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From: rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler)
Subject: Re: How to use a non-DEC postscript printer???
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: CSC System Sciences Division
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:51:00 GMT

In article <35.2b41ce0c@wrglex>, l_seibert@wrglex writes...
> 
>I have a problem to use a postscript printer as a postscript printer under VMS.
>The printer is a Brother HL-10PS, it is connected serial with the DECserver200 
>and everything is working fine as long as I use it as a text printer, but as
>soon as I send a postscript file or I connect it to a queue created with DEC's 
>CPS-software, it doesn't print anything. If it is connected to a text queue, 
>the printer tells me IGNORE DATA. If it is connected to a CPS queue, it takes
>sometime and then the queue is stalled.
> 

The CPS software inquires from the printer as to what kind of printer it is.
If its not recognized, it assumes DEC LN03R (Scriptprinter), and utilizes 
vendor and model specific knowledge in communicating to the "LN03R".  Of
course, if its not an LN03R, that's likely not to work.  DEC is comming out
with a new software package which might expand into knowlegde of non-DEC
printers, but I haven't seen any promises as to what will be supported.

Various third party vendors offer solutions to these problems, I don't have the
names of the top of my head, but your Brother and/or DEC salesmen might
actualy know.

Connecting the printer in Poscript mode to a text queue isn't likely to work
unless you find another way to add the necessary handshaking and Postscript
commands to your printouts prior to queueing them, which brings you back to 
needing software.  Typically text queues are one-way communications (except for
flow control via XON/XOFF or modem signals), but often Postscript does a bit
of two way (like CPS's inquiring what kind of printer).

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bob Koehler                     |   Any illusion to these opinions being other
rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov   |   than just mine alone is just that.

 " Life is life, and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die. "
                         - Blixie

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From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Pagefile size and distribution guidelines desired
Date: 22 Dec 1992 06:18:46 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Dec21.092049.1074@beckman.com>, dsroberts@beckman.com writes:
>We managed to work out getting a pair of two two gigabyte disks to replace two
>ra92's for our set of "system" packs.  By system packs, in this case, I mean
>where we put the layered products, page files, etc.  As opposed to user data
>:-).  So, for the first time in a while, we can make our page files bigger. 
>And contiguous.  WHat guidelines do others use for determining the proper size
>for pagefiles?

Try to make your pagefiles big enough that they're never more than 2/3 used.
Or, if you're willing to trust DEC, simply do an AUTOGEN with feedback.

>As we don't have a defragmentor the problem we've run into in
>the past is that if we make them too small we are not later able to make them
>contiguous until we can do an image backup and restore (almost never
>unfortunately).

AUTOGEN will tell you how bit it thinks the files should be.  If it can't
create them, you need to do a BACKUP/RESTORE.

>Currently we have two 100,000 block page files each for our 
>6420 and 6520, and this is a tad small.

Well, based on what you've told us, how were we to know?  You might be running
a system with only one user who only runs stuff he's ported from a CP/M system
with 64K memory.

THE NECESSARY SIZE OF THE PAGEFILES DEPENDS ON HOW MANY USERS YOU'VE GOT AND
HOW LARGE THEIR APPLICATIONS ARE!

Geez!  I'd've thought that would've been obvious!

Use AUTOGEN!

>Another thing I've never seen 
>guidelines on is number of page files.  Does it do any good to put multiple 
>page files for one system on one disk?

Obviously not.  All you achieve that way is to fragment your pagefile!

>If we have multiple page files per 
>system on several disks, but those pagefiles are on the same disks as the 
>pagefiles for other systems, isn't that just as bad?

No.  For each system, you should have at most one page file on each disk. 
Optimally, you should only have page files on local disks.  Once you've got
page files on non-local disks, optimal placement is *HIGHLY* dependent on the
characteristics of your particular cluster.
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Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL

Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt,comp.os.vms
From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: Pagefile size and distribution guidelines desired
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 12:51:49 GMT

In article <1h6c06INN9ks@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
> In article <1992Dec21.092049.1074@beckman.com>, dsroberts@beckman.com writes:
...
> No.  For each system, you should have at most one page file on each disk. 
> Optimally, you should only have page files on local disks.  Once you've got
> page files on non-local disks, optimal placement is *HIGHLY* dependent on the
> characteristics of your particular cluster.

A thing I do is name them [000000]AAAPAGE.SYSn and AAASWAP.SYSn. This means backup
and friends copy them first, Smack in the middle of the drive! No further think-
ing required.

An 'emergency' file on a remote system is a good sanity check. Set it all up
so the remote files are 'never' used, if they are, panic.

~Paul

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From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SET COMMAND
Date: 23 Dec 1992 13:35:31 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <22DEC199220180231@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov>, olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson) writes:
=In article <1992Dec21.174600.21407@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, pampreen@emunix.emich.edu (Dave Pampreen) writes...
=>I have a problem.  I used the SET COMMAND to create a verb for myself.
=>When I do a SPAWN, the verb is no longer defined.  Does anybody know
=>how to make the verb carry over to the subprocess without having to
=>use privilege?
=> 
=>I will summarize.
=> 
=>Thanks,
=>Dave
=>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
=>Dave Pampreen - Supervising Consultant, Learning Technologies, EMU
=>MAIL TO:   pampreen@emunix.emich.edu
=
=Why not just stick the SET COMMAND line in your LOGIN.COM?

Maybe because a SPAWNed subprocess doesn't execute LOGIN.COM, by default?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL

Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt
From: CHARZINSKI@nvdv.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de (JOACHIM CHARZINSKI)
Subject: Re: Problems configuring LN03 on terminal server
Organization: University of Stuttgart, IND (FRG)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:06:41 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

reuber@world.std.com (kent b reuber) writes:
>Having problems configuring and LN03 on a terminal server. System version
>is VMS 5.3. I can connect the printer and do a TEST PORT 1, I get a test
>page as expected. But when I try copying to the device, I get the message
>
>RMS-F-WER, file write error
>SYSTEM-F-HANGUP, data set hangup
>
>I've checked the name of the server and the port name, but that seems OK.
>Anything else that looks like a likely snafu. This seems to be an
>intensely painful process fraught with peril.

We've run into this problem as well. My workaround was to use the port number 
instead of defining a service. Connecting to services works well with our old 
Emulex Performance 4000 servers but fails on similarly configured new 
Performance 2500 servers. Connecting to ports seems to be ok.

Joachim Charzinski.

charzinski@nvdv.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de
University of Stuttgart, IND (Germany)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt
From: ASM@snowyt.me.psu.edu (Aravind Melligeri)
Subject: Mails are disappearing!!!.
Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 06:45:45 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Hello,
strange thing is happening since yesterday.
Yesterday, afternoon i received a mail and after reading it I quit the mail
and went back into mail to extract the message i had recieved few minutes back.
Surprisingly, that mail is not there. where in the world that mail go which
i had read few minutes back. Did i delete? no, even if I deleted it should be
in the waste basket [ My deleted mails sits in the waste basket till i purge 
them]. Since then, all my mails are disapparing as soon as i read them.
What?, is this a virus. I have never experienced this kind of stuff before.
Has anyone come across this?
Ours is a Vax Cluster with bunch of Vaxstation 3100's and 2000's. 
I am not able to check with my users whether they have experienced the same 
problem [ no one is around to ask till Jan 3rd!!]. 
let me know if you have  any solution to this problem.
From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt
Subject: Re: HELP: Attempted break-ins?
Date: 23 Dec 92 23:08:49 PST
Distribution: vmsnet
Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA

In article <1992Dec18.145352.16583@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>, yqdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>   Are there techniques for
> logging the origin of attempted logins, and/or all logins in general?

Yes, and it's already being done for you, unless someone has disabled it. 

Try the ACCOUNTING command.  HELP ACCOUNTING should give you an idea of the
possibilities.  ACCOUNTING/TYPE=(LOGFAIL,PROCESS) is probably a good place to
start.  Add /FULL to get more information.  Add /SINCE=time and /BEFORE=time
to bracket a particular time period.  Add /USER=username to see entries for
just one user.  (Note that this will suppress login failure messages where no
username was recorded.)

(One thing which is not recorded, unfortunately, is the terminal server and 
port name for logins (and attempted logins) via LAT ports.)

While we're on the subject, you should do 

	$ set accounting/new

periodically, say once a day or once a week or so.  This closes out the current
accounting file (SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSMGR]:ACCOUNTNG.DAT - note that it is not
...:ACCOUNTING.DAT) and starts a new one.  Unless you do this periodically 
you will have one giant file which will take forever to search through (unless
you have a very quiet system). 

It is almost always a good idea to back these files up to special archive tapes
which are explicitly kept forever (rather than relying on the regular system
backups) and then delete the ones that are too old to be of interest most of
the time. 

There are several manuals in the System Management portion of the VMS Extended
Documentation Set which you should read.  _Guide to VMS System Security_ and
the _VMS Accounting Utility_ manual come to mind.  Check the _System Management
Master Index_ for other references to the accounting log file. 

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
drivers, internals, networks, applications, and training for VMS and Windows-NT
uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and 
Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG 
Internet:  jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
Uucp:  ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh
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From: anderson@funyet.enet.dec.com (Paul Anderson)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Pagefile size and distribution guidelines desired
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:32:51 GMT
Reply-To: anderson@funyet.enet.dec.com (Paul Anderson)
Followup-To: vmsnet.sysmgt
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Don,

AUTOGEN can determine good pagefile sizes.  Run it so it just produces a report
and doesn't make any changes.  It's best to put PAGEFILE=0 and SWAPFILE=0 in
your MODPARAMS.DAT so you maintain control of them.

