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From: changj@nova.cs.rpi.edu (John Chang)
Subject: loggin in disabled for certain group ID - help?
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:20:19 GMT


Hi,

We have a RS-6000 running AIX 3.01, running as a NFS/NIS client off a SUN
server.  Suddenly recently, without anything changing to my knowledge, it
stopped allowing accounts with a certain group ID number to log in, with
the message "failed setting terminal ownership and mode".  We have "+:"
at the end of /etc/group file so it should be getting these information
via YP, and it seems to work for all the other accounts (no problem loggin
in).  We worked around the problem by adding that particular group into
/etc/group, but I still would like to know what may have caused the problem.
Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks for any replies.


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From: jf@edv6000.tuwien.ac.at (Josef Fritscher (58801-5505))
Subject: Re: Help w/xrn6-17
Reply-To: fritscher@edvz.tuwien.ac.at
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:36:53 GMT

In article <4903@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>, feats@feats.cc.vt.edu writes:
|> I have tried to MAKE the xrn6-17 application on my RS/6000-220 with the
|> following results:
|> 
|>      0706-317 ERROR:  Unresolved or undefined symbols detected:
|> 
|>                       .regcmp
|>                       .regex
|> 
|> 
|> When I did a grep 'regcmp' *.c or grep 'regex' *.c the two undefined
|> symbols appear in cursor.c and buttons.c.  I tried finding these two
|> symbols in various header files so that I might fix the problem.
|> 
|> Where might these symbols be located (which headers) and what are the
|> associated libs that I need to access so the xrn6-17 application can be
|> created on my machine?

I don't know why, but they are in libPW.a, so you've to add -lPW at the
right place in the Makefile.

- Joe
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From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AARRRRGG!  No one can answer this question!!!
Date: 29 Jul 92 07:59:56 GMT
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

In article <76531@ut-emx.uucp> ddt@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Taylor) writes:
|>: Were the IBM developers so boneheaded as to *not* memory
|>: map the display? 
|>
|>Believe it or not, many modern graphics displays aren't memory-mapped.
|
|I choose not to believe it.  IBM PC's and Sun SparcStations are memory
|mapped.  That's a healthy start and accounts for the most popular PC's
|and workstations in the world.  

Well, that's the low end.  How about at the high end?  For example, 
does SGI memory map? (Just asking, I don't know.)  

See, the argument that says, "low end 2-D consumer grade systems all use
memory mapping, therefore 3-D million-vectors-per-second systems should,
too" is specious.  Different requirements and performance points may imply
different design choices.  

As for the contention that fast general-purpose processors makes the need for
special-purpose graphics coprocessors vanish:  I don't think so ... since
the same advances in techology that make GP processors faster from year
to year effect special-purpose coprocessors in the same way.  If a coprocessor
is faster than a GP processor today, chances are it'll be that way 2 years 
from now, too.  Remember, the i860 (a popular chip for building MP
systems) was designed as a graphics coprocessor, NOT as a general purpose
computer.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Equivalent of BSD Cbreak mode in POSIX line discipline?
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:01:00 GMT
Organization: IBM Corp., Austin TX.

| mberkley@sirius.uvic.ca (J. Michael Berkley) writes:
|Does anybody know what the equivalent of BSD cbreak mode is when using
|POSIX line discipline?

I'm not sure about the problem that's talked about in this post, but
please be aware that we are considering dropping *all* other line
disciplines, in favor of POSIX line discipline, in future releases.

comments?
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From: richter@ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: When was it really created?
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:25:49 GMT
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany

scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons) writes:
>>Does anyone know how to get the real (untouched, untouchable) file
>>creation time of a file in AIX? Do I have to create a database of my own
>>with time first seen and checksum? Has anyone else solved this problem?
>
>Every UNIX file has three timestamps associated with it: time of
>CREATION, time of last MODIFICATION, and time of last ACCESS (includes
>open for read).

This is just plain wrong.  The time of creation is not recorded.

>You can use the "/bin/find" command to find files based on creation
>date using the "-ctime" flag, for example:
>
>	/bin/find /archive -ctime +4 -exec rm -f {} \;
>
>will remove any files which were created more than 4 days ago on the
>"/archive" filesystem.
>
>Note that users can still get around this by copying the files around.
>(CREATION time really means the last time the inode was changed for
>the file).

The most important sentence is the one in parenthesis.  Unfortunately
there's really a lot an ill-minded user can do to change this date 
without changing the filecontents.  (I think there isn't very much
you can do to a file _without_ changing the i-node update time.)

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From: pace@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Don Pace)
Subject: Cnews ??
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 14:28:58 GMT



I was curious if anyone out there has gotten cnews to compile under
AIX3.2.  If you can tell me what magic incantation to use I would 
be appreciative.  I have plugged in the values that I think should be
used in the build script, but I keep getting redeclareation errors in
getdate.c .   I would be grateful for any help.

