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From: martelli@cadlab.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: compiling SAM with non-ANSI compilers
Date: 10 Nov 92 07:29:31 GMT
Organization: CAD.LAB S.p.A., Bologna, Italia

peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
	...
:OK, I've got SAM, but it's for ANSI compilers only. My System V.3.2 and
:Sun 4.x systems only have K&R compilers. I can get it all to compile
:pretty cleanly with "unproto", but I get a weird memory allocation
:failure in erealloc. It looks like this:
	...
:Now erealloc is failing on the call to srealloc(), but the stack trace
:says it's in free(). I can't figure out what's going on here. I'm using
:a compiler with 32 bit ints and the standard promotion rules, so I can't
:imagine that it's stack bashing.
:
:Is anyone else so demented as to try this? Has anyone had better success?

My suggestion:  get Conor Cahill's precious "dbmalloc" package and
compile and link your code with that.  It will help *mightily* in
diagnosing whatever it is that it's happening to clobber your memory
allocation!  Some pointer is probably being freed twice, or overwritten
accidentally with garbage from elsewhere, and dbmalloc will point it out
fast.  (It might be even better to use the commercial enhanced version
of dbmalloc, "sentinel" - I haven't tried that yet, but it should have
advantahes - however, that costs some $$$ - I think $195 for 386 Unix
and $395 for Sun - so since you're working on a free program I assume
you may not want to invest in that).

dbmalloc has appeared in comp.sources.? in the recent past, so it should
be VERY widely available, from any site that archives that.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r3
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Moving SCSI drive to different controller
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:30:51 GMT

In <Bx3DA3.DDv@maxed.amg.com> ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:

>In article <1d13eqINNin1@uwm.edu> peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes:
>>
>>I have a Micropolis 1588 SCSI drive connected to a DPT EISA SCSI
>>controller.  My question is could I move the drive from a DPT
>>controller to an Adaptec 1740 EISA SCSI controller without
>>reformatting the drive?
>>
>>I am running ISC Sys V Unix Version 3.01
>>
>>Thanks
>>Peter
>>(peter@miller.cs.umw.edu)

>No. DPT uses a unique translation scheme. You would have to reformat.
>You can only move drives transparently if the controllers are
>compatible at that level. 

>For instance, you could move from an Adaptec 174(x) to a BusLogic 74(x),
>which I would recommend anyway since the BusLogic doesn't have the 
>SCSI tape firmware problem that the Adaptec has.

What problem is this?  I ask because I have an AHA-1740A and am
planning on buying a high-capacity SCSI tape drive.

-- 
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From: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r3
Subject: Re: Moving SCSI drive to different controller
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:56:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A

mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>In <Bx3DA3.DDv@maxed.amg.com> ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:
>>For instance, you could move from an Adaptec 174(x) to a BusLogic 74(x),
>>which I would recommend anyway since the BusLogic doesn't have the 
>>SCSI tape firmware problem that the Adaptec has.

>What problem is this?  I ask because I have an AHA-1740A and am
>planning on buying a high-capacity SCSI tape drive.

the 1740 seems to want to treat the tape to sync protocol. in so doing,
looses the state of the check condition on end of media. for our
unix systems this results in being able to write a tape, but hang
on trying to read it back.

(Marketing Blurb) Microports enhanced mode driver for the 1740 has
a patch to work around this firmware problem. email direct for details,
as the engineer that wrote it, i'll be happy to provide info to interested
folks; unfortuneately this only helps microport svr4 users. sorry.

jack...
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             Software Horizons SVR3 408-684-1375   uunet!sco.com!blznrzn!jack
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.editors,comp.lang.c
From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: compiling SAM with non-ANSI compilers
Followup-To: comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.sys.sun.misc
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:06:50 GMT

[If you change the followups, please leave one of the groups I've got followups
 to in the Newsgroups line, as I don't follow the other groups]

OK, I've got SAM, but it's for ANSI compilers only. My System V.3.2 and
Sun 4.x systems only have K&R compilers. I can get it all to compile
pretty cleanly with "unproto", but I get a weird memory allocation
failure in erealloc. It looks like this:

	void *erealloc(void *p, unsigned long n)
	{
		p = realloc(p, n);
		if(!p)
			fatal error code
		return p
	}

It barfed when the regular expression code was compiling a character
class. The character class code calls erealloc() with a null pointer.
No problem, just create srealloc that special-cases the null pointer:

	void *srealloc(void *p, unsigned long n)
	{
		if(p)
			p = realloc(p, n);
		else
			p = malloc(n);
		return p;
	}

Now erealloc is failing on the call to srealloc(), but the stack trace
says it's in free(). I can't figure out what's going on here. I'm using
a compiler with 32 bit ints and the standard promotion rules, so I can't
imagine that it's stack bashing.

