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From: svpillay@berlioz.crs4.it (Kanthan Pillay)
Subject: Re: amd
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:59:46 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: CRS4, Center for Adv. Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia

I wrote:
>>the IBM automounter now *mostly* supports direct mounts. (It does not work if
>>the mount point is itself nfs mounted, which happens with our /usr
>>clients.) 

Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:
>You are being to general I think.

>>* If it's only the "direct" capability that you want, then the IBM
>>automounter (after the above fixes) will be good enough. (Unless you
>>want to do something really *stupid* like automount /usr/local on a
>>/usr client. Why on earth would anyone want to do that?)

>This probably is not working because your /usr is mounted readonly.
>automount needs to be able to create a symlink in /usr called 'local'
>and he can't since /usr is readonly.

>You should be able to work around this with symlinks etc.
>Create a symlink on the /usr server so that /usr/local points to
>say '/tmp/userlocal' which is an automount directory, so you get
>what you want.
>
>See?

Curt, I appreciate the work you've done so far in getting automount to
work. *But*, in my book, if it does not work on AIX as it does under
SunOS, it's broken. SunOS dataless clients mount /usr readonly in the
same way as IBM /usr clients do. My automount maps work correctly on the
Sun.

I don't *want* to have to work around problems. I expect the automounter
to work under AIX *exactly* as it does on my other architectures (SunOS,
IRIX, A/UX, and Ultrix). When you have 1 AIX machine to administer, 
workarounds are trivial. When you have 100 (and I do), they are a pain
in the sphincter...
				Kanthan Pillay
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: svpillay@berlioz.crs4.it (Kanthan Pillay)
Subject: Incorporating NIS mail.aliases map into sendmail.cf???
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:56:14 GMT
Organization: CRS4, Center for Adv. Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia


Hi.

System is AIX 3.2.blah. I've uncommented the following in
/etc/sendmail.cf:
	# map name for NIS aliases
	Opmail.aliases
I then do "telnet localhost 25; vrfy cn_list" and get "user unknown".
cn_list is defined in my yp mail.aliases map.

Any clues? The sendmail.cf on this machine is almost vanilla IBM. I'm not
able to figure out which of the rulesets does the alias interpolation.


				Kanthan Pillay
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: losburn@teal.csn.org (Lynn Osburn)
Subject: termcap <-> terminfo
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:56:58 GMT

Elm 2.4 wants to use termcap...but AIX uses the terminfo method...

There is a small termcap on 3.2, but it doesn't know about ibm3151 terms.
I would like to
a) find a terminfo to termcap conversion, or
b) find a termcap entry for the 3151 and wyse50 terms, or
c) (optimum) tell Elm to use terminfo...

I'm probably reinventing the wheel...so those of you running elm on 3.2
might want to tell me your secret.  Email preferred, replies here are okay
too.

Thanks

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dov
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Legalities of making PTFs available for ftp?
From: dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:41:50 GMT
Organization: Weizmann Institute of Science, Computation Center.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

On the other hand, with freely available ptf:s the situation which
occured to me probably wouldn't happen. We had AIX 3.2.2 installed
a couple of weeks ago. When I tried to compile ghostscript it
crystalized a bug in the optimization in the xlc compiler. After
asking on usenet, I was told that there is a patch that fixed this
problem, and someone graciously let me download this patch by
anonymous ftp.

The really annoying part of the story is that the date of this
patch is:

   > what /usr/lpp/xlc/bin/xlcentry
        5601-249 (c) COPYRIGHT IBM CORP. 1989,1991.
        ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
        US Government users
        RESTRICTED RIGHTS - Use,
        Duplication or disclosure
        restricted by GSA ADP Schedule
        Contract with IBM Corp
        8/14/92 14:49:20
        IBM AIX XL C Compiler/6000  Version 01.02.0000.0013

Now, have a look at the date of this patch. That's right. August 1992.
Why wasn't this patch incorporated in the upgrade to AIX 3.2.2 that
I received two weeks ago? My conjecture is that IBM is too big and has
too big a turnover time. The diffusion time of code from the programmers
to the customer systems is far too long. IBM really need to cut down
its bureaucracy, and make use of the fact that a large part of its
customers are connected to internet.

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From: mandream@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Change standard output within a shell script
Date: 22 Jan 1993 23:48:42 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mandream@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: happy.cc.utexas.edu
Keywords: shell script cron

How do you change the definition of standard output within a csh script?
I have a shell script with a lot of "echo" commands and I want their
output to automatically go to a different file every day.  I don't want
to have to type a bunch of redirection symbols.

