HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: drewo@dcatlas.dot.gov (Andrew R. Orndorff)
Subject: Re: IBM screws a few more customers
Reply-To: Andrew Orndorff <dcatlas!drewo@uunet.uu.net>
 Organization: NHTSA Data Center, Washington, D.C., USA
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:00:54 GMT

amf@amfent.Gwinnett.COM (Andy Feibus) writes:

>drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake) writes:
>> Rather than abandoning these users, IBM offered customers who purchased
>> the original "Color Graphics Display Adapter" or the "High-Performance
>> 3D Color Graphics Processor" (sabine) a 100% credit towards the purchase
>> price of a replacement Gt3, Gt4 or Gt4x adapter.  That's right ... a 
>> 100% credit.  Ask your marketing rep to look up announcement 391-102, 
>> dated 7/24/91.  
>Oh, goodie.  Full credit for replacing it with a graphics card that didn't
>exist.

>-- Andy.

	Hmmm...we received our 320H and 550 just after this announcement 
(early August) and I don't recall IBM notifying anyone here of known 
problems or an 'upgrade'.

	Personally, I'm a little disturbed that we weren't notified _before_
the equipment was shipped so that we could have requested that the
display adapters be upgraded before the machines arrived here.

	Unfortunately, because our users rely very heavily on visualization
for their modelling and other activities we could be looking at 
purchasing the GT3 or Gt4 adapters simply to allow our applications to
continue to run - or we could completely drop the hope of ever upgrading AIX
again (we're at 3.2.1 ...and testing...but that's another matter).

	Andrew Orndorff
	NHTSA Data Center

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jarmo@atomica.fi (Jarmo R{ty)
Subject: Serial Storage Architecture
Organization: Oy Atomica Ab, ESBO, FINLAND
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 07:38:07 GMT
Summary: IBM 9333-500 serial disks will work on AIX V3.2.1.
Keywords: ssa 9333-500

Does anyone know more about using 9333-500 disks on IBM RS/6000.
I know that AIX V3.2.1 will support those serial disks. The problem
here is that 9333-500 is not yet released in Northern Europe.

The serial adapter that will be used is able to support 16 units.
Is the only possibility IBM manufactured serial disks or is for
example differential SCSI possible. In this case the serial adapter
has to someway support differential SCSI disks but how - impossible
maybe.

Any touch to this subject ? I'd like to get contacts concerning
this subject. So please join either via this group or directly to
jarmo@atomica.fi.
From: ryanr@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Richard Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: emacs, rmail, IBM RS/6000, and Aix 3.2
Date: 23 Jul 92 06:52:11 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

Hi,

We've got a problem getting emacs to read mail with rmail.  The version
of emacs we have on our system is 18.57.3  The system here is the
IBM RS/6000 running on Aix 3.2

I've been corresponding with the sys admin trying to get the the system
to allow the rmail command in emacs read incoming mail.  Whenever I try
to execute rmail in emacs I get the message, "Permission denied: renaming
/usr/spool/mail/ryanr, /usr/spool/mail/ryanr~"  It's been suggested to me
that this might have something to do with emacs running on Aix.  Does anyone
have any ideas of what the problem might be?  Has anyone seen any pertinent
FAQ's in the newsgroups I can look up?

Thanks,
Richard.
..
From: mike@pencom.com (Mike Heath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2 equivalent of syscall(2) and <syscall.h>?
Date: 24 Jul 92 00:13:44 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software, Austin, TX


You could write your own syscall.h and syscall() routine.  You would
need to put it in it's own shared object and import the
system calls from /lib/syscalls.exp.  The body of the routine would
just be a big switch statement on the first argument.  You also
want to statically link your application with the C library, but not
the syscall() you've written.  It will need to remain shared.

The reason you need to do this is because your re-using the same
symbol names.  The statically bound segments will use your definition.
The shared syscall() will use the real symbols from the kernel.

This should be a good exercise in how to use ld.