Is anyone else so demented as to try this? Has anyone had better success?

For reference, the "ansi cc" I'm using looks like this:

:
SAMDIR=/usr1/xds/src/sam
BIN=$SAMDIR/bin

ECHO=:
CPPARGS="-E"
for i
do
  case $i in
    -I*|-D*) CPPARGS="$CPPARGS $i";;
    -v) ECHO=echo
  esac
done

ARGS=
MV=
for i
do
  case $i in
    -I*|-D*) ;;
    *.c)
      $ECHO "- /lib/cpp $CPPARGS $i"
      if /lib/cpp $CPPARGS $i |
	$BIN/unproto > _$i
      then
        ARGS="$ARGS _$i"
        o="`echo $i | sed 's/\.c$/.o/'`"
        MV="$MV mv _$o $o;"
      else exit 2
      fi
      ;;
    *)
      ARGS="$ARGS $i"
      ;;
  esac
done
$ECHO - cc $ARGS
if cc $ARGS
then
  if [ "$MV" ]
  then
    $ECHO "-$MV"
    eval $MV
  else true
  fi
else false
fi
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r3
From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: Moving SCSI drive to different controller
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:15:46 GMT

In article <1741@admin.mport.COM> jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig) writes:
>mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>
>>In <Bx3DA3.DDv@maxed.amg.com> ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:
>>>For instance, you could move from an Adaptec 174(x) to a BusLogic 74(x),
>>>which I would recommend anyway since the BusLogic doesn't have the 
>>>SCSI tape firmware problem that the Adaptec has.
>
>>What problem is this?  I ask because I have an AHA-1740A and am
>>planning on buying a high-capacity SCSI tape drive.
>
>the 1740 seems to want to treat the tape to sync protocol. in so doing,
>looses the state of the check condition on end of media. for our
>unix systems this results in being able to write a tape, but hang
>on trying to read it back.
>
>(Marketing Blurb) Microports enhanced mode driver for the 1740 has
>a patch to work around this firmware problem. email direct for details,
>as the engineer that wrote it, i'll be happy to provide info to interested
>folks; unfortuneately this only helps microport svr4 users. sorry.
>
>jack...
>=============================================================================
> Jack Craig  Microport         SVR4 408-438-UNIX   uunet!mport.com!jack
>             Software Horizons SVR3 408-684-1375   uunet!sco.com!blznrzn!jack
>=============================================================================
>>-- 
>>"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
>> in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

That's not the only problem. Better to use a BusLogic BT 747S. It's just
as fast and maybe faster, has active termination, and supports 2.88 MB
floppies. It's cheaper too.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: css@tron.stx.com (Chris Shenton)
Subject: Re: Breaking in to Unix admin. Need Suggestions!!
Organization: Hughes/STX, Lanham, MD
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:24:47 GMT

As previous posters have indicated, the best way to learn it is to do
it. Getting a cheap Sun 3, or perhaps throwing Linux (free) on your
386 would be a help. (You do have an underutilized intel box, don't
you? :-)

I found _UNIX_System_Administration_Handbook_ by Nemeth, Snyder,
Seebass to be a very good overview of the sysadm chores. Lots of
detail, etc. This would be a good place to start for an idea of where
things live (eg: filesystem organization) and how to configure stuff
(eg: sendmail, printers).

It's not really oriented toward troubleshooting, but it will arm you
with enough information so that you can make intelligent decisions on
where to look for problems in a confused system.

By the way, sysadm-ing is *not* a glorious job: it's completely
thankless -- people just bitch when something goes wrong. On the other
hand, you'll know more about UNIX and networking, most likely on a
variety of platforms, than anyone else around you.

Good luck.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Can I backup an OS/2 TCP/IP box to tape on HP-UX box?
From: nholford@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Nick Holford)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:01:38 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Keywords: backup OS/2 HPUX

ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps) writes:

>You don't say which TCP stack you're using on the OS/2. The only one I
>know details of is FTP's, which does have a "tar" command.

>This works like Gnu tar, and needs the /etc/rmt program on your host
>machine. If this doesn't exist on the HP, you can get it as part of the
>Gnu tar package, or separately from the Berkeley sources.
I am using IBM TCP/IP and have an OS/2 port of Gnu tar (c/o Kai Rommel).
Do I need anything else on the OS/2 side?
What commands do I have to give on the OS/2 side? and/or on the HP-UX
side to backup everthing on the OS/2 c: and d: drives to the HP DAT?
TIA.
-- 

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University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
INTERNET: n.holford@aukuni.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: mccoy@cs.iastate.edu (Chris McCoy)
Subject: Re: Setting up an email-based responder
Keywords: email echo
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:14:41 GMT

445362@llnl.gov (Grant Johnson) writes:
>I would like to set up a service to distribute info on demand via email.  I've seen references to the type of functionality I'm after, but haven't got info on how to set it up.  I'd like users to be able to send a message to info@node with the topic in the body.  The responder would then grab the doc file, run a script to generate the info or whatever else was needed and reply via email.

>Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

We use one developed at Oregon State University called "almanac".  It
provides a great deal of functionality and is well written.  Last summer
it was available from "oes.orst.edu" in "/pub/almanac-1.5.tar.Z". I'm
not sure if it has changed.

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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: (rsh somehost reboot) never exits
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:54:29
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
	<MJL.92Nov4150722@rigel.bos.locus.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coolibah.awadi.com.au
In-reply-to: mjl@bos.locus.com's message of Wed, 4 Nov 1992 20:07:22 GMT

>>>>> On Wed, 4 Nov 1992 20:07:22 GMT, mjl@bos.locus.com (Mike Leibensperger) said:


Mike> How about 

Mike> 	# rsh somehost '(sleep 10 ; reboot) &'

Does not work, you need to provide reboot with a tty, try:


# rsh somehost '(sleep 10; reboot < /dev/null) &'

which works a bit better...

--
Brett Lymn
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: bradm@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Bradley Louis Mohning)
Subject: Need help installing CVS
Keywords: CVS, configuration management
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:40:53 GMT


I am trying to setup a CVS environment and am having great difficulty.  If there is anyone out
there who can give me any pointers I would greatly appreciate it.

( CVS stands for Concurrent Versions System.  It is used for configuration management stuff.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Postscript Printers
From: steve@vulture.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Schindler)
Date: 5 Nov 92 10:06:49 EST
Organization: Voice Systems Branch, NASA - Kennedy Space Center

Just a comment on QMS printers- We just has occasion to request
warranty service on our QMS PS-2220 (it had a loud, rattling noise
when we received it). QMS National Service quoted rates of $110/hr
for technician time plus $70/hr for travel time. This was for
_warranty_ service! Parts were free, thank goodness.

In all fairness, if we would ship the printer to the repair depot,
they would fix it for free. Of course, the printer weighs about
100 pounds and would have to be shipped by truck.

Just something to inquire about before you buy fifty printers.

Steve

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NASA - Kennedy Space Center
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: gregk@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Greg Koolbeck - RMS)
Subject: Bulk tape production
Keywords: tapes, tapes tapes
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 20:33:00 GMT


  We have been handed a problem that must have been solved before. We are being
asked to provide a plan for making a large number (anywhere from 50 to 500)
copies of a set of QIC tapes, each containing several TAR archives. We can, of
course, get two QIC drives on a single host and play dd games to duplicate each
tape, but I'm sure there are less labor-intensive ways. Does anyone have a 
suggestion?
	Greg Koolbeck
	UNIX Systems Shepherd
	NASA/GSFC Code 520.9
From: cam@ucrengr.ucr.edu (hong vuong)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Help with 'tar'
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:24:06 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside

I am having a problem with the 'tar' command.  We archived some
directories,  tar cvf /dev/rst0 dir1 dir2.  But now that we are
trying to read it back,  tar xvf /dev/rst0, we got the following
error message:

tar: read error: I/O error
st0:   Error for command 'read', Error Level: 'Fatal'
       Block: 33620      File Number: 0
       Sense key:  Media Error

Is there a way to skip over this error and continuing on reading?
Please help.  My e-mail is cam@ucrengr.ucr.edu.  Thank in advance.

Mike.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: walker@superman.jsc.nasa.gov (Doug Walker)
Subject: xcdplayer question
Reply-To: walker@superboy.jsc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:32:51 GMT

I am trying to run xcdplayer on a tatung compstation 25 running 4.1.2.
I have a Hitachi CD-RROM.  I get the following:

xcdplayer
ioctl(cdromreadtochdr): I/O error

Whaat is going on?