Do @SYS$UPDATE:AUTOGEN SAVPARAMS TESTFILES and look at
SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$PARAMS.REPORT.

Your pagefiles should go on disks that aren't heavily used.  Don't make lots of
little pagefiles, but a few hefty ones on your least-used disks should be fine.

Paul

 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
   Paul Anderson, OpenVMS Specialist     .   anderson@funyet.enet.dec.com    .
   Digital Equipment Corporation         .                                   .
   40 Old Bolton Road, Stow MA 01775     .   (508) 496-9140                  .
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt
Subject: Another security awareness "device"
From: rharwood@east.pima.edu
Date: 23 Dec 92 09:12:21 MST

I've received many requests for my SECAUDIT.COM procedure to monitor LOGFAILs
and BREAKINs detected by the AUDIT server, and I'm sure some folks have ftp'ed
the file, too.

Another security-monitoring "device" I use is a simple report generated every
evening of who has logged on the day before.  This way, I have some idea of the
"normal" usage patterns, and can more easily detect anything unusual.  I've not
made that procedure very elaborate, so it's included here (slightly modified). 
It reports the amount of CPU time and the "number of accounting records" for
each user-ID.  Note that some CPU times will be zero (for accounts which only
print files, for instance), and that login failures also get thrown into the
counts.

$ submit account.com /after="tomorrow+0:30"  ! Run again at midnight:30
$ set proc/priv=byp    ! Get read access to accountng.dat
$ account/since=yesterday/summary/report=(process,records)/out=account.lis
$ mail account.lis rharwood/subj="Daily CPU Usage"/pers="Batch Job ACCOUNT"

BTW, I use these files on all my client's machines, plus my own... for anyone
who thinks it's too much trouble to do for just *one* machine! <grin>
-----
Ray Harwood           |Data Basix           |Adjunct Faculty, East Campus,
Voice: (602)721-1988  |PO Box 18324         |   Pima Community College
FAX:   (602)721-7240  |Tucson, AZ 85731     |Instructor in Ada and Pascal
CompuServe: 76645,1370|AppleLink: DATA.BASIX|Internet: rharwood@east.pima.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt
Subject: Re: HELP: Attempted break-ins?
From: rharwood@east.pima.edu
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:56:31 MST
Distribution: vmsnet

In article <1992Dec18.145352.16583@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>,
yqdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:

>   Lately, several users of our VAXStation 3200 have been reporting that
> when they log in, it often says "one unsuccessful attempt since last
> login."  It is not on every account, and it is not as distressing as if
> it said "10000 failed attempts"  or whatever.  However, our computer's
> address is not broadcast to the world, so we do not expect any random
> "noise."
>   It has happened enough that I am concerned.  Are there techniques for
> logging the origin of attempted logins, and/or all logins in general?
> I apologize if this is common knowledge, for I am still a novice system
> administrator.  We are currently running VMS 5.3. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

I personally always leave auditing enabled for failed logins and breakins. I
also have a .COM file in a batch queue that runs EVERY night, which reports the
time/terminal/userID of every failed login attempts during the previous 24
hrs... and I read this file RELIGEOUSLY.... I know when something "random" is
happening, and when it's becoming "systematic".  I have *almost* caught people
trying to break into privileged accounts... I HAVE scared them off!  <grin>

Ray
-----
Ray Harwood           |Data Basix           |Adjunct Faculty, East Campus,
Voice: (602)721-1988  |PO Box 18324         |   Pima Community College
FAX:   (602)721-7240  |Tucson, AZ 85731     |Instructor in Ada and Pascal
CompuServe: 76645,1370|AppleLink: DATA.BASIX|Internet: rharwood@east.pima.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt,comp.os.vms
From: pampreen@emunix.emich.edu (Dave Pampreen)
Subject: SET COMMAND
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:46:00 GMT

I have a problem.  I used the SET COMMAND to create a verb for myself.
When I do a SPAWN, the verb is no longer defined.  Does anybody know
how to make the verb carry over to the subprocess without having to
use privilege?

I will summarize.

