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From: ross@augie.insci.com (ross andrus)
Subject: Re: msgrcv(2) bug in SCO ???
Organization: Insci Incorporated
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:56:50 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.192851.25181@spike.insci.com> I wrote:

>Hello world
>
>  I'm writing because I've come up against what looks like a bug in 
>  SCO's msgrcv(2) implementation. 
    
    <much deleted>

    I hate to admit to being stupid as well as hysterical, but in this
    case I must. The whole thing is my fault. I mis-read the man page 
    for msgsnd/msgrcv. 

    It clearly says that the msgsz is the size of the data in the mtext[]
    buffer and does NOT INCLUDE the mtype field. So I was writing off
    the end of my strucutre and hosing my stack. Not SCO or their 
    implementation. Me. The fact that my code works on other architectures
    (e.g. RS/6000, DG Aviion) only implies a certain amount of slack in 
    *those* implementations.

    Further, I got a helpful and courteous e-mail from someone (not a 
    support person) in SCO who saw my flames and took the time to help.

    Apologies for crying wolf.

    ross andrus
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From: lsack@ccs.northeastern.edu (Leeann G Sack)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: uugetty on SCO Unix 2.2.0
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:32:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: College of CS, Northeastern U


This is is question on an old version of SCO Unix, i.e. version 2.2.0.
Does anyone know if uugetty works?

The following entry in initttab does not produce a login on the line:

	/usr/lib/uucp/uugetty -t 60 -r tty2H p

Running "uugetty -c" on this entry shows an error located at the '-' of
the '-t' parameter.

Please advise.  Thanks.
From: tony@jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: inittab problems with Dell 2.2
Date: 17 Nov 92 03:52:41 GMT
Organization: HSC CO.

We've just picked up a copy of Dell 2.2 and have run into a problem.

I'm trying to add a line to /etc/inittab to run a script that starts
up database servers & such.  It's never run.  Here's how it looks:

rclocal:23:wait:/usr/local/rc.local > /dev/sysmsg 2>&1 < /dev/console


The script itself is fine, has been used for years now.  For some
reason this entry is never executed when the system is bought up.

Dell tech support doesn't have a clue.  They say it should run, don't
know why it doesn't.  No, init isn't broke.  They don't think this
is a problem.

I can work around it by putting a line in rc2 but that's not the way I
want to do it.  I have other systems in the field and I want things to
be setup in the same manner.  I don't want to have to remember the
differences between this system and that.

Thanks in advance.


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tony@jassys					  Bank in Texas
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas)
Subject: Names no longer being seen (gethostbyname stops) with ISC 2.2.1
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:10:20 GMT


It really appears as if all calls to the gethostbyname() are simply
getting into some sort of stalled state. When I try things like ping
with the hostnames it just stops until I hit break. But when I try the
IP address it works just fine. 

I'm not sure when this started happenning but recently I installed the
Basic Networking package and configured sendmail. Besides this there
have been no changes. Since I am not hooked up to a network I noticed it
after some time had passed.

Has anyone seen this on their system? I'm running ISC 2.2.1 with TCP/IP
1.2 on a 386 AT.

many thanks,
-Jim.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: /boot & /dos
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:18:38 GMT

larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>Frank@mindlink.bc.ca (Frank I. Reiter) writes:

>>I belive that would be known as "Software Piracy" - something you may wish to
>>ask your lawyer about.

>To bad SCO doesn't offer a 30 day no-questions asked return policy like
>Dell does -- then one can find out if the software actually runs on their
>machine before making the final purchase --

>Assuming the original poster was referring to "if it would work on my machine"
>- since he wasn't very specific in his original post

Survey says... ERRRNTTT.

SCO does have a 30 day return policy, and many resellers will take the SW back
for a credit if it doesn't work.

-- 
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"Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet location."
"They're not ghosts,  they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: 386 Unix - is 5,000 logins realistic?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:40:08 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.031323.8045@toolz.uucp> todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:
"
"Is it realistic to support about 5,000 logins with a 386 Unix?
"There will be no more than 32 logins active at any time, but what
"about the time it takes to look up the password during login?


dunno just how bad it would be, but you could also:
a)	sort your passwd file
b)	get a pd getty-replacement, and hack it to do a binary search.

this ought to whiz, even on a 5k-line passwd!

