HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: woodford@fourier.ece.cmu.edu (Paul Woodford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: blas for linpack etc
Keywords: blas linpack eispack lapack
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:24:00 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon

In article <1992Sep14.082905.29909@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> cally@solar.maths.monash.edu.au (Dr Paul Cally) writes:
>The underlying linear algebra package used by linpack, eispack, and LAPACK is
>called blas. Does anyone have a version of this optimized for DECstations?
>Some manufacturers (eg IBM) actually provide a very fast machine code form
>with their workstations. Not DEC, I guess?!
>
>--- Paul Cally

There is a libblas.a in /usr/lib/cmplrs/cc2.1/libblas.a on Ultrix 4.2a, but
it doesn't include level 3 blas or double-complex level 2 blas.  Furthermore
I've tried linking with the routines which are there and they don't seem any
faster than those that I've compiled myself.  Pretty silly, huh?

If you find any optimized versions out there, please let me know.  If anyone
from DEC is reading, please give us an optimized blas library.

Paul Woodford
woodford@ece.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: charette@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (Mark Charette)
Subject: Re: Xserver for 24 bit grafix buffer
Reply-To: charette@cheetah.det.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:31:50 GMT

grep Xwst3d /usr/etc/subsets/*.inv
/usr/etc/subsets/UDWMAN425.inv:0	9402	28875	0	0	100444	11/11/91	425	f	./usr/man/man8/Xwst3d.8X	none	UDWMAN425
/usr/etc/subsets/UDWWSTSER425.inv:0	2646016	05875	0	0	100755	12/2/91	425	f	./usr/bin/Xwst3d	none	UDWWSTSER425

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From: joerg@itap.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Joerg Stadler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: XView on Decstation 5000
Date: 11 Sep 92 11:22:13 GMT
Reply-To: joerg@itap.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Joerg Stadler)
Organization: ITAP University of Stuttgart

This may be a FAQ, but didn't find it anywhere. I try to get an
application based on Xview working on a Decstation 5000 with Decwindows.
The program dies with the following message:

XView error: Cannot open connection to window server:  :0.0 (Server package)

This is on Ultrix 4.2. Can somone please help?

Thanks

joerg

Joerg Stadler
Institut fuer Theoretische und Angewandte Physik
joerg@itap.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: thenglid@linda.lidac.liu.se (Thomas Engstrom)
Subject: Fragmented swap space
Keywords: swap
Organization: Computer Service Centre, University of Linkoping
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 10:15:22 GMT

The output of pstat -s on one of our DECsystem 5500 looks like this:

% pstat -s
228416k swap configured
122016k reserved virtual address space
        272k used (160k text, 0k smem)
        132840k free, 0k wasted, 95304k missing
avail: 4151*32k 8*1k

The manual says that the 95304k missing is due to fragmentation of the
swap partition. Shouldn't that be recovered in a reboot? It doesn't
do that for me. How do I get it back?

I have no problems with this, at least no problems I can see. But I don't
like when thing are missing when they shouldn't.

Anyone that feels like me? Anyone that knows about this?
Thanks in advance.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Engstrom, LIDAC, Computer centre, University of Linkoping, Sweden
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Buddy can you spare a clue?" Ranum)
Subject: Re: .netrc
Keywords: fsplit
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:14:43 GMT

[follow up to comp.lang.fortran removed due to total irrelevance]

>Does the default option in .netrc actually work? If so how do I set it
>up. I've used .netrc on my bsd machines but ultrix has a totally
>different .netrc format with regards default which I can't get to work
>no matter what I try.

	default isn't supported in ULTRIX.

	I fix the problem by (once again) replacing the offending
utilities with the BSD sources. (decuac.dec.com: pub/DEC/ftp.tar.Z)

mjr.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
Subject: csh history...
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:41:24 GMT

Hi all...

Does this happen to anyone else?

