HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: johnson@euler.jsc.nasa.gov (Stan Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: correction re: cron problem
Date: 24 Jul 92 03:33:25 GMT

Earlier I wrote...

> I have a program that I want cron to run at 4:32am on the fourth Sunday of
> every month.  I updated root's crontab to contain the following entry:
>
> #min	hour	daymo	month	daywk	cmd
> 32	4	22-28	*	0	/etc/my_program
>
> For some reason, cron has run /etc/my_program every day so far this week.
> Am I missing something somewhere, or is there a problem with cron?  I
> tried killing and restarting cron; no change.  We are running 4.0.1 on
> a 4D-25s.  Thanks for any advice..

Cron actually ran my sample program only yesterday (22nd) and today, as
if I had entered "*" for daywk.

-Stan Johnson
 NASA / Johnson Space Center
 Houston, Texas  77058
 (713) 483-4692
 johnson@euler.jsc.nasa.gov
From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Real SGI SCSI cables
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:14:50 GMT

I am interested in getting SCSI cables from SGI.  I will shut my eyes
to the cost for right now, as I am interested in getting what I want.
I also do not care about the cables in the ( few month old ) price
book I have.

I know there are at least two useful cables.  First, there is the about
4 foot PI to Iris File cable.  This is listed under P5-DG00A as "SCSI
cable".  Does this have a part number I can order?  Also, is this the
same cable listed under P5-T4C3A as "Shielded SCSI cable"?  If not, 
does this cable have a number I can order.  Further, there is the about 
1 foot Crimson SCSI bus 0 jumper cable ( visible from the front with
the big door open ) that I have interest in.  Does this have a part
number I can order?

Even further, whats the part number of the unlisted SCSI cable needed
for P4-T2R4X?  How long is it, too?

Did I miss any others in the 0-2M range?  What are their part numbers?

Thanks.
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From: jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: indigo security
Date: 24 Jul 92 23:14:49 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Information Technology

>See 'man prom nvram'.  Note that the bar and lock won't deter any
>body who is really malicious, but it is a pretty good compromise.

What's the deal on prom password protection for other machines besides
the Indigo, especially the older ones like the 4D-240?  When we got
the CPU boards swapped recently, I assumed we'd have this ability, but
it doesn't seem to be there.  Is there just no room in the older proms
for this?  Is it available as a special option?  I've been trying to
find out from various people locally, but no one seems to know.

Thanks

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From: sd@chem.ucsd.edu (Steve Dempsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SCSI Disk problems.
Date: 22 Jul 1992 20:51:21 GMT
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
NNTP-Posting-Host: chedccf0.ucsd.edu

I just want to make sure I understand Dave Olson's recomendation
regarding the spin-up jumpers on SCSI disk drives.  Do we want the
drives to spin up at power-on, or to wait until the start command is
received from the scsi controller?  Do different models of the IRIS
have different preferences?
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From: guest@twncu865.ncu.edu.tw
Subject: need help for...
Organization: Computer Center, NCU, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:55:59 GMT

Hi, everyone:
      Our lab is planning to order a VideoLab for a 320/VGX but we recently
      heard that product can't support the function of capturing single frame
      from input video. It is different from data sheet that we got from
      local distributor and the NEWS RELEASE released by SGI company in which
      "Video can digitized to the screen at real-time video rates or stored on
      disk or in memory as SINGLE IMAGES or SETS OF IMAGES" was reported.
      Could anyone tell me what is the difference or the truth?  Compared to
      VideoFrame and VideoCreator,  what's the improved function of VideoLab ?
      The last	question is why the VideoLab don't provide the video format of
      NTSC or PAL? Is there any method to convert NTSC or PAL to the format
      provided by VideoLab when we must use it?


      Any help will be much appreciated.

      J. R. Liao   engineer@amy.cc.nctu.edu.tw
From: macleod@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu (Rob MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Pandora problems
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:00:10 GMT


I am preparing an Indigo for shipping to a new site and after removing what
I thought were all the necessary links to the rest of the (old) world and
setting it up for stand-alone use, I have a problem with logging in.  When
I use pandora (/etc/config/visuallogin = "on"), I can enter a userid and
password, but the screen goes to the light-blue background for a second,
and then I am back at pandora.  I tried setting up ids with no password,
and lots of other things but to no avail.

The weird thing is that if I turn visuallogin off (by starting system from
PROM in single user mode, then mounting disk, then running chkconfig, and
then rebooting), I can run the system just fine with manual login.  But if
try to have visuallogin, I am dead in the water again.

