HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Help - "File table overflow"
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:00:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpuamsa.28510207
Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands

David Nixon writes:

> :                                                                    Since a 
> :    single file can fill up only one slot in the inode table (whose size is
> :    controlled by ninode) and multiple slots in the file table (whose size 
> :    is controlled by nfile), nfile should be greater than or equal to ninode 
> :    rather than the other way around. 
> 
> Not im my experience: We suffered from the inode cache being overwhelmed
> until I increased its size from the measly default: 
> A size of 1280 slots was eventually choosen; below this the limit was
> frequently being hit.

  It *should* be "overwhelmed" (I assume you mean "continuously full").
(IMHO) A good cache should be continuously full and as I said earlier
the inode table is a cache (for "closed" (previously open) inodes) (and
a fixed table for open inodes).

  I did not recently look at it, but I think 'sar' still only displays
the total number inodes (i.e. the sum of the number of open inodes and
the number of closed inodes) instead of giving seperate values for the
number of open inodes and the number of closed inodes. I don't know if
we can change this without breaking SVID2 conformance. I think there is
an enhancement request for this feature.

  Out of my league: I think that Glance and/or LaserUX do a better job
in this area.

Frank Slootweg, HP, Dutch Customer Response Center
From: lienhart@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Bob Lienhart)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:57:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Printing TeX, problems with lp driver
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

	      Then I try "lp test.lj3" and it doesn't work.

Use:  "lp -oraw test.lj3"  

The lp model you are using defaults to calling a filter by
the name of lprpp.  The -oraw option will allow cat to be
used instead of lprpp.

Bob Lienhart
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: mike@maria.wustl.edu
Subject:  Limiting coredumpsize on HP-UX
To: comp.sys.hp.usenet
Reply-To: mike@maria.wustl.edu
Organization: DEC Palo Alto
Date:     Thu, 16 Apr 92 9:38:29 CDT


Is there a way for a regular, joe-blow user to do this?

If not, could HP please implement this in future versions of HP-UX?
From: duff@starbase.mitre.org (David A. Duff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: eisa scsi cards for hp 730?
Keywords: hp scsi snake hppa 730 disk
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:02:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: starbase.duff.703458141
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

i find myself in a sitation where i have more than 8 scsi devices that i
want to hang off my hp730.  also, i suspect that i can acheive higher
disk throughput using software disk striping across multiple scsi
controllers.

hp makes an eisa scsi card for the 730, but it uses a special
"differential" scsi interface.  i understand this only well enough to
suspect that this will not work with "normal" scsi peripherals - e.g.
hp97560, and seagate hard drives, hp35480 dds drive, and sun cdrom.

two questions: 

can hp97560's drives be set up somehow to work with a differential scsi
board (like with a jumper or something), or is a special differential
controller required?

(assuming the answer above is "no") - does anyone know of any other eisa
scsi boards that i could plug into my 730?   i see a lot of eisa 486
pc's out there, so i suspect there should be a sizable market for this
sort of thing.  i am concerned about compatiblity, though.  and i don't
know much about eisa.  has anyone tried this?

thanks,

dave duff                   mitre corporation               703-883-7731
duff@mitre.org             ai technical center            mclean, va usa
From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: VUE clock on the Workspace manager
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:35:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: edsi.1992Apr14.193508.29686
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI

My brother just asked me if there was a way to make the default clock on
the workspace manager digital (and perhaps larger) in the fashion of
xclock.  I thought I saw it somewhere in the VUE User's Guide, but I
can't seem to find it now.  Can anyone help me out?  What file should I
be looking in for changing/customizing the Workspace manager (on a
personal level)?  What would the lines look like to make a digital
clock?

Many thanks.
-- 
Chuck Tomasi             |     "Mom, it's Data.  I heard you know
chuck@edsi.plexus.COM    |      how to turn him on." 
spool!cserver!edsi!chuck |                    -Wesley  "Datalore"
------<Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton Wisconsin>------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: wk@cup.hp.com (Wayne Krone)
Subject: Re: scsi & HP
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:27:37 GMT
Organization: HP-UX Kernel Lab, Cupertino

mike@socrates.umd.edu (Mike Santangelo (UNIX/VMS Sysmgr)) writes:

: Oh really?  I am not aware that HP-UX 8.X SCSI driver does any powerfail
: recovery at all right now anyway!

