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From: prisaac@plan000.lerc.nasa.gov (Rincy Isaacs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Internal SCSI drives - Model 930
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:36:50 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center

I am reposting this, because I screwed up on the distribution the last
time...  Pardon me, if this has been asked before.

We have a Model 930, the top drawer of which has 2 670MB SCSI drives.
I was planning to add a 3rd internal SCSI disk, BUT.. I am being told
that I could only have up to 2 disk drives, and 3 CD-ROMs, etc.  I do
have an empty slot!

Why would it make a difference if I had 5 SCSI disks and no CD-ROMs?  

Bottom line is that I'll have to get another SCSI drawer (gripes!) for
our hard disk needs!? 
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From: bware@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Bob Ware)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: problem with putuserpw subroutine
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:57:34 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

Has anyone had success using the putuserpw subroutine?  

The getuserpw subroutine seems to work as advertised, but the putuserpw
routine always bombs with errno pointing to:

	Only the owner or a privileged user can perform the operation.

This even happens when the struct provided as the argument for the
routine is what is returned from getuserpw, so I know it is not a
problem with the contents of the struct.

For example, the following program:

	#include <userpw.h>
	#include <errno.h>
	main()
	{
		struct userpw *pwptr;
	
		perror("before getuserpw");
		pwptr = getuserpw("studente");
		perror("after getuserpw");
		putuserpw(pwptr);
		perror("after putuserpw");
	}

produces the following output when run as 'root':

	before getuserpw: Error 0
	after getuserpw: Error 0
	after putuserpw: Only the owner or a privileged user can perform the operation.

Yes, root has write permission for /etc/security/passwd.  This happens
when run on both AIX 3.1.6 and 3.2.0.

Is this a bug in AIX???

-- 
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Computing and Networking, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Co 80401, USA
(303) 273-3987
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From: stuart@austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Printer Support for HP LaserJet IIIp
Keywords: printer support queue postscript
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:11:24 GMT
Reply-To: stuart@piobe.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: stuart@piobe.austin.ibm.com


In article <1992Jul30.191145.29361@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, stuart@austin.ibm.com () writes:
> 
> In article <ellis.712352941@giga>, ellis@giga.cs.umn.edu (Shawn Eric Ellis) writes:
> > 
> > 
> > 	I tried setting up a HPLaserJet IIIp as a postscript printer and it 
> > works fine for printing small jobs.  When I try sending it a job that is about
> > 13 pages long (ASCII), the queue reports that the status of the printer is down.
> > 
> > Long jobs cause the printer to timeout.  I tried adjusting the printer timeout 
> > using smit and I didn't have any luck.  Is there something I can do to relieve
> > this problem??  I'm really stuck on this one. :-(
> > 
> > 	Shawn Ellis
> > 	ellis@flynn.medc.umn.edu 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Try using the cat command to redirect the 13 page file to the device:
> 
>      cat file.ps > /dev/lp0
> 
> This should determine whether the problem is related to the queuing system
> and printer backend.
> 
> If cat'ing the file worked fine, then the problem is in the queueing/backend.
> If it still does not work, then it appears there is a device driver or
> communications problem.
> -- 
> 
> -Stuart
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------

One thing I forgot.  You may need to put the device driver in
passthru mode before using cat to print the file.  Use 
the command: splp -p+ lp0
-- 

-Stuart

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From: peter@csusurveye.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: RE: How to add manual pages to info
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:44:40 GMT
Followup-To: peter@csusurvey.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM, Austin

For the CDROM case I believe the words 'read only' in CDROM apply.
Of course you could add man pages to /usr/man...

If you want to add data to InfoExplorer (not man pages) so that Info can
search on the data and it will show up in the InfoExplorer menus...

you need the AIX InfoCrafter/6000 lpp. This software product from IBM
will allow you to compile your own InfoExplorer database. I have done
this using Interleaf, a piece of software which is used for making documents.
It can be done using vi, but I haven't tried it...


pkraem@ausvmr.austin.ibm.com
survey@csusurvey.austin.ibm.com
peter@csu1.austin.ibm.com


those are my opinions   (standard disclaimer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ets@wrkgrp.COM (Edward T Spire)
Subject: unable to raise maxuproc !?
Organization: The Workstation Group
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 17:01:18 GMT

On both 3.1 and 3.2 initial install, I had to raise maxuproc so I could
have lots of windows open at once etc.  When I installed 3.2, I made my
system backup before I raised maxuproc.  Then I raised it, and all was
well.

