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From: uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: dump 0 problems
Date: 30 Jul 92 03:43:12 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA

Trying to do a dump to tape on my sy;tem results in the dump
getting lost somehow.  It estimates it will need .81 tapes
to complete the dump, but it seems to keep asking for tapes
ad-infinitum.  It states it is 155% done and finished in
-15 minutes, before I gave up and quit.  I did an fsck but
that just tells me some file sizes may be in error, but does
not seem willing to fix those inodes.

Anyone know what is going on with dump?  Why will fsck
just tell me possible file size error, inode xxxx, and not
try and fix it.

-Roger
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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Subject: Re: Vi Question
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 10:28:29 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.122045.2800@cbfsb.cb.att.com> nll@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (neal.l.leitner) writes:
>I recall on Unix Sys V running on an Amdahl, when you were in vi and
>did a search that wrapped around, there was a message displayed on the
>bottom of the screen telling you that the Search Wrapped Around.
>
>Currently, I am running Unix Sys V rel 3.2.3 and 4.0, and this feature
>does not seem to be available or turned on.  Does anyone know how to
>enable this feature???

I can't find this feature anywhere in my version.  I think it must have
been an Amdahl enhancement.

Dylan.
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From: lemon@unssun.nevada.edu (John A. LeMon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: "file"-like command, only big/better?
Date: 25 Jul 92 05:44:22 GMT
Reply-To: lemon@unssun.nevada.edu (John A. LeMon)
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

Ok, the other day, I was tinkerin' around again and I stumbled across
a command that i really liked.  It was like "file" in that it told
you what type of file it was (what's in it), but it also told you things
like total size (blocks, bytes), efficiency, and some other neat and
useless things that only I would ever have use for.  Anyhow, now i forget
what the command is!  What is it?  Clues?  It was:  _______ <filename>


Please respond by EMAIL--I don't read this all that often!  Thanks!

John

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From: rcox@cad625.intel.edu (Richard Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: stupid question from a neophyte user
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:55:06 GMT
Reply-To: rcox@scdt.intel.com
Organization: Intel Corporation

In article <1992Jul27.194816.3335@u.washington.edu>, sue@byron.u.washington.edu (Shu-Chen Eclipse) writes:
|> how the hec do I get something simple like this to work:
|> 
|>   If ($TERM
|>   !== "sun" || $TERM!== "sun-cmd")
|>      then .........
|>   endif
|> 
|> in csh  ????

  For this RTFM try the command 
   % man csh

   AMAZING what you can find on a UNIX system huh? 

... munch munch ...

|> why is unix so complicated compared to vms dcl-- now that's a script language,eh?

  Yea Right!

|> thanx for answering,
|> frustrated at being forced to use unix instead of vms,

   this is like being frustrated at driving a car instead of a horse.

|> sue@byron.u.washington.edu
|>  AND ALSO THIS INSANE VI EDITOR!!!!

  Try emacs... a real editor.  (you can even emulate vi or, gasp edt )
|> 
|>  ... my gawd --IT'S CASE SENSITIVE--WHAT JUNK!!

All of this IMHO -- no serious flame intended ;)
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From: odkahn@eos.ncsu.edu (Opher D. Kahn)
Subject: Script for killing mutiple processes?
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:54:06 GMT

I am working with a experimental database server that forks
off child processes to serve multiple clients.  However, some
times these processes do not terminate correctly, and I am left
with 10-15 child processes that need to be killed.  Is it possible
to somehow pipe the process numbers from 'ps -aux | grep dood' into
a kill command, so that I don't have to kill each one of them
manually???  (dood is the name of the process).
Thanks, 

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From: kevin@sherman.pas.rochester.edu (kevin mcfadden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Archie question
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:59:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester


	When I use archie to go and look for a file out there in netland
the most common occurances are located outside the good ol' US of A.
Is there a way in which to limit archie's search pattern to only usa?


