HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Moving my /usr filesystem?
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:37:03 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Uma S. Pandey (usp@blondie.austin.ibm.com) wrote:
: Please use SMIT for moving filesystems/physical volumes/logical-volumes. Once
: I tried to do it by hand, then I screw up too. SMIT does things in the
: correct order. If you have AIX3.2, then the following route will tell you
: all that you want to do:

Yeah right!  My first attempt to do this involved only SMIT and I managed to
get myself a non-bootable system.  Fortunately, with the help of some kind
folks on this list I learned how to do what I really wanted.  Unfortunately
most of this went on in e-mail so it didn't appear here.  
   Now, I'm not saying SMIT is a bad thing.  It is certainly better than me
mucking about in the files manually, but don't assume that you can't shoot
yourself in the foot with SMIT because you most certainly can.  I know.
The good news in all this is that at least I'm doing this on my own machine
that doesn't have a bunch of other users on it.
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From: anobili@nyx.cs.du.edu (alfredo nobili)
Subject: XFontStruct
Keywords: motif 1.1 aix 3.2
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 11:47:36 GMT


I've got a trouble compiling Hp Interface Architect runtime library :
all goes fine under Aix 3.1 but after upgrading to 3.2 I cannot find
declaration of XmFontList structure ( found in previous version of X11 in
/usr/unclude/Xm/Xm.h ).
I'd like to know if this difference depends on different version of Motif
( Motif 1.0 vs Motif 1.1) or if exists a patch to correct the problem.
Code fragment follows :
XmFontList      *xdata;
 .
 .
 .
font_struct = (*xdata)->font;

The compiler's command line is :
cc -O   -D_PTY_DRIVER   -DRUNTIME -DMOTIF_WIDGETS -DSAFE_MALLOC  -I../in
clude  -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/X11 -I/usr/include/sys
-I/usr/X11/include/Xm -I/usr/X11/include/   -c utype.c

The error found is :

"utype.c", line 3625.19: 1506-122 (S) Expecting pointer to struct or union.

Thanks in advance for the help ..
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How is /etc/nologin removed during reboot?
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:03:06 GMT
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

In article <MARC.92Oct15153002@marc.watson.ibm.com> marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander) writes:
>The design is that shutdown removes /etc/nologin. 
>during system test it was noticed that if shutdown
>failed while /etc/nologin existed, and the machine was then rebooted,
>there was no way to use it!  

<sigh>

(Hey, Vijay, here's another, very serious, suggestion for providing the tools
that system administrators need in AIX; and it'll be really easy to do).

If by the above you mean that not even root can log on, this is a *BUG* in
AIX and it needs to be *FIXED*.

If, of course, that wasn't what you meant, or it's incorrect, then ignore 
the rest of this, but the statement that one must boot in maintenance mode 
to get rid of the thing suggests that it was your meaning. Can anybody verify 
or refute the accuracy of it from AIX experience?

> Why are you trying to keep the file around?

Doesn't anyone at IBM ever need to reboot a system while they don't want users 
on it? *That's* the purpose of /etc/nologin: not merely to prevent logins 
during shutdown, but to prevent user logins at whatever time. 

Maybe all the users inside IBM are courteous, sensible and computer-literate
(that's a compliment, note), so that you don't find people banging on their 
keyboards every 5 seconds for 3 hours waiting for that Magic Moment when they 
get a login prompt and can get back on - only to be sent a message from an 
irritated sysadmin 30 seconds later, who couldn't get on quicker than the user 
did to recreate /etc/nologin, which AIX had kindly deleted on his/her behalf.

Well, I find that here. This is not sarcasm, it is the absolute truth. I 
laughed when I read that paragraph over too, but trust me, it happens, and it
is not so funny when you're trying to get a system back to normal.

>If you really want it, replace the line in /etc/rc with
>touch /etc/nologin but I think you will not like the results!

It should be fixed so the file is only removed at boot time - and then only if 
the command to do so is in /etc/rc - and so that root can still log on even 
if it does exist.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ivan@ne.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado)
Subject: Anonymous ftp site creation?
Reply-To: ivan@nepjt.ne.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:43:42 GMT


Hello,

The standard step-by-step description to create an anonymous ftp site
presented in the book "UNIX System Administration Handbook (pg. 293)" 
seems to work OK until one ftp's into the site and does an "ls" to see
*nothing*.  With an a-priori knowledge of what's in there, one can 
actually move around the ~/ftp directory and even "get" the files,
so there appears to be some simple sort of file group/protection
which doesn't allow the ftp'er to see what he's doing.

If anyone out there has the instructions for such procedure, I would
appreciate receiving a copy.  Particularly if they have tried/tested
them on a system running AIX (I'm only up to 3.1.6).

Thank you,

-Ivan




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From: tim@sabus.UUCP (Tim Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: umask/mode
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:32:15 GMT
Organization: The SABUS Group

Does anyone know how to convert a umask() into a mode suitable for
using with open() or mkdir()?

Ex:

int mask;

mask = umask(0);
umask(mask);

mkdir("temp", mode_of(mask));

What are the steps to make a mode arg out of mask?

Thanks

Tim
tim%sabus@uunet.uu.net

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From: sam@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (B. Samuel Blanchard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: TN and Vt100 emulation and long line wrapping
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:19:41 GMT
Organization: Ontario Systems Corp  Muncie IN

In article <1992Oct07.220634.146102@watson.ibm.com> yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo) writes:
>I use [..] tn -e vt100 hostname

I don't use AIX much but have other systems where vt100-am or some such
works.  You might look for such an entry.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Stupid Questions:  Sun 8mm dump tape =>AIX 8mm dump tape
Organization: The World
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 04:19:34 GMT


From: bdh@eff.org (Brian D. Howard)
>I have an 8mm tape dumped using an Exabyte on a Sun and I'd like to
>read it on an RS6000 also with an Exabyte 8mm drive.  I tried
>to restore -i on rmt1 to see if I could read the tape at all.  Of course
>I don't remember the error message I got but it was something like
>"..is not a dump tape", e.g. 'I don't know what the f*ck this is but
>its not a tape format I can read'.  

Use rrestore to the local machine, then AIX seems to behave more like
Unix.

If the AIX machine the tape is on is foo.eff.org then use something
like:

	/etc/rrestore if foo:/dev/rmt0.1

or whatever tape device is appropriate.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo)
Subject: TN and Vt100 emulation and long line wrapping
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 22:06:34 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Subject: Telnet emulating a VT100 and the wrapping of long lines.

I use the following:

tn -e vt100 hostname

and I want long line to wrap when echoed to the display.

Is there any way to do this with AIX?

I tried <ESC> <LEFT-SQUARE-BRACKET> = 7 h
   and  <ESC> <LEFT-SQUARE-BRACKET> ? 7 h

According the VT100 specification, one of the escape sequences
should turn on long line wrapping.  But neither do.

What am I doing wrong?


(Background information: I start X with 'xinit' and my term variable is set to
'aixterm', then I start "tn -e vt100 hostname" and the tn command
says that everything is fine.  (That is, it is emulating a vt100.)
But I don't get long line wrapping, regardless of what I try.)


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From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: syslog() after chroot()
Date: 14 Oct 1992 19:10:29 +0100
Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France
NNTP-Posting-Host: grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr
Keywords: syslogd

In article <1992Oct13.170140.22213@aragorn.unibe.ch> haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch writes:
>Under AIX 3.2, is there a way a process can communicate with syslogd
>after having used chroot() to a directory outside the root filesystem?
>syslog() seems to work via /dev/log; it's actually ftpd I have in mind.

I have discussed this issue with the (french) AIX support.
They indicated me to create the appropriate devices (/dev/something)
in the chroot'ed environment. I did myself not test but used the solution
I have suggested to IBM: put a more recent code for the syslog() code.
I myself use a Berkeley syslog.c in my code to bypass this problem.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jl@CS.CMU.EDU (Juan Leon)
Subject: copy-on-write fork()?
Originator: jl@SHELLEY.SP.CS.CMU.EDU
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:57:56 GMT


  Does aix implement fork() with copy-on-write?  

  What I mean is: does fork() actually copy the contents of the process
memory to the memory assigned to the new process, or does it, like Mach,
simply flag the pages to the effect and copy them only as required?

Thanks,

Juan
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.questions
From: SYD.FARBER@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Syd M. Farber")
Subject: Managing Data using Volume Groups
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:45:25 EST

I am in the process of configuring a RS6000 and would like to know if it is
feasable to manage data in a single volume group or to set up multiple volume
groups.  For example, a volume group for application software, a volume group
for application data, a volume group for paging, and a volume group for the
system software.  Can someone please tell me the advantages and disadvantages
to creating multiple volume groups.  Thank you for your help.

Please email your information or recommendations.
       Syd.Farber@office.wang.com
From: dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David Knight French)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: xpr support for HP Paintjet
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:07:41 GMT
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
NNTP-Posting-Host: chedccf0.ucsd.edu

In article <1687ED87C.BOB@ysub.ysu.edu> BOB@ysub.ysu.edu (Bob Quigley) writes:
>I have a need to be able to print X-window dumps (xwd) on a
>HP Paintjet (in color). I am currently running AIX 3.1.5 and may
>soon be installing AIX 3.2.2. The only printers currently available
>on xpr are IBM printers and postscript devices. Is there a way of
>using the Paintjet?
> 
>Thanks,
>Bob Quigley (bob@ysu.edu)
>Youngstown State University



Get X11R5.  The xdpr and xpr commoands support -device pjet or pjetxl
(color mode).

	Dave
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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: What document to request to get info on AIX assembly language?
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:55:22 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization


In article <CSH.92Sep30055319@beta.lanl.gov> csh@lanl.gov (Charles S.
Henkel) writes:
>
> Someone mentioned here recently the name of the document which
> describes the AIX assembly language. Anyone remember what that is? A
> document number would be helpful also.

a) If you have the "Assembler Language Reference", throw it out.

b) Ask your SE for "Power Processor Architecture, Version 1.52".  (I
don't have it handy to check the document number.)

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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: 'aliases' Map in AIX 3.2 NIS
Date: 6 Oct 92 02:22:01 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com writes:
>AIX 3.2's NIS appears not to support the aliases map, requiring instead

yes it does
u just need to get the fix
i don't have the apar number on me
but i'm sure it's fixed
if your customer service organization tells you its not fixed, yell louder

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From: swise@austin.ibm.com (Stevo Bevo-Devo Wise)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: A couple of questions....
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:01:42 GMT
Reply-To: swise@bach.austin.ibm.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: swise@vikings.austin.ibm.com


In article <1992Oct12.214510.8861@attics.rn.com>, rdr@attics.rn.com (Dean Riddlebarger) writes:
> It looks like we may get involved with a network design that has an
> RS/6000 at its heart, and I've got a couple of questions for all you
> net-aware AIX freaks out there:
> 
> [1]  Can I get 386/486-based workstations running PC/TCP+'s NFS
> (InterDrive) to work with NFS on the AIX box?  (For that matter,
> is there an NFS implementation for AIX?)  Are there any gotchas
> in the implementation?

	Don't know about InterDrive, but I've used PC-NFS on PC's
	serving from AIX RS/6000s.  Everything works great.  I
	believe most PC NFS stacks will work serving from an AIX
	'6000.
> 
> [2]  For inbound network-based telnet sessions, what emulation does
> AIX tend to prefer?  Is the complete terminfo database available, and
> is it reasonably up to date?  (One of the network designers heard
> from one of the application vendor reps that AIX is tuned to accept
> IBM 3151 emluation above all else, which I find rather hard to
> believe on the surface.  But since I don't have an RS/6000 to play
> with, I need to double-check.)

	The '6000 supports most terminals...
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From: CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: automount for AXI 3.2.2
Date: 17 Oct 92 01:29:29 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

I am having some problem on making automount working for AIX 3.2.2.
The IBM Defect Support told me to install U409490 and then U404456.
I applied U409490 first. No problem. Then I tried to apply U404456.
If I choose the "Automatically install PREREQUISITE software" option
with "yes", it failed with the following error message:
0503-021 installp: Unable to expand file system /usr
         Check available disk space. The file system
         needs 60972 more 1024-character blocks

!!! Do I need to have about 60 Mb disk space to apply U404456???
I don't have that much disk space available.

Has anyone applied U404456 under 3.2.2? Or has anyone made automount
working without applying U404456?

Thanks in advance!

Ching Shih

shih@cithex.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: hausman@caffeine.cen.uiuc.edu ()
Subject: TeX 3.14 under AIX 3.2
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:31:49 GMT
Keywords: TeX LaTeX

I've been trying to compile TeX on our RS/6000 systems running AIX 3.2
and have not had much luck.

The version of TeX is 3.14.  The distribution compiles and runs fine on
our Sun SPARCstations, so I'm assuming that the particular distribution
that I have is free of bugs...

I have no problem compiling TeX on the RS/6000--the problem arises when I
tell it to make the format files (i.e., plain.fmt).  Shortly after it
starts up initex and prints the filename (plain.tex), it complains that
there is an undefined control sequence on the first non-comment line of the
file.  If I tell it to continue, it reports the same thing for each subsequent
line until finally it gives up from too many errors.

I've looked back through some of the comp.unix.aix archives and tried a 
few of the suggestions there, but after 5 or more compilations, not one of
them has worked.  They always break in the same place.

Has anyone had any luck with this particular version of TeX on the RS/6000?
If so, please let me know what you did to make it work!


Kevin

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener)
Subject: Re: xrn for aix
Reply-To: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 07:53:14 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.210108.12296@news.unige.ch>, favre@medsun.unige.ch (favre) writes:
|> I'm trying to install xrn6-17 on my IBM RS/6000 320 running AIX 3.2.1
|> (I've compiled it with the OSF/Motif libraries).
|> The compilation was fine, and I've put the XRn file in my app-defaults
|> directory.
|> When I try to run xrn, it produces a segmentation fault and
|> a coredump.
|> 
|> What is wrong?

Hard to tell. dbx could help.

|> Does somebody success to compile it on AIX 3.2.x?

I've got it up and running under 3.2.1, no problems (but slow on Sabine/R4).
On iacrs1.unibe.ch, pub/xrn-6.17.tar.Z contains Makefile.AIX.3.2.1.

|> 		Eric Favre

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Imake??
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:48:41 GMT


In the Xamples there are references to Imake.  However, I  
can find neither a man page nor an executable for Imake.

Where does it hide?  
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Dave Beedle)
Subject: AIX telnet...7 or 8 bits?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:21:33 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

   Does the version of telnet on AIX strip high bits or not?  Does it run in an
8 bit mod or 7?  Thanks!

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Survey... RS/6000
From: drb@chmeds.ac.nz ()
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:32:14 +1200
Organization: Christchurch School of Medicine

In <1992Oct7.213852.7050@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> jogi@austin.ibm.com (Vijay Joglekar) writes:
>I need your help.  I am trying to find out what kind of problems
>you folks face with your RS/6000.  Did you have any tools that helped you
>to solve the problem?  If not what would they be.
>
I found the upgrade utilities and the manual "The Inside Story" most
useful for handling the upgrade from AIX 3.1.5 to 3.2.2 
Full marks to the team that produced them.  
Please can we have more tools like this.
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From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,bit.listserv.aix-l,bit.listserv.power-l
Subject: Re: Wang OPEN/image document imaging for AIX starts shipments
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:11:43 GMT
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

Regarding the question just posted by Juhana Kouhia of Tampere as to
why I posted our reply confirming that Wang OPEN/image for AIX is
in fact shipping now:

The comment was posted in response to the totally inaccurate comment
posted by someone else that the product was not shipping.  I'm not
planning to repost that misinformation, but if anyone would like me to
send them that erroneous posting, I'll be glad to do so.  In general,
people should not go around posting totally inaccurate comments about
companies' products without at least trying to do some checking beforehand,
or maybe asking.  As further evidence that it is shipping, the October
issue of Corporate Computing has an article on their benchmark "tests of
imaging engines."  They "tested seven popular products" and found that
Wang's AIX document imaging has the leading price/performance, and
"performed best in our tests" of the non-proprietary systems.  "If you're
looking for screaming performance, a highly scalable system, and a Unix
solution you should definitely investigate this platform."  Wang's PC
document imaging version was "the fastest PC imaging solution we tested."
I'll be happy to air mail a copy of this lengthy article and benchmark
test report to anyone who wants one.  (It's too long to rekey for Emailing.)

If there's any still any doubt about whether OPEN/image AIX document imaging
is shipping now, it can next be seen November 11-13 at the 100 square meter
Wang stand at the UNIX/Open Systems Expo just outside of Stockholm.  (People
in Tampere will be able to see it shortly in Helsinki/Espoo also.)

Maybe we'll just post future release announcements of Wang AIX document
imaging to the IBM Munich AIX newsletter broadcast over these newsgroups!

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com