Don Pace
FSU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin)
Subject: File size limitations in AIX?
Organization: College of Marine Studies, U. Del.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:38:06 GMT

I just found out that AIX limits the size of Fortran direct-access
files to 1 GB.   What happened to the extra addressing bit?  
A limitation of 2 GB is irritating enough --- why 1 GB?

Does this limitation exist in AIX 3.2 ???

I hoped that AIX would be useful for supporting scientific computing, 
but I keep on getting hit with these stupid and arbitrary limits:
(1) Data size limited to 256 MB per process.  (Unless you are willing
    to re-write your application in a non-portable way to access
    everything through a pointer.)
(2) File systems limited to 2 GB.  No disk striping supported.
(3) File size limited to 1 GB.
(4) I don't know yet, but I am certain that I will get hit with
    it in the next few weeks :-)

My environment:
	IBM RISC System/6000 Model 950
	512 MB RAM
	6 SCSI controllers, each with 3 1.6 GB Elite drives.
	AIX 3.1.5 (I think)
	XLF 2.2
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From: mollett@lexmark.com (Vic Mollett)
Subject: Re: Decisions, decisions: AIX-PS/2 or RS6K 32H?
X-Disclaimer: These views are the poster's and not necessarily those of Lexmark
Organization: Lexmark International; Lexington KY
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:58:12 GMT

In article <Bs6wz2.Bnz@adasoft.ch> jw@pan.adasoft.ch (Jamie Watson) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30.023944.22336@uvm.edu> bonaccio@griffin (Tony Bonaccio) writes:
>>
>>This might sound a little goofy to some of you but here goes.  I'm using AIX-
>>PS/2 on PS/2 Model 80-311 with an 8514/A video card.
>> ...
>>Now they're threatening to replace my trusty ol' Intel-based box with a real-
>>live RS6K 320 with a 6091 (nicer than a PS/2 8514 by far) video.
>
>Think carefully before you do this.  Ask yourself the following question.
>It sounds as if you have a system which is doing everything you want it
>to do, and is doing a good job of it.  Why would you want to replace that
>system with one which is unreliable, poorly supported, and which doesn't

I'm afraid that I do not understand this.  We use both RISC System/6000s and
PS/2s running AIX-PS/2.  We get better (admittedly, not the best) support
for the RISC machines than we do for the PS/2s.  Also, the performance of the
RISCs is vastly superior to the PS/2s (and even to our AIX/370 system).  The
32H models are very nice and quite fast.  If this person has the funds to 
go to a RISC, why shouldn't they??  If they were intent on staying with a 
PS/2, a mod 95 would give a nice boost in performance over a 20MHz '386
machine.
>
>jw


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From: a866700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Wong Siu To)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: bootp on AIX
Date: 31 Jul 92 09:27:06 GMT
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hi all,

I'm a novice to AIX and hope that this's not an FAQ :)

Has anyone installed the CMU BOOTP server on AIX ?  I'm running AIX 3.15
on RS6000/320 and the installation failed due to some compilation
errors.  What cc/make option is required ?  Do I need to install other
c-compiler on it, e.g. gcc ?

Any response will be much appreciated.  

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

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From: rick@ransom.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: 'limits' in xdm login sessions
Keywords: AIX 3.2 xdm limits
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:07:39 GMT
Organization: Cornell Materials Science Center

Some of you may have noticed that your 'limits' are different, depending
on whether your session originates with 'xdm' or not.  In our case, we
cannot run the 1.2.0.6 version of xlc in an 'xdm' originated session.

As someone VERY helpfully pointed out when I inquired about this before,
this is a result of the fact that 'xdm' is started in rc.local which is
started by the 'init' process which does not have the same 'limits' as,
for example, a 'root' login session.

The method they suggested was to hack xdm to call 'setpcred' to set the
process credentials for xdm sessions.  This is doable, but requires
adding an argument to a function call and is somewhat messy.

Another way to eliminate the problem is to use the following rc.local lines to
invoke xdm:

if [ -f /usr/bin/X11/xdm -a -f /usr/local/xdm/xdm-config ] ; then
        su root "-c /usr/bin/X11/xdm -config /usr/local/xdm/xdm-config"

This will cause all xdm sessions to get the same limits as root, which is
fine in our case.

Just out of curiosity, is 'setpcred' an IBM invention?  I try to keep
a positive attitude toward deviations from 'standard Unix' (whatever
that is), but they do result in a certain amount of pain and boredom.

