HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pa@curly.appmag.com (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: X-station running out of memory
Keywords: X-station, memory
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:34:04 GMT
Organization: Applied Magnetics, Goleta, CA

In <28340@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
	bguest@ateam.ems.cdc.com (Brandon Guest) writes:

>I also believe that there is some type of memory leak in the server
>software associated with the IBM X-station.

A good test would be for Justin's user to repeatedly fire up AVS,
display one image and exit.  If everything works, indefinitely, AVS
must have a pixmap leak.  If the Xstation still wedges, *it* has a
memory leak.

>I have found that the longer my X-station is in use the higher the 
>probability that I will get the 'thermometer' thing when I try and
>display certain graphics types of applications.

...which points rather toward the X-station.
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--Pierre Asselin, Magnetoresistive Head Engineering, Applied Magnetics.
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From: hoberoi@limerick.cbs.umn.edu (Himanshu Oberoi)
Subject: unkillable X and cannot reboot.. yet
Reply-To: hoberoi@limerick.cbs.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:50:45 GMT

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Hi,
	I have an unkillable X server that is chewing up cpu time. The
screen froze while running a GL based program (this happens often). The 
usual technique is to login from another terminal and kill -QUIT the X 
server after killing off all the other processes.

There are several long running (days) programs, so it is not possible to
switch off the machine yet.

I have reniced it to 20. monitor shows that the process is using approx 10 %
of the cpu.

IBM RS6000 550 AIX 3.2.1 

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From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
Subject: Re: motd - message of the day
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:55:46 GMT

perlman@smtc00.engr.scarolina.edu writes:
>We have a network of RSs for Catia.  I occasionally edit a file
>called /etc/motd that contains a message that automatically 
>displays when a user logs in.  (I copy it to each machines /etc).
>
>I am trying to figure out what causes this to display.  I cannot find
>anything in /etc/profile or the HOME/.profile that makes this happen,
>indicating that it is a built-in function.  On the other hand, I cannot
>find a reference in the man pages or infox.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help!  
>Rich.

Typically, "login" is responsible for displaying /etc/motd, unless
$HOME/.hushlogin is present.

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From: tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)
Subject: 'aliases' Map in AIX 3.2 NIS
Reply-To: tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Laboratory
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:09:08 GMT

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 work-around
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.
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From: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener)
Subject: Unwanted burst pages under 3.2.1
Keywords: header page, burst page, printing
Reply-To: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:38:47 GMT

Application of PTF U402027 breaks your printing subsystem (qdaemon ...).
IX30733 is supposed to fix the performance problem related with this,
whenever the corresonding update will be released.

Another new `feature' introduced by U402027 is the printing of header pages
for jobs entered via lpd, i.e. from remote hosts. Given my /etc/qconfig:

   ps410:
           device = lp0

   lp0:
           file = /dev/lp0
   >>>     header = never     <<<
           trailer = never
           access = both

I consider this a bug; our national IBM AIX support team (working on my bug
report) chooses to consider this a useful feature and offers a (permanent) workaround based on locally re-queueing printer output to suppress header 
pages. As a temporary solution, I have preferred to zap the appropriate entry
in the colon definition file for the printer in question, with the consequence
that burst pages will never be printed on this queue even if you ask for them.

Would someone competent from IBM _please_ acknowledge that default printing of
header/trailer pages with an /etc/qconfig looking like the one given above
is not intended behaviour, so that there is at least a small chance that this
will ever get fixed ?

Thanks,
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From: cs021106@cs.brown.edu (Steven Silverstein)
Subject: Re: imake
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 20:00:24 GMT

I've barely used AIX 3.1.  I can tell you how I did it in 3.2, which may help. 
In /usr/lpp/X11/Xamples, there is a directory which contains ximake.sh.  I don't 
recall the directory name.  ximake.sh is probably what you're looking for.

-Steve
From: jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: TAR ACROSS NET DYSFUNCTIONAL
Keywords: tar network
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:02:28 GMT
Organization: AIX Software Support, Austin, Republica de Tejas

In article <1992Sep22.133522.21483@msc.cornell.edu> rick@groo.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran) writes:
>From 'man tar'
>  -B    Forces input and output blocking to 20 blocks per record.
>  With this option, the tar command can work across communications
>  channels where blocking may not be maintained.
>
>Unfortunately "tar cBf - netinst | rsh leah '(cd /a; tar xpBf -)'"
>yields the same results.

As a work-around you can use the following -

	"tar cBf - netinst | rsh leah '(cd /a ; cat | tar xpBf -)'"

I have seen the problem you describe on a number of UNIX systems and
that work-around generally solves the problem.  The problem is that
the network connection does not preserve the block size.  Sending the
output through a pipe restores reasonable behavior to the data
stream.
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From: root@ateam.ems.cdc.com (ateam-root)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: MN AIX Users Group Meeting
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:23:44 GMT
Distribution: mn
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of Control Data

I am sorry I did not think to post this earlier; however:

The MN AIX Users Group will be holding an organizational meeting
today- Tuesday 9/29 from 3-5pm.  