HP-UX 8.02 (for 8x7 systems) is the first release (started shipping last
summer) that supports SCSI powerfail.  Powerfail support in SCSI was
designed in from the start.  It was not supported at first release (8.0)
because the peripherals weren't ready in time for 8.0 testing.  This was
discussed at length in this notes group recently.

: You know, I would really hope that HP decides to put their money where
: there sales mouth is and correc the current situation.  We here "Open SCSI"
: and what is in place now is far from it.  I would hope that in HP-UX 9.0
: that they generalize the the SCSI driver for use with third-party disks.
: Any comment on this?  If this is the case, then the above statement

In what way do you want the driver generalized?
From: bsb@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Brett Baumberger)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:01:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Soft PC & SCSI peripherals - WORM & Bernoulli ???
Organization: the HP Response Center, Atlanta
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

Hi,

If you can access it as a unix filesystem, you would be able to access it
as drive e: in softpc.   You will NOT be able to access it as a dos file
system unless the force is with you. However, you may store dos files on
the unix filesystem.

My own opinions Only,
Brett

Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: raj@cup.hp.com (Rick Jones)
Subject: Re: NFS accelerator & remote print service
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:39:59 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: The Place Where Packets Go To Die

: 
: Does anyone know whether HP 8x7 series and 700 series support
: Prestoserve (the NFS accelerator) ?
: 

Instead of something like a Prestoserve card, we allow the server to export
with an -async option. This can give you Ethernet link-rate writes. If you
put your server and disks on a UPS, then you are protected from power-outtages
better than a Presto-only solution (your server stays up). It is sort of
like turning your entire buffer cache into a Prestoserve instead of just 1
or 4 MB of memory. This option has a further advantage in that it is already
bundled in with NFS.

Now, there are limitations ;-) For example, a Prestoserve will retain data
during/after a system panic. I am not sure about the sanctity of an HP-UX
buffer cache when the system crashes. 

Then again, the whole idea is not to crash in the first place ;-)

rick jones

Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: tjg01@thdhub.homedepot.com (Terry Gardner)
Subject: HP modems and remote access
Organization: The Home Depot, Inc.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:44:18 GMT


I hear from HP that an HP (2400 baud) modem is REQUIRED for HP to
do remote support. Is there any reason for this? Would not any
2400 baud AT compatible modem work?

-- 
Terry Gardner, terry@thdhub, terrythdhub@uunet
Senior Network Systems Programmer @ The Home Depot, Inc.
404-433-8211 x 5124 Message Generated with GNU Emacs 18.58...
Aborting, Retrying, Failing, and Ignoring.....

-- 
Terry Gardner, terry@thdhub, terry%thdhub@uunet
Senior Network Systems Programmer @ The Home Depot, Inc.
404-433-8211 x 5124 Message Generated with GNU Emacs 18.58...
Aborting, Retrying, Failing, and Ignoring.....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: sieler@allegro.com (Stan Sieler)
Subject: Re: Help: /usr/adm/LOG* files eat my disk
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:50:39 GMT
Organization: Allegro Consultants, Inc., Redwood City, CA
Keywords: LOG, SYSLOG, SYSDIAG

They are logs of "events".  You can read the logs by doing:
   sysdiag
   RUN LOGTOOL          (command issued inside of sysdiag program)
   LISTLOG LOG=###      (e.g.: LISTLOG LOG=123)
LOGTOOL has on-line help, just enter:  HELP
It has commands to purge the LOG#### files, or you can do it manually.

sysdiag is an awkward diagnostics package that is on MPE XL and the PA-RISC
based HP 9000's.  It has on-line help, just enter: HELP
The "LIST" command shows the "program" you can run from withing sysdiag.

Note: if you want to automate any sysdiag actions by putting input in
a file, make sure the file name is 8 or less letters, in current group.  The
parser apparently thinks HP-UX is limited by MPE XL naming constraints.

sysdiag will let you see if you have had any corrected memory errors:

   sysdiag
   run logtool
   memrpt

you can also test your memory (well, your computer's memory anyway):

   sysdiag
   run memdiag section=8

On MPE XL, several dozen different kinds of events can be (optionally)
written to the LOG file.  I don't know how to enable/disable events on
HP-UX...maybe someone out there can volunteer that information!

