflicting
information (and can't get up??).  Any help and/or war stories would
be appreciated.


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From: jgc@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov (Jack Craven)
Subject: how to stop printer queue from stopping
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:13:51 GMT

I have a printer connected to the Parallel port. From time to time the
printer is switched (black box switch)to another system and if a print
request comes up while the printer is switched to the other system the
print queue dies and has to be restarted after the printer is switched back.

How does one setup the queue not to stop while the printer is down.

Thanks - jgc@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov

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From: rpcfod@worldbank.org (Robert Patt-Corner)
Subject: Re: IBM 7206 DAT - notes
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: The World Bank
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:45:33 GMT

Any idea if other SCSI DAT's (WangDAT) will work?  It sounds as if they
should if I:

1. Get the SCSI EPROM upgraded so the device is recognized at boot, and
2. Get the software upgrades to AIX

Anybody tried?
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From: accapadi@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Matt Accapadi)
Subject: Re: Crash - "Data Storage Interrupt, Processor"
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:37:34 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <26Jan.160615.17499@quay.ie> chris@quay.ie (Christopher Davey) writes:
>
>Model 320H AIX 3.2.0
>
>Has anyone had a crash like this before ? The only significant 
>change to the machine in the last six months is that a 2GB Seagate
>disk was added 5 days ago.
>
>Help
>Chris

This can be caused by any one of a million things. You need to look at
the dump to determine the cause. First execute "sysdumpdev -L".
That will tell you the dump device it dumped to and whether it was successful
at dumping it. Then dd the dump image off the dump device - it's a lot faster
than running crash on the dump device directly.  For example,
   dd if=/dev/hd7 of=dumpfile
where in this case /dev/hd7 was the dump device. The output file (in this
case I called it dumpfile) will be the same size as the size of your dump
logical volume (ie. /dev/hd7), so make sure you have enough room for this.

Then run "crash dumpfile". Once within crash, there are many things you could
do depending on the crash. You might start by typing in "trace" or "t". That
will give you a stack trace for the currently running process.  Type in 
"user" or "u" for more detailed information on the current process.

You'll have to call support or post what you've found so far to determine
what to do from here on.
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From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: top command on aix?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 16:35:19 PST
Organization: Beckman Software Engineering
Reply-To: mbeckman@mbeckman.com
Distribution: world
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In article <1993Jan26.141611.19688@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> (comp.unix.aix), jwang@sys.toronto.edu (Jingwen Wang) writes:
> 
>    Is there a command similar to "top" on aix?  This command is useful to
> find out which processes are consuming most of the cpu time.


You can make an alias for the Korn shell to do this:

 alias top = '(ps u | head -1; ps aux | grep -v PID | sort +2r)'

Put this statement in your .profile (I think it will work there) or put
it in a file and run it using the dot-space operation:

    . topalias  (where topalias is the file containing the above alias stmt)

(Note the space after the dot! This is telling the shell to run the command
in the current environment instead of creating a subshell, in which case
you'd lose the alias upon return).

  -mel

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From: wek@point.uucp (Bill Kuykendall)
Subject: RS/6000 to IBM 4680 POS Connectivity
Organization: The Point BBS
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 17:48:09 GMT

I am currently seeking any and all information about LAN-based 
communications options between the RS/6000 and the IBM 4680 Point of Sale 
system.

What I need specifically is:
	o File transfer ability.  Bidirectional preferred, 4680->RS/6k 
	  required.  Ability to test existence of a 4680 file from the 
	  RS/6k would be an unending delight.
	o LAN speed.  The file sizes and time window preclude serial or 
	  sync/serial options.
	o Reasonable cost.  I have an immediate need for this solution in 
	  several hundred installations, with a potential requirement for 
	  thousands.  

What I would like to see:
	o Best of all worlds would be PC-LAN client for the RS/6000.  The 
	  4680 currently acts as a PC-LAN server via netbios.  This 
	  solution would not necessitate any program or environment 
	  changes in the 4680, and would therefore involve minimal 
	  intrusion into the mission-critical POS device.
	o Second best would be a TCP/IP stack for the 4680.  IBM makes one 
	  but last I checked it cost megabucks.  Anybody else make one?
	o Third choice would be custom client(RS6k)/server(4680) nodes 
	  that implement any file xfer protocol using netbios over
	  token ring or ethernet.  Last choice would be the same
	  functionality via any protocol on LAN media.
 
What I am willing to pay:

I'll leave this one dangling for the moment.  Suffice it to say that I am 
looking for commercial software and have no expectation of a net freebie.  
I am willing to pay up to the amount that it currently costs me to NOT 
have this connectivity (which is less than any solution IBM has offered 
me.)

In the event that a commercial package does not exist within these 
parameters, I am willing to create one, and will be shopping for a 
contractor to write it.  If you have the requisite skills and 
availability, I would like to hear from you.

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Where to contact me:
Reply to this account (wek@point.uucp) or call:
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