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From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Subject: Re: Access to aliases ????
Reply-To: cmaae47@imperial.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 12:04:22 GMT

In article <989@rc1.vub.ac.be>, jcu@dec5.ulb.ac.be (Jean-Christophe Ury) writes:
- 
- It may seems stupid but I ask you anyway,
- 
- I use ULTRIX V4.3.
- I 've  some aliases defined in my shell.I would access these aliases via
- a C program. Is it possible.

It is easy, but you won't like the answer:

1.) read the .cshrc file (fraught woth problems), or 

2.) execute (from C) something like

    system ("csh -c alias >/tmp/myaliases");

and read the resulting file.

This will not access those that you have typed into the current shell,
but is otherwise a lot easier, since you don't have to parse the ifs
and buts of csh syntax.

                                Thomas
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From: JIM@brownvm.brown.edu (James Mathiesen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Ultrix and mmap() of a regular file
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:07:57 EST
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
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News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

I have some questions about mmap() on Ultrix 4.2.  According to the
doc it only works on character devices, not files.

Is this really true?

Do more recent versions of Ultrix let you mmap() a file?

Is the restriction due to some feature of the MIPS or VAX architecture?

Is there a public domain implementation of a more complete mmap()?

any thoughts on the matter, or references to early discussion would
be appreciated.  All I could find was basically the same question
a while back and no followups.

thanks!
james mathiesen
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Subject: Re: ioctl call to ln0
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:38:38 GMT

goeke@space.mit.edu (Robert F. Goeke) writes:
}I am running Ultrix 4.3 on a variety of DECStation 5000s and wanted to 
}interogate the Ethernet interface in order to retrieve the physical 
}address.  The ln(4) man page gives the ioctl request, and I tracked
}down via sys/ioctl.h and net/if.h what I think is enough information
}to do the job, but....I'm new to this ioctl game.  How do I open
}a file descriptor for this hardware interface (the first arg needed
}in the ioctl call)?

Here are some code excerpts (error checking, etc. omitted for brevity) which
do this sort of thing (note that this looks for the net interface rather than
assuming ln0, [ie. it works for fza0 too]):

        sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
        interface = find_hardware_interface(sockfd);
        find_hardware_address(sockfd, interface, hardware);

char * find_hardware_interface(sfd)
        int     sfd;
{
        struct ifconf   ifconf;
        struct ifreq    ifreq[10];		/* more than 10 net ifaces? */
        int             i;

        ifconf.ifc_len = sizeof(ifreq);
        ifconf.ifc_req = ifreq;
        ioctl(sfd, SIOCGIFCONF, &ifconf);
        for (i = 0; i < (ifconf.ifc_len / sizeof(struct ifreq)); ++i) {
		/* find & return a suitable interface using ifreq[i] */
	}
}

int find_hardware_address(sfd, interface,  hardware)
        int    sfd;
        char * interface;
        char * hardware;
{
        struct ifdevea  dev_info;

        strcpy(dev_info.ifr_name, interface);
        ioctl(sfd, SIOCRPHYSADDR, &dev_info);
        memcpy(hardware, dev_info.current_pa, 6);    /* using 6 is gross... */
}

Hope this helps,
John
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Systems Software Engineer
Project Vincent
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From: wes@dd.dk (Mads Westermann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Backup procedure sought
Summary: Backup procedure for Ultrix 4.3 sought
Keywords: Ultrix 4.3 backup dump tape date
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:57:20 GMT
Organization: Damgaard Data Distribution A/S

I'm running an Ultrix 4.3 system on a DECSystem 5100 having three rz24 disks
and two rz57 disks. The disks are partitioned into eight different file-
systems. I need a backup procedure that (unattended) will bring the system
into single-user mode, do a full or an incremental backup on *ONE* tape
and then bring the system back into multi-user mode again. I have read
the docs for dump(8) over and over again, and to me it seems like there is
no way to make dump put more filesystems on the same tape. and Also
it seems to me that there's no way to bring the system into single-user
and back into multiuser mode unattended ?

Has anybody solved this problem ?? I'd very much appreciate if you
could enlighten me on this subject.

