HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fox@rudolf.nscl.msu.edu (Ron Fox)
Subject: Pacer Ultrix and directly connected Macs.
Reply-To: fox@rudolf.nscl.msu.edu (Ron Fox)
Organization: National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 12:36:19 GMT

--
Hi,
  I've just installed Pacershare on a DECstation 5000 Ultrix 4.2
The Appletalk stack comes up, I configured a volume for a user and
then started the Pacer share product and it seems to come up normally.
Our macs have Nu-Bus ETHERNET cards.  When I attempt to use the chooser
to 'mount' the pacerlink disk, something really strange happens on the
MAC end.  The MAC's chooser correctly lets me choose the server,
set my user name and password and then shows me the available volume.
So far so good.  When I click on the volume to mount it, there's a
very long wait and, according to a MAC memory free monitor all
of the available MAC memory gets allocated and the mount operation
fails
with an error code indicating that memory is all used up.  The
MAC I'm trying this on is a 24Mbyte Quadra and when I start about
20+Mbytes are free so this doesn't seem like correct functionality.
   Has anyone seen this before?  Am I doing something stupid?
Or is there a bug in Pacershare?
		Ron

Ron Fox                     | FOX@MSUNSCL.BITNET      | Where the name 
NSCL                        | FOX@RUDOLF.NSCL.MSU.EDU | goes on before
Michigan State University   | MSUHEP::RUDOLF::FOX     | the quality
East Lansing, MI 48824-1321 |                         | goes in.
USA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: misha@ninja.csuohio.edu (Misha Rekhson)
Subject: Can't get async. mail notification (biff) to work in 4.2a...
Organization: AMC at Cleveland State University, Cleveland
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:09:10 GMT


Sorry if this is trivial, but I don't seem to be able to find an answer
myself.

After migrating to 4.2a from 4.1, asynchronous mail notification (ala
biff) stopped working. "biff y" seems to do what it's supposed to
(adds x permission to the device) but that has no apparent effect:
nothing appears on the terminal when mail comes in.

Any useful suggestions?

Thank you,


-- 

Misha Rekhson                       Cleveland State University, Ohio
misha@ninja.csuohio.edu             (216) 687-5283
From: bwebb@gelac.lockheed.com (Mr. Barry W. Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Need Info on Micropolis MC1624
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:46:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co, Marietta, GA

Looking to correspond via email with anyone who has installed the above
disk drive on DECsystem/station 5000s with expansion boxes.

Thanx in advance.
-- 

Barry W. Webb                          UUCP: ...!gatech!warlord!gelac!bwebb
Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company  Internet: bwebb@gelac.lockheed.com
Marietta, Georgia  30063-0670          Phone: (404) 494-6952    Fax: 6989
From: tb@ece.arizona.edu (Tom Bortone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: NFS Mounts
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:01:34 GMT
Reply-To: tb@ece.arizona.edu (Tom Bortone)
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

I have set up a directory for export in /usr/users:

drwxrwxr-x  2 root     optics        512 Jul 20 09:48 sundec

with the export file /etc/exports:


/usr/users/sundec               natasha.ece.arizona.edu


I'm running the automounter on a Sun with the entry in  /etc/auto.direct:


/home/sundec    -rw,intr,hard,grpid     goofy:/usr/users/sundec

The file mounts fine but I cannot write in the mounted directory.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us
Subject: Re: AWK
Originator: jim@eddie
Reply-To: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us
Organization: me?  have you seen my desk?  : -)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:54:00 GMT

In article <Bs618s.G23@acsu.buffalo.edu> v071rw4p@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
(EMIL MARCUS) writes:

>     I am interested in learning AWK.   
>     Could you, please, help me find a book on AWK ?

uh, that's awk, not AWK.  try running it with the command in all uppercase
and see how far you get......

now, as for reference material, look in your Ultrix Supplementary Documents
(I believe this is under the volume entitled ``Programmer'').  there is a
paper in there called {Awk --- A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language}
(Second Edition), by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan (notice anything about
those initials?  it is NOT a coincidence....).

this is a very, very good reference (hey, it's written by the authors
themselves), and for most stuff, is probably all you'll need.