-- 
Doug                   

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can 
do for your country.  - JFK
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Identifying user's remote IP address at login?
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<1duaqkINNj2o@fnnews.fnal.gov>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:12:23 GMT

Install a newer telnet and telnetd (look for telnet.91.03.25 or
something like that) that supports the X display option...
--
Christopher K. Davis      | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
<ckd@eff.org>   EFF #14   |   for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
System Administrator, EFF |   Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
+1 617 864 0665  [CKD1]   |   --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.x,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Subject: Re: Why is xload such a memory pig?
Reply-To: cmaae47@imperial.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 20:29:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.223350.18090@leland.Stanford.EDU>, mosedale@genome.stanford.edu (Dan Mosedale) writes:
.....
- -rwxr-sr-x  1 root     kmem        24576 Oct  1 18:07 xload*
- 
- The executable was compiled with gcc 2.2.2, and is nice and small
- since it was linked with shared libraries.

I guess it is just X what is the pig. This I found on IRIX

carrion$ ls -l `whence xload`
-rwxr-sr-x   1 root     sys       254128 Mar  6  1992 /usr/bin/X11/xload

carrion$ ps -le
 F S  UID   PID  PPID  C PRI NI P   SZ:RSS     WCHAN TTY       TIME COMD
30 S   98 15020     1  0 +39 24 *  482:119  80149700 ?         0:21 gr_osview
30 S   98 15023     1  0  26 24 *  328:39   80149700 ?         0:26 xload

gr_osview is a similar (though more useful but proprietary) system activity
display tool.

                                        Thomas

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From: jfk@siesoft.co.uk (Jack Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Phone Connect Time Costing
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:54:05 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Has anyone written anything to work out the actual cost of modem
connect time? Otherwise I suppose I'll have to write something
myself.

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From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Fastest way to transfer whole filesystems?
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:19:49 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) writes:

>What's the fastest way to transfer an entire filesystem from one
>disk partition to another (different type disk, larger partition)?
>I thought that a tar would be much faster than a dump and restore
>from tape, but when I tried it, using a command like:

>	tar cf - . | ( cd /otherfs; tar xpf - )

>I got a surprising slow rate, something like 2 minutes per megabyte.  Am I
>using the wrong command, or using the right command the wrong way, or is this
>just an inevitably slow procedure?  What I'm moving is the news partition,
>and I've already learned that restoring it from dump tape is horribly slow.
>The system is a Sun SPARC machine.

I've had to copy entire partitions, I just used cp -R.  It doesn't work
correctly with links though.  I believe that this should be a bit faster
since, piping involves an extra step of creating a temporary file.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look
From: emiller@gecko.cis.ohio-state.edu (eric john miller)
Subject: Re: new fonts for X terminal
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:00:07 GMT


Hello,

I would appreciate any help concerning the building of fonts as well
as the conversion of fonts.  I have a .bdf font I created for X, and I need
to create an OpenWindow font .fb .ff.  The problem is convertfont (I think).
It seems to strip the .bdf font after decimal 128 (i.e. all diacritics,
special characters, etc...).  It creates the OpenWindow font fine, except
that I need to maintain information after decimal 128.  Any help 
would be appreciated...

Thanks in advance,

Eric Miller
ejm@rsch.oclc.org
emiller@cis.ohio-state.edu



Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: Fastest way to transfer whole filesystems?
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:32:36 GMT

In article <40335@unix.SRI.COM> cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) writes:
>What's the fastest way to transfer an entire filesystem from one
>disk partition to another (different type disk, larger partition)?

Probably cpio, with the p option:

	find . -print | cpio -pd /newdir

Adding a blocking factor might help; I've had acceptable performance
from this and haven't bothered with one.


-- 
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The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
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From: jim@applix.com (Jim Morton [ext 237])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Asterix magic
Summary: strings for Aster*x magic!
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:06:20 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Applix, Inc., Westboro, MA

In article <1992Nov3.183025.7451@linus.mitre.org>, James Meritt writes:
> 
>I have an honest-to-god purchased Aster*x.  For their internal use there is a
>file axdata/axmagic that almost looks like the /etc/magic (/usr/lib/file/magic)
>table.  Almost.  Suggestions on how to add the contents of this thing so that
>the OS (with file) can recognize the various Aster*x files?
> 
>James W. Meritt:  m23364@mwunix.mitre.org - or - jmeritt@mitre.org

James:
	Here's what we use (add to /etc/magic):

-----------
0   string  22787917558746413706    Aster*x Words document
0   string  22787917558746413705    Aster*x Graphics document
0   string  22787917558746413702    Aster*x Spreadsheet
0   string  22787917558746413708    Aster*x ELF Macro
-----------

Note that the first 3 whitespace fields above MUST be TABs, not
spaces. 

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