Rgds.
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Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:9147 comp.sys.dec:6669
From: bt@skool.ssec.wisc.edu (Bill Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Bug in Xws/HX-card?
Date: 3 Jan 93 05:50:51 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences

In article <C08Jx7.H0F@news.iastate.edu>, john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
|> I write:
|>   [...Badly misdrawn arcs in some circumstances with Xws server on HX cards...]
|> 
|> jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
|> }It is conceiveable it is a bug.
|> 
|> I have been told via E-mail that it is indeed a bug in Xws which
|> is fixed in V4.3.
|> 
|> }But arcs (and in fact wide lines in X) are defined poorly, and
|> }sensible people avoid them.  ...
|> 
|> That's a pretty silly thing to say, don't you think?
|> ``Here's a windowing system, please use only straight lines.''   ???
|> 
|> John
|> -- 

It is a bug. We ran into it in an application we released to a Government 
Agency. 4.3 did not fix it for out HX based 5000/240's. Dec now does have a new
server which fixes it.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: Help with System message display
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:43:42 GMT


In article <1992Dec20.195013.3095@peanut>, tim@bvc.edu writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>   I have just received a DECstation 2100 (used).  I am having some difficulty
>in getting the machine configured they way I would like.  When I first received
>the machine, system messages would be displayed in a "message" window.  I am
>not sure what happened in the intervening time, but now they show up as large
>black boxes on top of all windows.  I would like to get the messages back into
>a display window.  I am hoping that someone can point me in the right
>direction.  Any help will be greatly appreciated!!

What version of ULTRIX are you running?  It sounds like you're running
a version that used xcons to catch console messages and now you have
xcons turned off.  In V4.2 these things were caught by the session
manager (dxsession).  I think in V4.2A or V4.3 they were caught by
xcons.  I don't have a system handy that is using xcons, so I don't
what you want to change.

More information about how the system is setup would be useful.

>					Thanks for you help...
>**
>Tim Rebnord                               tim@bvc.edu
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Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
From: aej@manyjars.WPI.EDU (Allan E Johannesen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: why is /usr/lib/crontab a link to /etc/crontab?
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:17:40
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
NNTP-Posting-Host: manyjars.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu's message of 21 Dec 92 16:00:55 GMT

>>>>> On 21 Dec 92 16:00:55 GMT, grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen) said:

grosen> I'm curious about why (Ultrix 4.2a) /usr/lib/crontab is a
grosen> symlink to /etc/crontab? I'd like to get rid of the symlink
grosen> and have a single copy in /usr/lib. Will I be breaking
grosen> anything if I do this?

Probably not.  My assumption for the symlink is to leave /usr/ read-
only, and have the per-station things in /etc/.  Here, we mount /usr/
to stations, so this kind of structure permits different stations to
have the same /usr/, but allows different crontabs.

Actually, we run the excellent vixie cron, which is totally different,
but the pointer layout is valid for the "normal" cron.  For example,
there are pointers /usr/lib/sendmail* -> /etc/... for the same reason
(except we don't run DEC sendmail, but that's another story).
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.admin
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: Backup procedure sought
Keywords: Ultrix 4.3 backup dump tape date
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:24:05 GMT


In article <1992Dec22.145720.1684@dd.dk>, wes@dd.dk (Mads Westermann) writes:
>
>I'm running an Ultrix 4.3 system on a DECSystem 5100 having three rz24 disks
>and two rz57 disks. The disks are partitioned into eight different file-
>systems. I need a backup procedure that (unattended) will bring the system
>into single-user mode, do a full or an incremental backup on *ONE* tape
>and then bring the system back into multi-user mode again. I have read
>the docs for dump(8) over and over again, and to me it seems like there is
>no way to make dump put more filesystems on the same tape. 

How to put multiple backups on one tape is sort of documented, just
not very well.  Fill out a Reader's Comments page for Guide on backups
and mail it to us, this sort of thing needs to be cleared up.  The
solution is pretty simple.  The 'f' option of dump(8) allows writing
to a different device than the default (/dev/rmt0h).  If you write to
a no-rewind tape device, then each new dump will start after the last
one.  For example; if you typically use "dump 0u /", change it to
"dump 0uf /dev/nrmt0h /".  Note the 'n' at the beginning of the tape
device name.  This is the naming convention for no-rewind tape devices
(See also mtio(4)).

> and Also
>it seems to me that there's no way to bring the system into single-user
>and back into multiuser mode unattended ?

1.  Make sure the worst likely case backups will fit on one tape.  If
    you run out of tape the way you intend to use dump(8), it will
    occassionally ask you for the next tape.  The system will be stuck
    in single user until you answer it.  Of course this may be what you
    want.

2.  Clue: When the transition is made from multi-user to single user, init
    starts an sh(1).  When this sh(1) starts it performs the shell commands
    in .profile.  It should be possible to replace .profile with a script
    that unmounts the file system, runs dump and does whatever you want
    done running single user.  Then you want to replace .profile with the
    original one and have the shell kill itself.  This should transition
    backup to multi-user.  I did this once on ULTRIX V1.something when
    I worked at the CSC.  I didn't save the .profile, but it was pretty
    easy once I figured out how to have the shell kill itself.  I think
    I just sent a signal using kill(1) to the process id $$.