   --jim

\input std_disclaimer                     % 73 DE N5IAL (/9)
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From: chent@chopin.cs.unc.edu (Ta-Ming Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: question on mips gp value
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:08:49 GMT

Hi,

I am wondering how the gp (global pointer) value on a mips is calculated.
It seems to me this value is set by linker/loader using some info from
ultrix OS or some conventional and fixed value.  It will be very appreciated
if you can tell me the story or at least point me to some documentation.

Thanks in advance.

Ta-Ming Chen

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
Subject: Re: How to use nslookup to go from IP address to name?
Organization: Clemson University
Distribution: comp,world
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:19:54 GMT

everyone seems to be advocating ``set q=any'', when ``set q=ptr'' is
more appropriate.  You'll generate less network traffic by asking
just for what you want, and not for everything.

-Mike
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
Subject: Re: Is there an R4000 upgrade available for DECstation 5000?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:07:37




In article <BATHURST.92Jul29140215@felix.noaapmel.gov> bathurst@noaapmel.gov 
(Bill Bathurst) writes:


>> Has anyone been able to get a R4000 upgrade for their DECstations?  We have
>> a couple of DECstations that need their performance increased.  Does anyone
>> know options/prices for CPU upgrades for DECstation 5000's (ours are model
>> 200's)

>> Thanks!

>> --
>> Bill Bathurst			Internet:	bathurst@noaapmel.gov 
>> NOAA/PMEL				Phone:		(206) 526-6765


Bill,

  The R4000 upgrades for the DECstation products are not available yet. As an
intermediate step, you might want to consider moving your current DS5000/200
series machines to a DS5000/240 series machine. This will take you from a 25MHz
R3000 to a 40MHz R3000 processor and give you a substantial boost in your per-
formance.

  The DS5000/240 also utilizes a processor daughter card configuration (while
the DS5000/200 has the processor embedded in the system module). This means
that you can upgrade to the R4000 processor, when available, by means of a
processor daughter card swap. 

I hope that explanation helps.

				Thanx,
				  AJ

ps. You might want to take a look at the following file to understand the 
    difference in performance between the DS5000/200 and the DS5000/240. It's
    available for anonymous ftp

gatekeeper: 	16.1.0.2

gatekeeper:pub/DEC/performance/DECSTATION_FAMILY_PERF_SUMMARY_APR_92.PS


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From: sensei@dojo.mi.org (the Maniak)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Some Ultrix 4.3 questions
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 05:40:56 GMT
Organization: Body and Chassis Division, Cindy Crawford Admirers, Intl.


Just a few questions regarding Ultrix 4.3:

1.  When is it due?  I heard Fall '92 -- North American Fall?  :-)
2.  What version of X11/Motif? will be shipped?  Someone PLEASE say X11R5!
3.  Is there any work planned on DEC's GUI sysadmin tool, SCAMP?
4.  Any major changes from Ultrix 4.2C?  (Vixie cron!  BIND 4.9?)
5.  How long does anyone expect Ultrix 4.3 to be around?  Should I be
    expecting an Ultrix 4.3[A-Z] scenario, followed by 4.3-Ken?
6.  What is the migration strategy like for someone who wants to
    perform a gradual upgrade to OSF/1 on the Alpha?  From what I
    gather, the Alpha implementation of OSF/1 will be shipping before
    the MIPS version?  Simultaneous OS/hardware migration is "bad".
7.  Will there be different versions of the OS for the various
    architectures (R3000, R4000, VAX)?
8.  Is it being beta-tested at this time?
9.  Are there any plans to ship an ANSI C compiler?

No, I'm not asking any DEC people or others with non-disclosure
agreements to start divulging confidential information.  I simply
want an idea of what I'm likely to be seeing over the next few months,
so I can help my users and help in formulating purchasing strategies.