On various DECstations around here, sometimes when I hit esc to 
recall a previous command (I use DEC's csh) I just get a little
escape symbol ^[ and then the connection is hung. Dead. Caput.

I'm trying to guess this is a race condition/line speed kind of thing, and 
not me doing something brain-dead... but whatever it is, I wish I knew how to 
fix it!

Any ideas?

-Mike
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
Subject: Re: Anyone using a DECstation 5000/200 as a news server?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:47:23 GMT

Yeah, we do and have been for about 6 months now -- works like a charm.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Subject: /dev/console and /dev/xcons hang.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:57:57 GMT

Has anyone had any problems with /dev/console hanging?  It seems to be
a race condition in the kernel.  It looks like it happens when things
scribble to /dev/console while xconsole exits, leaving the console in
a wedged state.  Perhaps flow control kicked in, when the console
buffer filled up?

I can pretty much reproduce it at will.  No idea how to fix it yet.

(Why isn't there documentation for /dev/console or /dev/xcons?)
--
From: paul@aztec.ucsc.edu (Paul Tatarsky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Software test of Floating Point Unit in 5000/240??
Date: 10 Sep 1992 19:33:47 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Distribution: world
Reply-To: paul@terra.ucsc.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: aztec.ucsc.edu

A prof pointed out that the little code frag at the end of this 
note was producing bad output on one of our 5000/240's and not on the
other ones. I checked the kernel for anything odd, and then the manuals,
and I have two questions:

1. What is the story with the EMULFILT option? Older manuals say don't
use it if you _have_ an fpu, newer ones say don't remove it from the
config file. Well, it wasn't in my config file and when I added it
and rebuilt/rebooted, I got the same results. 

2. Anyone have a sure fire software test of the FPU unit? 

Now on to the test:

The environment: Ultrix 4.2A, DECstations 5000/240
Both have FPU units: fpu0 ( version 4.0, implementation 3 ) 

The code frag float.c:

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
    float x,y;
    int i;

    y = .998;
    for(i = 0; i < 10; i++){
        x = (1.0/(1.0+y));
        /*    z = 1.0/1.998;*/
        printf("%e %e\n",x,y);
        y = y-.001;
    }
}

On 5000/240 A:
> cc -o float float.c
> float
5.005005e-01 9.980000e-01
5.007511e-01 9.970000e-01
5.010020e-01 9.960001e-01
5.012531e-01 9.950001e-01
5.015045e-01 9.940001e-01
5.017561e-01 9.930001e-01
5.020080e-01 9.920001e-01
5.022601e-01 9.910001e-01
5.025125e-01 9.900001e-01
5.027652e-01 9.890001e-01

On 5000/240 B:
> float
5.000000e-01 9.980000e-01
5.000000e-01 9.970000e-01
5.000000e-01 9.960001e-01
5.000000e-01 9.950001e-01
5.000000e-01 9.940001e-01
5.000000e-01 9.930001e-01
5.000000e-01 9.920001e-01
5.000000e-01 9.910001e-01
5.000000e-01 9.900001e-01
5.000000e-01 9.890001e-01

What is going on here? Further configuration info available on request.
Eternal thanks to anyone with a solution.

-- 

 Paul Tatarsky         email: paul@cse.ucsc.edu
 UC Santa Cruz
 CIS/CE Board          
 Technical Staff
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: rick@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca
Subject: kernel configuration recommendations?
Organization: Queen's University EE Department
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:53:31 GMT


i have a lab of two dozen decstation 5000/20s (12 meg, rz23l) with a
5000/240 (32 meg, 2 rz57s, ultrix 4.2a) as a server. all the clients 
page locally. are there any sensible changes to make to the server
kernel? (increasing bufcache comes immediately to mind - what are 
sensible values to start with?) if there's any general advice to be had 
i'd appreciate it a lot.

thanks

rp
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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Subject: Re: multiple yppasswd requests corrupting NIS passwd?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 22:07:28 GMT

>I looked at /var/yp/Makefile and didn't find any sort of shell-level locking
>at all.

	*sigh*. You got it. ``Hesiod'' is just as bad.

	yppasswdd does use /etc/ptmp to modify the password file, and then
turns around and does a system("make") *AFTER* moving /etc/ptmp to /etc/passwd
In theory, then, the password file should be consistent. There's nothing in
the Makefile to keep multiple "make"s from getting interleaved though. It's
really quite frightful.

mjr.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: lr@cs.brown.edu (Luigi Rizzo)
Subject: How to pack a multi-volume tar ?
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:46:19 GMT


I have a large multi-volume tar (created on Ultrix 4.1) on 3 TK50
tapes. Now that I have access to a DAT drive, I'd like to pack the
three tapes on a single DAT unit.  What's the best way to do it  ?
"cat"ting the three blocks together won't work because tar detects
the end of archive at the end of the first block. I could copy
the three blocks on the same tape using /dev/nrmt0h, but don't
know if tar will be able to read the three of them afterwards
(and anyway, I'd prefer a single archive on the tape). Untarring
and recreating the archive looks a bit overkill.

	Suggestions are welcome.

	Thanks
	Luigi Rizzo
==================================================================
Luigi Rizzo                Brown University & Univ. di Pisa
e-mail: lr@cs.brown.edu, luigi@iet.unipi.it
==================================================================
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Re: user operator has uid 0 and not root.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:37:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.101106.1@vax.sonoma.edu> mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>Greetings:
>    I'm working from a COPS report which says  Warning! Password 
>file, line 56, user operator has uid = 0 and is not root.........
>Now, I am trying to make it so that user operator can only login from
>the system console (ie secure defined port), and doesn't need a 
>password, and is put into SCAMP directly upon login

I don't know about anyone else, but I would *NEVER* have a uid 0 login
with no password on any of my systems, no matter how secure they may
be.  If SCAMP needs to be run as uid 0, you really need a password
on that account.

>.....I have modified
>SCAMP so that the exit to system selection on the main menu is now
>a loggout option, thus the operator can never get into the system

I'm not familiar with SCAMP, but are you absolutely positively sure that
there are no shell escapes and/or ways to run arbitrary programs in any
program that SCAMP runs?  If there are, your operators can get into the
system with little trouble. 

>I'd really like COPS to run without errors....

I think COPS will notice your uid 0 login with no password, so you may
want to rethink how your are doing this.  In fact, I think it complains
about any account with no password.

If you're interested in the security of your system, you might want to
pick up a copy of "Practical Unix Security" by Spafford and Garfinkel,
published by O'Reilly & Associates.


Mike Iglesias                        Internet:    iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine     BITNET:      iglesias@uci
Office of Academic Computing         uucp:        ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: davet@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Dave Thompson)
Subject: video board for DECstation
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:21:21 GMT

I'm looking for info on what video boards are available for DECstations.
know of any?

I'll post a summary of any info I receive...

Thanks,
Dave Thompson

National Center for Supercomputing Applications	|  605 E Springfield Ave
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 	|  Champaign IL 61820
Email:  davet@ncsa.uiuc.edu			|  (217) 244-1957
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Subject: Re: /dev/console and /dev/xcons hang.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 04:29:39 GMT

Well, I think I've got a workaround.  I wrote a small program that
does a TIOCSTART ioctl.  Sending this to /dev/console in xdm's reset
script looks like it unhangs the console.

Ick.
--
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Subject: Ultrix 4.2 rlogin somewhat broken
Organization: Ziebmef home away from home
Date: 12 Sep 92 11:03:14 GMT

! $ stty all
! new tty, speed 9600 baud , 32 rows, 83 columns; tabs
[...]
! $ /usr/ucb/rlogin `hostname`
[..login chatter deleted deleted..]
! : hawkwind.utcs ; stty all
! new tty, speed 9600 baud , 0 rows, 0 columns; tabs
[...]

 So much for window size information being propagated around.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Subject: Re: Problems with DecNet Phase V on Ultrix 4.2
Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:32:33 GMT


In article <1992Sep15.152209.19510@isa.de>, schuster@isa.de (Thilo Schuster) writes:
|>Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
|>From: schuster@isa.de (Thilo Schuster)
|>Subject: Problems with DecNet Phase V on Ultrix 4.2
|>Nntp-Posting-Host: bach
|>Organization: ISA GmbH, Stuttgart, FRG
|>Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:22:09 GMT
|>Lines: 45
|>
|>
|>
|>Hello Netlanders,
|>
|>I've got some trouble with the DecNet/Ultrix package on a DEC Station
|>5000/133 running Ultrix 4.2a.
|>
|>My configuration:
|>
|>Computer 1: 	    	    	Computer 2:
|>
|>Dec Station 5000/133 	    	VMS Vax
|>Decnet Phase V Node 	    	Phase IV Node (no, without Extension)
|>DNS Server, DTS clerk	    	
|>proxys disabled
|>
|>It is possible, to connect from the DEC Station to the VMS Vax, but
|>on the Vax (after an SET HOST), following Error appears:
|>network partner exited
|>
|>So I tried the loopback application on the Phase V node. Following
|>syslog-entry was created by the system:
|>
|>Sep 15 16:29:32 localhost: 1628 cml: loopback: connect to mirror failed:
|>Timed out

THere's no way to diagnose the problem without looking at the system or
getting some detailed information.  (I'll do that via mail.)

|>Furthermore, for each connection attemp, this process is started and
|>hangs in the system:
|>
|> 1630 ?  S      0:00 /usr/etc/dnascd -fsyncdb
|>                                     ^^^^^^^^
|>                                     What does this option mean ?

It tells dnascd to write it data files with O_SYNC so that will always get
to disk.  It just a safety hook (we're paranoid -- but not paranoid yet).
--
Matt Thomas                     Internet:   thomas@lkg.dec.com
DECnet-ULTRIX Development       UUCP:       ...!decwrl!thomas
Digital Equipment Corporation   Disclaimer: This message reflects my own
Littleton, MA                               warped views, etc.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:6840 comp.editors:2201
From: david@donald.concordia.ca (David Gaudine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.editors
Subject: CRISP for ULTRIX
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:10:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal

Does anyone have the CRISP editor working on ULTRIX?  We've had problems
implementing it (version 2.2e).  The current problem is that it won't
accept input from the keyboard.

We're trying to find a UNIX editor that's as convenient to use as BRIEF
(a PC editor).  One of the problems with EMACS is that one can't
conveniently cycle through a lot of files.

					David Gaudine
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Re: question about setld
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 10 Sep 92 04:51:42 GMT

In article <boccio-090992223810@photon.swarthmore.edu> boccio@cc.swarthmore.edu (John Boccio) writes:
>We would like to install DEC software such that the root-path is not /.
>The man page for setld says to use
>
>setld -D root-path -l location
>
>I am trying to install DEC FORTRAN v3.2.
>I issued the command
>
>setld -D /usr/things -l /dev/rmt0h
>
>An error came back...it said.....
>
>NO INSTALLABLE SUBSETS ........

For some software, you need to make a bin directory in your new root
(/usr/things/bin in your case) and put a copy of /bin/machine there.
The software-specific install scripts use that to see if they're
running on a mips platform.  If not, it usually tells you that you're
on the wrong architecture.

I've installed several setld-installed products in different roots this way.
DECwrite/DECpresent/DECchart, for example.


Mike Iglesias                        Internet:    iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine     BITNET:      iglesias@uci
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From: skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok)
Subject: Re: rlogin from Ultrix to Sparc/SunOs hangs?
Organization: Inst. f. Thermodynamik u. Waermetechnik (ITW), U. of Stuttgart, FRG
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:47:39 GMT

In article <Bu9J9x.3Ev@cs.psu.edu> kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) writes:
>In article <006PB596@cc.swarthmore.edu> hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
>>When I try /usr/ucb/rlogin from an Ultrix machine to any Sparc, rlogin just
>>hangs.  However, I have no problems going from Sparc to Ultrix, Ultrix to
>>Ultrix, nor any problems going from Ultrix to a Sun-3 running SunOS 4.1.1_U1
>>and vice versa.
>
>I thought it was just me!  :-)
>
I've experienced a probably related problem - error messages and ensuing
death of a rdump from a DEC 2100 under ULTRIX 4.1 to a SUN Sparc under
OS 4.1.1. After fiddling with the security settings for the pseudo
terminals on the SUN and reading the inetd.conf on the SUN to check
whether rsh was activated or not (it was) I finally found the solution
in renaming the .login and .cshrc in the SUN's root dir every time I
want to make a dump. 
Neat work DEC!

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From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: color and monochrome in the same system
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:01:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine

In article <lapf00INN9o3@seuss.aa.ox.com> rsj@seuss.aa.ox.com (Rick Jaffe) writes:
>
>Older DEC literature says that we cannot mix color and monochrome in
>the same multiple-headed DECstation.  
>
>We've recently heard differently, that a DECstation with two HX cards
>can simultaneously run a greyscale and a color monitor.
>
>If it's possible to mix color and monochrome in the same DECstation,
>what are the supported configurations?

We have systems with one HX card and one MX card (VRT16 and VR319
respectively) and they work, eventhough not supported officially. 
I would expect two HX cards but with a color and a mono screen 
would work too.

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: Re: NFS errors; "killed on swap error"; "illegal instruction"
Organization: Information Services, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 17:22:41 GMT

mcba@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Michael C. B. Ashley) writes:
> is there some way to convince ULTRIX not to cache
> binaries that it should know are corrupted?

Maybe you can NFS mount with the noac option.  Here's a sample fstab entry:

/var/spool/mail@server:/var/spool/mail:rw:0:0:nfs:noac:

and an automount entry:

/var/spool/mail		-noac	server:/var/spool/mail

but I guess this doesn't get to the heart of your problem. :-(

--
Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu>    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Unix Hacker for Swarthmore College      :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Information Services, Swarthmore, PA, USA.      Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.                    All Rights Reserved.
From: cole@dip.cs.wisc.edu (Bruce Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.2 rlogin somewhat broken
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:16:33 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences

Back in Ultrix 4.0, DEC added support for X/Open's XTI.  This required 
supporting multiple bytes of outstanding out of band data.  In implementing
this, DEC broke out of band data, as used the the rlogin "protocol".  I
say broke because one could make their Decstation panic by pumping lots of
out of band data into a TCP connection, and because DEC's out of band data
implementation would often cause the rlogin program to hang, depending upon
how quickly the other end of the connection sent out of band data.

I QAR'ed this problem, with a Kernel fix to DEC in Sept. '90.  A DEC engineer
reworked my changes so that the Ultrix kernel could hopefully handle both
XTI and rlogin's requirements for oob data.  Unfortunately, his change made
the problem less severe but did not correct it entirely.

In Ultrix 4.2, the kernel implementation of out of band data remained 
partially broken.  DEC's new fix to the out of band data problem was to add a 
sleep(1) statement to rlogind right before it sends out of band data!!!  This 
fix seems to have avoided the rlogin hanging problem between DEC workstations.
Of course, it did not fix the use of rlogin with other vendor's machines.

Dean Luick locally reworked my out of band data kernel fix for Ultrix 4.2.
He even posted his fix to this newsgroup, in Nov. '91.  The fix has been
available in binary form for anonymous ftp since that time.  See the
files pub/README.tcp_input, pub/tcp_input.o-4.2 on dip.cs.wisc.edu.

Shame on DEC for never having properly fixed this bug after all this time.
Good thing we have kernel source.
-- 
Bruce Cole
Computer Sciences Department
U. of Wisconsin - Madison
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