-- 
Mike Heath		Pencom ...  We're not just headhunters anymore.
Pencom Software		
Austin, TX		
mike@pencom.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bis@ifi.uio.no (Bjorn Ivar Stark)
Subject: Help: setgroups: not owner
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:54:04 GMT
Originator: bis@maud.ifi.uio.no

When I do a rsh towards an particular rs6000 from any machine, I
get this
errormessage:

fosli@asterix /u/asterix/c/fosli: rsh majestix echo ""
setgroups: Not owner
fosli@asterix /u/asterix/c/fosli:

As root however there is now problem.
root@asterix-/u/asterix/c/fosli> rsh majestix echo ""
root@asterix-/u/asterix/c/fosli>

And rlogin seem also to be o.k. Any idea to what causes
this errormessage?
Anyone.
-----------
Oystein Fosli, B240
Norsk Hydro a.s           Ph.: (472) 739660       
Postboks 200		  Fax: (472) 739555
1321 STABEKK	     internet: bis@ifi.uio.no
Norway
--
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Oystein Fosli, B240
Norsk Hydro a.s           Ph.: (472) 739660       
Postboks 200		  Fax: (472) 739555
1321 STABEKK	     internet: bis@ifi.uio.no
Norway
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,umich.unix
From: kens@psc.lsa.umich.edu (Ken Small)
Subject: Rexecd and different auth methods
Organization: University of Michigan Population Studies Center
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:33:25 GMT

I have machines set up which use a different authorization method
(as indicated in the "default" stanza in the file /etc/security/user);
but the rexecd daemon seems to ignore it, and tries to authenticate 
using the passwd file.  This is a serious probelem, since the X server
software which runs on PCs needs to use rexec initailly to start a client.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
-- 
Ken Small
kens@umich.edu
Consulting and Support Services, University of Michigan
From: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Reading on RS600 8mm tape written on SUN sparc
Date: 25 Jul 92 03:05:24 GMT
Reply-To: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
Organization: ShadeTree Software, Inc.

:In article <1992Jul17.144407.15931@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
:>
:>In article <1992Jul16.022438.1735@cco.caltech.edu>
:>rli@cco.caltech.edu (Rongsheng Li) writes:
:>>
:>> My wife is having some some trouble to read a tar file from
:>> the 8mm tape on a 6000. The tape was originally written on
:>> a sun sparc station by simply using "tar cvf tapedevice files"
:>
:>Make sure the IBM drive's block size is set to 1024 or 0
:>(variable).

The tapes were most likely written with an 8k block size.  They can be read
by using SMIT to change the block size on the drive to match the size the
tapes were written with (not necessarily 1024) or by changing the block
size to zero (as C.H.  writes).
-- 
	    | Email - !shady!kevin uunet!shady!kevin
Kevin Smith | Voice - (908) 874-7980
	    | Mail  - ShadeTree Software, Inc., 192 Capricorn Dr. #10,
	    |         Somerville, NJ  08876
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Sharing SCSI devices between machines
From: srghdxp@grace.dsir.govt.nz
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:36:19 +1200
Organization: DSIR, Gracefield, New Zealand

I have been able to successfully share some SCSI devices
between a RS6000 320H and two MicroVAXII's by putting all
the devices and controllers on the same SCSI bus. Although
this is now working I have some loose ends that I would like
to clear up. The devices on the SCSI bus are; 

   400 MB system disk internal to 320H	(ID 0)
   RISC/6000 320H Controller 		(ID 5)
   Cipher 1/2 inch 6250 tape unit	(ID 3)
   EXABYTE 8500				(ID 4)
   MicroVAXII (CQD-220)			(ID 6)
   MicroVAXII (CQD-220)			(ID 7)
   Fujitsu 1GB disk			(ID 1)
   Fujitsu 1GB disk			(ID 2)
   
The purpose for doing this is to allow the use of the tape
drives from all three computers. I am not attempting to
share access to the disks and so far the BUS seems ok with
this load. 

The system will only work if I use the IBM external SCSI
terminator which I understand is not ANSI standard. Reading
the info section on SCSI interface under the hardware
technical reference manual, there is a section on the
"Highly Available Configuration" which seems relevant. It is
intended to share SCSI units between RS6000's and states the 
following limitations among others; 

   o No internal disks
   o Use Highly Available Software

I would like to know the following;

1. Is the internal SCSI terminator on a 320H an ANSI 
   standard terminator ?
2. Are the pass through terminators used in the "Highly 
   available configuration" ANSI standard?
3. Why the limitation on no internal disks and is it only
   relevant if the 320H is switched off?
4. What does the "Highly available configuration software"
   do and is it necessary?
5. Would SCSI Forced Perfect Terminators (FPT) be better in
   my application and do IBM sell them (part No)?
6. What exactly does jumper J1 on the 320H SCSI board do and
   should I remove it.

Thanks in advance
David Pairman
From: shieh@austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: scsi disc driver on aix
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:45:11 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: shieh@racerx.austin.ibm.com



> i've been told by ibm that special scsi driver modules are required for
> third party scsi discs [aix 3.1.7].  is that true?