A few days later I had a hardware failure that damaged the disk, and I
had to reinstall from the backup tape.  I tried to raise maxuproc again,
to no avail.  SMIT shows that maxuproc has been raised, but I'm still
limited to just over 40 process, even though maxuproc now says 400.

Any ideas, anybody?  Email replies will be summaried here.

Thanks.

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From: dcook@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Setting Name resolution for mail services
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:47:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu
Originator: dcook@garnet.berkeley.edu

How do I go about setting up a name server so that I
don't have to manually pipe each mail message to a 
major internet node to ensure that it gets to its
destination?

-dan cook
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: merrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tom Merrick)
Subject: Re: IBM screws a few more customers
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:35:52 GMT

In article <1864@coyote.UUCP> drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake) writes:
>In article <91193@bu.edu> amelcuk@buphy.bu.edu (Andre Melcuk) writes:

If IBM really cared about their customers, they would provide their customers
a replacement adapter free for the broken one they sold their customers
originally.

Has CATIA finially blessed the gt3,4,4+ adapters?  The last time that I
checked this out CATIA, like ProEngineer, only supported the sabine adapters.
>
>
>Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
>Internet:  drake@almaden.ibm.com    BITNET:  DRAKE at ALMADEN

Tom Merrick
Ohio State University
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: gerth@watson.ibm.com (John Gerth)
Subject: Re: Changing LIBPATH in an Executable
Summary: Try reprocessing with -L  
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 01:44:32 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Keywords: LIBPATH ld reprocessing

You should be able to do this with the existing facilities for
'cc' (or 'ld').  The libpath stored in a binary is determined
at link time as the concatenation of any -L flags -- and
/lib:/usr/lib.   

To alter the path of an existing binary, you can reprocess it
adding -L flags.  For example:
    cc -o fred fred.c
Yields fred with a path of /lib:/usr/lib
Reprocessing it with:
    cc -o fred -L /usr/local/lib fred
or
    ld -o fred -lc -L/usr/local/lib fred
Yields fred with a path of /usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/lib

Two caveats must be added to the preceding (these are just the
way it is, I do not know why).  First if LIBPATH is not null
when 'cc' or 'ld' is issued *and* no -L flags are specified, then the
the value of LIBPATH is stored with the executable (overriding
the /lib:/usr/lib provided by default).  However if *any* -L flag
is found, LIBPATH is ignored and the normal behavior is restored.
Second, versions of 'ld' at least as new as AIX 3.1.5 had a bug
which caused them to erase the input binaries to reprocessing.
For example, suppose I wanted to have a profiled version of fred:
     cc -o fred fred.c
followed by
     cc -p -o fredp fred
would erase fred!  This bug is fixed at least at the AIX 3.2.1 level.

I apologize for making reprocessing sound complicated.  For simple
things like changing the stored libpath or replacing only a couple
of functions is a big binary, it is usually easy and quite fast.


-- 
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From: taylor@slc2.astro.ufl.edu (Charlie Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: NIS under AIX 3.2
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:52:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Florida

Configuration: NIS Master - Sun 4/370, SunOS 4.1.1
               NIS Clients - RS/6000's (350,32H,220's), AIX 3.2 
               (bos.obj 03.02.0000.0000 COMPLETE COMMIT 12/31/69 19:00:00 root)


I just spent a very frustrating few minutes on the phone with IBM's AIX
support group in Austin (I think).  My problem was/is that if you change
the name (i.e. first field in the passwd file) of an existing user in the
yp passwd map and update NIS, the AIX 3.2 NIS clients don't see the change.
Thus you can change user xxxxxx to user yyyyyy and then rlogin to one of the
AIX machines as yyyyyy and a ps -ef will reveal that the login shell is owned
by user xxxxxx.  Interestingly enough, "ypcat passwd" on one of the AIX 
NIS clients shows the correct username as will a "whoami."   

I called the support center to ask about this and was told I had a 
configuration error and that I would have to subscribe to AIX Serve and
they would help me configure my machine.  I tried to tell him that it looked
more like a problem with NIS under 3.2 and he said they didn't know of any
such problem ( I thought that was the purpose of reporting these things).

Anyway, after about an hour or two of trying everything I could think of to
determine the problem, I finally just did a "touch /etc/passwd" on one of the
AIX NIS clients and, to my surprise, a "ps -ef" now gave the updated user
name (yyyyyy in the example).  So the good news is that I know how to solve
the problem.  The bad news is that such a solution seems to defeat the purpose
of a distributed database.  Having to "touch" the client /etc/passwd files
is only slightly better than having to edit them all by hand!

