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From: steph@demesne.uucp (Steph Marr)
Subject: Re: SCO TCP/IP problem
Organization: Demesne Computing
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 18:47:42 GMT

B. Scott Mills (a_millsbs@ccsvax.sfasu.edu) writes:

>I have several  SCO UNIX 3.2.2 and SCO Opendesktop 1.1.1g PC-Interface servers
>that I use here on campus and I plan on getting more.  However, these SCO
>machines go braindead when my primary domain name server is down.

I hope this is on the FAQ list (ed?) This is a known problem in
SCO TCP/IP 1.1.3f, which is included in ODT 1.1.  The problem is in the
resolver routines in the socket driver, and is addressed in a supplement
available for SCO Support called (I think) lng327.

The problem revolves around the inability to have /etc/resolv.conf configured
systems fall back to a secondary name server.  Note that systems configured
this way are not intended to fall back to /etc/hosts ever.  If you want to
have your system fall back to locally stored naming information, you will have
to set up BIND accordingly.  If you do not have the support supplement, or
can't wait for it for some reason (after all you can anonymously download it),
you CAN configure a local named as a secondary, and things will work better.

Note that a fix -is- available, and that this problem is not present in the
currently orderable SCO TCP/IP 1.2.0.


Nuff said.
-- 
Steph Marr
...!uunet!sco!demesne!steph
/* This is MY house, and MY machine.  I'll say what I please. */
From: paul@openage.COM (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: RE: Need kernel change - can't reboot!
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:40:24 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Precedence: bulk


>I am running SCO ODT Server with SCO LanManager for UNIX...
>Every once in a while, I get a "File Table Overflow" error for which
>I need to modify some kernel parameters...

>The problem comes in when I try to reboot after the kernel builds...

>In some cases I can't get through loading .text, in others .bss,
>and still other cases I get past this point, but the system locks
>up loading some of the daemons...

>My vendor tells me that this is due to a corruption in the file system
>(which I can't find), and he insists that this is a known problem
>which can only be solved via a reinstall of the system...

>SCO won't help me because of a contract arrangement with this vendor...

>I don't want to reload if I don't absolutely have to...

>Any ideas ?

Yes.  There is a known problem with any part of your kernel being out beyond 
1024 cylinders on the HDD.  You need to move some things around so that you can 
get the kernel back under the 1024 cylinder mark.  The easiest way to do this 
is something like:

cp unix.old unix.good           # mv the data further out
mv unix.good unix.old           # just move the pointer
cp unix unix.good               # mv the kernel into the new vacancy
cp unix.good unix               # mv the pointer

This should knock it out.

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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: staceyc@sco.COM (Stacey Campbell)
Subject: Re: compiling gcc
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:14:07 GMT


In article <9207281236.aa18847@Paris.ics.uci.edu> akeren@laguna.ICS.UCI.EDU (Alan Keren) writes:
>Has anyone compiled gcc 2.2.2 on an SCO unix system?
>If you have could you post a short description of
>what you did and any problems you might have had.
>Also any opinions on gcc vs. SCO cc and just in general
>how good a c++ compiler gcc is.

I don't think my setup is entirely common but I have done this
with very minimal problems.  I run SCO Unix 3.2v3 (yes there is
such a beast) with a SCO Unix 3.2v2 development system, and
a few minor bits and pieces from the 3.2v4 dev sys.  Chip Salzenberg
has put together a config file for 3.2v4 which you should try if
you run this setup.

I used the older config file with my setup and added

#define STDC_VALUE 0

to make gcc happier with my /usr/include setup.

Other than that I just followed the build documentation and did the
initial compile with gcc 1.40.

As for comparisons between gcc and cc; you really should just compile
your program and use the one that runs best.  Note that there is
at least one incompatability between gcc and cc, namely structures
that contain bitfields will have different sizes.  So try to avoid
mixing compiler objects if your code utilizes this type of data structure.
-- 
          Stacey Campbell - staceyc@sco.com - uunet!sco!staceyc
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sysv386
From: steveo@world.std.com (Steven W Orr)
Subject: Want to use Alt as a Meta key please.
Organization: SysLang, Inc.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 00:34:34 GMT

Piercarlo Grandi just posted his very well intended mapkbd program to
alt.sources. My problem is that it will not compile because it is
looking for some files that don't exist under SCO. (I presume that
these are _not_ AT&T generic files? :-( ) They try to include
sys/{at_ansi,kd}.h and all I've got is sys/keyboard.h

Could someone please tell me what needs to be done? In case there's
an SCO guy out there who is listening and knows how to do it but is a
vi freak and never needs an Meta key, here's the scoop:

When properly implemented, the Alt key is held down at the same time
as any character emitting key (just like Ctrl). The result is that
the key that gets modified is prefixed by an escape character. e.g.
<Alt>x yields an <esc>x. For you octal bufs, that's 033 0170.

