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From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
Subject: Possible AIX sendmail bug
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:18:29 GMT

In all e-mail I've ever received from sendmail machines, I've noticed
that the date on the message is the date and time that the daemon started
and not the current date and time.  For example, it's 11:18 local time,
and I am sending a message to an AIX machine on-campus.  A return-receipt
I get back about 15 seconds later shows:

From MAILER-DAEMON@auk.UWaterloo.ca Wed Sep 30 11:16 EDT 1992
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:43:32 -0400
From: MAILER-DAEMON@auk.UWaterloo.ca (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: Return receipt
To: mskucherawy@math

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From: mskucher@math (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:16:36 -0300
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To: mskucher@auk
Subject: Test

Is this a known problem yet?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: u926135@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Adrian Hassall Lewis)
Subject: DBA vs SCSI?
Summary: info wanted on DBA hardware for the RS/6000
Keywords: DBA SCSI
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 14:50:14 GMT

Can anyone tell me what the relative merits of DBA vs SCSI peripherals 
are?  I've heard that DBA is faster but more expensive.  Is this true?  
Also, will DBA drives for the PS/2's work in the RS/6000's?

Finally, the recent OEM hardware list for the RS/6000 doesn't give any 
info on DBA hardware.  Who makes what, and does any of it ever reach 
Australia?

Please e-mail any responses to u926135@minke.iasos.utas.edu.au
Thanks in advance,
                  ajax

(relatively) new user, please excuse any bludners.
From: sdl@adagio.austin.ibm.com (sdl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2 assembler double consts gcc.2.2.2
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:57:17 GMT
	<BAS.92Sep30140131@carlo.phys.uva.nl>
Reply-To: sdl@austin.ibm.com
Organization: AIX Base System Kernel Development


In article <BAS.92Sep30140131@carlo.phys.uva.nl> bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker) writes:

bas> In the gcc distribution there's a file called README.RS6000. It
bas> mentions a problem with the assembler of AIX and an IBM fix which
bas> should be installed before gcc can be used. You should read this file
bas> for details.

While this is certainly good advice, the particular problem in this
case isn't related to the assembler fix for gcc.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: cchd@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Comments wanted on an AIX configuration
Date: 2 Oct 92 05:02:51 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

Here at La Trobe we have three RS/6000s used for a variety of things.
Currently these systems (luxury a 540, luxor a 540 and luxand a 550)
are stand alone, although luxor and luxand share /u with luxury being the
only system with an Exabyte and CD-ROM. I have been thinking about changing 
the configuration (especially after upgrading luxury to 3.2 - the
thought of upgrading two more systems is more than I can bear :-), 
making luxor and luxand 'diskless' (they have 2Gb each) clients of luxury. 
The main incentive is to make system management (especially software 
installation) easier (there's one of me, three of them :-).

I realize that there will be some performance penalty in serving files
via NFS rather than having them local to each system, so I'd like to
talk with anyone who has a similar configuration to see what the
performance hit is like.

If anyone has a different/better suggestion about my configuration, I'd
be more than happy to listen.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: umarsa00@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (PROF. A.S. UMAR, (615)322-2459)
Subject: Ownership of the home directory - security problem?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:58:00 GMT

Evrytime I create a new user the ownership of the /home directory is
transferred to that user. I believe this should remain as root.system.
Anyone know whether this is a bug or not?

umar@compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu         Prof.A.S. Umar
umarsa00@vuctrvax.bitnet                Department of Physics & Astronomy
Tel: (615) 322-2459                     Vanderbilt University
Fax: (615) 343-7263                     Nashville, TN 37235
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: fuzzy@obelix.ncs.mainz.ibm.com (Thomas Braunbeck/131000)
Subject: Re: How can I get mksysb use 2 tapes? Do I need diff block size?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 19:35:07 GMT
Reply-To: braunbec@Mainz.IBM.de
Organization: IBM Germany, AIX Support Germany

In article <1992Sep28.145957.26526@msc.cornell.edu>, rick@ransom.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep24.194501.13559@ncar.ucar.edu>, fredrick@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Timothy Fredrick) writes:
  [ .. deleted .. ]
|> |> Our problem is that rootvg is larger that 2GB and requires 2 8mm tapes to
|> |> back up.  But msksysb fails with a message that looks something like "mksysb
|> |> halted" and then "EOF countered on /dev/rmt0".
  [ .. deleted .. ]

This is IX27614 (PTF is U409226)

|>
|> mksysb uses tar.  tar doesn't support multiple tapes.  Have a nice day.
|>

This is bu????it

|> Move everything but /, /usr, /var, and /tmp from rootvg to another volume
|> group.
|>
|> Use 'backup' to backup the moved filesystems.
|>
|> Alternatively, you can diddle 'mksysb' so that it doesn't backup anything
|> other than /, /usr, /var, and /tmp.  But the above method is better.

Some more bu????it

|>
|> Related question: What are sites with 150MB tape drives (not me!)
|> going to do now that a mksysb of the basic filesystems is too big to
|> fit?
|>

Wait 'til mksysb ask you to insert the 2nd tape (or 3th.....)

Best regards,   Thomas Braunbeck
AS Software Service AIX, Germany

        All the opinions expressed are my own and
        do not necessarily reflect those of IBM

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x.pex
From: schultz@schultz.kgn.ibm.com (schultz)
Subject: Re: Mixing graPHIGS and ISO-phigs?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 22:32:03 GMT
Reply-To: schultz@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM AWD Graphics Systems

|> >To be more precise, I tried:
|> >	...
|> >	popen_struct(strid);	/* open structure */
|> >	GPICD(red);		/* set interior colour direct */
|> >	pfill_area(area);	/* fill area */
|> >	...
|> >Which does not work with the GPICD call, but does without.
|> 

Actually, this is supposed to work with graPHIGS.
graPHIGS supports 4 bindings - graPHIGS C and FORTRAN (GPxxx calls)
and ISO PHIGS C and FORTRAN (p* calls).  You should be able to use
the PHIGS PLUS (-like) functions by invoking the GPxxx functions,
and use ISO calls otherwise.  A few weeks ago, another poster 
was doing this with NURBS.  Obviously, the GPxxx calls won't compile
on a non-IBM machine.

graPHIGS is architected so that a single component called the 'shell'
is linked with your application.  The shell converts your API calls
into a 3D protocol called FPGP (Floating Point Graphics Protocol)
which looks and smells a lot like PEX.  The FPGP is then sent to the
'nucleus' which does the rendering and workstation control.  This is
how the shell can interpret two seemingly different API bindings.

I don't know why your program is failing.  Did you declare and pass
'red' correctly?

Karl Schultz                             schultz@vnet.ibm.com
These statements or opinions are not necessarily those of IBM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Subject: Re: How can I get mksysb use 2 tapes?
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
	<1992Sep28.184805.24269@tc.cornell.edu>
	<1992Sep29.120115.24549@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:16:43 GMT


In article <1992Sep29.120115.24549@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
merrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tom Merrick) writes:
>
> But note that tar has a problem in that it does not restore sparse
> files correctly.

Also note that GNU tar has a `--sparse' option to deal with this.  B-)

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From: rab@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Alan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: How can you spot (xlf) NaNQ generation ?
Date: 30 Sep 92 04:14:39 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Services, University of Melbourne

I have a Monte-Carlo simulation program (written in fortran) that
generates a lot of quiet NaNs (i.e. NaNq) in one of its output files.

I've looked through the info stuff and have found no way to detect
these: all i've seen is the spnans option to spot signaling NaNs. It's
impractical to run dbx or xde on the program to find where this is
happening, because the problem only shows up after a large number of
iterations and it would probably take (literally) days to manifest
itself, given the execution speed under these debuggers.

The strange thing is that the output file that contains the NaNQs
contains a mixture of the NaNqs and valid results which are all
reasonable values ~1.0. If i run the program for a small number of
iterations, the file does not contain NaNQs at all. Once i increase the
iteration count to about 10**5, they appear.

Can anyone offer any advice on how to trap or avoid generating these
results ?

We're running xlf 1.01.0006

rab
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.text.tex
From: tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)
Subject: TeX 3.14 on AIX 3.2?
Reply-To: tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Laboratory
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:18:24 GMT

I'm trying to get TeX 3.14 compiled on an RS/6000 running AIX 3.2
and the make is crapping out on the web2c stage.  Specifically:

	 cd web2c; \
   make SITEDIR=".." CC="bsdcc" OPT="-g -O" SHELL="/bin/sh" LDFLAGS="" LOADLIBES="" wlibs="-lXt -lX11" YACC="yacc" LEX="lex" LEXLIB="-ll" all
		   lex web2c.lex
177: (Error) Invalid character
The error code from the last failed command is 1.

Make Quitting.
The error code from the last failed command is 2.

First, does anyone have executables available?  Second, is there a
site.h file set up for AIX 3.2?  Third, what is the cause of this
error (line 177 is the last line of web2c.lex, and is a single '%'
on a line by itself)?

Thanks.
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From: kaena@haleiwa.austin.ibm.com (D. Kaena Freitas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: async IO on aix 3.2
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:48:59 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <97478@bu.edu> jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler) writes:
>Do you need to link with a special library (flags?) to use the
>aio_read(), io_write(), etc, subroutines?

No, the library routines are called at run time.

>
>InfoExplorer says nothing as far as I could see.  Was something
>omitted in libc.a?
>
>
>   % cat w.c
>   #include <aio.h>
>   struct aiocb a;
>
>   main() {
>     puts( "starting execution.." );
>     aio_read( 0, &a );
>   }
>   % cc -o w w.c
>   % ./w
>   Could not load program ./w 
>   Symbol kaio_rdwr in /usr/lib/libc.a is undefined
>   Symbol iosuspend in /usr/lib/libc.a is undefined
>   Symbol acancel in /usr/lib/libc.a is undefined
>   Symbol listio in /usr/lib/libc.a is undefined
>   Could not load library libc.a[aio.o]
>   Error was: Exec format error
>
>As a side note, these particular routines aren't really that useful
>for me, but it's more a question of curiosity...

The question I have is, "Do you have the aio.ext available?" Since
the Asynchronous I/O product is a kernel extension, the device must
be available for the application to use, before it will execute. I
have a feeling, the AIO device is not available,  thus causing the
library routines not to be available to the application. The aio_*
functions are exported by the AIO Kernel Extension.

Use SMIT to configure an AIO device.
-- 
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From: dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David Knight French)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How can I get mksysb use 2 tapes? Do I need diff block size?
Date: 28 Sep 1992 22:48:59 GMT
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
NNTP-Posting-Host: chedccf0.ucsd.edu

In article <1992Sep28.145957.26526@msc.cornell.edu> rick@ransom.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran) writes:
>In article <1992Sep24.194501.13559@ncar.ucar.edu>, fredrick@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Timothy Fredrick) writes:
>|> I have having problems with the mksysb shellscript and after several attempts
>|> have not been able to do an image backup.  We had a disk failure recently,
>|> and I would definitely like to get this capability to work.
>|> 
>|> Our problem is that rootvg is larger that 2GB and requires 2 8mm tapes to
>|> back up.  But msksysb fails with a message that looks something like "mksysb
>|> halted" and then "EOF countered on /dev/rmt0".  Can someone help me out
>|> and tell me if I'm using the right commands?  I would like to get the
>|> script to prompt me for a second tape rather than just crash.  Here is
>|> what we're doing:
>|> 
>|>       umount /dev/cd0
>|>       /etc/nfs.clean
>|>       /etc/tcp.clean
>|>       /usr/bin/mkszfile
>|>       mksysb '/dev/rmt0.1'
>|> 
>|> Should I be setting the block size on the tape device to something other
>|> than 0.  We have it set to 0 so we can read/write tapes produced on Sun
>|> SPARCstations.
>|> 
>|> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>
>mksysb uses tar.  tar doesn't support multiple tapes.  Have a nice day.
>
>Move everything but /, /usr, /var, and /tmp from rootvg to another volume
>group.
>
>Use 'backup' to backup the moved filesystems.
>
>Alternatively, you can diddle 'mksysb' so that it doesn't backup anything
>other than /, /usr, /var, and /tmp.  But the above method is better.
>
>Related question: What are sites with 150MB tape drives (not me!)
>going to do now that a mksysb of the basic filesystems is too big to
>fit?

	Maybe IBM should use pax.  As I recall it allows multiple
	volumes.  I also seem to recall someone mentioning on this
	newsgroup that AIX tar could handle multiple volumes.  So
	what is mksysb really using???  Oh well, just idle curiosity.


>-- 
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From: raimond@rtmrd1.crd.neddata.nedlloyd.nl (Raimond Diederik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: help needed generating 3.1 executables on AIX 3.2
Date: 3 Oct 92 15:08:59 GMT
Organization: R&D dep. of Neddata / Nedlloyd

We currently ported our EDI software package, the EDI-Toolbox to
AIX. We are running AIX release 3.2 but one of our customers is
running 3.1. We have some difficulties in generating executables
that can run on AIX 3.1. Can anyone help us out? 
Hmmm, before I forget our EDI software is all written in C.

Thanks in advance

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From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: HELP: NFS-mount fails for no obvious reason !
Keywords: NFS
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:31:46 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Graeme Moffat) writes:
>se@Risc3.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) writes:

>>When trying to NFS-mount the /vol directory from our main NFS server,
>>I get an error "1831-011 access denied for risc3:/vol".
>>BUT the directory is exported (as verified by "showmount -e risc3" from 

>I've had this behaviour a lot on 3.1.6/7  (Not on 3.2 - yet!)  It's very
>perplexing, and I can detect no pattern. The cure was to use a FQDN 

On the server type 'host 1.2.3.4', where 1.2.3.4 is the addr of
The client.  whatever is returned is what should be in /etc/exports.

If exporting it to everyone doesn't help and both sides can
ping each other by name and address ok, then I don't know what 
it is.

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From: dcm@codesmith.austin.ibm.com (Craig Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: File size of 'tmp' files for 'vi'
Keywords: vi aix
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:24:03 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

In article <BvHuDJ.L5L@bssi.nl> root@bssi.nl writes:
>
>When editing a file in 'vi' a temporary file is created in
>the '/tmp'-directory. The name of this file is '/tmp/Ex0< PID vi >'.
>
>The size of this file should be zero when no modifications are
>done.

	Says who?

>However file isn't zero allways. For example: when editting a
>small file ( 512 bytes ) a 'tmp' file is created of size 20480 !!!.
>
>Does anyone is familiar with this problem and/or has a solution ?


	I think you'll find that vi has pretty much always worked like this.
	(I know - that doesn't mean it's not broken)

	I just tried it on a SunOS4.1.1, and it worked pretty much
	the same way as it does under AIXV3: sometimes it creates
	0 length files, sometimes it doesn't.

	Now, I've heard people complain about the overly large tmp
	files that AIX's vi creates, but (if memory serves me),
	it's related to the National Language Support.

		Craig
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From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 'aliases' Map in AIX 3.2 NIS
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:48:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: cdsac.Oct06.154823.30154
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA
NntpPostingHost: cdsac

In article <tkevans.718301348@eplrx7.es.dupont.com> tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com writes:
>AIX 3.2's NIS appears not to support the aliases map, requiring instead
>a local /etc/aliases file.  Since I have AIX systems serving as NIS
>slave servers for Sun's and other systems, is there any workaround
>for this?  I've tried manually copying (via rcp/ftp) the alias maps
>from the (Sun) master server; the AIX systems then seem to see the
>maps.

You will need to get PTFU405801 to fix this problem. Call the defect
support #, or talk to your SE...

Hope this helps,
 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		      CableData  Research Center
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
				KC6NFP
From: erik@sfb313.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Erik Cickovskis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Problem with printing on remote server
Keywords: printing remote server queue
Date: 30 Sep 92 04:57:26 GMT
Organization: SFB-313 University of Kiel, Germany

Hi,

we are running AIX 3.2 on both a 550 and a 220, connected via Ethernet.
We now want to print from the 550 on a Printer which is installed on
the 220. 
On the 550 we've installed a remote printer queue wich has as counterpart
the lpr queue on the 220 (which, by the way, prints perfecly in local mode).
Printing now from the 550 to the 220 (lpr -Pqueuename) results in an
error message (lpd: errno = 2: A file or directory in the path name
does not exist) on the console of the 220.
If someone has an idea what we are doing wrong, we would be very happy
to get in contact with this person.

Bye, Erik
Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:10379 bit.listserv.aix-l:1545
From: sdl@adagio.austin.ibm.com (sdl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2 assembler double consts gcc.2.2.2
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:47:11 GMT
Reply-To: sdl@austin.ibm.com
Organization: AIX Base System Kernel Development


>>>>> pky@pluto (Peter Kyllesbeck) writes:

In article <1992Sep30.085514.17934@csd.cri.dk> pky@pluto (Peter Kyllesbeck) writes:

pky> X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


pky> I have the folowing code which I compileon a IBM RS6000 AIX 3.2 with
pky> GNU gcc 2.2.2 as:
pky> gcc -S pip.c

[program deleted]

pky> Why can't IBM's assembler handle double or float contstants as any other
pky> assembler? Is it a bug and/or is there a fix?

I cut out and fed the assembler program you posted to 'as' on AIX
version 3.2.  The only errors I got were the following two lines:

csect [PR]
csect .data[RW]

When I changed them to:

.csect [PR]
.csect .data[RW]

the program assembled without error.

Could you run this again with the -l option and send me the .lst file?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: james@engrs.unl.edu (James Nau)
Subject: su and permissions on /var/adm/sulog
Keywords: su sulog permissions
Organization: College of Engineering & Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:42:42 GMT

Has anyone else noticed that their permissions on /var/adm/sulog keep
changing on them?  I would like to keep mine at 640 so that I can
read them from the system group.  Well, I kept noticing that they'd
change to 600.  I finally tracked it down to su changing the
permissions.  Even if you do not succeed in su'ing, the permissions
get set to 600.  Is there a way to override this?  Is this a bug, or
a security 'feature' (I didn't see any documentation about this in
the man page).

James
james@engrs.unl.edu