This system is running Irix 4.0.1 and worked fine as part of the network.
Changes made were in things like /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/groups,
/etc/init.d/network.local, /etc/fstab, /etc/exports, and
/usr/etc/resolv.conf just to decouple the machine from the old network
before moving it.

Any help would be much appreciated!!!

Rob.


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From: atems@hal.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems)
Subject: Questions about SGI floppy drive
Originator: atems@hal
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Wayne State University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:43:56 GMT

I am considering buying SGI's internal floppy drive for an Indigo.
Does anyone have any experience with this drive? I intend to use it
mainly to archive data generated by software running under IRIX. Tape
is inconvenient for this purpose since 1/4-inch drives don't support
updating an existing archive. 8-character filenames are too
restrictive, so I would want to use floppies formatted as efs volumes,
not DOS volumes.  Among my concerns are:

1). How do you format floppies under IRIX?

2). Do you have to be superuser and use the mount(1M) command to mount
floppies, or will msdosd do this for you even if they are efs volumes?

3). Although this is an internal drive, is max SCSI cable length an
issue here? This Indigo already has two external devices attached, a
CD-ROM drive and a 1/4-inch tape drive.

Any helpful information will be appreciated. E-mail replies welcome.

Dale Atems
E-mail: atems@hal.physics.wayne.edu
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From: trich@crow.omni.co.jp (Timothy Richards)
Subject: SCSI as system disk on old 4D210GTX
Reply-To: trich@crow.omni.co.jp
Organization: Omnibus Japan, Inc.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 09:30:55 GMT


I have a very old 4D210GTX which currently uses an ESDI Disk drive
as the system disk.  I want to use a SCSI disk as the system disk.
Specifically an IMPRIMIS94601-15 that I received from Nihon Silicon
Graphics.  Anyway I can not get unix to boot successfully from the
SCSI disk - it allways crashes halfway through booting unix.
I have a newer 4D240GTX that uses the same type of drive as a system
disk without any problems.

Is there special firmware in old 210GTX that means that the system disk
must be ESDI ???
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From: joel@jellotrees.esd.sgi.com (Joel Tesler)
Subject: Re: toochest problem
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 16:25:25 GMT


>       Problem with 'toolchest'. It does not know about quit_mwm.
> ...

Toolchest is indeed a separate program, not a part of the window
manager.  If you use 4Dwm, you can use the tellwm command which uses
an additional protocol to tell the window manager to exit.  However,
since mwm is standard OSF code, it does not have this capability, and
the only way to tell it to exit is to put the f.quit_mwm command in
the mwm window.  An ugly alternative is to put f.exec /etc/killall mwm
in your toolchest file, however, that kills it rather abruptly, as
well as killing any other mwms that you happen to be running from that
machine (e.g. to another display).

Regarding endsession, not working, I believe that there is a bug
whereby endsession fails if your hostname ends with a number.  If you
don't want to set DISPLAY to :0, you can modify the endsession script.
Change the line

        PROP_DISPLAY=`expr $DISPLAY : '\(.*\).[1-9]' \| $DISPLAY`

to

        PROP_DISPLAY=`expr $DISPLAY : '\(.*\)\.[1-9]' \| $DISPLAY`

Note the added \ before the .[1-9]

That should fix your problem.  (Unofficial fix, all the disclaimers,
etc.)

Joel Tesler
joel@sgi.com
415-390-3048
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: groff 1.05
Date: 31 Jul 92 09:59:21 GMT


     Rich Stoler <stoler@seas.gwu.edu> commented

> I have been trying to make groff 1.05 on a crimson. I keep getting the
> following error:
> 
> g++ -c -I. -O errarg.c
> errarg.c: In method `errarg::errarg (const char *)':
> errarg.c:26: assignment between incompatible pointer types


     I  can't comment on what is *wrong* but I can say what I did to get
groff to build with gcc 2.2.2 .... 

/* GML Can't see how this could ever be allowed?
errarg::errarg(const char *p) : s(p == 0 ? "(null)" : p), type(STRING)
*/

errarg::errarg(const char *p) : s(p == 0 ? &"(null)" : p), type(STRING)


     In  case  you  can't  see  it I had to stick an "&" in front of the
"(null)" character string!  Then it complains about incompatible pointer
types, but keeps going. 