This is just one of those little niggling things that's been bugging
me for a long time. Many thanks in advance to whoever can be of
assistance.
-- 
----------Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas.------------------
Steven W. Orr      steveo@world.std.com     uunet!world!steveo
----------Everybody repeat after me: "We are all individuals."-----------------
From: noldi@furka.enet.dec.com (Arnold Sutter Unix Support)
Subject: Re: SCO Unix 3.2 v4.1
Reply-To: noldi@furka.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Zurich, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 11:49:15 GMT


--
In article <1992Jul22.190358.13873@xenitec.on.ca>, news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator) writes:
>From: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
>Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
>Subject: SCO Unix 3.2 v4.1
Hi Steve, 
>
>   Is this version shipping yet?  If so, what bugs does it fix?  If
>not, is there an approximate ship date?  Is it even an official
>product that's in the pipeline?  And what kind of money are our
>clients looking at to upgrade from v4 to v4.1?
>
SCO created an MS (Maint. Suppl.) V4.1 that brings 3.2.4 to V4.1. This
kit contains 2 diskettes that are custom installabe and fixes many bugs. 
This MS should be available for free but I don't know the official ship
date. Maybe it will be downloadeable from SCO ??

Regards, 

Arnold
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Subject: Re: rlogind: getpeername : Invalid argument
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:19:39 GMT
Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI

Oops.  Shows what happens when you don't proofread your posts, I
suppose.

In article <Bs5pru.1I5@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> I wrote:
>tcp:a:once:/etc/tcp >/dev/console 2>&1

This should be

tcp:a:once:/etc/tcp start >/dev/console 2>&1

Sorry for any confusion.

-- 
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mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   | accidentally delete files that they're going
<backbone>!sharkey!mudos!mju| to need later.
From: globalsoft@cup.portal.com (John Alexander Russo)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Localtalk to Ethernet Router/Gateway - Low Cost!
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 17:58:00 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I am searching for a solution to the problem of integrating 5-10 Mac
localtalk networks into an ehternet environment.  The problem with such
a small number of seats is that the obvious solutions i.e. Gatorbox, etc.,
are not cost effective.

A company by the name of Information Presentation Technologies used to build
some software for SCO (now they only support SUN and NEXT) that would support
an ethernet adapter and a localtalk adapter under SCO UNIX.

This would be an ideal solution, as presumably the minimum requirements would
consist of a localtalk adapter and the software.


Does anyone know if anything like this is available from anyone else?  Got
any suggestions for alternative solutions?

If possible, cc me at johnr@globalsoft.com.

Thanks

John A. Russo
GLOBALSOFT
A UNIX software and systems provider.
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: "Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant" <paul@openage.com>
Subject: RE: rlogind: getpeername : Invalid argument
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 13:40:16 GMT
Precedence: bulk

>Hi,

>Yesterday I suddenly was told that the campus ethernet is being split
>and I had to change the IP number on my SCO box right away (thanks for 
>the notice guys :-}) so I changed the ifconfig statements in the tcp
>scripts, and I stopped the routed, and added an /etc/route add default
>statement. Everything works fine, except for telnetd and rlogind which
>won't start up when I boot, and if I try to run them manually I get
> 
> telnetd: getpeername: Invalid argument

>and the same for rlogind. Can anybody tell me what this is
>referring to, and hopefully what I can do to fix it?

These programs get started by "inetd".  If "inetd" is running you should be OK. 
Can you telnet and rlogin to your own machine?

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From: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: SCO Unix 3.2 v4.1
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:03:58 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Precedence: bulk


   A while ago, when we were having trouble setting up a tape drive on a
3.2v4 box, we were shipped a new driver that SCO said will be included in
version 4.1 of the product.  This sounds like a release with fixes
for various bugs (like that one) that somehow escaped through quality
control.

   Is this version shipping yet?  If so, what bugs does it fix?  If
not, is there an approximate ship date?  Is it even an official
product that's in the pipeline?  And what kind of money are our
clients looking at to upgrade from v4 to v4.1?

-Steve
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: jle9162@venus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE)
Subject: X11R4 tls
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:58:00 GMT

  I just received and installed the X11R4 server (TLS001) and am having
a problem getting it to run. I installed just like to notes explained but
when I "startx" it gives me this:
  " could not open default font 'fixed' "
then it exits to the shell.

Any ideas?

(btw, I have ODT 1.1 and have been running X with no problems)

Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,biz.sco.opendesktop,sco.opendesktop
From: doc@magna.com (Matthew J. D'Errico)
Subject: Need kernel change - can't reboot!
Organization: Magna Software Corporation
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:30:20 GMT

Can anyone assist with this problem ?

I am running SCO ODT Server with SCO LanManager for UNIX...
Every once in a while, I get a "File Table Overflow" error for which
I need to modify some kernel parameters...

The problem comes in when I try to reboot after the kernel builds...

In some cases I can't get through loading .text, in others .bss,
and still other cases I get past this point, but the system locks
up loading some of the daemons...

My vendor tells me that this is due to a corruption in the file system
(which I can't find), and he insists that this is a known problem
which can only be solved via a reinstall of the system...

SCO won't help me because of a contract arrangement with this vendor...

I don't want to reload if I don't absolutely have to...

Any ideas ?

-- Doc
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From: info@sco.COM (SCO Information)
Subject: SCO Open Desktop Release 2.0 Supplemental Documentation 
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:52:39 GMT
Followup-To: biz.sco.opendesktop

July 28, 1992 ... SCO is now accepting orders for the SCO Open Desktop
Release 2.0  Supplementary  Documentation.  Product  and  availability
information follows:
______________________________________________________________________

PRODUCT NAME:  SCO Open Desktop Supplementary Documentation

DESCRIPTION:  The   SCO  Open   Desktop  Release   2.0   Supplementary
  Documentation is designed for system administrators, developers, and
  advanced users  who want  to know  more  about  SCO  Open  Desktop's
  complete set  of  system  services.  The  manuals  provide  detailed
  information on  SCO Open  Desktop networking,  and MS-DOS  and  UNIX
  System operation  and administration,  which is  normally beyond the
  scope of  the typical  user.  The  Supplemental  Documentation  also
  includes hardcopy  manual versions  of the online SCO Open Desktop X
  Reference and Desktop Help software, as well as the SCO Open Desktop
  User's Guide,  on diskette,  in SCO's online graphical documentation
  format.

  The  SCO   Open  Desktop  Release  2.0  Supplementary  Documentation
  consists of:

    Online version (dual media) of SCO Open Desktop User's Guide
    SCO Open Desktop Server System Release 2.0 Release Notes
    SCO UNIX Operating System User's Guide
    SCO UNIX Operating System System Administrator's Reference
    SCO Merge, MS-DOS Version 5.0 User's Guide and Reference
    SCO TCP/IP Runtime System for SCO UNIX Systems Command Reference
    SCO NFS Programmer's Guide and Command Reference
    Microsoft LAN Manager for UNIX Systems User's Guide,
      Administrator's Guide and Command Reference
    SCO Open Desktop X Reference and Desktop Help
  
PRICING: See your SCO Supplier.
         North American customers: call 800-746-8649 for reseller referral.

AVAILABILITY: First customer shipments of the SCO Open Desktop Release
  2.0 Supplemental Documentation are anticipated on August 28, 1992.


SCO and  Open Desktop  are registered  trademarks of  The  Santa  Cruz
Operation, Inc.  in the U.S.A. and other countries. All other brand or
product names  are or  may be  trademarks of, and are used to identify
products or services of, their respective owners.

The Santa  Cruz Operation, Inc. reserves the right to change or modify
any of the product specifications or features described herein without
notice. This  product summary  is for  information only.  SCO makes no
express or implied representations or warranties in this summary.

All references to the SCO UNIX Operating System or the SCO UNIX System
refer to the SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 Operating System.

Copyright (c) 1992 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. All Rights Reserved
From: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.opendesktop
Subject: Re: Program name
Date: 30 Jul 92 04:38:15 GMT
Reply-To: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
Organization: ShadeTree Software, Inc.

