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From: tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)
Subject: 'rcmd' to AIX System
Reply-To: tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Laboratory
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:00:00 GMT

SunOS and some other UNIX's have an 'rcmd' command, which does:

rcmd - run a  remote  command  in  the  background,  without
	 stdin, stdout, stderr.


This works well from Sun to Sun, to do things like run xload from
a remote system and display it on your local one.  Good for people
who need to watch one or more remote systems load.

When using 'rcmd'  to remotely execute commands on an RS/6000 running
AIX 3.2.3, however, you get *two* instantiations of your command.
For example, the following command generates two info displays on
the local display:

rcmd aixhost info -l techlib

You can kill off one of them, leaving the other working just fine.
Kinda a bother.
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From: valdis@black-ice.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2.3 on RS/6000-560 - strange scheduler behavior
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:39:45 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

In article <1gaavoINNjv0@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>In article <10325@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> valdis@black-ice.cc.vt.edu (Valdis
>Kletnieks) writes:
>>      F S UID   PID  PPID   C PRI NI ADDR  SZ  RSS   WCHAN    TTY  TIME CMD
>> 201011 R   0 14097 13392  10  65 20 29474 30776 30772          pts/0  7:15 ./mem1 
>> #define SWTED           0x00000010      /* stopped while traced            */
>
>If you *look in the man page for `ps'*, you'll find:

Charles:  

Time to file a DOC APAR against something. I'm not sure what yet.

My copy of the man pages identifies it as
 
  10    Waiting for a page default, or forking

Really confidence inspiring. Never heard it called a 'default' before...

Meanwhile, on page A-62 of the 'Performance Monitoring and Tuning
Guide' (SC23-2365-01) it gives *different* meanings for the 'flags'
field, which just happen to correspond to the comments in
/usr/include/sys/proc.h - note that the 'man ps' flags are only
identifed up to x'100', and I've got a *few* more bits in the output.
So in *any* case, *one* of the manualss is wrong (either 'Perf Mon' in
that it isn't just a printf("%x",proc->p_flag); or 'man ps' is
overlooking a lot of bits...

It's interesting that the manuals agree (more or less) on the meanings 
of the x'01', x'02', x'20', x'40' flags, but disagree on the meanings
of x'04', x'08', x'10', and x'100', and 'man ps' has no higher flags
identified...

In any case, it doesn't explain why of 20 identical processes,
the first 12 are page faulting and making progress, and the other
8 are *not* page faulted, listed as 'R'unning by 'ps', but not
making any progress at all.

It also doesn't explain why when the load average gets to around
20, interactive response falls through the floor.  I suspect the
problem is that the scheduler is using a "oldest job first" scheme
rather than "shortest job first" or "round robin"...

/Valdis
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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Subject:  file-extension "shar" ?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:51:31 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

In article <3*_S=iwirs-1_OU=iwi_O=unibe_PRMD=SWITCH_ADMD=ARCOM_C=CH_@MHS> iwirs-1@iwi.unibe.ch (Rene Doenni) writes:
>I've got a file "notes.rs6000.shar" which I can't read. What does the
>extension "shar" mean and if it's a compressed format, how do I uncompress
>it ? Thanks for any information.

sh archive? You can typically strip the headers and run /bin/sh on the
file or you can look for one of the public unshar programs out there
that discourage trojan horses and such (use archie to find it).

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From: dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3rd party tape drives
Date: 12 Dec 92 14:15:42 GMT
Organization: western geophysical exploration products
In-reply-to: jgabriel@academ01.mty.itesm.mx's message of 11 Dec 92 14:21:07 GMT

>>>>> On 11 Dec 92 14:21:07 GMT, jgabriel@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Ing. Juan Gabriel Ruiz) said:
	Juan> Nntp-Posting-Host: academ01.mty.itesm.mx

	Juan> We're planning to buy an 8mm Tape Drive and I want to hear some
	Juan> experiences with third parties. We have the characteristics of the
	Juan> Certainty 6800-80 selled by Cambex, but I want to know if some body
	Juan> has used this type of drives and how good it is.
	Juan> Thanks for your help

Be sure they have the IBM microcode or you won't be able to do all the
things you might want to do with the tapedrive.
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From: kehne@austin.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: QIC tape drive problem
Originator: kehne@kehne.austin.ibm.com
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:02:04 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin


What QIC format are you writing in.  Check the formats
that are supported by your drive.  I seem to remember 
that there are formats that some drives will write but
not read.  Also verify the type of tape you are using
and what formats it supports.

Kevin Kehne
From: valdis@black-ice.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2.3 on RS/6000-560 - strange scheduler behavior
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:06:48 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

In article <Bz3v18.12Eu@austin.ibm.com> chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com(Rudy Chukran) writes:
>Your only option is to play with schedtune.  If you try to raise the
>priority of "favored processes", what will likely happen is that they
>will get suspended sooner.

After some playing with schedtune and the various knobs, it looks like
'-m 15' is the flag that I needed - the system is now running 20 copies
of the thrasher program, and paging at about 50/sec, but character echo
is stable at very fast, and trivial things like 'ls' are now down into
the 1-5 second wait time.

The problem was apparently the system falling into a pathological
endpoint on the algorithms.  With 512M of memory, it was possible for
12 or 14 copies of the program to be fully resident.  So the *other*
5 would cause the system to thrash, and the default "-m 2" value
would cause essentiall the world to become suspended.  As things
came off the suspend list, they'd drive the memory overcommit back
up, and everything went back into suspension.  So the end result
was that at any given time, all 2 of the processes that weren't suspended
were number crunchers, and interactive shells were *all* suspended.

>If that doesnt work, then turn off loadcontrol again, and start messing
>with priorities.  Try kicking up the priorites of the favored processes
>with either nice or setpri. You will have to be root to increase
>priorities in this manner.

Fortunately, I get to avoid doing that...  Would have been a pain to
try to enforce a "all login shells have a higher priority"..

/Valdis
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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Subject:  Sound playback capability for RS 6000/520 and 220?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:08:25 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

Yes the MACPA is the IBM solution and is a very cheap card with device
driver and sample program support in AIX 3.2.* (there were some recent
PTFs that added additional mixing functionality I believe). 16bit
stereo CD quality if I remember correctly.
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From: jogl@merry.imsd.rwth-aachen.de (Joachim Glaubrecht  #Alwd#)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: /etc/termcap for ibm3151
Date: 18 Dec 1992 12:24:55 GMT
Organization: Institut f. Med. Statistics @ Dokumentation
NNTP-Posting-Host: merry.imsd.rwth-aachen.de


hi,

we are totaly new in 'aix' so this could be a FAQ (sorry, if so):

we have got a rs/6000 (aix) as a CAD-Station without X11.
a 5080-ibm-CAD terminal and a ascii-console terminal ibm3151
are connected to it.                                ~~~~~~~~~

the last one is the problem!

we do not have a /etc/termcap entry for it. should there be one ?
or is the a trick like setting the TERM-var to "aixterm" or something 
like that ?

the problem is, that vi or joe (very handy and good GNU-editor)
can not scroll the screen ...

ANY hint is wellcome ...

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From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Sendmail for CNAME aliases?
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:42:14 GMT

davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:

>jhidalgo@ecnet.ec (Javier Hidalgo E.) writes:
>|Two questions: 1) is there a way to get sendmail to recognize that a
>|CNAME points to its own host machine? 2) What does "local" mean in the 
>|above error message?  It seems to us that the problem is, in fact, 
>|that ecnet.ec IS recognizing "ecnet.ec" as its own name....

Yes.  Before you try to determine whether iit is the local host or not, you
need to "canonicalize the domain"  (i.e. get the canonical name for the host).
This is done with the "$[ $]" operators.  Make SURE you can manipulate CNAME
records (a la "OK ALL" or whatever).

Here's an example:

	R$*<@$*>$*	$:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 	# canonicalize domain

This changes the "<@some.host.name>" part of the address to
"<@canonical.host.name>" which sounds like what you want.

-John

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From: umarsa00@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (PROF. A.S. UMAR, (615)322-2459)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: ERROR REPORT : WALL, REFRESH -S INETD, SERIAL PRINTER (3.2.3+)
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:48:00 GMT
Organization: Vanderbilt University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I have observed the following errors (I have most of the latest PTF's)

1. wall does not return a prompt back unless you do a ctrl-c!!

2. after a "refresh -s inetd" x-stations do not boot. System needs to be
   restarted.