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
Subject: Re: What is best was to run DOS and Unix on same box?
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:27:03 GMT

From article <142210@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, by booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian):

> Another possibility, unless I am mistaken, would be to create a separate
> bootable partition from where DOS would run.  If I can't partition a disk

If you run an emulator (Merge under SCO), you might find that some things
actually run faster, due to intelligent caching and paging of disk data and
executable code.
You might also find that some things run poorly, and printers and special
devices are nearly impossible to configure.
She could even be set up with a login of "dos" to drop directly into a DOS
environment.
But what happens when the system hangs, or she gets into a program where she
wants to reboot?  ALT-CTRL-DEL doesn't work, and the RESET button might be a
little upsetting to your UNIX file system.

A separate DOS partition is a much better idea.  It won't cost any money
(support is already in SCO and others for a bootable DOS partition), and SCO
even allows you to mount the DOS partition, so you can do UNIX backups to
tape, as well as modify config files with vi, maybe control them with SCCS...

You can configure the /etc/default/boot string to boot DOS by default,
instead of UNIX.  And she'll have a true DOS box, with no complaints
warranted, except for the disk space you stole.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: 386 Unix - is 5,000 logins realistic?
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:50:46 GMT

In <1992Nov18.174008.23663@cbnews.cb.att.com> adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay) writes:
>dunno just how bad it would be, but you could also:
>a)	sort your passwd file
>b)	get a pd getty-replacement, and hack it to do a binary search.

>this ought to whiz, even on a 5k-line passwd!

That's not enough. ls(1), just to pick a program at random, also
consults /etc/passwd.

-- 
				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

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					IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: k2ph@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (The QRPer)
Subject: AT&T 386 UNIX Tape Drive?
Organization: QRM Central
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:18:32 GMT

I'm looking for some information about the 125 Meg tape drive
kit that AT&T sells for its 386 UNIX boxes.  The drive says
Wangtek 5125EN and the controller board says Wangtek 30850-412.
I've heard of the 5125EN but not about this controller board.
The manual pages talk about a PC36 board(?) that I'm also
unfamiliar with.  I'm wondering if these were directly OEM'ed
or if AT&T had them make some subtle changes.  

Anybody know the untold story?
Inquiring minds want to know.  :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: scotto@ipars.cts.com (Scott O'Connell)
Subject: Re: Multiport Boards
Organization: Spectrum Data Services - Carlsbad, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:08:30 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

John Summers (John.Summers@launchpad.unc.edu) wrote:
:   Our department is looking for other suggestions for a multiport board to
: be used with the following system.
: 
:  Hardware: Bull DPX-2 150  (intel 486 system)
:  OP Sys  : SCO Unix, Version 3.3.2

I have been using the Equinox MegaPort board for about 3 years.  I've 
installed about 15 of them and had 1 port fail.  The biggest problem with
the MegaPort is that to have full hardware flow control you must "steal"
control signals from and adjacent port.

To solve this problem I have recently started using DigiBoard products 
which appear to be everything I wanted in a multiport board.  No track
record on port problems, yet.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Everex Step MP anybody?
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 05:32:10 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Keywords: MP

In article <1992Nov13.092309.8129@compu.com> fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes:
>gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
>
>>john@jho.com (John Ho) writes:
>
>>>Anybody has experience with the Everex Step MP multi-processor
>>>486s running SCO-MPX software?
>
>>us out the door.  Now it looks like the whole project is going to hell in a
>>hand basket.  I would recommend you look elsewhere for MPX boxes.  There are a
>>lot of them like the Compaq and DEC machines that are better.
>
>Just for information - we are installing a 250 user Altos 15000 on Monday in 
>NY. I think this 8 Gig SCO UNIX box would kick both the Compaq and DEC 
>machines into smithereens. But then Altos may not have the required label on 
>the box, it simply screems symmetrical performance.

Did NEC ever release their SCO-MPX?  They had a 12 slot EISA box that they
were going to sell with up to 8 processors installed.  I saw two of them that
were going through software QA at NEC, and they seemed reasonably stable.

-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
Subject: Re: Esix/Motif Question
Summary: On FUDding ...
Organization: :
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:55:24 GMT

In article <2B0B2F87.62AB@telly.on.ca>, evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
> In article <BxvMtt.2DB@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
 
> >Last I heard, a good portion of ESIX's technical support
> >team quit..
 
> ... Indeed, Jeff will be damned hard to replace, ...

> Never put it beyond our favourite Dellevangelist to add his two cents of
> FUD, when some real information might have done wonders instead.

Does that mean that he's a FUDwreaker?
-- 
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 mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: UPS, SCO and automatic shutdown
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:44:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.151630.4910@ncselxsi.uucp> fisher@ncselxsi.uucp (Chuck Fisher) writes:
>We're currently running an Everex system with a 486/33 CPU and SCO Unix
>3.2.4.  We're considering purchasing a UPS (recommendations, anyone?)
>and was wondering if any one has implemented an automatic shutdown (or
>halt) when the UPS detects a power outtage.
>

	There are a couple ups daemons on one of the source code
	CD-ROMS.  The one I use has this info on the bottom of the
	README...
--------------------

	upsd release 03/30/91 version 1.0 patchlevel 3			Pg. 1

	If you have any comments or suggestions regarding my program,
	send email to the following address:

	Arthur W. Neilson III
	INET: art@pilikia.pegasus.com
	UUCP: uunet!ucsd!nosc!pilikia!art
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: heasley@hoku.ifa.hawaii.edu (Jim Heasley)
Subject: FORSALE: Complete Intel 386 Unix
Organization: Institute For Astronomy, Hawaii
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:40:36 GMT

I am selling a complete Intel Unix System V version 3.2.2 implementation
for 386 (or 486) machines.  It consists of the following modules:

	1) Basic Unix system (includes most standard utlities)
	2) C development system with compiler and libraries
	3) TCP/IP
	4) NFS
	5) X11R3 (with Open Look) server, programs, libraries

This comes with the original Intel disks (5.25 inch floppies) and all
manuals and release notes.  I'm asking $600 for the whole shooting match
(the retail price for the basic system alone was about $500). 

I can also throw in for FREE to the buyer (emphasize, NOT selling!) 
software that I've picked up around that net that enhances the Intel
unix, programs like:  gcc, bison, compress, bdf (berkeley df), uptime,
patch, pcomm, tex, unzip, zoo, umon, arc, emacs, kermit, less, tcsh,
f2c (with homebrew f77 front end).

Jim Heasley
Institute for Astronomy
University of Hawaii

heasley@hoku.ifa.hawaii.edu
From: sp_pm@space.alcbel.be (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: What's happening to ISC UNIX?
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:52:39 GMT
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Hello,

I understand that ISC has recently been taken over by Sun. What is the status
of their ISC UNIX?

I bought ISC-2.2 about 2 years ago. Have they improved on it since? 
I understand that ISC-3.0 has since been released. Is it an improvement over
the previous one? Is this the latest version available?

Is ISC up to SVr4 yet? 

Has VP/ix been improved to provide Windows 3.0/3.1 support?

Is there driver support for CD-ROM drives?

Please respond by email, as I don't have direct access to USENET. I will
summarise if sufficient interest warrants.

Thank you, Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: sauer@chs.dell.com (Charlie Sauer)
Subject: Re: Installing non-standard net cards on Dell
Summary: TAPEINSTALL tapecntl -t
Organization: Dell Computer Corporation
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:42:07 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.172554.1144@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>  About the third time I reinstalled, I begain to wonder if I could
>patch the boot floppy to not retension the tape every flaming time I ran
>install. I actually did a physical copy of the floppy to the hard disk
>of another machine and looked for the retension stuff. I finally left it
>alone, having pleanty of time Sunday afternoon to go watch the football
>games.

In the TAPEINSTALL script, the second tapecntl (line 121 in my copy) does
the retension (the one with the -t flag).  I've often skipped this by 
booting up to the tape/network/none choice in the install process, chosen
none, commented out this line in the RAM disk copy of this file (the one
copied there from diskette), and then reinvoked INSTALL, which invokes 
TAPEINSTALL.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco,biz.sco.general
From: jpm@Logix.DE (Jan-Piet Mens)
Subject: Announcing LPR/LPD to SYS5 LP interface in alt.sources
Organization: Logix GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:11:19 GMT
Keywords: lpd,lpr,sco,sys5,unix

Having seen quite an amount of requests for an LPD interface posted to
the Net lately, I announce the posting to alt.sources today. From the
README:


This SLPD 1.0 PL02
==================

SLPD is an lpd daemon designed for SYSV. It translates requests initiated
from LPR clients to the System V LP-spooler equivalent (if possible). 
Having seen that so many in the USENET community are looking for something
like this, and having the need ourselves, we decided to try an implementation.

