HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: WangDAT prevents an IPL
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Distribution: us
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 23:53:41 GMT

In article <32396@darkstar.ucsc.edu> tra@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Asocks) writes:
>PROBLEM:
>
>After connecting a WangDAT 2600 to my SCSI bus the 550 gets stuck
>during IPL at LED Display value 869 (SCSI adapter being identified
>or configured). 
>
>% lsdev -C -s scsi
>[...]
>hdisk3 Available 00-08-00-40 Other SCSI Disk Drive
>[...]
>rmt0   Defined   00-05-00-40 2.3 GB 8mm Tape Drive
>wb0    Available 00-05-00-40 Exabyte 2.3 GB 8mm Tape Drive

This looks pretty strange, but I'll just assume it's AIX reporting the same
drive twice because of the third-party driver.

>Using the Amiga I got this SCSI information from the DAT
>
>Board 0 Device 4 LUN 0:

You say the device id did not conflict with other devices on the SCSI bus,
but both of your SCSI adapters already have SCSI id 4 attached to them. Are
you *sure* this isn't the problem?

If not, I'd guess that your WangDAT needs a different PROM to talk to the 
RS/6000. This seems especially likely if you can talk to it with an Amiga.
Contact your vendor and find out.
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
From: alain@sdv.sdv-plurimedia.fr (alain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: RSA on RS/6000
Keywords: RSA security
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:50:08 GMT
Organization: SdV Plurimedia Strasbourg FRANCE


Does anybody knows how to compute RSA on a RS/6000 either by soft or hard ?
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From: hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler)
Subject: Re: Need help to tar files to tape
Keywords: tar, tape
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 11:29:36 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.002018.591@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler) writes:
>120 Mb device.  I do it all the time with DC600.  Also, rdump
>needs some special parameters which I don't have at hand.

Now that I looked up the command I'll follow up to myself.  For
rdump to a DC600 use

rdump -0ucd 1250 -s 9000 -f hostname:/dev/rmt0.6


--
Dale A. Hubler  (216) 977-7014   hubler@lerc.nasa.gov
Progress marches on, trampling everything in its path.
From: pcb@gunfight.austin.ibm.com (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: XGA X-Windows Server for PS/2 AIX on Mod. 70 & 80's?
Keywords: XGA X-Windows PS/2 AIX
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:11:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <1992Apr7.102835.12324@hellgate.utah.edu> clark%asylum.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Charles Clark) writes:
>A quick question for you fellow PS/2 AIXer's:
>
>Almost six months ago IBM released an X server that fully supported the XGA 
>graphics adapter on the Mod. 90 & 95's.  At that time it was announced that
>a future release of the X server would extend this support to the Mod. 70 & 
>80's.  Has this happened yet?
>
>Thanks...	clark@cs.utah.edu

 Support for the Mod 70 and 80 came out with PTF 900.
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From: fritz@scipp.UCSC.EDU (Frederick Staats)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3.1.5: Upper limit on virtual memory allocation
Keywords: vm limit
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:39:43 GMT
Organization: Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics

In article <1992Apr13.153926.28517@Princeton.EDU> bill@soil.Princeton.EDU writes:
>Having just upgraded a 550 to 320M real memory and 600M virtual
>space, we were ready to run our application which requires 280M to
>run.  Imagine my surprise when this unexpectedly died after only
>allocating 250M.  I check the limits (/etc/security/limits) and
>increase the datasize to the available virtual size.  Still, the limit
>sets to 257532 kbytes.

>IBM informs me that this is a fixed size in then kernel and to use
>shared memory.  This is not an acceptable solution as too much Fortran
>code will need to be modified.

>Does AIX 3.2 address this boundary problem?  Is there any other way
>around this other than through the use of shared memory?  Could this
>variable simply be changed in the kernel without effecting page
>tables, etc?