Thanks a lot,

Kevin
kevin@sherman.pas.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: das50852@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (dan)
Subject: Re: How to find out what groups I belong to
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:35:43 GMT

bjg28027@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Skydive!) writes:

>Hello,

>How can I find out what groups I belong to?  Moreover, can I find out who
>are the members of a certain group (or if a person belongs to a certain group)?

try the groups command; with no argument it checks for your own groups; with
an argument it looks for the person's groups. (I am _certain_ this will
work since I happen to use the same OS)...

				dan simms

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.sequent
From: ae2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Amiran Eliashvili)
Subject: Memory leaks
Reply-To: ae2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Amiran Eliashvili)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:14:31 GMT


Hi all:
 
 
        I was wondering if there are any utilities in PD that will
check for memory leaks. Has anyone used such utilities before? If so,
how helpful were they?
 
Please reply to amir@cs.columbia.edu
 
Thanks
/amiran
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: sstakoff@csfb1.fir.fbc.com (Stuart Stakoff)
Subject: Re: Vi Question
Reply-To: uunet!csfb1!sstakoff
Organization: First Boston Corporation
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:33:43 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.122045.2800@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, nll@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (neal.l.leitner) writes:
|> I recall on Unix Sys V running on an Amdahl, when you were in vi and
|> did a search that wrapped around, there was a message displayed on the
|> bottom of the screen telling you that the Search Wrapped Around.
|> 
|> Currently, I am running Unix Sys V rel 3.2.3 and 4.0, and this feature
|> does not seem to be available or turned on.  Does anyone know how to
|> enable this feature???
|> 
|> All help is appreciated.
|> 
|> Neal Leitner
|> 


Try:  :set nowrapscan


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From: martin@datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick)
Subject: What Hav I Done?
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:56:22 GMT


Recently, I posted a problem in which I had noticed that the VT-100 control
sequences which were sent from a Sun work station through telnet connections
were not the same as those sent through a serial tty connected to the work
station.  Well, the mistery has partially been solved.  I had the terminal
type set to network instead of VT-100 in the ttytab file.  If one logged
into the system via telnet session, the terminal presented was the dimensions
of 32 rows by 86 comumns.  What I don't understand is why everything worked
perfectly for over a year, that way, then suddenly changed.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ   Stillwater, OK
O.S.U. Computer Center Data Communications Group
From: steimann@quando.quantum.de (Ulrich Steimann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Redirecting the date as a file name
Keywords: date multiple-spaces
Date: 25 Jul 92 13:06:21 GMT
Organization: Quantum Software GmbH, Dortmund, Germany

In article <1992Jul24.212358.3310@news.arc.nasa.gov> rages@pan.arc.nasa.gov (kathy rages) writes:
>This gives rise to a question, which I have yet to find an answer to.
>How do you force the inclusion of two or more consecutive spaces in
>a variable string?
>
>% date +%h"  "%d
>Jul  24
>% set today = `date +%h"  "%d`
>% echo $today
>Jul 24
>

Try:	echo "$today"
With `echo $today' the variable today is parsed by the shell. echo
gets two arguments. If you put it into ", echo gets one argument.

Greetings,
	UST
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From: pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner)
Subject: Re: Script for killing mutiple processes?
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:11:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.135406.10224@ncsu.edu> odkahn@eos.ncsu.edu (Opher D. Kahn) writes:
>I am working with a experimental database server that forks
>off child processes to serve multiple clients.  However, some
>times these processes do not terminate correctly, and I am left
>with 10-15 child processes that need to be killed.  Is it possible
>to somehow pipe the process numbers from 'ps -aux | grep dood' into
>a kill command, so that I don't have to kill each one of them
>manually???  (dood is the name of the process).
>Thanks, 
>

kill -9 `ps ax | egrep dood | egrep -v egrep | cut -c1-6` 1>& 2

That should do it, though it is very undiscriminating in that it will
kill absolutely everything named 'dood' w/o asking.  I also have a
program called nkill that kills processes by name.  If there is more
than one process with the same name, nkill gives you a list and allows
you to select individual processes or All.  Let me know if you want
the program.  I believe I can distribute it, but it's not ine so I
have to check.

    >p

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
Subject: Alarm
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean VA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:14:23 GMT


Is there a program/utility/whatever that gives alerts/alarms like xalarm
or leave that gets its times & messages from a prepared data file?

Thanks.


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From: ruman@maemaster.eng.uci.edu (ruman)
Subject: Need help with xterm...
Summary: xterm,cursor position,column number,display in titlebar.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.windows.x
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 31 Jul 92 07:38:02 GMT
Keywords: xterms,cursor,column number,titlebar.
Followup-To: poster 

Hi,

     I need help with customizing an xterm. My favourite editor is vi
and the language in which I program is Fortran, the compiler available
is for fortran77. Whenever I edit a fortran file (or even otherwise)
using vi I would like to see the present position of the cursor displayed
in the titlebar of the xterm, because of the fortran77 column rules..

Is there any xterm lookalike, like kterm etc which supports this facility?
I looked into the manpages of xterm and there was mention of making
xterm emulate different sorts of terminals. I also sometimes
use an ibm3151 (dumb) terminal which I specify as vt100 (maybe wrongly so)
and use it. This terminal displays the column numbers at the bottom 
righthand corner of the screen. Is there any way I can make xterm emulate this
terminal? 

 I am pretty much ignorant about termcap entries, control codes and stuff
like that and would also very much appreciate if anyone can give me pointers
as to where I can find reading material on different types of terminals
(vt100,vt220,tek...?), setting them up, customizing them, what and how to
use control codes etc.

thanx in advance to all of you for ur time and help
ruman

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: lpickup@xanadu.btv.ibm.com (Lance Pickup)
Subject: Re: Max Processes Limit -- Changeable ?
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 18:53:20 GMT
Reply-To: lpickup@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Technology Products
Keywords: Up the Max Process Limit -- IBM RS6000

In article <Jul.31.12.49.29.1992.22518@gauss.rutgers.edu>, manmetha@gauss.rutgers.edu (Rajesh Malhotra) writes:
|>
|> Hi netters,
|>
|>      Can the Max process limit  be increased?
|>
|>      I have about 50 processes running on an IBM Rs 6000 320H
|> (AIX 3.2.1). This includes system processes, various daemons, and my
|> application processes, and I get an error that no more processes
|> can be forked.
|>
|>      Could this error be due to small paging space? I have 32M
|> defined and have 16M of memory.
|>
|>      Could some AIX gurus tell me that approx 50 procs is all
|> an IBM 320H can handle?
|>
|>      Any and all responses appreciated.

I believe there are two limits--one limit on the # of processes/machine
and another on # of processes/user.  You can check (and I presume
raise) the number of processes/user if you go into SMIT and select
the following:

System Environments and Processes
  Change / Show Operating System Parameters

  and you will see that the number of processes per user limit is
the first choice.  On my 320 it is currently set at 40.

  I'm not so sure about the limit on # of processes per machine.  That
may just be a distant memory from when I was using AIX PS/2.  But even
on the PS/2, the max processes/machine was pretty high.  I've gotten
my 320 up past 85 processes without any problems. I always run into
the max processes/user limit.  Try raising yours.
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From: alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan McKay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: How do I convert a FILE* to an fd?
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:47:20 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

I have a file opened by fopen() and now want to flock it, but
flock expects an fd as returned by "open".  Since the flocking is
being added after my routine was written (long after), I don't want
to re-write everthing to use open so I'd sooner just convert my
FILE* to and fd if possible.  I'd image that the fd is just a field
in the FILE*, is this correct?

Can someone tell me how to do this?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: tape problems
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:04:20 GMT

Ok, my original post was not informative enough.  Several people pointed out  
that I didn't have a -c on the tar.  That was a typo.  Really.

Try this again:

The system is an Exabyte 8200 on a NextStation.

This works
cat filename > /dev/tapedevice

This doesn't
tar -cf /dev/tapedevice filespec

Neither does this:
tar -cf - filespec > /dev/tapedevice

Opening the device in perl, and writing to it works however.
The error I get is 

Jul 29 09:44:46 fenris mach: st: cmd = 0x1a sr_io_status = 2H
Jul 29 09:44:46 fenris mach:     Sense key = 0x3  Sense Code = 0x0

Which translated:  1a = write 2H is check status
		   3 = unrecoverable media/blocking error.

I picked up a utility on the net called mtset. This critter claims to be able  
to set fixed block/variable block, and make appropriate toggles of  the report  
illegal length bit.  I've tried both the logical and the illogical  
combinations, to no avail; except that I can get the tape drive to the point  
where cat doesn't work either.

I think there is something I don't understand about the interaction between  
tape drivers and the device itself.
From: shubu@cs.utexas.edu (Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to find out what groups I belong to
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:58:47
Organization: Oops Research Group, CS Dept, U. of Texas-Austin
	<1992Jul31.003031.14370@convex.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: oporto.cs.utexas.edu
In-reply-to: Tom Christiansen's message of Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:30:31 GMT

>>>>> In article <1992Jul31.003031.14370@convex.com>, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
TC> Originator: tchrist@convex.convex.com
TC> Nntp-Posting-Host: convex.convex.com

TC> From the keyboard of ratner@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (David Ratner):
TC> :bjg28027@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Skydive!) writes:
TC> :
TC> :>Hello,
TC> :
TC> :>How can I find out what groups I belong to?  Moreover, can I find out who
TC> :>are the members of a certain group (or if a person belongs to a certain group)?
TC> :
TC> :>Thanks.
TC> :
TC> :>- Brian
TC> :
TC> :/usr/ucb/groups [login-name]
TC> :
TC> :Just typing "groups" with no arguments lists the groups you are in.
TC> :Specifying a login-name lists the groups that person is in.

TC> Yes, but we still haven't told him how to list out all the 
TC> members in a given group.

/usr/bin/ypcat group | grep <groupname>

Luck!
-Shubu
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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: 'mon.out' files
Date: 20 Jul 92 17:13:54 GMT
Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung

In <olt.711646748@sili.isgs.uiuc.edu> olt@sili.isgs.uiuc.edu (Scott Olt) writes:

>I keep finding files called 'mon.out' scattered around my directories.
>They aren't readable, so I have no clue as to what they are or where
>they come from. Does anyone have an idea why these files keep popping
>up? Nobody around here seems to know anything about them...

>(Silicon Graphics 4D/310, Irix 3.3)

>Thanks
> 
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These are execution profiles. Read (TFM:-) prof(1),profil(2),cc(1), etc.
They are created when you run an executable compiled with the '-p' option
of your C compiler (other compilers have similar or same switches).

Hope that helps

Holger

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From: beha@logware.de (Berthold Hienger)
Subject: Wanted: preemptive threads within a UNIX process
Keywords: threads lightweight processes libraries
Organization: Logware GmbH Berlin Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:27:24 GMT


We are in desperate search for a C++ library providing us with classes for preemptive
multitasking within an UNIX process (preemptive scheduling of lightweight processes).
The library should provide support for both SCO and SUN OS.
Does anybody know something about such a library or a C product, which could be used for
building one ?

Thanks in advance for any kind of information.



			Berthold Hienger

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From: brrian04@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: WANTED: Info on INTERACTIVE UNIX
Date: 24 Jul 92 11:45:33 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town

I am wondering about Interactive UNIX - Does it come with the capability to run
DOS as well as UNIX software, How does it compare to other versions of UNIX,
What is the documentation like? 

Any information on this system would be appreciated.  Is this a new system?

Thanks
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