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From: "clay irving" <clay.irving@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: tn3270 for aix
Date: 24 Jul 92 07:07:35 EST
Reply-To: "clay irving" <clay.irving@execnet.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Executive Networks Information

>In article <9207132020.AA18407#zephyr.adp.wisc.edu> 
>curt@ZEPHYR.ADP.WISC.EDU (Curt Ellmann) writes:
>
>Has anyone gotten TN3270 4.1.1 to work under AIX 3.2?  I know that
>there is a version of tn3270 that comes with the OS, but I'd
>like a version with source code accessible.

 I've used tn3270 on AIX 3.2.0 a few times to telnet over to our AS/400 --
 not like I'd want to do anything over there! I'm using ftp to receive
 files from the AS/400 for testing... The tn3270 works fine -- the 
 keyboard maps out differently, but there's a way to remap those.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell)
Subject: Re: GCC 2.2.2 on AIX
Originator: tmcconne@sedona
Reply-To: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:17:11 GMT


In article <1992Jul24.134259.27685@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk>, a866700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Wong Siu To) writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm novice to AIX and hope that this's not an FAQ.
> 
> I've an RS6000/320 running AIX (3.x, I forget it :(  )  I tried to
> install gcc 2.2.2 on it but with following error encountered:
> 
> #make LANGUAGES=c
> .....
> _muldi3
> Assembler:
> /tmp/ccJmMCkR.s: line 25: Error In Syntax 
> 1254-004  The error code from the last failed command is 1.

  As the error indicates, the assembler has a problem. You must do this:

  Get the assembler fix APAR IX22829, along with the change in
./gcc-2.2.2/config/rs6000.h:
===========================================================================
/* Tell the assembler to assume that all undefined names are external.  Don't
   do this until the fixed IBM assembler is more generally available.  */

#define ASM_SPEC "-u"
===========================================================================

  To make collect2 work on the RS/6000, you need to add the following to
./gcc-2.2.2/config/xm-rs6000.h:
===========================================================================
/* This is the only version of nm that collect2 can work with.  */
#define REAL_NM_FILE_NAME "/usr/ucb/nm"
===========================================================================

  You're right, this should be a FAQ.

    Cheers,

    Tom McConnell
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From: mkubi@fhr.ma30.bull.com (Matt Kubik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,bit.listserv.aix-l,bull.sys.aix
Subject: Tape marks and end-of-data on QIC tapes
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:35:35 GMT
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.

Hi,

  I'm writing an application that reads data from
QIC tapes using the read() system call.  I've noticed
that when I encounter either a tape mark (EOF condition)
or an end-of-data condition, the read simply returns 0 bytes.

At this point, is there any way to determine which
of the two events actually occurred?

I've noticed that with 8mm tapes, read returns -1
and errno is set to EIO when the end-of-data is reached,
while running into a tape mark causes read to return 0.
This is nice since I know what was found on the tape.
But I haven't found a way to distinguish between
tape marks and end-of-data on QIC tapes.  The rmt man
pages don't seem to help.

I would appreciate any help.  Thanks.

M.Kubik@bull.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: y@drug.COM (Yoshi Mizuno)
Subject: 3.5" 1GB IBM disk
Organization: Mizuno Pharmacies
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:47:41 GMT

tony@jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden) writes:

>What vendors are selling the 3.5" 1GB ibm hard drive?

We have six of the OEM drives from Acropolis Systems Inc., connected to
RS/6000's and Sparcs.  And so far, we are happy with them.

Acropolis is in Milpitas, California
Tel 408 946-6947
Fax 408 946-8715
------------------------------------------

By the way, does anyone know anything about /usr/lpp/bos/_scdisk_/new_disks in
AIX 3.2.1?  Does it really turn these OEM disks to IBM supported disks? 
If so, how do we go about this. 

Thanks in advance.

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From: brent@ughtas (Brent Terry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: What type of tapes to use?
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:50:22 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software

In article <01050810.8rn9hz@mbeckman.mbeckman.com>  
mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Jul14.152053.16357@cdsac.uucp> (comp.unix.aix),  
scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons) writes:
> > Actually, the IBM QIC tape drives (model 7207) only support 60MB
> > (DC600) and 150MB (DC6150) tapes.
> 
> I'm embarking on a government project that uses RS/6000 220's and the  
7207
> external tape drive. The hardware isn't here yet, but I just received a
> shipment of supplies (govt supplied), including a slew of blank tapes  
marked
> as "3M DC300".  The bpi density is given as 10,000 and the length as 450
> feet, which seems to me to work out to only 50MB per tape.  Am I  
confused,
> or is the government, or what?  The list given above has DC600 and  
DC6150,
> but doesn't mention DC300.  Did I get the wrong tapes (I need 150MB)?
> 
>   -mel
> 
>

You got the wrong tapes!!!! You need the DC6150's

Sorry,
Brent
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: HSTAMS@CIPVAX.BIOLAN.UNI-KOELN.DE (Henning Stams)
Subject: HELP!! URGENT!! Problem with RS6000 AIX3.1.5 (bosboot)
Organization: BIOLAN - COLOGNE UNIVERSITY (FRG)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 22:05:42 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22