                                           ...Sensei

==
 Internet:  sensei@dojo.mi.org
 UUCP:  ...!wsu-cs!dojo!sensei
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: Re: DEC DSP3105 disktab
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: disktab
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:37:15 GMT

In article <1992Jul31.164832.3971@guinness.idbsu.edu> scg@kanaha.idbsu.edu writes:
>
>	does anyone have a disktab entry for DEC's new 3.5" inch, 1Gb disk drive?
>there are two different models: 3085 (852Mb) and 3105 (1050Mb), i've got
>a couple of the 
>3105's, but i'm missing the specifications. it's interesting that you
>can't buy these drives
>from DEC?
>
>thanks in advance,
>scott
>
>scg@kanaha.idbsu.edu

I believe DEC just released the 3105 as RZ26, but I haven't heard if the
2 GB (DSP5200?) is going to be released or not.

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.admin
From: kaehler@zk3.dec.com (Todd Kaehler UEG)
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of df and /tmp
Reply-To: kaehler@zk3.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:45:52 GMT


In article <21181@rpp386.lonestar.org>, jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
>Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of df and /tmp
>Date: 21 Jul 92 12:45:43 GMT
>
>In article <1992Jul20.191613.7490@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul20.152235.20345@news.uakron.edu>, david@vax1.cc.uakron.edu (David Sumitra) writes:
>>> Is there no other way (other than newfs) an SA can clear a /tmp in this
>>> situation?
>>
>>he newfs `solution' is just a red herring.  Find the offending process and
>>deal with it in some way or other.
>
>Probably can't even do it with `newfs' since the unmount should fail due
>to there being an open file on the device.  This sounds like an excellent
>time for `fuser -k'
>-- 

You may want to check and see if there are users with large mail spool
files that are using bsd mail.  bsd mail works with an open unlinked
copy of the mail spool file in /tmp when a user is running mail.  

Todd Kaehler    TCP/IP: kaehler@zk3.dec.com

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: Inetd, tcp & wait
Summary: What did they "fix" this time?
Keywords: inetd ultrix tcp wait socket listen accept
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:57:55 GMT

A nice feature I've found and that I like a lot on some Inetd implementations
is the possibility to use "tcp" together with "wait". This is normally not
a possible combination according to most manual pages, but it works anyway.

What this combination does (or should do) is that it create a tcp socket,
binds it to a certain port (specified by the service), does an accept()
on it and the waits for a connection to be established.

When a connection is established it forks and passes as file descriptor
0 (zero) the socket. The client can then go into a look and do a number
of "accept()"'s on it to receive and handle this and future connections.

Why would one wanna do this? Well, for two reasons. First it will automatically
start a server at the first connection attempt. Then the server can handle
this and some future connections to the service and if it decides to shut
itself down or dies because of a bug, then Inetd will start a new copy
of the server at the first next connection attempt. This will reduce the
load on the machine running this service.

This works just great under SunOS, HP-UX (except HP-UX 7.0, where the
engineers at HP decided to throw in an extra check to make sure that
noone would dare to use "tcp" together with "wait" - let's blast the poor
user with an ERROR MESSAGE instead. :-), Sequents Dynix 2.1.1 and possibly
others.

Now to my problem. It doesn't work under Ultrix 4.2, but I'm not getting any
userfriendly error messages like under HP-UX 7.0. Instead the
call to "accept(2)" fails with an EINVAL, and error code that according
to the manual page can't be generated by "accept(2)"... Great.

I look at the BSD-net2 sources and there it looks like "accept(2)"
can generate the EINVAL error if the SO_ACCEPTCONN" flag isn't set
in the so->so_options structure member. SO_ACCEPTCONN is set when
one calls "listen(2)", if some other structure member "so->so_q" is
non-null after the protocol-specific PRU_LISTEN routine has been called
and no error occured in that... Not that this information helped me much
since I have no way of knowing if Ultrix does it this way, or what it
means if it does it. I guess that somehow the Ultrix Inetd isn't doing
the call to "listen(2)" but I'm not sure...

Perhaps some Ultrix guru could explain what's happening to a poor
non-Ultrix hacker? (The software I'm trying to get to run is my
implementation of a RFC931/IDENT/TAP protocol server, Pidentd).