The RS/6000 is a segmented architecture just like the 8086 line of
microprocessors.  The segement size is slightly larger (256Mbytes vs.
64Kbytes) but you run into the same fundamental limitations.  There is
no "easy" fix.  Programs can allocate 8 (double check my figure with
the latest documentation) 256 Mbyte shared memory segments to a a
single program, the other eight are used for the OS, program stack,
program heap, memory mapped files and the like.  For programs that
wish to use very large address spaces you need to write your own
"memory manager" to deal with switching between different shared
memory segements.



-- 
Frederick Staats
fritz@scipp.UCSC.EDU -- (408) 459-3575
Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
University of California at Santa Cruz
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From: rob@dinner.asrc.albany.edu (Robert D. Seals)
Subject: Imakefiles in 3.2
Organization: SUNYA - ASRC, Albany, NY
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 20:19:40 GMT

Greeetings,
3.2 is running (vi hangs alot, but other than that it's OK), and
since the major thrill is having X11R4 (whoopee), I thought I
would compile some sources. Hey, there's no xmkmf! Is there?
There used to be a 'ximake.sh' which was essentially xmkmf, but
that ain't thar no more.
What is the bestest way to run imake?

rob
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From: brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis)
Subject: Anybody built MH on RS/6000?
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 08:50:59 GMT

Has anybody built successfully mh on the RS/6000. We tried to build MH-6.7
that we got from ftp.uu.net, but neither did mhconfig work correctly nor
did the .c files in the other directories compile. Are there patches for
the RS/6000, or even better, a release that compiles without problems?

Thanks for any pointers.


Marc-Michael Brandis
Computer Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
email: brandis@inf.ethz.ch
From: landy@bear.austin.ibm.com (Landy Ligon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: X11 on AIX 3.2
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:23:57 GMT
Organization: IBM PSP, Austin

ghica@fig.citib.com (Renato Ghica) writes:
 ...STUFF deleted...
> ghica{130} -> xterm
> Could not load program xterm 
> Could not load library libXt.a[shr4.o]
> Error was: No such file or directory
> 
> ghica{131} -> echo $LIBPATH
> /usr/lpp/X11/lib
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM
  My guess is that libXt.a[shr4.o] depends on things that are not in
  any of the libraries in /usr/lpp/X11/lib, but are in say
  /lib/libc.a.  So if you set LIBPATH to
  /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lpp/X11/lib things should work fine.  Since when
  you install X11 the X libraries are symbolically linked into /lib
  and /usr/lib you could also just unset LIBPATH or set it to
  /lib:/usr/lib and things should work.
-- 
Landy Ligon (landy@bear.austin.ibm.com)
DISCLAIMER: The content of this posting is independent of official IBM position.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
Subject: Re: Logging someone off as root user
Reply-To: shore@tc.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:36:45 GMT

In article <skbheINN9cp@disaster.Germany.EU.net>, sd@Germany.EU.net (Stephan Deutsch) writes:
> 	2.) Now you're able to kill this shell using kill -KILL PID or
> 	    kill -9 PID

I find this unnecessarily heavy-handed.  Sending a hangup
signal ("kill -1 pid") allows the user's processes to do
whatever cleanup they require and generally leaves things
in a cleaner state.  Send the HUP, check to see if anything
is still running, and then kill those with a KILL if necessary.
-- 
       Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: nenovd@melanie.cs.rose-hulman.edu (Deyan N. Nenov)
Subject: AIX & NOVELL
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 14:50:57 GMT

Hello,

I need some ideas about the best way to
connect a NOVELL PC net to an R/6k server.

It is essential that upon loging into the NOVELL
net the DOS users see some of the R/6k file
structures mapped to DOS drives _AND_ that AIX
sees the NOVELL server file structures.

This matter is of some urgency so I would appreciate
any help. I am not concerned so much with details. I
would like to get a good idea of easy/hard it is 
to implement this in a _STABLE_ application
and get the names and contacts for the relevent
software packages and hardware products.

Thanx in Advance.