Thanks,
Dave
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave Pampreen - Supervising Consultant, Learning Technologies, EMU
MAIL TO:   pampreen@emunix.emich.edu
From: is08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Irianto Sukaton)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt
Subject: Re: Using 2 SCSI buses in a Microvax 3100
Date: 26 Dec 92 19:16:03 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.vmsnet.sysmgt: 16-Dec-92 Using 2 SCSI buses in a
Mic.. by Pekka Savolainen@kulmina 
> So, I'm wondering if anyone has attached external devices to
> the internal SCSI bus. Is there a way to extent the cable
> from inside the box to an extra SCSI plug connected in
> the rear of the box?
>  
Yes, the cable inside (A) is terminated. You need to make a cable with the 
standard connector on one end (Centronics/SCSI-1) and 25-pair 3M on the
other. To be sure of the kind of connector needed (3M), look in the box.
The internal cable is terminated. Take off the terminator and you'll see
what kind of connector is needed. We use 50-conductor flat cable for our
extender cable. We took off the tin face plate of the original plug and
snaked our cable out above it.
This type of cable (SCSI-1 to 3M) may be readily available in Europe since
it is also used for (standard) SCSI access from VME-based FIC's (I understand
that VME is quite prolific in Europe).




Rouli
is08@andrew.cmu.edu

Standard Discalimer: The views and opinions stated above are mine only
		     and do not reflect the views of CMU.
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From: dsroberts@beckman.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt,comp.os.vms
Subject: Pagefile size and distribution guidelines desired
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:20:49 GMT
Organization: Beckman Instruments

We managed to work out getting a pair of two two gigabyte disks to replace two
ra92's for our set of "system" packs.  By system packs, in this case, I mean
where we put the layered products, page files, etc.  As opposed to user data
:-).  So, for the first time in a while, we can make our page files bigger. 
And contiguous.  WHat guidelines do others use for determining the proper size
for pagefiles?  As we don't have a defragmentor the problem we've run into in
the past is that if we make them too small we are not later able to make them
contiguous until we can do an image backup and restore (almost never
unfortunately).  Currently we have two 100,000 block page files each for our 
6420 and 6520, and this is a tad small.  Another thing I've never seen 
guidelines on is number of page files.  Does it do any good to put multiple 
page files for one system on one disk?  If we have multiple page files per 
system on several disks, but those pagefiles are on the same disks as the 
pagefiles for other systems, isn't that just as bad?

We're on 5.5 on our cluster.
-- 
   Don Roberts                   Internet:  dsroberts@beckman.com
   Beckman Instruments, Inc.     Phone:     714/961-3029
   2500 Harbor Bl. Mailstop X-12 FAX:       714/961-3351
   Fullerton, CA  92634          Disclaimer:  Blame me, not Beckman.
   "Abortion isn't a 'choice', it's the slaughter of the innocent"
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt
From: jas@harpo.pfc.mit.edu ()
Subject:  LK201 Keyboards ???
Reply-To: jas@harpo.pfc.mit.edu ()
Organization: MIT Plasma Fusion Center
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:20:08 GMT

Hi --
  Does anyone out there know what protocall and encoding is used by the
LK201 Keyboard. 
(ie. What is on the wire comming out of the keyboard?)  I am interested
in building a cord entry
keyboard for my vaxstation and am trying to find out what I should be
outputing.

						Thanx,
						josh

						jas@harpo.pfc.mit.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt
Subject: Re: HELP: Attempted break-ins?
From: rharwood@east.pima.edu
Date: 23 Dec 92 01:26:42 MST
Distribution: vmsnet

In article <1992Dec22.124421.1@east.pima.edu>, I write:
> Since several of you have asked for it,  I have placed this file on
> min.pima.edu in the \vms\sysmgt directory under the name SECAUDIT.COM.  You
> can get it there via anonymous ftp  [...]

As several of you have noted, the file I placed there had no world read
access... that problem is now fixed (I am publicly humiliated now in front of
my peers!).  The offer to EMail the file still stands, in case I have somehow
still forgotten some minor yet non-trivial detail!

Ray
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Ray Harwood           |Data Basix           |Adjunct Faculty, East Campus,
Voice: (602)721-1988  |PO Box 18324         |   Pima Community College
FAX:   (602)721-7240  |Tucson, AZ 85731     |Instructor in Ada and Pascal
CompuServe: 76645,1370|AppleLink: DATA.BASIX|Internet: rharwood@east.pima.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.sysmgt
From: aki <aki@akidamme-233324.worldbank.org>
Subject: Anyone know/have Xmodem software for VMS???
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75B9C429D042631@akidamme-233324.worldbank.org>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:07:30 GMT
Organization: The World Bank
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:10:07 GMT


Does anyone know where we might be able to get a shareware
version of X-modem s/w for VAX/VMS?  I've heard of some
archive sites that I may be able to FTP to but none come to
mind at the moment.

Since I "drop" in and out of this newsgroup..an e-mail response
to my address below would be GREATLY appreciated!


Regards,

-Aki
The Worldbank Wash. D.C.
E-mail: aki@akidamme-233324.worldbank.org
(202)458-1112
DoD 0628
PBA 2294
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