Has anyone else seen this problem?  Is there any other way around it other
than touching all the client /etc/passwd files?

thanks,

Charlie Taylor,

Department of Astronomy                
211 S.S.R.B                            Phone: (904)-392-0199
Univerisity of Florida                   Fax: (904)-392-5089
Gainesville, FL, 32611                 email: taylor@astro.ufl.edu
From: kelvin@thed.uk22.bull.com (Kelvin J. Hill)
Newsgroups: bull.sys.aix,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Changing name associated with a process
Date: 23 Jul 92 10:53:23 GMT
Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.

My comment re security violation was more to do with the ability to modify
address pointers which are presumably outside the users program. If we can 
modify the argv[0] value on a machine wide basis, what else can we modify?

Agreed on the concept of hiding 'sensitive' command line args, but I see the
probability that the same method could be used to disguise a trojan program.

Comments?

Kelvin 
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From: ianm@icsbelf.uucp (Ian Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: NIS mail Aliases
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:25:50 GMT
Organization: ICS Computing Group Ltd, Belfast

Hello

I just want to say thanks to everyone who replied to my message regarding
the failure of AIX to recognise the NIS mail aliases file.
Before joining UseNet, I placed this query with IBM themselves. Today they
phoned to say that as a result of my query a fix has been made and a patch
for AIX 3.2 was now available (they are sending this to me).
The bad news is that this will not be made available for 3.1 users.
Bye.

Ian Moran
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lopez@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Chris &)
Subject: Re: AIX 3.1.5 hosts.equiv/.rhosts
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:58:38 GMT

csh@lanl.gov (Charles S. Henkel) writes:
: If having problems with rlogin to an rs/6000, make sure your .rhosts
: file contains the hostname that the rs/6000 *thinks* you're coming from.
: Get this by rlogging in with password, then doing a "last" command.
: 
: Also make sure .rhosts is chmod 600.
: 
: _C


This sounds like extremely BAD advice to me.  Your host machines appearing
in .rhosts should in no way alter your ability to rlogin.  It will only
change whether or not you need to enter your password.  Having unneeded
rhost entries is a good way to allow a hacker to compromise many of your
machines if they get into any single one of them.


Not having seen your original post --

Can you ping the machine?  Can you telnet to the machine?
Can the RS6000 ping you?  Can it telnet to you?
Are the necessary daemons running on the RS6000?
Is maxlogins in /etc/security/login.cfg set at a reasonable level?


Chris Lopez
Northwestern University
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lpc@dickens.com (Luis P Caamano)
Subject: Re: IBM on the Internet?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 05:03:31 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.
Keywords: ibm internet bugs fixes

In article <stritzi.712317891@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger) writes:
>Does IBM (or s.o. else) offer AIX related (not licensed) software, patches
>etc. via FTP on the internet? It would be a great help for me to be able to
>download such things on my own.
>

Just a few days ago Ronald Woan (woan@soda.berkeley.edu) posted this:

software.watson.ibm.com 129.34.139.5
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From: pa@curly.appmag.com (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: RTS/CTS on the RS6000
Date: 20 Jul 92 16:50:10 GMT
Organization: Applied Magnetics, Goleta, CA

In <1992Jul18.133420.448@meiko.com> philip@meiko.com (Philip Gladstone) writes:

>2)	Why is it so bad to do 'stty add rts' to your own tty when
>	logged in over the network (i.e. your tty is a psuedo-tty)?

I set rts on a pts by mistake.  No apparent side effects until I
exited.  However, new xterms or remote shells that happen to fall on
that pty would need a ^C to give the first prompt.  When I figured
that one out I just ran a 'stty del rts'.
-- 

--Pierre Asselin, Magnetoresistive Head Engineering, Applied Magnetics.
  pa@appmag.com        the usual disclaimers apply.
From: jsantos@godzilla.ma30.bull.com (James Santos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Accessing CDROM via NFS
Keywords: CDROM NFS
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:36:21 GMT
Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.

Hi,
	I have an RS6K 530H which has a CDROM drive.  I have taken a
Microsoft Windows CDROM and mounted it on the system under /cdrom.  I
have then exported the directory /cdrom.  If I go onto another Unix
system (in this case, a MIPS R3000) and attempt to mount /cdrom on the
original system it works fine.  But if I try to mount /cdrom from an
IBM PC running PCNFS, I get a message saying that the filesystem that
I am trying to mount is not local to the RS6K.  Anyone out there have
any idea why this is happening?  To make things even more interesting,
when I mount the directory on a system running SCO Unix 3.2, it
doesn't give me an error during the mount, but when I look in the
directory where it is supposedly mounted there is nothing there.  Why
am I not surprised :-)

Thanks,

-- Jim

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Bull Worldwide Information Systems
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: fredrick@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Timothy Fredrick)
Subject: Programming question: Can I get filesystem info in a C program?
Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:43:23 GMT


I would like to get information about the filesystem onto which the person
who runs my program is logged.  Is there a way to do this with C-language
system calls?