Where: IBM 
       650 Third Avenue South
       Room 626
       Minneapolis

Dues will be collected at the meeting.  Dues are as follows:

       Educational            $50
       Individual              75
       Corporate (3 person)    150
       Sponsorship (10 person) 400

The following offices will also be established:

       President
       Vice President
       Program Coordinator
       Membership Coordinator
       National Liason/Secretary
       Marketing/PR
       Treasurer

Please call Youssef Haddad at IBM (397-5099) if you have any questions.

Brandon
From: jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: async IO on aix 3.2
Date: 3 Oct 92 04:59:49 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Information Technology

Do you need to link with a special library (flags?) to use the
aio_read(), io_write(), etc, subroutines?

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...


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From: mcover@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark Coverdill)
Subject: Re: How can I get mksysb use 2 tapes? Do I need diff block size?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:08:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep24.194501.13559@ncar.ucar.edu> fredrick@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Timothy Fredrick) writes:
[deleted info about multiple tapes]
>
>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.
>

I followed the thread about the fix so that you can use multiple tapes
but many moons ago it was said that a 'mysysb' tape will only properly
restore if the blocksize was set to 512.  Is this no longer the case
under 3.2.x?

-- 
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Internet: markc+@osu.edu                              Columbus, Ohio
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Subject: Help w/ aXe 3.0.1
From: brent@spss.com (Brent Lambert)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:55:10 GMT
Organization: SPSS, Inc. - portable code group
Keywords: help axe

Ok.  I've built aXe and it runs fine.  Except that the Help button on
the main server window doesn't work.  When I select it, I get:

Error: Cannot open source file <random_garbage> ; No such file or directory

And the server goes bye-bye.  Help from edit windows works just fine.
So does the main help **if an edit window is open**.

I know very little about X programming, so I'm not sure what to do.
Like a good developer, I grepped the source for the string, but it's
not there.  OK, WHERE DID IT COME FROM?  All ideas appreciated.  Thanks.

BTW:  AIX 3.2, IBM RS6000.

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From: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener)
Subject: Fair SHARE scheduling ?
Keywords: scheduling
Reply-To: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:49:39 GMT

From e-mail I've received today:
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
[...]
They're running the research version of Share  -- a product marketed by 
Softway Pty Ltd.  Share is a kernel level product, so you need full
source code of the kernel and some of the utilities to install it --
hence we really only sell to manufacturers.  Currently, Cray and
Convex ship operating systems with a version of Share installed.
There are others in the pipeline.

Share gives you:
        per user accounting and limiting of CPU, connect time, disc
                and virtual memory
        hierarchical groupings of users (so you can put all the
                programmers in one scheduling group and all the admin
                staff in another: the big compilations run by the
                programming staff then have little impact on the admin
                people's database lookups)
        Distributed administration (a particular user can be
                designated a group header:  that user can then create
                and delete accounts, and allocate disk and CPU share
                amongst the users s/he controls..)
[...]
=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Does anyone know of plans to offer this or something similar for AIX V3?
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From: se@Risc3.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: HELP: NFS-mount fails for no obvious reason !
Date: 28 Sep 1992 23:04:18 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: snert.ikp.uni-koeln.de
Keywords: NFS

Help!

AIX 3.2 (with lots of patches) on a cluster of 6 RS/6000:

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 
the client) and  several other workstations didn't have a problem to mount 
the same directory. Neither was there a problem to mount eg. "risc3:/home" 
onto this workstation ...

Just the combination of mounting a particular directory on a particular client
fails! Exporting the directory without any restrictions doesn't help, nor does
trying to mount it onto a different mount point.

The client was the last to get 3.2.0 installed (with remote /usr) and the 
installation went smoothly, except for the NFS problem ...

Anybody got any ideas ?

Thanks in advance,

STefan
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 se@IKP.Uni-Koeln.DE                                           [134.95.192.50]
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From: lpc@dickens.com (Luis P Caamano)
Subject: Re: max fs size
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 04:05:25 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep29.143656.13323@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> woan@cactus.org writes:
>In article <zh_pw1s_@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de> ente@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Karsten Winkovics) writes:
>>Waht is the maximum file system size under AIX3.2???
>
>2GB currently, I believe.
>

The funny thing is that you can create a logical volume larger
than 2GB.  I don't know the maximum size for an LV though.

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From: karell@cs.Helsinki.FI (Esa Karell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: dpsexec/postscript
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:44:39 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland

Does this program work? Is it supposed to display postscript
files? Postscript viewer on X would be nice.
Thx for any tips.

Esa

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From: murai@rd.yahata.enicom.nsc.co.jp (Toshifumi Murai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: fsck of /dev/hd9var
Date: 5 Oct 92 10:49:50 GMT
	<1992Sep24.194110.10208@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
Organization: Nishi-Nihon Regional Office, NIPPON STEEL Information &
	Communication Systems Inc., Japan

In article <1992Sep24.194110.10208@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> matt@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Matt Accapadi) writes:

 |In article <1992Sep21.160650.27114@ils.nwu.edu> kahana@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Jason Adam Kahana) writes:
 |>How does one fsck (with writing NOT suppressed) /dev/hd9var.
 |>I can't seem to get /det/rc to do it, I can't unmount /var, and
 |>it won't even unmount cleanly when I do a shutdown -F.
 |
 |I don't know if anyone's already answered this or not.  But anyway ...
 |You'll have to unmount /var in maintenance mode (after running getrootfs).
 |Or you could run getrootfs disk# sh, then you can run fsck on /dev/hd9var
 |before it is ever mounted.

When I shutdown in normal mode, display message following.

message => Unmounted the file systems...
message	=> umount: 0506-349 Cannot unmount /dev/hd9var: A device
message	=> is already mounted or cannot be unmounted.

I can't understand why I cannot unmount /var in normal mode.
Please tell me why we can't unmount /var in normal mode.


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From: payne@eric.austin.ibm.com (Eric Payne)
Subject: Re: restoring mksysb backup?
Organization: IBM, Austin
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 20:40:56 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.175534.2491@selway.umt.edu> mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire) writes:
>I've been working on setting up backup scripts/procedures for our RS/6000's
>(AIX 3.2.2). In the most simple case of restoring an mksysb image from 
>an install server, I notice that ethernet configuration info isn't recovered.
>This is a real mess when things like NFS/NIS, remote mounts, etc are
>all trying to start once I hit the return key in reponse to "Turn your
>system key to Normal, press enter to reboot". 

This is news to me.  The network configuration should all come back.


>
>I'm also in the dark about whether the ODM lv configuration information is 
>"rebuilt" based on what it finds on the tape rather than what may be
>found in the restored /etc/objrepos files.
>As far as I can tell, there are no coherent/detailed explanations of
>how the "ODM features" interact; what happens when and to what during
>installs/boots/restores/etc.

The way the device recovery works in a mksysb install is that devices
are defined as they are discovered by the configuration process.  Those
devices which are not discoverable by the configuration process are defined
by the install process.  The user-settable device attributes are then set
by the install process.  These include things like IP addresses, tape block
sizes, or anything contained in the CuDv and CuAt object classes.  If the
system backup is being put on the same machine or one with the same devices
with the same hardware addresses, the devices and their attributes should be
unchanged.

-- 
Thank you
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From: ivan@ne.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado)
Subject: RS6000 M320 memory upgrade (help please)
Reply-To: ivan@nepjt.ne.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:42:33 GMT

Hello,

We have just received a box for a 16Mb to 48Mb upgrade on
our two RS6000 model 320's.  Unfortunately, I see no set of
instructions attached so I suspect it must be a trivial
task.  Before I embark into this (this weekend), I'd appreciate
if some of you could share their experiences and hand out some
free advice to me.

Thank you,

-Ivan Maldonado (ivan@nepjt.ne.ncsu.edu)
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From: deutsch@lagrange (jesse deutsch  )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: zoo210
Date: 29 Sep 92 02:03:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins

How do you create or make zoo210 on an AIX machine.
Tried the other day and had some trouble.
Thanks
Jesse Deutsch
From: monica@wilma.wellesley.edu (Monica Luke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: CD ROM
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:14:05 GMT
Organization: Wellesley College
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Our CD ROM drive (running Info Explorer) has a flashing light indicating
that it needs to be cleaned.  Scouring IBM manuals has not enlightened me
on how to clean it (surprise, surprise).  Anyway, has anyone successfully
cleaned their drive?

Thanks,

monica@bambam.wellesley.edu
From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: NFS write errors
Keywords: NFS
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:35:14 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

stuart@fawlty.towers.oz.au (Stuart Walker) writes:
>  NFS write error 13 on host fawlty fh 1016 1 A0000 F982 7D583C2A A0000 2 3449CA70

it means that some client is trying to write as root on a server where
the filesystem was not exported with root access.

usually it is a suid program which opened the file as the user
then became root and tried to write to it.

often it is ksh history

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From: sdl@adagio.austin.ibm.com (sdl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2 assembler double consts gcc.2.2.2
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:44:07 GMT
Reply-To: sdl@austin.ibm.com
Organization: AIX Base System Kernel Development


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

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
pky> 	static const double pip = 1e-4;
pky> 	main()
pky> 	{
pky> 		double pop;
pky> 		pop = pip;
pky> 	}

pky> This gives the following assempler code:

<Code deleted; failing line is:>

pky> 	.double 0d1.00000000000000000000e-04

I've been able to reproduce this.  gcc inserts '.' (full stop) as the
radix character.  However, the AIX assembler is "internationalized",
so that it uses the correct radix character for whatever locale you
have defined.  If your locale has a different radix character, the '.'
is not a valid character in a floating-point constant, and thus is
reported as an error.

A workaround is to always run gcc (and the subsequent as) with LANG
set to "C" or "En_US".  Alternatively, you can modify gcc to insert
the correct radix character according to the locale in effect.

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