Best Regards,
Deyan Nenov
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Subject: swapping via NFS
From: marcello@deis16cineca.it (Marcello Dalpasso)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 08:17:18 GMT
Organization: *********************************************************
Originator: marcello@deis16


Can someone help me in swapping my rs6000 (AIX 3.1) on an NFS-mounted file?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
	Marcello Dalpasso (e-mail: marcello@deis16.cineca.it)
	D.E.I.S. - Department of Electronics and Computer Science	
	Viale Risorgimento 2, I - 40136 Bologna, Italy			
	Phone: +39-51-644-3015 (fax: 3073)
-- 
	Marcello Dalpasso (e-mail: marcello@deis16.cineca.it)
	D.E.I.S. - Department of Electronics and Computer Science	
	Viale Risorgimento 2, I - 40136 Bologna, Italy			
	Phone: +39-51-644-3015 (fax: 3073)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dougc@htbawd.rain.com ()
Subject: xconsole 
Organization: Merwin Software Services, Inc.
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:33:08 GMT

Does anyone out there have the R5 xconsole running on AIX 3.2? At first I
got "Couldn't open console" messages until I refered the output device
to be /dev/console. Now, xconsole puts up a window but no console messages
go to it. 

Sorry if this is a FAQ, I checked the latest FAQ.V9 and there was no 
mention of it.

Thanks,

Doug Carter.

==============================================================================
 Doug Carter           |  The sun is the same in the relative way, but your 
 dougc@htbawd.rain.com | older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
==============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: leonid@spss.com (Leonid Feygin)
Subject: Re: 'new math' with cc (forget what you were taught once)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 22:45:08 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

Hope it's not beating the dead horse ...

From K&R second edition, p. 198:
"... Shorter unsigned types, when combined with a larger signed type, 
do not propagate the unsigned property to the result type; in the first 
edition, the unsigned always dominated.  The new rules ... reduce
somewhat the surprises that may occur when an unsigned quantity meets
signed."
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Kernel reconfigs
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:42:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: zia.1992Apr15.224251.1935
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

In article <1992Apr12.003804.120968@jrh.uucp> jrh@jrh.uucp (James R. Hamilton) writes:
>    worried about the usual stuff like file table size and process
>    table size, you have little to fear.  The default (and untunable)
>    file table size is 200,000 and the process table size is 131,000.

Good grief! No wonder the kernel needs 11MB of memory. This is absurd. They
could easily have made the defaults more reasonable (like, say, 5000 and 1000)
which would be plenty adequate for 90% of the systems, and then allow it to
be tuned for the few systems where it isn't.

>    IMHO, the RS/6k documentation library is missing a good quality
>    description of the kernel and file system internals.  

Yes! Yes! Kernel variables? What kernel variables? Tunable parameters? What
tunable parameters? It would really be nice to have an obvious place to find
these things out.

Mind you, Sun isn't too forthcoming about these either, although for at least
some of them there's a simple .h file you can work with.
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: meyer@helix.nih.gov (Meyer Gordon)
Subject: sendmail configuration file
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 13:37:08 GMT

We have not been able to send mail to Bitnet addresses from our RS/6000.
The problem is that we cannot seem to be able to modify our sendmail
configuration file properly .

Has anyone out there been able to create a version of sendmail.cf that will
allow the use of Bitnet addresses?

The folks at our computer center tried several configuration files that are
used on various workstations around NIH, but they don't produce the desired
results under IBM AIX.  The main problem is that sendmail is supposed to
return the fully-qualified hostname, e.g., xxx.nci.nih.gov, and instead
returns the unqualified hostname, e.g., xxx.  This imposes additional
complexity on the configuration file and ends up making it more
host-specific, and thus less flexible.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: vla@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Louis Verhagen)
Subject: remote printing from sun -> r6k
Keywords: sun printing r6k
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 04:09:03 GMT

Hi 
Were having troubles here printing from our sun
sparc station via our r6k to an ascii printer. 
Remote printing from r6k to r6k is working.
Our friends at chemistry are having the same
problem. We are still using AIX 3.1.5 (still
waiting for 3.2). Does this have to do with the
-h switch discussion last week or is it a differend
problem altogether. I spend 4 hours on the phone
with an IBM engineer and he couldn't get to the
bottom of this problem. He promised me he do some
research and get back to me. This is over two weeks 
ago. 

Louis Verhagen			Australia
vla@waves.ce.adfa.oz.au
From: tom@tomr2.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Slowness of realloc() under AIX32
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:28:56 GMT
Reply-To: tom@tomr2.austin.ibm.com ()
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <BMnLJA.37C@world.std.com>, madd@world.std.com (Bob Nagle) writes:

> 
> >landy@bear.austin.ibm.com (Landy Ligon) writes: (BUT SHOULDN'T HAVE)
> >> You can do this in a shell script that invokes your
> >> application or by using putenv("MALLOCTYPE=3.1") in your C code.
> >			  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >I lied.  You can't do this!!!!!!  Unfortunately putenv calls malloc so
> >by the time the env variable is set it's too late.
> 
> By the time main() is called, it's already too late.  crt0 calls
> NLinit() which makes lots of calls to malloc() in the name of National
> Language support.
> 

Landy is correct.  The 3.2 crt0 no longer calls NLinit.
There is no programmatic interface which will select the
V3.2 vs. the V3.1 malloc.  The ONLY way to get the V3.1 
malloc is to set the MALLOCTYPE environment variable prior
to exec'ing the application which uses malloc.

Perhaps in the future...
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Subject: AIX 3.2 & utmp
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 01:30:03 GMT


FYI, there are some caveats to IBM's utmp that interested parties
should be aware of before trying to use it.

First, the ut_id field is a copy of the ut_line field in most cases;
in reality, this isn't necessarily the case for things in inittab, but
it doesn't matter, since you only set ut_id if you're creating a new
entry.

Second, the way 'w' works.  This is pretty weird.  It appears that 'w'
looks at the owner of the TTY device, and only considers processes
owned by that uid when generating the 'what' field.  This is bad for
two reasons: 1) it doesn't work well with su, and 2) it's useless if
you don't chown the device.  My port of GNU finger considers *all*
processes on that TTY; I believe this is more correct.

Thirdly, chowning the device.  This does *not* work if you chown the
device before opening it, or open it, chown it, close it, and then
reopen it as some programs do.  As soon as you close the slave side,
its permissions and owner get rest.  (In reality, the PTY slave gets
deallocated, and it thereafter has the default permissions, probably
whatever's on /dev/pts, but I haven't checked.)  You need to open the
device, then chown it, and keep it open.

That's all.  If you do this correctly, utmp should work for you.

Note that in AIX 3.1, the login entries don't have the ut_id field set.
This makes it impossible to use the standard functions in the way
defined by SVID to alter utmp entries, since updates are dependent on
the ut_id field to know what to replace.  The only way to work around
this is by writing Berkeleyish code to handle utmp, and that's a total
lose.

Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:5313 comp.lang.c++:6660
From: ssa@aisg.com (S. Alavi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.lang.c++
Subject: ?? has anyone ported NIH C++ classes to RS/6000 ??
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:45:14 GMT
Reply-To: ssa@aisg.com
Organization: AISG


	Before starting thkis I would like to knwo if anyone has done this 
	and if so, if there are any helpful hints...


	Thanks,
	-- S. Alavi
From: frank@leopard.austin.ibm.com (Frank Feuerbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2 Gratuitous Incompatibility #1
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:12:03 GMT
Reply-To: ...@cs.utexas.edu:ibmaus!auschs!leopard.austin.ibm.com!frank
Organization: "Personal Systems Programming, IBM Austin"

> And, no matter whether it was "technically correct" or not, there is
> *no* excuse for not documenting it.  That is unacceptable.

You are correct, I attempted to look up how to do this in info and I did
not quickly find it.  I have opened a defect to attempt to get this resolved.  

It is probably documented somewhere, but it should be much more easily found.

Thanx


- Frank Feuerbacher


Disclaimer: I speak only for me!  And I don't even do a good job of that!
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: allender@cs.uiuc.edu (Mark Allender)
Subject: Re: monitor on AIX 3.2 (and other)
Organization: TechoPunks Ltd. -- Party Goers to the Max
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:58:41 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.073702.22252@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
> Getting monitor (1.05.1) to compile and run cleanly on 3.2 required the
> following changes:

<changes omitted>

I found these changes, but sometimes I get NANQ for number of runnable
processes when running monitor under 3.2.  anyone else seen monitor
exhibit this behaviour (I didn't notice it under 3.1.5).  Any fixes?

thanks

-- 
-Mark Allender
-University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
-Conversation Builder Project
-allender@cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Dave Beedle)
Subject: What changes the access permissions on my /etc/services?
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 15:48:56 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

     I'm having a problem in keeping the access permissions on my /etc/file
correct!  For some reason the permissions get changed from 644 to 600.  When
they change telnet, ftp and the other services stop functioning (except for
root of course).  Possibly related, my /dev/tty0 (the only port with a modem)
gets changed from time to time to be readable and writable only by root and
the /etc/console gets the owner changed from root to whoever used it last.
What could be changing these files?  The /etc/services is a big problem since
it shuts things down for the users.  The other files are more an irritation.
Can anybody point me in the right direction?  Thanks!

-- 
  Dave Beedle                                    Office of Academic Computing
                                                    Illinois State University
  Internet:  dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu                    136A Julian Hall  
  "Relax, don't worry!  Have a homebrew!"                  Normal, IL   61761
From: pa@curly.appmag.com (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Trouble with Telebit 3000 (aix 3.1.6)
Summary: Elementary tests fail even at 2400.
Keywords: Telebit 3000 V.32 V.22bis Rs232D
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:28:40 GMT
Organization: Applied Magnetics, Goleta, CA

I'm trying to replace my 2400bps modem by a Telebit 3000 and I'm not
doing well.

Before:
 -Hayes 2400 on workstation 1.  Have been dialing in and out for
  months.  Have been initiating and answering uucp's for months.
 -Practical peripherals 2400 on workstation 2.  Used as a secondary
  dialin/out.

Goal:  Replace the Hayes with the brand new Telebit on workstation 1.

Immediate goal:  Never mind uucp.  First things first.
 1) Just cu to /dev/tty0 at various speeds and send AT commands to the Tbit.
 2) Then dial out (ATDT...) to workstation 2 and try to login.
 3) Hang up, rlogin to workstation 2 over the ethernet,
    cu from there to its /dev/tty0, dial out to the new modem
    and try to login on workstation 1.

I'm having trouble with (1) already.  It's just not reliable.  It's
worse at 9600bps, but even at 2400 and 1200 the connection tends to
freeze.  Usually one of the cu subprocesses dies and I have to clean
up the other one by hand.  It's not the getty, I disabled it.

As for (2), it works to the extent that (1) succeeds at 2400.  I can
dial out to the second modem and log in.  I have to disable MNP to get
through, but that's OK.

Test (3) fails.  (At this point, there is a getty expecting 2400 at the
answering end.)  The calling modem reports CONNECT and the receiving
modem lights up its CD lamp but, according to SD and RD, no characters
come in or echo out.  Breaks do get through, however.

I may be doing something stupid with the many configuration options,
but I don't think so (I've been there before).  I don't think it's a
connector problem because the Hayes is working fine now.  Does any of
this sound familiar?

Are there known incompatibilities with '6000's and Telebits?
Are there known bugs in cu that could cause this?
In case I make progress, are there known problems with serial
communications at 9600 and up?

bos.obj              ACTIVE     COMMIT     06/20/91  03.01.0006.0008 root
bosext1.uucp.obj     ACTIVE     COMMIT     06/20/91  03.01.0006.0001 root

I guess I'll be talking to IBM and Telebit soon.  :-b
-- 

--Pierre Asselin, R&D, Applied Magnetics.
  pa@appmag.com        the usual disclaimers apply.