>
>Has anybody solved this problem ?? I'd very much appreciate if you
>could enlighten me on this subject.
>
>Rgds.
>-- 
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> Damgaard Data Distribution A/S | Fax:          +45 4582-3636/+45 4582-3737
> Bregneroedvej 133              | E-mail:       wes@dd.dk
> DK-3460 Birkeroed, Denmark     | UUCP:         ..!uunet!dd.dk!wes
>
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.admin
From: thomas@decatl.enet.dec.com (Elgin Thomas)
Subject: Re: Session Manager not the only thing that's pausing
Reply-To: thomas@decatl.alf.dec.com <Elgin Thomas>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Customer Support Center, Alpharetta,  GA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:20:27 GMT


--
- Gerald Combs writes

>  We're running INN 1.2 on a DECstation 5000/200 with Ultrix 4.3 and Motif 
>1.1.3.  Whenever the session manager is paused for any length of time 
>(usually about an hour), INN freezes until the session manager is unpaused.  
>Has anyone else had this problem, or have any idea why this is happening?

Yes, the session manager when paused causes the Xserver to not handle any 
X events.  They are queued and delivered to the Xserver when unpaused.


_______________________________________________________________________________
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Open Systems Application Support Group

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Session Manager not the only thing that's pausing
From: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Date: 23 Dec 1992 17:35:11 GMT
Reply-To: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: parsifal.umkc.edu

  We're running INN 1.2 on a DECstation 5000/200 with Ultrix 4.3 and Motif 
1.1.3.  Whenever the session manager is paused for any length of time 
(usually about an hour), INN freezes until the session manager is unpaused.  
Has anyone else had this problem, or have any idea why this is happening?

- Gerald Combs
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: How do I redefine my xterm keys?
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:20:12 GMT

xmodmap can only shuffle or duplicate key values and key symbols around on
a keyboard.  (In an aside, check out xkeyboard, a neat graphical interface
to xmodmap!)   To assign actual escape values to keys, use a resource
similar to something like this (placed in $HOME/app-defaults/XTerm for
instance)

!
vt220*sunFunctionKeys:  True
vt220*VT100.Translations: #override <Key>R5: keymap(vt)
vt220*vtKeymap.translations: \
    <Key>R5:            keymap(None) \n\
    <Key>KP_Enter:      string(0x1B) string("OM") \n\
    <Key>R1:            string(0x1B) string("OP") \n\
    <Key>R2:            string(0x1B) string("OQ") \n\
    <Key>R3:            string(0x1B) string("OR") \n\
    <Key>Num_Lock:      string(0x1B) string("OS") \n\
    <Key>KP_Add:        string(0x1B) string("Ol") \n\
    <Key>KP_Subtract:   string(0x1B) string("Om") \n\
    <Key>KP_Decimal:    string(0x1B) string("On") \n\
    <Key>Insert:        string(0x1B) string("Op") \n\
    <Key>R13:           string(0x1B) string("Oq") \n\
    <Key>Down:          string(0x1B) string("Or") \n\
    <Key>R15:           string(0x1B) string("Os") \n\
    <Key>Left:          string(0x1B) string("Ot") \n\
    <Key>R11:           string(0x1B) string("Ou") \n\
    <Key>Right:         string(0x1B) string("Ov") \n\
    <Key>R7:            string(0x1B) string("Ow") \n\
    <Key>Up:            string(0x1B) string("Ox") \n\
    <Key>R9:            string(0x1B) string("Oy") \n\
    <Key>F9:            string(0x1B) string("OA") \n\
    <Key>F10:           string(0x1B) string("OB") \n\
    <Key>F28:           string(0x7F) \n\
    <Key>SunXK_F37:        string(0x1B) string("OC") \n\
    <Key>SunXK_F36:        string(0x1B) string("OD")
!
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Subject: Re: comp.unix.ultrix Frequently Asked Questions
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:50:00 GMT

In article <ultrix-faq_725825633@lcs.mit.edu> treese@lcs.mit.edu writes:
}Archive-name: ultrix-faq
}Version: 1.5
}==============================================
}N6. Why can't ULTRIX 4.2 mount NFS filesystems that could be mounted with
}        ULTRIX 4.1?
}
}The version of SUN RPC shipped with ULTRIX V4.2 supports up to 32
}groups per user, whereas previous versions supported 8 groups per
}user.  Users that are members of more than 8 groups cannot NFS mount
}file systems from NFS servers using the version of SUN RPC that only
}supports 8 groups.
}
}The error message  that nfs_mount will give you if you are in too many
}groups will look like this:
}
}nfs_mount: crltrx:/usr/local server not responding: RPC: Authentication error;
}why = Invalid client credential
}nfs_mount: access denied for crltrx:/usr/local
}
}The workaround is to reduce the number of groups you are a member of
}to eight or less to make NFS mounts work again.  In particular, you should
}check the number of groups that "root" is in.

Another workaround is if the NFS server machine you are having trouble
with is an Ultrix system (say, V4.1) you can run the V4.2 mountd on
that machine.