In article <1992Jul28.162146.10005@kodak.kodak.com> sengillo@Kodak.COM writes:
:>-- 
:>
:>Does anyone know how to get the name that the user started the program with.
:>What I want to get is argv[0], but the problem is that I am writing a generic
:>subroutine to report errors. I do not want to pass the program name to the
:>subroutine since it would mean passing the name through many levels of
:>subroutine calls. I am currently using a global variable.
:>

argc and argv are set up by the kernel when the process starts.  The
startup code (_start) that calls main merely moves them around a bit
before calling main().  The point is, there is no external reference
to the values.  In your case, what I normally do, is define a global
char * and set it to argv[0] first thing in main.
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From: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.opendesktop
Subject: Athena Widgets
Summary: Athena widgets for X11R4, ODT1.1, 1.2
Keywords: Athena Widgets
Date: 25 Jul 92 06:13:09 GMT
Reply-To: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
Organization: ShadeTree Software, Inc.

Does anyone have the athena widget library for ODT1.1 or 1.2? By that I
mean compiled and working or compilable.  I have access to the X
distribution but would like to save myself some effort if at all possible.

Thank You,
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.opendesktop
From: mm@hela.iti.org (Michael McFarland)
Subject: gethostbyname() problem
Summary: gethostbyname() doesn't work with large executables.
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
Distribution: biz
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:27:40 GMT


Has anyone come up with a work-around for gethostbyname()?
It doesn't work with large (380kbytes) executables.
From: brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.opendesktop
Subject: error messages - so cryptic!!
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:46:00 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOODT gateway and Propagation Society
Submit-To: scoodt@xenitec.on.ca
Resent-By: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Precedence: bulk

I really do wish SCO would give you a list of error messages and their
meanings!!

I occasionally get messages in /usr/adm/messages which I have a vague idea of 
what they mean but nothing really specific.

Recently I've been seeing

WARNING: klm_siglost: local lock not recovered

I also saw this one once

glost: local lock not recovered

and this one

WARNING: lfs_reclock lockd closed, relock redirected

now all of these point me in the direction of the locking mechanism (lockd?),
but what is it trying to tell me??

sigh

brian

-- 
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InterLinx Support Services, Inc.                        uunet!van-bc!ilinx!brian
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        Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD
Newsgroups: biz.sco.opendesktop
From: beha@logware.de (Berthold Hienger)
Subject: Wanted: preemptive lightweight P. for SCO
Keywords: threads preemptive lightweight processes
Organization: Logware GmbH Berlin Germany
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:23:05 GMT


We are in desperate search for C++ library or a C package providing us
with preemptive lightweiht processes for SCO Unix. 
Any information would be appreciated.
Please mail your answers and I'll summarize it and will post the results
in this group.

Thanks in advance


		Berthold Hienger

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From: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.opendesktop
Subject: Athena Widgets
Keywords: athena widgets
Date: 30 Jul 92 04:15:07 GMT
Organization: ShadeTree Software, Inc.

Thank you to those of you who responded to my query about the athena
widgets for SCO.  I was able to retrieve them from uunet at

    ~/vendor/sco/Devref/athenar4.ltr
    ~/vendor/sco/Devref/athenar4.tar.Z
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.opendesktop
From: sengillo@Kodak.COM (Alan Sengillo)
Subject: Program name
Reply-To: sengillo@Kodak.COM
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 16:21:46 GMT

-- 

Does anyone know how to get the name that the user started the program with.
What I want to get is argv[0], but the problem is that I am writing a generic
subroutine to report errors. I do not want to pass the program name to the
subroutine since it would mean passing the name through many levels of
subroutine calls. I am currently using a global variable.


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From: dgrove@axion.bt.co.uk (David Grove)
Newsgroups: biz.jobs.offered
Subject: Jobs Wanted Ads
Date: 27 Jul 92 10:41:11 GMT
Reply-To: dgrove@axion.bt.co.uk (David Grove)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs



I wish people wouldn't use this newsgroup to put out requests for employment!!

Whilst I have every sympathy with those seeking jobs in this current climate (blah, blah, gripe, moan, about World recession etc.); this is not the place for selling your wares!!. I am also a graduate seeking employment (no more details about myself for fear of hypocrisy!), and use this newsgroup to read about vacancies, *not* prospective candidates!!

Please leave this newsgroup free for job OFFERS!!!!!!!!

Thanks,

Dave Grove.
Newsgroups: biz.jobs.offered