This is not exactly correct.  You are refering to apar ix23173 in
which a Design Change Request (DCR) was put in effect to make scsi
device configuration less rigid.  In the original 3.1.0 disk device
driver there was a mode sense parameter that was hard-coded.  The reason
it was hardcoded was because it was one of those "fuzzy" scsi specs
in which it was up to the implimenter to decide if the bit
should be on or off.  So roughly half the disk manufacturers have the
bit on, the other have it off.  So this DCR fixed it so that it didn't
matter what the disk makers had that bit set to.  By the way, once
again, I will state that there is only ONE scsi disk device driver
and only ONE scsi tape device driver.  Many people keep refering
to "modules" and "that ost driver".  Well, the same driver that is
running OEM drives is running the IBM made drives.  Also, the DCR for
oem drives was put into the basic 3.2.0 code, so there should be
no problem there.

> it was someone at ibm who said it, and although i was sceptical
> i know about the scsi tape driver problems with non-ibm exabytes before 3.2,
> but my impression was that this was regarded as a bit of a bug,

Not really a bug as a design flaw (please, no flames).  The configurator
was not written to accept third party tape drives (many apologies).  Now
in 3.2, this capability has been added to the system.  But once again, it
is running off of the same tape device driver used to run the IBM drives.


-- 


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The views expressed are my own.  They do not represent IBM.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
Subject: Re: xlf compiler preprocessors
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:01:12 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix

In article <4840@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> alhy@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu (J. Scott Berg) writes:

>Can anyone explain to me why/when/if I should use the -Pk or -Pv
>preprocessors instead of/in addition to the -O optimization?  I have
>some fortran code (LAPACK, in particular) that I want to optimize for
>speed.  The manual makes it rather unclear what exactly -O does, so I
>can't figure out if -Pk and/or -Pv do more or less optimization
>("There may be other optimizations performed also" is written after a
>list that is headed with "The OPT option performs some of the
>optimization techniques outlined below").  Thanks

The preprocessors are exactly that: PREprocessors, performing a variety
of source-to-source transformations.  When you use one of them, you should
definitely also use -O.  As to whether one of the preprocessors will get
you performance better than that obtained using only -O, the best approach
is to try it and time your program.

The -O option will perform such general-purpose optimizations as
common-subexpression elimination, strength reduction, elimination of
computations whose results are never used, dead induction-variable
elimination, constant propagation, etc., as well as machine-specific
optimizations such as casting loops in a form that takes advantage of
the hardware's (usually) zero-time loop terminating instruction,
instruction scheduling, etc.

The preprocessors will do some of the above and will also do loop
unrolling, loop interchange, strip mining, replacement of code by
calls to highly optimized BLAS library routines where appropriate,
etc.
--
                                   Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: tye@spillman.uucp (E. Tye McQueen)
Subject: Verbose option for "restore -T -f-"?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:33:11 GMT
Organization: Spillman Data Systems

So how do you get "restore -T" to list more than just file names?
I would like to know *at least* file sizes.  I've tried

    rcmd node cat /dev/rst0 | restore -T -v -f-

just because tar and cpio both overload the "v" option to indicate
"long format" listing when doing tables of contents.  But "-v"
seems to have no effect when combined with "-T".  I couldn't find
anything in "man restore" (though IBM's formatting of man pages
doesn't make it easy to find things) and I don't wish to endure the
hours of torture trying to coax any info out of "info" (because I
doubt what I'm looking for is there anyway).

At one point it looked like IBM's "backup" was really just a front-
end for "cpio" and "dump" that preceeded the archive with a header
saying who made this backup when, using what method, etc.  But,
although there is something that looks very much like a cpio header
about 160 bytes into the tape, it is neither a "cpio -o" nor "cpio
-oc" header for an RS/6000.  The "-oc" header starts "070707" and
there is a "\00\07\00\07\00\07" (three nulls with three "bell"s)
on the tape: close but no cigar.

I was hoping I could skip the "backup" header and use cpio directly
to get "cpio -itv" to do what I want.  It would be even nicer if
there was a way to restore the files to a machine other than an
RS/6000 (where I have more disk space).

I don't have the free disk space on the RS/6000 to restore the whole
tape just to figure out which files I do have space for.

My questions has now become more a matter of curiosity because I
will probably end up having the client make another tape and make
sure he uses cpio to write it this time.

I haven't noticed this discussed before so please accept my apology
if it has been a recent topic of conversation.  I do mostly only
browse subject lines due to the volume in this newsgroup.