John
-- 
John Hascall                   ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
Systmes Software Engineer
Project Vincent
Iowa State University Computation Center  +  Ames, IA  50011  +  515/294-9551
From: dicks@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Ethan Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: How can I make a standalone Ultrix tape from a working system?
Date: 26 Dec 1992 01:23:37 -0500
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: function.mps.ohio-state.edu
Keywords: tape build standalone system-adminstration

I am currently maintaining a small Ultrix MicroVAX with RD54 and TK50.
The last time or two I booted the standalone TK50, I got a bunch or
retries on the boot.  After cleaning the tape head, it only failed
once or twice before loading the standalone kernel properly.

How can I back up this tape or build a fresh one from a running Ultrix
system?  I read the FAQ about copying setld(8) tapes.  Is the standalone
tape in setld(8) format?

Thanks much,
-ethan




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Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:9152 comp.unix.admin:6871
From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.admin
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.admin
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: SLIP help?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Organization: Udo Munk's private BBS
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 93 02:42:59 GMT

Brett Lymn (blymn@awadi.com.au) wrote:
[...]
: Interesting.... I *am* using v.42bis modems that can do 14.4K without
: compression, if I turn on the compression and error correction my ping
: times go up and my ftp time are horrible.  The only thing I change is
: the compression and error correction settings on the modem (one end
: only the other end autodetects).  BTW 200mSec is about the order of my
: ping times so I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

I'm using a Zyxel v.42bis modem which allows me to switch MNP5 compression
off and let v.42bis compression on. With this setup I get a better perfomance
with uncompressed text files then without any compression, but the perfomance
of compressed files doesn't decrease. It's a well know problem of MNP5,
that it looses performance on compressed files, which doesn't happen with
v.42bis. I don't use slip but uucp to connect my feed, but the problem is
the same. Also you'll have this problem with the zmodem protocoll. I would
suggest to take a look at your modem manual if it allows you to switch of
MNP5 compression only and try it out.
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From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Some buffer cache questions
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:49:47 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208

In article <1992Dec30.010315.8079@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>, alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) writes:
> 
> >>[ I mention large buffer caches and delay_wbuffers ]
> >
> >So, what am I supposed to be watching the delay_wbuffers for?
> >
> This is a variable in param.c that has two values, zero and non-zero.
> The default is zero.  When set to zero the buffer cache code schedules
> data writes as buffer are filled by the user........
> 
> Related to this thread, Greg Pavlov at karloff.fstrf.org asked
> what sort of trouble I had with large cache configurations. .....
>

  Greg Pavlov asked the question because he has a DEC 5000/240 with the
  following:

   delay_wbuffers = 0
   total memory: 128 MB
   bufcache 60

  I don't know how close this may be to the original poster's request, but
  the above seems to work fine from a system point of view and the large
  set-aside for disk buffers seems to accomplish what we need for the 
  particular application that this machine serves.



  greg pavlov
  pavlov@fstrf.org
Xref: sparky comp.unix.xenix:46 comp.sys.sequent:679
From: sam@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (B. Samuel Blanchard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.sequent
Subject: 8mm SingleEnd SCSI on Sequent S27 (was problems installing CY-8500 8mm)
Keywords: CY-8500 Xenix Problems
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:07:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Starting a ?NIX Users' Group in Indiana.  Ask for info!

We installed a CY8500 on our Sequent S27 and had problems.  The salesman
said "yea we have done it."  When ask to verify, he did.

The problem is, they had not done "what I wanted".  I was very clear and
he explained back to me what I wanted just fine.

(use Single Ended SCSI, which Sqnt only supports for cartridge drives?)

I worked with Tech support and they turned from mildly insulting to
somewhat helpful.  (maybe he didn't get a check? maybe he realized the problem)
Tech support would ask engineering and "transfer" info back.
(not that he was "bad", just not able to answer my questions.)

I had trouble getting an engineer, i.e. someone who had clue 1 about more
than the manual.  It turned out to include several missed conference calls.
I.e. I waited after hours twiddling my thumbs.
(talking to this guy for 10 minutes early on would have been helpful)

I had not updated the configuration to include changes in the driver interface.
They had not "really looked at how sec_scsi" worked there.

The system crashed until he was satisfied.

A technician made his second appointment (i.e. missed first) and put
a scsi analyser on.  The results for the cartridge driver are being used
to modify the CY8500 code to make it "work like a cartrige".

I sent the unit back for updates (~2months) and expect to recieve it back
soon.

I do not know what effect being a UNIX VAR had on my response time.  We also
have our clients (not via us) using these units off of Pertec cards.

I'm not ready to say if I am satisfied or not.  Talking to there "folks" I
was pretty sure what could happen.

:-)
-- 
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Greenfield, IN 46140
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc