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From: yi@fife.ecn.purdue.edu (Juneho Yi)
Subject: Problem adding a second swap space.
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:02:31 GMT

Hi, netters.

A couple of days ago, Farrokh Najmabadi at UCLA submitted a poster
about the problem of adding a Fujitsu drive as the second swap space.
We have a similar problem about we look for the help of netters.
 
We have two DecStation 5000/200s and a 5000/240 running on Ultrix 4.2a
which share file systems by NFS. The machine which a second drive,
FUJITSU M2266S/H(1.2Gb) is connected to has <32 Mb memory> and <131 Mb
swap space>. 

****The problem **** is that the X server dies when a large process(about 40 Mb
Lucid Common lisp process) is run, even though we have a tons of swapping
space(131 Mb). Swapping does not seem ocurring properly.
Wwe do not get any error message during booting. This at least
shows that "/etc/swapon -a" in the /erc/rc file works fine.
The following is the disk partion info about DEC rz56 drive and
FujitsuM2266S/H drive.

Anyone out there has any idea of what is going on here ?
If more info. about our system necceaary for your judging, please ask
for me.
Thank you.

-- yi@ecn.purdue.edu




# chpt -q /dev/rrz0a
/dev/rrz0a
Current partition table:
partition     bottom        top       size    overlap
    a              0      32767      32768    c,h
    b          32768     163839     131072    c
    c              0     649039     649040    a,b,d,e,f,g,h
    d         163840     316285     152446    c
    e         316286     468731     152446    c,g
    f         468732     649039     180308    c,g
    g         316286     649039     332754    c,e,f
    h              0          0          0    a,c


# chpt -q /dev/rrz1a
/dev/rrz1a
Current partition table:
partition     bottom        top       size    overlap
    a              0      32767      32768    c,d,e,f,h
    b          32768     163839     131072    c
    c              0    2097149    2097150    a,b,d,e,f,g,h
    d              0          0          0    a,c,e,f,h
    e              0          0          0    a,c,d,f,h
    f              0          0          0    a,c,d,e,h
    g         163840    2097149    1933310    c
    h              0          0          0    a,c,d,e,f


# df
Filesystem                 Total    kbytes   kbytes   %     
node                       kbytes   used     free     used  Mounted on
/dev/rz0a                    15343   10322    3487    75%   /
/dev/rz0g                   155751  137894    2282    98%   /usr
/dev/rz1c                  1019446  898968   18534    98%   /vis
droid.ecn.purdue.edu:/usr   155751  137016    3160    98%   /usr/droid
wookie.ecn.purdue.edu:/usr  209271  154803   33541    82%   /usr/wookie

# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/rz0a:/:rw:1:1:ufs::
/dev/rz0g:/usr:rw:1:2:ufs::
/dev/rz1c:/vis:rw:1:3:ufs::
/usr@droid.ecn.purdue.edu:/usr/droid:rw:0:0:nfs:soft,bg,intr:
/usr@wookie.ecn.purdue.edu:/usr/wookie:rw:0:0:nfs:soft,bg,intr:

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: stephen@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Stephen Hardy)
Subject: How do  you get 32 users onto Ultrix?
Originator: stephen@vulcan.anu.edu.au
Organization: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 07:35:15 GMT



Howdy folks,

As the subject might suggest this question is about how to 
get the maximum users under Ultrix 4.2A to go from 2 to 32...

Thus far I have installed 4.2A and brought it up to multiuser
mode (multi in this case = 2), the maxuser setting in the config 
file of my host is 32, I have installed the Ultrix licence paks.
I was also informed that a file /upgrade is needed to go to
the 32 user liscence, which I rcp'd from a DECStation of similar
pedigree (5000/120).

Now for the fun bit. I installed off an optical drive. When I remove 
the drive from the scsi chain, the system crashes on boot, with a cpu 
panic. When I put the drive back, the system boots to multiuser mode
but still with only two users maximum. Weird huh? Perhaps not. If you
can see the stupid thing that I am doing... please tell me...

Also, to kill two birds with one stone, we have a drive failure a few 
days ago. Unfortunately I have lost the piece of paper with the errors
that I had xscribbled down. The main part of it came to the fact that 
sectors 16-31 could not be read... Any ideas, utils that can get at a disk
known to anyone...

Thanks a lot.

			Stephen Hardy
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: Re: dumping to tlz04
Organization: Information Services, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:59:39 GMT

rgn@cs.cs.appstate.edu (Rob Norris) writes:
> # dump 0f /dev/nrmt0h /usr
>
> My question is what options can I give to dump to make it estimate
> the correct amount of tape?

I use dump 0udsf 61000 12500 /dev/nrmt0h /filesystem

though I'm not sure if 12500 is the best length for a 60mt DAT tape or not.

--
Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu>    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Unix Hacker for Swarthmore College      :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Information Services, Swarthmore, PA, USA.      Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.                    All Rights Reserved.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: vlr@litwin.com (Vic Rice)
Subject: .emacs for VT1300
Organization: Litwin Process Automation
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:56:47 GMT

Could some kind sole send me their .emacs for a vt1300 ???



-- 
Dr. Victor L. Rice
Litwin Process Automation
From: yi@fife.ecn.purdue.edu (Juneho Yi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Reposting the swap space question with correction.
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:00:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

I posted a question a day ago about swap space.
I provided a wrong info at that time. 
So I post it again with correction.
 
We have a DecStation 5000/200 with Dec rz56 drive and 32Mb memory
runnig Ultrix 4.2a and Xwst3d server.

****The problem **** is that the X server dies when a large process(about 40 Mb
Lucid Common lisp process) is run, even though we have a tons of swapping
space(145 Mb). We have two swapping areas in partition b and d of rz0.
Swapping does not seem ocurring properly. 
The following is the disk partion info about our DEC rz56 drive.


Anyone out there has any idea of what is going on here ?
If more info. about our system necceaary for your judging, please ask
for me.
Thank you.

-- yi@ecn.purdue.edu




# chpt -q /dev/rrz0a
/dev/rrz0a
Current partition table:
partition     bottom        top       size    overlap
    a              0      32767      32768    c,h
    b          32768     163839     131072    c
    c              0     649039     649040    a,b,d,e,f,g,h
    d         163840     316285     152446    c
    e         316286     468731     152446    c,g
    f         468732     649039     180308    c,g
    g         316286     649039     332754    c,e,f
    h              0          0          0    a,c
From: mrr@chene.cxo.dec.com (Mark Richard Rance)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: signals
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:43:24 GMT
Reply-To: mrr@chene.cxo.dec.com (Mark Richard Rance)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

re: signal SIGFPE

 despite the misnomer comment in my previous post, the default action 
for the SIGFPE signal is to terminate with a core image.

mark
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: snyder@voodoo.utcc.utk.edu (kim snyder)
Subject: maxtor disk problems on decstation 5000 - HELP!!
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:32:50 GMT



Background:

someone orders a disk for a decstation 5000 running ultrix4.1.
They get a maxtor panther p1-17S disk, install it, call someone
to set it up for them.

They wanted the disk divided up into 3 parts.  i partition it 
into 3 parts.  now comes trouble.  whenever they use the 3rd
partition, it trashes the partition table.  No superblocks can
be found to recover jack.  the filesystems on partition 1 (a) 
and 3 (g) are trashed and the machine freezes.  

using rzdisk, it seemed to think there were fewer sectors on the
disk than the spec sheet called for.  So instead of using the number
the spec sheet had, i used that number.  repartitioned, newfs'd.
it was doing okay until the partition fills up (to 111% !!!).  it
doesn't loose the partition table, but the filesystem on partition
a gets trashed.  (that is, i newfs'd all three partitions, mounted
them all, then unmounted all but the 3rd one.  tarred /usr onto
it until it filled up.  then try to mount /dev/rz6a, and it says
"invalid argument").

Thinking i had allocated an unacceptably large number of sectors,
i used 10% of what rzdisk gave me.  same thing as above happened.

Other trivia.  using rzdisk, there is no bad block list.  rzdisk
could also find no bad blocks.  

Here are the specs:

track density (tpi) 1,498
disks               10
data heads          19
servo heads         1
tracks              33,782
sectors (512 bytes) 2,947,261
cylinders           1,778

/etc/disktab:

rz111|RZ111|Maxtor Panther P1-17S:\
        :ty=winchester:ns#80:nt#19:nc#1778:\
        :pa#880977:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
        :pb#32768:bb#8192:fb#1024:\
        :pc#2947261:bc#8192:fc#1024:\
        :pd#32768:bd#8192:fd:#1024:\
        :pe#880977:be#8192:fe#1024:\
        :pf#32768:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
        :pg#880977:bg#8192:fg#1024:\
        :ph#32768:bh#8192:fh#1024:

# chpt -q /dev/rrz6a
/dev/rrz6a
No partition table found in superblock...
using default table from device driver.
Current partition table:
partition     bottom        top       size    overlap
    a              0     880976     880977    b,c,d,f,h
    b          32768     163839     131072    a,c
    c              0    2936592    2936593    a,b,d,e,f,g,h
    d              0          0          0    a,c,f,h
    e         880977    1761953     880977    c
    f              0          0          0    a,c,d,h
    g        1761955    2642931     880977    c
    h              0          0          0    a,c,d,f

[ this is after i lost the filesystem again - hence the "no
partition table found in superblock..."]

there is a b partition, but it is not being used for anything.
or is it?  i didn't tell it to swap here, anyway.  

Maxtor has no clue about using their disk on unix much less on a
decstation.  could it be that since scsi is not scsi is not scsi,
that there is something fundamentally wrong w/ this disk? 

kim
From: fingerhu@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: VAX Ultrix 4.3 ?
Date: 30 Aug 92 14:21:34 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France)

Alan Rollow writes about 4.3 (Ultrix, not BSD):
>   New device support...

When will ultrix support DEC's RWZ01, the rewritable, removable, optical disk
as a removable device, i.e., with ability to lock, unlock (physically), eject
etc...?

As it is now, any user must have super user priviledges in order to change
a cartridge, and there's no way to lock it so as to prevent ejection while
mounted.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: "communications port2" on DEC 5900?
Organization: Information Services, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:11:04 GMT

DEC 5900, Ultrix 4.2a.

There seem to be three serial lines on the CPU drawer of the 5900.  Using
the labels from the 5900 Owner's Manual, they're the console port,
communication port 2, and keyboard/pointer port 2.

We've hooked up a vt420 to the console but how do we use the "communication
port 2"?  In particular, what argument should I give to the MAKEDEV script
so that I can create a device for it?

The manual is woefully inadequate in telling me anything about this except
the name for these ports.

--
Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu>    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Unix Hacker for Swarthmore College      :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Information Services, Swarthmore, PA, USA.      Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.                    All Rights Reserved.
From: kborge@mordor.uio.no (Knut Borge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: COPS ?
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:44:24 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway


The problem is that reconfig tries to be clever and decides to use /bin/test.
However, later on the script needs a test that understands -x (which
/bin/test doesn't) and fails. All you have to do is comment out the cleverness
if you're running under Ultrix and run the script with /bin/sh5.

---
Knut Borge, Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo, Norway      knut.borge@usit.uio.no
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: Re: 'less' as man pager
Organization: Information Services, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:13:40 GMT

sys_sprute@vxdesy.desy.de (Lars Sprute) writes:
> use 'less' as the pager for the man pages.

Yeah, Ultrix man is a dog.  Read the ultrix-faq, available at
gatekeeper.dec.com, or just do this:

cd /usr/ucb
mv page page.old
ln -s /usr/local/bin/less page

which is what I did.

--
Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu>    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Unix Hacker for Swarthmore College      :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Information Services, Swarthmore, PA, USA.      Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.                    All Rights Reserved.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: sam@ms.uky.edu (Mike Mills)
Subject: How to get fileno of tape drive?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 05:46:05 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to get the fileno position of an 8mm drive attached
to an Ultrix workstation.  Unfortunately, the device driver doesn't seem
to support this.

Is there any way around this?  Under SunOs, the fileno is part of the mtget
structure; it is not included under Ultrix.


-- 
--Mike Mills              E-Mail:  sam@ms.uky.edu, {rutgers, uunet}!ukma!sam
--UK Math Sciences Dept.                  mike@ukpr.uky.edu    
--(606) 257-1429 (work) 263-0721 (home)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: COPS ? 
From: mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu
Date: 31 Aug 92 12:07:49 -0800
Organization: Sonoma State University

Greegins:
     I've just tried the quick_start method for COPS....however I get 
the message  testing: arguement expected (repeated 8 or so times)
and the final message Can't find awk: this script needs awk to execute.

I've gone so far as to put 'awk' into the directory associated with the
script 'reconfig' however I get the same messages.....Now COPS states
that it should operate on a vinilla ULTRIX 4.X ("braindead") system so
any idea whatr my next step might be....
thankz
mac
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Dead terminals on Ultrix4.2A
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:08:29 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA

mbee@oce.nl (Marcel Beelen) writes:
> a terminal stops responding ...
> whenever a user uses the file completion or the history editting mechanism
> from the enhanced Ultrix C-shell. 

I've noticed that if you use a file completion or cd which involves a
directory which is NFS mounted (either directly or via automount) and that
NFS server is down for some reason, it'll seem like the shell is hung.

This is probably not the cause of your problems, but you never know.

--
Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu>    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Unix Hacker for Swarthmore College      :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA.  Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.   All Rights Reserved.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: stan@sabaac.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Andrew Staniszewski)
Subject: signals
Reply-To: staniszewski@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 21:29:26 GMT

I am trying to catch SIGFPE, but it doesn't ever get raised, can anyone tell me
how to set things up so that a signal gets generated for floating point
exceptions??
From: rcbi110@muvms3.bitnet (R. ALAN MONROE)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Syntax question for rc.local file
Date: 29 Aug 92 12:31:53 GMT
Organization: Marshall University



Is this correct syntax?

	/etc/routed add default 129.71.1.11 1 & echo 'routed'	
                                              ^
                                              |
                                              |

                                             Or should this
                                             be a semicolon?

Help!

((   ||  /\\ \\  / /\\  ((      R. Alan Monroe       ((  I'm not an actor, ((
 )) _// /--\\ \\/ /--\\  )) rcbi110@muvms3.wvnet.edu  )) but I play one     ))
((              _       ((                           ((  on T...   Hey!!   ((
 ))  ||  /\\  //  ||_/   ))    Pinkwater Rules!       )) Who wrote this     ))
((  _// /--\\ \\_ || \  ((            :^)            ((  script!?!?!   -me ((
From: orzechowski@inland.com (Laurie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Image Accounting needed
Date: 28 Aug 92 09:43:55 CST
Organization: Inland Steel Company; East Chicago, IN

In article <1992Aug17.135040.2230@inland.com>, orzechowski@inland.com (Laurie) writes:
> Once again, I'm appealing for information.  Does anyone know of a way
> to log user time and/or time spent on specific packages/images?  Please
> e-mail the information to me and I will post the results...if any...
> for others.  Thanks...
> 
>                                - Laurie
> 
> orzechowski@inland.com
-- 

Thanks for those who responded.  In case others are interested, I agreed to
post a summary.  Here it is, as promised:

   Using the accounting software that comes with Ultrix, /etc/sa will give
   you the data in several formats.  You can also write your own programs 
   to go against the accounting files.  The first 8 characters of the program 
   name are in the accounting records.  

   Another source of information is the lastcomm command.  

Again, thanks to the three people who offered information.  As I find time
over the next month or so, I will be using these ideas as a starting point.

                                - Laurie
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Re: Having Problems with talk/talkd
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: talk, talkd
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:45:21 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <67431@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt2847c@prism.gatech.EDU (The Commander) writes:
>I have a strange problem with the talk program....
>If anyone but root requests talk (i.e. talk xxxxx@yyyy) it
>replies "You don't exist. Go away."  Has anyone seen anything
>like this???? I thought it was amusing at first, but it has 
>become quite a nuisance as of late.  If anyone has any ideas,
>I would be most appreciative.

That message is printed when talk can't find you in the utmp file
via the getlogin() call (according to the 4.3bsd sources).


Mike Iglesias                        Internet:    iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine     BITNET:      iglesias@uci
Office of Academic Computing         uucp:        ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
Distributed Computing Support        phone:       (714) 856-6926
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: senetza@sigma.uleth.ca (Len Senetza)
Subject: Sendmail Help
Keywords: confusing 
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:42:38 GMT

We are trying to setup a UUCP link from us (on the internet) to another site
(not).  They have a real IP address and name and whatnot; not a subset of
ours.  So, we would like to have any of their mail (say fred@a.b) reroute
through the machine which handles the UUCP (say c.d).  Right now, I can send
mail to fred%e.uucp@c.d and get it there (e is the UUCP name we refer to them
by, not their internet name).  We'd like to be able to send mail,
from c.d, by addressing it to fred@a.b and having sendmail on c.d reroute it
to the uucp address.

Once that is done, we'd probably install an MX record for our site and try it
from other machines on the site (reroute to c.d).  Then we'd let some top
level nameserver know that for a.b, they have to send it to c.d

Are we doing this correctly?  Are we even in the ballpark?
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  |  Academic Consultant        |          senetza@hg.uleth.ca            |
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  |  Lethbridge, Alberta        |-----------------------------------------|
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: poirot@conan.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel Poirot)
Subject: Re: Anyone using a DECstation 5000/200 as a news server?
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 03:29:48 GMT

In article <VIXIE.92Aug29113449@cognition.pa.dec.com> vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
>We use a 5000/200 as the news server 
>
>But to be brutally honest, when we switch from Cnews/NNTP to INN, we could go
>back to a 3100 and get the same level of netnews performance.  INN is *FAST*.
>
>Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab	

Howdy Paul,

I would sure like to hear about your experiences with INN.  

We use a 5810 as the news nntp server for all of the NASA/JSC campus,
both feds and contractors.  We only have two feed sites, but we can
have as many as 100 nntp connections during peak reading hour
(lunch!).

I have INN compiled and ready to go but so far I haven't heard much
from folks who are using it.  I have been impressed with other projects
that Rich $alz has been envolved with and I have great expectations for
INN.  Just reasure me that jumping in is the right thing!

--
-- 
Daniel Poirot           poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov
NASA JSC                "The mind is a terrible thing."
ER3                     tel: (713)483-8793
Houston, TX 77058       fax: (713)483-3204
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us
Subject: Re: 'less' as man pager
Originator: jim@eddie
Reply-To: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us
Organization: me?  have you seen my desk?  : -)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:30:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.182958.28859@hou.amoco.com> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us writes:
>
>someone please correct me if this is incorrect, but I believe, unless you
>specifically pipe man through less (man xxx | less), it probably uses a
>built-in pager.

seems I can't cancel my own article.  oh well.....  anyways, in the news
batch right after I posted this, came the answer.  thanks to whoever
mentioned /usr/ucb/page --- that fixed it, just like that.

   --jim

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