On a related note, does anyone know the format of the MEMLOGP file?

stan sieler
sieler@allegro.com
 


From: stroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:17:51 GMT
Subject: Re: What is 3D about 2D/3D graphics in 7xx series?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

> The entry level CRX is advertised as having 2D/3D
> graphics capability but I can't find a detailed
> description about what is "3D" in the graphics.
> 
> Can someone please explain to me what this means? What
> operations are supported in hardware and what software
> is available for using the hardware features?

There are currently three display boards in the CRX family.
 - CRX supports 2D vectors, rectangular block copies, and dithering of
   24 bit RGB into 8 bit framebuffer values.
 - CRX24 adds 24 bit framebuffer and multiple hardware colormaps.
 - CRX24Z adds a dedicated hardware Z buffer and hardware polygon rasterization.

The normal CPU and floating point coprocessor are used for
transformations and clipping.  The memory controller in the 720 and 730
has specialized hardware for color and Z interpolation and Z buffer
operations on horizontal spans.  This uses paged system memory for the
Z buffer.

The Starbase graphics library is shipped with the programming package.
The PHIGS graphics library is a separate HP product.  Other graphics
libraries such as GKS and HOOPS are available from other sources.

HP sells an optional product called "PowerShade" that enables the
Starbase and PHIGS libraries to perform lighting, shading, and hidden
surface removal on the CRX and CRX24 displays.  The CRX24Z display comes
with PowerShade bundled in.  Without PowerShade, the libraries do 3D
transforms, but no lighting or hidden surfaces.  PowerShade also
includes the Personal Visualizer, a program which does interactive
creation of realistic images using data from a variety of sources, such
as ME30 or Autocad.  This program features radiosity and ray tracing.

Mike Stroyan, mike_stroyan@fc.hp.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.hp:5276 gnu.emacs.help:2440
From: poirriez@margaux.inria.fr (Vincent Poirriez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Repost : emacs 18.58 on HP9000 720 running hp-ux8.05 but not vue
Date: 16 Apr 92 09:45:12 GMT
Reply-To: poirriez@margaux.inria.fr (Vincent Poirriez)
Followup-To: comp.sys.hp
Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt France

In a precedent message I wrote:

>I need some help to install emacs 18.58 on an HP9000/720 running hp ux 8.05
>My problem is that under X11R4, emacs does not know for the meta key.
>It runs perfectly if it is performed via an rlogin without the -display
>option. But if emacs opens it's own window (an hpterm I think), it does not
>recognize the meta key. 
>And I need it as I have azerty keyboards where the characters #{}[]...
>are obtained with that key.

>As my students use vi (because it is the only editor on the machines), it
>would be very helpfull if someone can give some help.

I know that is a FAQ but,
I have done the following suggested modifications(thank for replys):

>> (I have these lines in my .vueprofile)

>>xmodmap -e "clear control"
>>xmodmap -e "add control = Control_L"

>>xmodmap -e "clear mod1"
>>xmodmap -e "add mod1 = Meta_L"
>>xmodmap -e "add mod1 = Meta_R"
 And it does not work neither than the following:
>>  xmodmap -e "clear control"  -e "add control = Control_L"
>>  xmodmap -e "remove mod1 = Mode_switch"

These lines in my .vueprofile do not fix the problem on the hp 9000 720
running vue. 
Moreover:
I have to precise that I use the hp 9720 as a server for 10 X terminals
(HP 700RX with azerty keyboards). As I do not use vue on these terminals (due
to ressources needed), it is X11 that run (mwm). I have done the above 
modifications in my $HOME/.xsession file and it does not work either.

Thanks for any help. My students will appreciate.

Thanks to answer by email at poirriez@margaux.inria.fr

Vincent Poirriez
From: graphics@talos.cc.uch.gr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: PRINTER FILTERS
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:59:07 GMT


   Hello everybody,  
I am not so familiar with HP-UX and I would like some help from someone
out there...
 we bought a laserjet a couple of months ago and I would like to connect
it on an HP/720 with serial cable.
The printer has a postcript cartridge but when I defined it as
postscript printer ( using sam ) the only files I could print are
postscript  files. 
  What I ask is if there are any filters that I can use to print
and other formats (text , troff , etc). 
			Thanks in advance,
				Kosmas
From: rodean@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bruce Rodean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: kernel replacement
Date: 11 Apr 92 02:03:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpfcso.7370869
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Ft. Collins, CO.