On a related note, is it possible to get the history event number from within
a C program?

Thanks in advance.

--Tim (fredrick@acd.ucar.edu)
From: gonzalod@amex-trs.com (Gonzalo Diethelm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: GNU C++ for 3.2
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:47:36 GMT



Distribution: world

Hello everyone,

Sorry if this is FAQ. Here it goes anyway...

Can anybody tell me where I can find the latest sources for the
GNU C++ compiler, ready to be built on AIX 3.2? I'm not having
time enough to fiddle around with the sources, so if anybody
has made all the necessary patches, I would appreciate getting a copy.
I guess binaries would also be acceptable, but I would rather have
the sources. Thanks in advance, and regards.


gonzalod@amexphx.amex-trs.com
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16220 N 7th St Ap 1314              (602)492-3536  office
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From: rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Help w/xrn6-17
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:54:54 GMT
Reply-To: chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com(Rudy Chukran)
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division

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
|> 
|> 
Here is the lib list that I use:
-lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -liconv
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From: ddt@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AARRRRGG!  No one can answer this question!!!
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:07:17 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

>: 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.  In fact, clone makers are starting to
realize the important of memory mapping by making local bus video cards
so that your path to the graphics adapter is 2x or 3x faster.  This is
not an improvement you'd see made with "intelligent" graphics cards
because you don't need as much bandwidth.

Look at a game like Wolfenstein 3D on the PC sometime.  That approaches
what I consider to be virtual-reality quality graphics.  Nobody thought
it was possible over a 16-bit 8Mhz ISA bus.  But the software made the
difference.  Unfortunately, the RS/6k, with its 32-bit 14MHz MCA bus has
no chance of approaching that speed with its base card, simply because
the information on how to memory map the Skyway graphics card isn't
available unless you happen to bump into just the right hacker (read on).

>In any case, the Guard Dogs have a valid question: why would you want 
>to do this?  Why not open a window?  The whole point behind modern displays 
>and their underlying software support is that you don't _have_ to directly
>work with screen memory to get something done.  What functionality do you 
>hope to gain by doing this?

You sound like the Guard Dogs.  Why not open a window?  Why not ask X
to do everything for me over several layers of protocol, including BSD
stream sockets, the X protocol, and the GAI, passing many more
parameters at each step than I need to and clipping even though it's
uneccessary?  Oh, no reason in particular, certainly not speed.

You're right, I am not looking for more functionality.  I'm looking for
speed, a great deal more of it than I have available.  It's funny, the
Guard Dogs whimper that "OK, RS/6k's aren't exactly known to be the
*fastest* graphics boxes out there" and in the same breath discourage
me from accessing the graphics closer to the hardware.  That's a
self-defeating attitude, based on their fear of having to support a
low-level interface.

Fortunately, I just now received a wonderful response in mail from a
wonderful dude at Pencom who told me how to do it.  It's quite
non-trivial unfortunately, but it is possible.  If anyone's interested,
I'll pass on the letter.

-Dave.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Subject: Re: User doesn't show up with who command
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:39:54 GMT


In article <BrpqFD.oIu@atg.amex-trs.com> croyer@atg.amex-trs.com
writes:
>
> Does anyone know why a user would NOT show up with a "who" command
> even though he is logged in and shows up with "ps"?
>
> {HiRollers:croyer}814: ps | grep tcasey
> tcasey   19424  0.0  0.0  344  412      - S    08:29:03  0:01 xterm 
> tcasey   32227  0.0  0.0  168  360  pts/6 S    08:29:08  0:00 -csh 
> tcasey   33005  0.0  0.0  156   60  pts/6 S    08:29:20  0:00 rlogin brainiac 
> tcasey   33259  0.0  0.0  152   40  pts/6 S    08:29:19  0:00 rlogin brainiac 
> tcasey   33505  0.0  1.0  568  640      - S    08:29:05  0:14 mwm 

Since he's running `xterm', there are a few possibilities:

1) He has xterm's `utmpInhibit' resource set.

2) He's using xterm's `-ut' option.

3) `xterm' isn't setuid root.

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