Hello out there,

this is sort of a SOS to the world...
I started a new job this monday in prof. business.
There is a RS6000 running AIX3.1.5 as VERY CENTRAL machine. A second was
bought, but it had AIX3.2. This company needs old AIX, so I tried to
copy the 3.1.5 to the new machine. Since SMIT doesnt make bootable installable
Backup, i tried another way: (which started the chaos)
bosboot.
This program SHOULD create a bootable media on e.g. Tape or Floppy.
so I typed : bosboot -d /dev/rmt0 -a
The program created the boot image, but then showed following err msg:
"Couldn't open /tmp/bos.xxx" (forgot the xxx)
It exited to shell, which was still functioning, all filesystems were
ok at that moment. I did shut the machine down. (That was a horrible mistake)
The shutdown went thru as usual.

AFTER THAT, THE MACHINE DIDNT EVER AGAIN boot from disk (it still boots from
tape or floppy) (Floppy: Diagnostic disks, Tape: AIX3.2 mksysb)

Worst of all: there is NO backup of the hard disk except raw user data and 
              every non-operative workday WILL cost my job...
I'm quite sure the data still IS on the disk, except for some essential
booting info (such as bootblock?!)

IS THERE ANYONE who can help? THIS WEEKEND?? I'm desperate!!
Write mail, call me +49 221 322422, +49 221 92404-132
(I will call back immediately, regardless of country)

Feeling quite down, Henning (hstams@biolan.uni-koeln.de)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Subject: Re: Life with mksysb(1)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:03:46 GMT
Organization: Cable Data (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA

In article <syscrc.712016658@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> syscrc@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) writes:
>Is it still true that you can't do a mksysb(1) using a remote tape drive?

As shipped, "mksysb" will not let you back up across the network. However,
"/usr/bin/mksysb" is just a shell script and it would be very trivial to
tweak it so that it redirects each segment of the backup to another machine
(via something like " ... | rsh <remote_mach> dd of=/dev/rmt0.1"). Make sure
you use the non-rewinding device for all but the last segment.

You will still NOT be able to boot from this tape from over the network;
though if you just want to restore individual files you can...

Hope this helps!
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv286
From: russ@pta.pyramid.com.au (Russell Day)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.sysv286
Subject: Microport cactus, newsfeed dead, spouse rabid
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:43:47 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Sydney


	I am in trouble.  The machine which supplies my wife with
	access to alt.callahans, rec.sewing, etc seems to have trashed
	it's disk.  I am at a loss, and in severe danger of great
	suffering.

	Here is the story - all help is appreciated.

	The machine is a 286 running microport.  It has 2MB ram and a
	42MB ST506 disk which is a type 17.

	One fine day, I boot it, and after it checks memory and comes
	up with the hardware config information, it says unto me:
		Error loading system from fixed disk.
	It normally says
		noise[system5]:
	then after a suitable delay starts the boot.
	Obviously, it cant read the boot block from the primary
	partition.  It seems that this is a part of Microport.

	Now, I have cnews and a whole bunch of stuff on this machine.
	Naturally, no-one in his right mind would want to back up 38
	MB onto floppies, so I dont have a recent backup.  I would
	dearly like to get my bytes back.  Recompiling the news
	software on a 286 is a sad business.  Plus the missus wants
	her goodies back too ("You arsehole, why didnt you take
	backups?"  "Duh - Ummm.")

	Some test were run:
		All BIOS read and seek tests pass.
		I can boot unix from the floppy.
		fdisk describes the Unix and Dos partitions correctly.
		I can boot dos (first 100 cyls of disk).

	So the drive and the partition table are both ok.
		
	Having booted DOS, I try the following:
		mount /dev/dsk/0s0 onto /mnt

		It says 'Drive 0 Type 15' 
		Error reading super block.
		It is getting a disk error trying to read head 5 sector 1.

	This is a no-no because the drive has only 5 heads numbered
	0-4.  And it is a type 17, not a type 15 as stated.  I can
	understand that it thinks that the super block is creamed.  I
	dont know why it wants a type 15 drive, when the cmos setup,
	and fdisk, all agree that it is a type 17.  Is it on drugs?

	So I muck about some more, and I get to a stage where
		mount /dev/dsk/0s0
	returns
		Not a file system.

	And
		divvy -d
	returns
		Invalid partition end record.

	(This may be because the selected partition was somehow changed
	to be the dos partition - I didnt think of this at the time, and
	now I am here, not there, and cant check. )

	So the question of the day is:
		Why does the boot floppy decide my disk is a type 17
		when all the indications are that everything else
		thinks it is a type 15?
	Any hints?

	(For that matter, is there anyone out there?)
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