In article <1992Apr9.184945.25045@thdhub.UUCP> tjg01@thdhub.homedepot.com (Terry Gardner) writes:
> I've been told by HP that problems can be caused by replacing the
> kernel image (/hp-ux) with a new kernel. I've done this a lot in
> the past, with no difficulty. Any comments on this?

One can take your statement a number of ways, and each way may or may
not have problems.

If you mean that you don't boot up on that rebuilt kernel, then yes some
things might not work quite right.  Anything that does an nlist on
/hp-ux and then reads /dev/kmem *might* have problems.  I know that ipcs
is one such beast.

If you remove some configurable yet necessary part of the kernel (such
as networking) and then reboot on that, some things will definitely be
broken.

If you mean you tweak a kernel variable, rebuild the kernel, and reboot
on it, then I don't think you should see any problems.

Bruce Rodean
rodean@fc.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: bcd@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bryan Dunlap)
Subject: identifying 750 coprocessors
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 06:30:07 GMT

On 300 series machines, /etc/dmesg shows you all the processors,
coprocessors, and FPAs on the host.  On our 750s, this information
isn't there.  Is there a way to find such info easily?

Bryan Dunlap, OSU CIS IICF/LAIR      | Giving money and power to government is
bcd@cis.ohio-state.edu  614/292-6350 | like giving whiskey and car keys to 
2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH 43210     | teenage boys.  -- P.J. O'Rourke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: chlg1043@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher H Lee)
Subject: NFS and root
Keywords: NFS root access
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:36:00 GMT

I heard that one can patch up the kernel to allow root to 
access mounted file systems as 'root' and not 'nobody'.

Has anyone tried doing this, and if so, what is the
procedure?

This has become a REAL nuisance at backup time, when the 
files to backup and the tape drive are not on the same
machine (and us not having OMNIback!).


Thanks much

Chris Lee
From: steve@eowyn.gte.com (Steven C Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: C Preprocessor defines (_INCLUDE_POSIX_SOURCE, etc.)
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:34:29 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories

HP9000/720, HP/UX 7.05 with C development license.  What is the deal
with the system header files?  In order to get even the simplest Motif
program to compile without errors, at least using ANSI C, I must
define these three preprocessor tokens: _INCLUDE_POSIX_SOURCE,
_INCLUDE_XOPEN_SOURCE and _INCLUDE_HPUX_SOURCE.

Even the one line
   #include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
gives a syntax error when compiled with -Aa for ANSI, unless the above
defines are included. 

Those names are compiler reserved names, so I am led to believe that
there may be some compiler flag to automatically defined these.  Does
anybody know what I SHOULD do?
--
--
Steve Preston (scp2@gte.com)
From: escott@eos.ncsu.edu (Erik Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Audio demo on 710 fails
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:35:01 GMT
Reply-To: escott@eos.ncsu.edu (Erik Scott)
Organization: Project EOS - North Carolina State University

After following the instructions in the man page for 'audio', I've hit
a wall.  I'm getting this:


# ./audio_demo
*** Exiting: exception caught by PFM system cleanup handler
*** communications failure (network computing system/RPC runtime)

I started llbd (ps -el shows it running), I have /dev/audioIL _et al._,
and I started Aserver, though it seems to die right after I run audio_demo.

So, am I missing something obvious?  Non obvious?  Here I was hoping for
sampled sounds instead of "beep"... :-)

________________________________
erik scott   escott@eos.ncsu.edu
From: mack23@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Chris Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: "news" broken under HP-UX 8.0 on 835 (?)
Keywords: bug, annoying, model M-1
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:33:18 GMT
Organization: SSPPCC, University of Chicago

Greetings again:  Previous post on this topic stupidly made when I
was logged in as root.  Probably better to e-mail to my address as
a mortal:  mack23@sam.spc.uchicago.edu.  I do read the root mail,
but only once a day, so that's cool too.  Thanks folks.

Chris
From: jsm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John Marvin)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 06:50:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Automatic nice value for certain processes
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

In comp.sys.hp, viswswrn@cs.Princeton.EDU (Vishy Visweswaran) writes:

> 
> 	Is it possible to have certain commands executed with a
> nice value that is preset ? We have some processes that consume 
> a lot of CPU/memory and we would like to be able to run them at
> a lower priority (nice value higher than 20.) Of course, we could 
> always do this with the "nice ..." command, but I am curious if 
> this can be done automatically without having to specify the nice 
> level each time.

No, there is no "automatic" method to do what you requested. I would
suggest that you move the CPU/memory hog to another name, and install a
shell script that invokes it with the desired nice value. Please note that
currently, nice(1) does not have much effect on memory hogs (nice only
affects the CPU scheduling). This will be changed in the next release
of hp-ux. There may also be a patch that implements this feature. The
change involves modifying the paging algorithm so that niced processes
will be more likely to have their pages stolen when the machine runs low
on memory.

	John Marvin
	jsm@fc

From: dhandly@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Dennis Handly)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 10:27:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Datebook wish list
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Cal Language Lab
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

>Namely: it thinks week begins on Sunday.  Yes, I know that's the convention
>in the USA, but Monday is the first day of the week in most (all?) of Europe,

That's funny, I think Monday is the first day of the week too.  The day I go
back to work.  I've lived with it all my life.  Must be a big conspiracy. :-)

I know that TV listings seem to like to start on Sunday too.  Oh well. 
Xref: sparky comp.sys.hp:5142 comp.sources.wanted:2492 comp.unix.questions:6101
From: chris@bwilab3.UUCP (Chris Curtin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Source code for crypt(3C)
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:15:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
Organization: Bradley Ward Inc., Atlanta, Ga


I am looking for source code that will encrypt and decrypt a given string
using a given salt. The version of encrypt that comes with HP-UX 8.0 is
broken. This has been verified by PICS and I have an SR for it.

What I need is a function that will encrypt and decrypt a given string of 
any size using a supplied salt. I would prefer a DES compatable algorithm
in source form. C is prefered but FORTRAN is acceptable.

Does anyone have such a function, or pointers to where I can get it? I do not
have ftp access but I can UUCP and use mail servers.

I am working on several HP 9000/8xx and 9000/7xx boxes, using HP-UX 8.0 

Thanks in advance.

Chris
-- 
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Christopher M. Curtin				Bradley Ward, Inc.
gatech!warlord!bwilab3!chris			5901-A Peachtree Dunwoody Rd
						Atlanta, Ga 30350
From: davew@hp-ptp.ptp.hp.com (Dave Waller)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:50:18 GMT
Subject: Re: unable to run login(1) from a VUE TERMINAL window
Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

jdbth@cofr-hp1.lahabra.chevron.com (Thompson D.B.) writes:
> I have this action defined to VUE:
> 
> ROOT                    \
>         *               \
>         ${ACTION_L}     \
>         ${ACTION_S}     \
>         COMMAND         \
>         PERM-TERMINAL   \
>         %LocalHost%     \
>         /bin/login root TERM=hpterm
> 
> The intent of this action is to open a window on my local machine
> for me to do system maintenance.  However, when I execute the action,
> I am prompted for root's password, and I am then greeted with the
> following message:
> 
> 	No utmp entry.You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh".

Try
	/bin/exec /bin/login root TERM=hpterm

and see if that works. I haven't tested it myself in the VUE
environment, but this usually solves the problem cited above when trying
to run /bin/login directly from a shell prompt.

Dave Waller
From: vander@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (John R. Vanderpool (NASA/GSFC/STX))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: hints wanted for building newsreader nn-6.4 on HP700/UX8.05 ????
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:00:00 GMT
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

hints wanted for building newsreader nn-6.4 on HP700/UX8.05 ????
and help on how to make sure i'm getting the most recent source code ????

i would like to put it on my 720 - i'll be using another machines NNTP server

i got the source for 6.4 from one of the comp.sources.unix volume22
arhive sites (the sh file 22 part jobber) but then got a compressed tar file
from another site and it had some more files (notably a nn/conf/s-hpux7-0.h
file and the volume22 only had s-hpux6-5)

		thanx,
		  fish

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