SLPD only supports a limited amount of requests from an LPR client at the
moment. I am very willing to increase the functionality of SLPD if I get
appropriate requests from you. The following are implemented so far:

	Client (BSD-LPR)			Server (SysV-LP)
	lpr filename			->	lp -s -c filename
	lpr -P<printer> filename	->	lp -d<printer> -s -c filename
	lpr -l filename			->	lp -s -c filename
	lpr -p filename			->	pr -h filename | lp ....
	lpr -p -T title filename	->	pr -h title filename | lp ...

LPRM and LPQ are not supported, because I have not quite yet figured out
what the protocol is. Help anyone ?

Please send comments and requests for additions to me. My name is
Jan-Piet Mens, and my Email address is jpm@Logix.DE

	-JP
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: tar problems
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:50:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.125259.1778@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> Bo.Muldbak@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM writes:
[]
"	SVR4	->	BSD	Problem, since SVR4 archives has directories
"				and are not using the silly '/' suffix.
"				Instead we are using the tar filetype field.

it just occurred to me --
if you're using find to generate the pathnames to tar, you can add the
-type f option to eliminate directories [i think...].

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From: stewart@europa.eng.gtefsd.com (Brad Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Trying to install SCO UNIX 3.2 on a clone 386dx 40
Date: 18 Nov 1992 06:55:19 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Trying to install SCO UNIX 3.2 on a clone 386dx 40.  After booting the first 
installation disk, the installation procedure goes through a series of test 
(A through Z).  My system hangs at G8.  The installation procedure does not 
tell me what this means.  By trial and error I installed a serial i/o card, I 
get to the same spot where the error G8 occurs and then the system 
automatically re-sets and re-boots even though it shouldn't (I think) and 
that is not want I want.  HELP what is going on and what should I do??  Any 
help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks in Advance,


Brad Stewart 
GTE Federal System
From: jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon LaBadie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: questions about SCSI controller board modes
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:54:27 GMT
Organization: JG Computing

Basic System:     486/33
Motherboard:      AMI EISA
Disk Controller:  Adaptec 1740
Operating System: Dell's SVR4, Issue 2.2

I've seen some comments in this newsgroup about synchronous/async
modes.  When I boot my system, the comment about the SCSI controller
is that it is in "standard mode".

I'm not unhappy with the current performance, but I will not hesitate
to enhance it.

Is something other than "standard mode" preferable?

jl

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From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Serious Archive ST525 manual error!     AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!
Date: 21 Nov 92 01:41:21 GMT

This is one for the "Mama, don't let your boys grow up to be hackers!" file.

I spent most of today trying to install an Archive ST525 SCSI tape on the
first Bake-Off machine, the Swan Technologies 486 50DX/2 box.  A hardware
wizard I am not, but I can tell one end of a screwdriver from the other
and I've installed SCSI drives before.  "Piece o' cake!" I thought jauntily,
flipping my trusty Phillips nonchalantly in one hand and actually managing to
avoid stabbing myself with the pointy part.

Hah.  I should have known better...

I will draw a kindly veil over the horrors of frustration which afflicted
me and the helpful people at UHC UNIX over the next six hours.  We played with
SCSI ID jumpers, we built and rebuilt kernels, I joggled cables.  At one point
I actually found myself booting DOS (gasp!) in order to use DEBUG to get at
the SCSI BIOS config utility.

We eventually established that the drive was live, but UNIX wasn't seeing it
at boot time.  Neither was DOS.  So the UHC people punted, suggesting I call
Archive tech support.  Which I did...

...and immediately discovered that all our effort had been for naught BECAUSE
OF A CRITICAL ERROR IN THE INSTALLATION MANUAL.  Seems the SCSI drive ID
diagram, featuring jumpers JP3, JP2 and JP1, should actually refer to JP8
JP7, and JP6.  Makes BIG difference!

Once I fixed this, the drive worked perfectly.  And a nice drive it is, too;
reads everything from DC600A/QIC-24 on up, writes 525meg, and is significantly
faster than any QIC tape I've previously seen.  (The UHC people rave about it;
they say with a 1740 in SCSI-2 mode it *really* goes like a banshee)

Lesson for today:  RTFM doesn't help when the FM is @!&%#$! *wrong*!

Grrrr...
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