     Also,  I  couldn't compile the files in the tbl directory using the
-O option: it gave a SEGV error.  Removing this option let it go Ok.
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SCSI compatibility questions for Indigo
Keywords: SCSI specs, CDROM
Date: 31 Jul 92 04:04:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Jul30.201404.9061@galois.mit.edu> rlv@runge.mit.edu (Ralph Vinciguerra) writes:
| 1) I have been told by an unreliable source that Indigos use
| "differential SCSI". I'm just about to buy a couple Seagate ST41200 1.9G
| drives, and my vendor says he can sell me these so-called differential SCSI
| versions. What's the deal? Is this a real difference, or a marketing concept?
| I thought the Indigo specs said "SCSI-II" and I'm all set using SCSI-II drives.

Your unreliable source is indeed unreliable.  Indigo uses good old
single ended SCSI, not differential.  Differential interfaces can
go to 25m instead of 6m, and are inherently more immune to crosstalk,
etc.  (They are also usually more expensive, when available.)

| 2)  I have a Sun (uh-oh) CD-ROM drive (SCSI). Will I be able to
| either NFS remote mount it from my Sun network, or at least plug
| it in directly? Or is there some fundamental difference from an SGI CDROM
| drive, so can't load software or boot?

If the Sun machine will export it, you should be able to mount it.
You can *probably* plug it in locally, and may even be able to
boot and install software from it; some folks have reported success,
others failure.

| 3) Perhaps I can use a remote SGI CDROM off my net attached to another SGI?
| Can I boot diskless, plug in this above SCSI disk, and set it up as the
| boot disk?

SGI systems can export EFS CD-ROM's with no trouble, but ISO-9660
can only be exported to another SGI system (running 4.0.1 or later),
and it has to be a bit non-standard (among other things, you have
to export the mount directory before mounting the CD, which is rather
unusual ;)
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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: mail configuration problem
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 00:52:50 GMT

In <1992Jul22.230222.18272@tamsun.tamu.edu> vamsee@bioiris.tamu.edu (Vamsee Lakamsani) writes:

| We have some problem with the mail configuration.
| 
| # /etc/init.d/mail start
| Mailer daemons: sendmail.
| # /usr/lib/sendmail.cf: line 214:cannot open /usr/lib/uucp/Systems: Permission denied
| 
| What's the reason for this problem. How can I set it right ?

Make an empty Systems file, or comment out the sendmail.cf line that
refers to it.  It is only needed if you have uucp neighbors
whom you exchange email with.
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From: fsfacca@ZoSo.lerc.nasa.gov (Tony Facca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: ELAN graphics problem
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:22:21 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]

In article <1726@celia.UUCP> celia!gray@usc.edu (Steve Gray) writes:
>
>I am having a problem running an application which used to work fine on a
>Crimson with GR2-Elan graphics.
>

I have also noticed problems with GR2-Elan graphics on an Indigo.  I am
running 4.0.4 (waiting for 4.0.5 before I complain "officially").  I can 
faithfully reproduce a problem which causes the graphics to completely hang
and kill the window manager.  The syslog says:

Jul 22 12:09:19 ZoSo unix: WARNING: Gr2PcxSwap: TIMEOUT gfx context switch did not complete (Start) 
Jul 22 12:09:19 ZoSo unix: 
Jul 22 12:09:19 ZoSo unix: 
Jul 22 12:09:19 ZoSo unix: WARNING: Graphics error: GE PC = 0x6C8
Jul 22 12:09:19 ZoSo unix: 

<or>

Jul 22 12:13:56 ZoSo unix: WARNING: gr2: FIFO TIMEOUT
Jul 22 12:13:56 ZoSo unix: 
Jul 22 12:13:56 ZoSo unix: 
Jul 22 12:13:56 ZoSo unix: WARNING: Graphics error: GE PC = 0x32C8
Jul 22 12:13:56 ZoSo unix: 


This is using "/usr/sbin/gdiff".  This is a really cool application and I've
grown so dependent on it that I don't remember how to use "diff" anymore :-(
Visual Computing has its drawbacks, I suppose.

I'm very happy with the Elan graphics' overall performance.  Quite impressive
for a desktop system.   Now, what do I need to click to send post this
article..


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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Novice needs help with Indigo DAT drive
Date: 31 Jul 92 05:28:55 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Jul31.044022.16583@tamsun.tamu.edu> dgw0224@tamsun.tamu.edu (David Guy Ward) writes:
| I need some help.  We have an Indigo ELAN w/ a 1.3G DAT
| however everytime I try to back it up (using the 60m tape)
| it finds the drive, asks for tape volume 1 to be inserted, then
| replies with "Cannot find the tape drive you are using"
| yet it shows up on the system inventory.  Due to my lack of experience
| w/ the machine, this is prob a blunder on my part of some kind,
| but none of the people I have consulted thus far have been able
| to solve the prob.  Any help in solving this situation would be 
| appreciated.  Thanks.

Hmm.  The only explanation I can think of is that you
haven't run MAKDEV tape since installing the drive, but as
of 4.0.1, that should happen automatically on bootup if
/dev/tape doesn't exist, and a tape drive is present.

Does 'mt stat' show anything?  Are you doing this at the
command line, or from system manager?  The latter wants
you to specify the tape device; I forget just which button
it is, but it should be obvious.
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From: hic@vision.auc.dk (Henrik I. Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: MAC <-> PI via NFS ??
Date: 30 Jul 92 12:34:35 GMT
Organization: Laboratory of Image Analysis, University of Aalborg

In article <1992Jul22.232920.1762@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> apa@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Alan P Arnold) writes:


   Is there Mac software which allows the Mac to see my 4D/20GT's
   hard disk(s) and vice-versa?  

The CAP package in public domain is excellent for this, but Wollongong
has also an NFS package which allow mounting of NFS systems on the
Mac. In addition the K-Share packe is availabel for file sharing .

NFS-Share from wollongoing requires only installation of software on
the Mac, while the K-Share package only requires installation of
software on the SGI computer. Your choice.

The CAP package is available from sumex-aim.stanford.edu or
ftp.funet.fi in the mac directory (i.e. /pub/mac/...)

   The 4D/20 already talks to a few IBMR6000's (via NFS) and my
   MacII can ftp to the 4D/20 (with VersaTerm Pro) but it would
   be nice for the Mac to have an icon of the 4D/20's disk on its
   desktop and vice-versa.

   I guess AUX would be one (the *only*?) way to go...
 
The AUX NFS software is known to have quite a number of errors. I
would thus recommend another solution. Besides AUX is not cheap.

/Henrik
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From: howarth@rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: can lpr and lp share a printer?
Date: 28 Jul 1992 23:00:58 GMT


             I am trying to discover if I can start up a lpd daemon to
print to the same printer that already is being used by lp. The reason is
that we have lp set up so that NFS can allow us to print remotely to the
printer through lp from another Iris. However, no PC shareware supports
lp for printing from a PC to a unix box; only lpr. Thus, I would like to
have both lp and lpr directed at the same printing but not crashing on me
if they fight over it. Is this possible or not?
                       Jack


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From: dwong@sgi.com (David Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Questions about SGI floppy drive
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:19:35 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Jul28.184356.18370@cs.wayne.edu> atems@hal.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems) writes:
>I am considering buying SGI's internal floppy drive for an Indigo.
>Does anyone have any experience with this drive? I intend to use it
>mainly to archive data generated by software running under IRIX. Tape
>is inconvenient for this purpose since 1/4-inch drives don't support
>updating an existing archive. 8-character filenames are too
>restrictive, so I would want to use floppies formatted as efs volumes,
>not DOS volumes.  Among my concerns are:
>
>1). How do you format floppies under IRIX?

use fx.

>
>2). Do you have to be superuser and use the mount(1M) command to mount
>floppies, or will msdosd do this for you even if they are efs volumes?

yes, you have to be superuser to mount a EFS floppy.  msdosd in the current
release won't work on EFS floppy.

>
>3). Although this is an internal drive, is max SCSI cable length an
>issue here? This Indigo already has two external devices attached, a
>CD-ROM drive and a 1/4-inch tape drive.
>
>Any helpful information will be appreciated. E-mail replies welcome.
>
>Dale Atems
>E-mail: atems@hal.physics.wayne.edu
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Is there a 'dump' program for IRIX?
Date: 24 Jul 92 23:44:59 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Jul24.201601.14227@eng.umd.edu> naiming@eng.umd.edu (Naiming Shen) writes:
| I want to have a Sun to backup my SGI machine. The Sun uses 'dump', but the
| SGI uses 'bru'. I'm just wondering if there is 'dump' for the IRIX. Since I
| want to put multimachine backup onto the same 8mm tape. Thanks in advance.

bru is only one of several backup tools on SGI systems.

All 4.0 IRIX systems come with dump/restore, and there is an 
(unsupported) version floating around somewhere for 3.3.
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From: cxd653@huxley.anu.edu.au (Chunping Ding)
Subject: Looking for source code of IDEAS & EP
Organization: Australian National University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 10:28:48 GMT

There are two execuitable files "ideas" and "ep" in /usr/demos/bin in
our SiliconGraphics machine. Is there anyone know where I can find the
source code of the two programs and how I can trace the authors of the
programs. Please email to myself, not to this news group. Many thanks
in advance for the help.

Ding Chunping

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