3. Serial postscript printer gives DEV_BUSY whenever a job is submitted.
   Fix by going to smit-devices-printers-change and just change any
   characteristic of the serial printer (i.e. timeout period) and hit
   enter. Everything will work until the next boot.

umar@compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu         Prof.A.S. Umar
umarsa00@vuctrvax.bitnet                Department of Physics & Astronomy
Tel: (615) 322-2459                     Vanderbilt University
Fax: (615) 343-7263                     Nashville, TN 37235
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From: albornett@fse.ulaval.ca (igor albornett)
Subject: AIX-R6K :help on tcp
Organization: Universit Laval - Architecture
Distribution: all
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:15:46 GMT

Hi everyone, I know there are Faq archives concerning AIX, but Ive searched for
for an answer to my problems in those files, and I couldn^t find it.

so, here it is:
 I have a RS 6K 320 networked with ps2^s (DOS) and Macs (MacOs) . The response time 
from my Rs is very VERY slow. It takes up to 4sec./1 minute  to make a login via telnet
from a Mac or a Ps2. I know the problem is in the RS, but Ive tried to configure it 
in many diferent ways, without succes. It doesn^t work with NFS neither. 
I thougth it was a problem with the old version AIX 3.1.5 and/or the ethernet card , 
but the IBM guy changed the chip some months ago, and I updated the Os to 3.2,  but the 
problem is still there. 

can anyone help ?
From: achoi@soda.berkeley.edu (Andrew Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x.pex
Subject: Compatibility between AIX 3.2 graPHIGS and X11R5 PHIGS
Date: 18 Dec 1992 20:10:07 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

Hi,

  I have AIX 3.2 graPHIGS on my workstation, and I notice that
  there is a source code incompatibility between graPHIGS and
  X11R5 PHIGS (some macros and data structures are defined
  differently in phigs.h).

  However, I am wondering if this incompatibility is only
  pertaining to source code, i.e., if I use X11R5 phigs.h
  and link with graPHIGS library, will it still work?

  Also, will programs written using graPHIGS work correctly
  on an X11R5 server with the PEX extension?

  -- Andrew
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From: eric@thelake.austin.ibm.com (Eric Carpenter)
Subject: Re: Logging anonymous ftp and directory descriptions?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:32:46 GMT
Organization: IBM AIX AWSD Austin, TX


> I am running an anonymous ftp account for a project and would like to
> know how one can keep a log of all the logins.
> 
> The other questions is how to display directory information when
> changing directories.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> umarsa00@vuctrvax.bitnet
> umarsa00@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu


There is a PTF that fixes a syslog problem that occurs when anonymous ftp is
used.  Try getting ahold of U412817, and that should fix your problem.

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From: cvelo@ems.cdc.com (Colleen Velo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Slow response with dbx under AIX 3.2.i
Date: 17 Dec 92 01:17:25 GMT
Reply-To: cvelo@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC


    I have been having problems with very slow response with dbx under
	AIX 3.2.i on a IBM R/S 6000 550.  

    For instance when you try to execute "dbx> print variable 1" you will
	sometimes wait for several minutes before you will get a response back.   

	At the time there where not very many users on the system [ around 5 ] and
	the "iostat" statistics looked fairly reasonable as did the paging space.
    A sample follows below:

>> lsps -a <<
Page Space  Physical Volume   Volume Group    Size   %Used  Active  Auto  Type
paging00    hdisk1            extra1vg        80MB      29     yes   yes    lv
hd6         hdisk0            rootvg          80MB      36     yes   yes    lv

>> iostat <<
tty:      tin         tout      cpu:   % user    % sys     % idle    % iowait
          0.0         74.7               3.0      4.0       92.6       0.4

Disks:        % tm_act     Kbps      tps    msps   Kb_read   Kb_wrtn
hdisk1           3.0       9.6       1.4                 0        48
hdisk0           0.0       0.0       0.0                 0         0

	Any help on this would be very appreciated -- please email.

				Thanks,
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From: sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: How to setup a dial in
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:21:05 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University

HI
I have an AIX 3.1.5 and would like to get our AIX have dial in modem access.
Can someone send me step by step procedure how to do it?  And also how to
setup the system to do dial out?  Please respond ASAP, I need it pretty bad :)
Thanks
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From: newton@wilbur.psu.edu (Cynthia Newton)
Subject: Is this a bug??
Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 19:38:20 GMT

In RS/6000 Running AIX v3.2, I'm facing a strange annoying problem.
I've aliases like this:
alias lst "ls -lt \!* | more"

If I type "lst", sometimes for no reason system backgrounds 'more'.
It happens for any alias piped with 'more'. I went through FAQ, but
didn't see anything. I've this kind of aliases in ULTRIX and SunOS
and using for years, but never experienced anything like that.

Did anyone face this problem?

Thanks.
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From: vaabyad@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Vic A Abyad)
Subject: Where to find bsdcc?
Summary: Where is bsdcc?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:33:52 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Keywords: bsdcc

Could someone please tell me where I could find bsdcc.  I would appreciate you
mailing me a reply at:
	vic@turkey2.pge.uoknor.edu

Thanks,
Victor Abyad
University of Oklahoma
Department of Electrical Engineering
 
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From: Steve.Bauer@launchpad.unc.edu (Steve Bauer)
Subject: rarp deamon need
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:09:48 GMT

Hello!
  I am looking for a rarp deamon for a rs/6000 running aix 3.2 .. Is there
one that is ftp-able?  
Thanks in advanced!

Steve Bauer

sbauer@silver.sdsmt.edu
or
macs06@fs1.sdsmt.edu

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From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Subject: AIX or RS/6000 Users Groups in the Netherlands or Belgium
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:16:55 GMT

Would anyone know the contacts for AIX or RS/6000 User Groups in the
Netherlands or Belgium?  Would you have names or telephone numbers?

Tot ziens,

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
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From: brocher@sdz01 (Dominic Brocher)
Subject: Re: zoo on AIX?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:13:00 GMT
Organization: Sandoz Technology Ltd.
Keywords: zoo

In article <Bz1v5s.9HB@ucunix.san.uc.edu> pollack@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Steven Pollack) writes:
>
>Has anyone successfully ported the zoo archiving to AIX?
>

I have zoo version 2.10 running.  I had to change all occurrences of
ulong, uint, ushort, uchar to Ulong, Uint, Ushort, Uchar respectively
(I don't know why, but AIX didn't like the lowercase versions...).
After applying the patches at the end of this message I compiled it with
"make sysv".

BTW I'm running AIX 3.2.

Hope it helps.
Dominic Brocher
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==================== cut here ====================
*** zoo2.10.orig/options.h	Mon Jul 15 07:37:16 1991
--- zoo2.10.new/options.h	Fri Oct  2 11:13:07 1992
***************
*** 1,3 ****
--- 1,29 ----
+ /***********************************************************************/
+ /* GENERIC **IX SYSTEM -- GOOD STARTING POINT FOR YOURS                */
+ /***********************************************************************/
+ 
+ #ifdef _AIX
+ #define ANSI_HDRS
+ #define NO_STDIO_FN	/* avoid declaring certain stdio functions */
+ /* #define SPECNEXT */
+ /* #define IGNORECASE */
+ #define FNLIMIT 14
+ #define NEEDCTYP
+ #define CUR_DIR "."
+ #define PATH_SEP "/"
+ #define EXT_SEP  "/."
+ /* #define NOSIGNAL */
+ /* REN_LINK is UNIX-specific.  Can't find a generic rename() function */
+ #define REN_LINK
+ #define NOENUM
+ /* #define SETBUF */
+ #define CHEKDIR
+ #define NIXTIME
+ #define HAVE_ISATTY
+ #define NEED_MEMMOVE
+ #endif /* AIX */
+ 
+ 
  /* @(#) options.h 2.22 88/08/24 15:27:36 */
  
  /*
*** zoo2.10.orig/sysv.c	Mon Jul 15 07:37:20 1991
--- zoo2.10.new/sysv.c	Tue Nov 24 16:23:14 1992
***************
*** 129,134 ****
--- 129,135 ----
  exists by the name of the needed directory.
  */
  
+ #ifndef _AIX
  int mkdir(dirname)
  char *dirname;
  {
***************
*** 140,145 ****
--- 141,147 ----
     }
  	return (0);
  }
+ #endif
  
  /* No file truncate system call in older System V.  If yours has one,
  add it here -- see bsd.c for example.  It's ok for zootrunc to be

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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Subject:  I just want to log ftp usage!
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:22:31 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

Unfortunately, the answer is to find another ftpd. There is a port of
the wuarchive one somewhere. You might try aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu.
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From: christes@socrates.umd.edu (Skip Christensen)
Subject: Re: Disk Drives for RS/6000s
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 16:31:04 GMT

I've used Seagate 1.2G drives in a Trimm Tower - didn't have
any problem.  It is configured an an OEM disk so if you
exercise commands to check space you will find you have about
998MB available.  I wondered why - according to sources it
all depends on whether you use 1024 for a meg or 1000 for a
meg (math vs marketing).

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