/Peter


--
Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum)
Subject: Re: problems with malloc
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:27:50 GMT

>I'm running Ultrix 4.2 on a DEC 3100 and I'm having a difficult time with an
>unaligned access problem.  I get a number of "Fixed unaligned access..."
>messages before the program finally dies.  When I changed to GNU malloc() it
>crashes telling me "Block already on free list clobbered".

	That's not likely to be a problem with malloc. Most likely something
else in your code is broken someplace. From the behavior of the GNU malloc,
it sounds like you're pasting something in your memory, either with a wild
pointer, or you're double-freeing something, or freeing something that you
never malloced in the first place...

mjr.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:5861 comp.unix.admin:4298
From: albani@cadlab.sublink.org (Lanfranco Albani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of df and /tmp
Date: 23 Jul 92 08:37:22 GMT
Organization: CAD.LAB S.p.A., Bologna, Italia

kenk@sdc.com (Ken Konecki) writes:

:>According to DEC whom I called for help, this could occur when a process
:>unlinks a file and just hangs or sits for a while to complete. DEC says
:>since the file is unlinked it is not easy to get its inode to remove
:>it... The suggested solution is to unmount
:>/tmp file system and to run 'newfs'.
:
:Seems to me that rebooting would take care of the problem in a less
:intrusive way.


I've found that a shutdown (go to single-user) and a fsck is
enough.

Bye, Lanfranco

-- 
Lanfranco Albani - CAD.LAB s.p.a., v. Ronzani 7/29, Casalecchio, Italia
Email: (work:) albani@cadlab.sublink.org, (home:) bob@allan.sublink.org
Phone: (work:) ++39 (51) 6130360, (home:) ++39 (51) 727372; 
Fax: ++39 (51) 6130294 (work only), Fidonet: 2:332/407.1138 (home only).
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: MANPATH?
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:51:48 GMT
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Distribution: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <tgtcmv.711805535@rw5.urc.tue.nl>, tgtcmv@rw5.urc.tue.nl (Martien Verbruggen) writes:

|>We use PerlMan from Tom Christiansen. It supports MANPATH, and has a lot of
|>other useful options. I didn't remember where to get it, so I asked archie:
|>
|>forwiss.uni-passau.de /pub/doc/lang/perl/perlmanual.tar.Z 103783 Mar 2
|>gatekeeper.3com.com /pub/appletalk-isis/perlman.920616 45168 Jun 18

Another location --- in fact the home of the PERL version of MAN --- is

	convex.convex.com	pub/perl/scripts/man.shar.Z

Try using it with GROFF.  (pub/GNU/groff-1.05.tar.Z on gatekeeper.dec.com)
The combination is lots of fun.

					Frank
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: bibhas@pico.engr.mun.ca (Bibhas Bhattacharya)
Subject: Extended Character support in ULTRIX?
Keywords: Extended character support
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:55:50 GMT

I will be very interested to know if any extended characters are available
for ULTRIX, like for drawing lines and boxes and stuff. Or , is it
possible for someone to make a library of them.

Thanks in advance.
Bibhas.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.software-eng,comp.sys.sun.apps,mitre.corp.techbb
From: j1h9453@eagle.tamu.edu (Joel Andrew Huddleston)
Subject: Re: DEC FUSE, HP Softbench Experience?(SUNS especially)
Reply-To: zod@zeus.tamu.edu
Organization: Academic Computing Services
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:23:19 GMT

In article <ALS.92Jul17184602@dunvegan.linus.mitre.org>, als@linus.mitre.org (Alice Schafer) writes:
|> I was surprised abd somewhat dismayed to find the message below on the
|> net when I was just about to post the query:
|> 	"We are looking at DEC FUSE and HP Softbench for the Sun Sparc
|> in a distributed envirement for 5-10 but eventually 50 people.

|>>   We've been taking DEC FUSE for a test ride for the last few weeks
|>>   with only limited success:

I've just been looking it over for the last couple of days and after
reading your message, tried to reproduce some of the problems you've
been having.

|>>    - the builder works fine,  it is very useful with other people's
|>>      makefiles;
Agreed, although I have a spurious branch in the builder that is not
mentioned in my make file and not connected to ANY of my targets.

|>>    - the debugger has bugs, but not the dxdb ones, so it's not that
|>>      useless;
Haven't really worked with the debugger a lot, but it is MUCH MUCH MUCH
better than dbx.

|>>    - the code manager will hang  whenever we try to insert anything
|>>      into RCS, so it's useless;
Couldn't reproduce your error.  Are you using the RCS code that shipped
with FUSE?

|>>    - the cross-referencer will crash with "bus error" or similar at
|>>      initialization, so that's useless as well;
Tried the cross-referencer.  Nifty utility.  Could not reproduce your
error.

|>>    - the call graph browser  will often  crash when  loading-up its
|>>      data-base, not that much better.
Haven't seen this one but have brought up the call graph browser quite
a bit.

Some general questions though:
What version are you running?  Are you using the MOTIF window manager?
Have you tried using the RCS and MAKE programs which came with FUSE?

|>>   --
|>>   Jean-Pol Matheys
|> --
|> Alice Schafer                           email to: als@mitre.org

-- 
Joel Huddleston  eka j1h9453@eagle.tamu.edu
     Peace: Not just the absence of war but the absence of fear.
       War: Not just the absence of peace but the absence of cowardice.
Disclaimer: Not just the absence of blame but the absence of responsibility.
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: printing a man page
Keywords: nroff troff lpdfilters lpr man ditroff
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:00:53 GMT
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


I use GROFF.  The results are very nice, especially with the Digital version
of the "man" macros.  Check in pub/GNU on gatekeeper.dec.com for the source.

					Frank
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hoffman@tsla.noava.lisc.lockheed.com (John Hoffman)
Subject: Using YP with DNS
Organization: LISC Noava
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 20:19:18 GMT

I have been having problems using YP on ultrix with DNS.  We have a network
of PCs running PCNFS and using our ultrix server as the source for hostname
resolution.  The problem is that yp on ultrix will only resolve hostnames in
the YP domain.  Is there any way to set it up so YP will query the name server
to resolve addresses??  

Thanks,

John Hoffman
jhoffman@lisc.lockheed.com
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: What is Ultrix 4.2c???
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:15:13 GMT

I've seen references to Ultrix 4.2c in this newsgroup. We are 
running Ultrix 4.2a everywhere and the latest Consolidated
CDROM refers to the latest Ultrix as 4.2a. I have also heard
references to 4.2b which was supposed to be 4.2a with the 
security patch which is included in the consolidated CDROM
package on its own CD (but after installing it the version
number does not change to 4.2b). 

So what is 4.2c??? Is it the combination of 4.2a plus
security patch + Motif 1.1.3?

Confused,

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Anybody able to install the LAST client for Ultrix in RIS?
Date: 24 Jul 92 03:14:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: coe.1992Jul24.031411.18819
Organization: CS



Well, I've tried 15 different ways (including the instructions :) to 
unpack this kit into my RIS area.

I have the Infoserver Client for Ultrix RISC TK50.  

I tried to use ris to extract it into the ris area on a VAX running 4.2,
and it blows out with 'sh5 ./bin/machine, command not found', 'server
must be able to run client subsets ', and other crap like that.

Plain setld -x fails on both the vax and the decstation.

But just a plain setld to install it works fine.  

I need to be able to extract this desparately.

Any help appreciated.

BTW, is there any easy way to convert a TK50 setld distribution to a CDROM
like distribution?
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: tcpdump on ultrix
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:06:15 GMT
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Given that the packet filter is actually configured into your kernel,
*and* that you are actually running that kernel, *and* that you've built
the required /dev/pf/pfilt* devices (a MAKEDEV pf0 in the /dev directory
will do the trick), try doing a

	/usr/etc/pfconfig +p ln0

It's documented in the pfconfig(8) manual page.

						Frank