Thanks,
 tye@spillman.com                         Tye McQueen, E.
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 Nothing is obvious unless you are overlooking something. 
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From: croyer@atg.amex-trs.com (Chuck Royer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: User doesn't show up with who command
Date: 21 Jul 92 00:23:37 GMT
Reply-To: croyer@atg.amex-trs.com
Organization: American Express Advanced Technology Group


Configuration:  RS/6000 530  AIX 3.2 no patches installed

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}813: who
croyer      pts/0       Jul 20 06:59                          
   .        pts/1       Jul 17 06:54                          
ddefores    pts/2       Jul 17 07:25                          
croyer      pts/4       Jul 20 16:02                          
croyer      pts/3       Jul 20 06:59                          
efraser     pts/7       Jul 20 15:13          (brahms)        
ehestene    pts/8       Jul 20 12:01                          

{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 

This seems to happen ONLY with this user.  I have looked at all his startup
files and see nothing terribly out of the ordinary.

******************************************************
		Chuck Royer
******************************************************
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 19:11:45 GMT
Reply-To: stuart@piobe.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: stuart@piobe.austin.ibm.com


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

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lmaynard@auc.trw.com (Lonnie Maynard)
Subject: 5080 emulation on RS6000's
Reply-To: lmaynard@dora.UUCP (Lonnie Maynard)
Organization: TRW Denver Operations
Distribution: comp.unix.aix
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:30:20 GMT

I need information on 5080 emulation capability/products for use on an
RS6000 attached to an ES9000 running MVS, and also any information on
software products to support or port GAM/SP applications to AIXwindows
enviroment.  You can email to me at lmaynard@auc.trw.com.  Thanks for
your help.     Lonnie
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lwvanels@athena.mit.edu (Lucien W. Van Elsen)
Subject: Re: problem with putuserpw subroutine
Reply-To: lwvanels@MIT.EDU
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:50:16 GMT

bware@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Bob Ware) writes:

>   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.

It looks like there is indeed a bug; it looks like getuserpw() is doing a
setpwdb() to get read-only access to the auth db, and never closing it when
it is finished.  Furthermore, it looks like putuserpw is trying to be smart
about things, and not trying to get read-write access if the database is
open at all.  Since getuserpw left it open with read-only access, putuserpw
fails.

There's two work-arounds for this- either explicitly call
setpwdb(S_READ|S_WRITE) before putuserpw(), or call endpwdb() after the call
to getuserpw.

		-Lucien

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Lucien Van Elsen               | lwvanels@athena.mit.edu
MIT Athena Systems Development |
From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu (Hari Seldon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: When was it really created?
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:00:56 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

In <1992Jul24.185429.13174@athena.cs.uga.edu> is@groucho.dev.uga.edu (Bob Stearns) writes:

>As is usual in a multiuser system, we are short of disk space. We make
>available to our users a segment where files which will be reused or
>moved offline may be kept for up to four days. They have discovered
>touch (all of 100's of files with the same time stamp to within a
>second) and are abusing the privelege.

>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?
chmod go-rwx /bin/touch
that outa do it.

bill pociengel
--
bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: syscrc@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter)
Subject: Life with mksysb(1)
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:24:18 GMT

We want to run our RS/6000's (AIX 3.2) 24-hours-a-day, so we can't do
full backups using dump(1) because it requires single-user mode.

Is it foolish to do "by-file" (rather than "by-inode") full and incremental
backups with on-line mksysb's during full backups?  I've read what little
there is about mksysb(1) and I am utterly confused.

Is there a way to avoid the tar(1) part of the mksysb(1) and just save the
volume group information?

Is it still true that you can't do a mksysb(1) using a remote tape drive?

-- 
===========================================================================
Randy Carpenter            rcarpent@gsu.edu    $ mkdir matter; cat > matter
Georgia State University   (404) 651-2648      ksh: matter: cannot create  
Wells Computer Center                          $
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ken@studsvik.com (Ken Rempe)
Subject: xterms in 3.2 AIX
Organization: Studsvik of America
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:25:05 GMT

System: Aix 3.2 Rs6000 320

If I start an xterm from the motif menu via the .mwmrc setup
then the opened xterm doesn't respond to a typed return.
it just displays ^M. it also doesn't use the requested
font.

if i start the xterm from a command line everything is okay.

the command that i'm using is:


xterm -fn courb12 &


has anybody seen this behavior?   


Also, what do the 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 upgrades fix?


Thanks
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