The shell script is running as a cron job.  I tried to redirect the file
as follows:

   00 2 * * 1-5 ~admin/bkup.test > ~admin/bkup_report/`date +%b_%d_%Y` 2>&1

But, when I did that, the output was put into a file with the name

   Fri Jan 22 02:00:00 CST 1993

Instead of 

   Jan_22_1993

When I run the same command that I used in the cron at the normal ksh
prompt (since cron runs in ksh), it does create the filename I want.

Thanks in advance...
From: hartmans@npc.ece.utexas.edu (Sam Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Inhibit root login on pty's ?
Date: 24 Jan 93 02:57:06 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
In-reply-to: konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com's message of 18 Jan 93 06:24:18 GMT


>>>>> On 18 Jan 93 06:24:18 GMT, konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik) said:

In article <C11DsI.1CHn@austin.ibm.com> konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik) writes:

es> In article <HHViXB7w165w@samhh.hanse.de> muehlenw@samhh.hanse.de (Stefan A. Muehlenweg) writes:
>Hi Folks,
>
>does somebody know, how I can inhibit direct login as 'root' from another
>place as console?
>

es> the following entry to the stanza...

es>         ttys = /dev/console

es> This allows only login from the console.

>
>Many thanks for your help.
>PM is welcome.
>
>Stefan
>
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> D-W-2000 Hamburg 73, Liliencronstr. 6,     Phone: +49 (40) 6 77 60 97


es> -- 
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	I see two problems with this solution.  First, it tends to
indicate that there is no way of accomplishing the same result from
smit. Under smit users, there is a ttys field for each user.

	The second problem is much more serious: not only does it
prevent login as root from anywhere besides the console, but at least,
when I tried it, it also prevents users from using su anywhere besides
console. I cannot think of an easy solution to the problem; you could
write an authentication method, which would somehow find out if it was
being called from su or login and would apply tty restrictions (stored
in a different place than the standard AIX tty restrictions) only to
logins. You could simply disable remote logins (including telnets),
which might be exactly what you need if you don't have any
direct-attached terminals besides the console. To do this:
smit chuser
Enter root at the user name prompt, press enter, go down to "user can
rlogin?", and select false. Alternatively, you can insert
"rlogin=false" in /etc/security/user in the "root" stanza.

	There really should be a better way of handling this situation
for those who do have terminals connected directly to their systems.
From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: amd
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:33:44 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

svpillay@berlioz.crs4.it (Kanthan Pillay) writes:
>Curt, I appreciate the work you've done so far in getting automount to
>work. *But*, in my book, if it does not work on AIX as it does under
>SunOS, it's broken. 

You're absolutely right. 
If our automount doesn't work as well as Sun's or better, we're broken.
After all, the automount code we're running is from Sun.
Open an APAR.
That is the only way it will ever get fixed.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: BOB@ysub.ysu.edu (Bob Quigley)
Subject: SCSI drive on RS/6K
Organization: Youngstown State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:48:58 GMT

I just had a MAXSTOR 670Mb drive die on my RS/6000 model 520. I have
been looking at replacement drives and find that there are many 1.2Gb
drives available for near the same price as the 670Mb. I need to be
sure that whatever drive I get will work with the RS/6k and AIX.
Has anyone out there replaced the SCSI drive in a 520 with a different
size and/or vendors drive? Your experiences and/or sugguestions would
be greatly appreciated!
 
Thanks,
Bob Quigley (bob@ysu.edu)
Youngstown State University
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jonog@g2syd.genasys.com.au (Jonathan Gowland)
Subject: Re: Restoring unplugged keyboard
Organization: Genasys II, Sydney, Australia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:37:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan15.011506.22441@g2syd.genasys.com.au> jonog@g2syd.genasys.com.au (Jonathan Gowland) writes:
>
>The following was posted as part of AIXTIPS NEWS 92430 a few weeks ago:
>
>> >92440. How to get your keyboard back after unplugging it the from /6000?
>> 

>>   The magic order is to type at the command line:
>>                 /usr/lpp/diagnostics/da/dkbd

>	Why does /usr/lpp/diagnostics/da/dkbd require root privelege
>	to work?  Does it write to some file that is writable only by
>	root?

Thanks to IBMers Andreas Siegert and especially Mickey Coggins who 
took the time to reply.

I did some investigation and found that the problem was that the
command requires "ODMDIR=/etc/objrepos" to be set in its environment.
This was set in the shell for the window where I was logged in as
root, but not in the window where I was logged in as myself: this
window was started from my ".xsession" file which was run by XDM.  (So
root privileges had nothing to do with the problem.)


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                  |  13th Level, 33 Berry St, North Sydney, NSW, Australia
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From: bell@hops.larc.nasa.gov (John Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: enq fills up /var and leaves it
Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:35:06 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hops.larc.nasa.gov

I found an interesting behavior problem on my RS6K today. A user tried to
print a 10MB file using lpr. When the spool file filled up /var, enq reported
that the spool device was full (this message is directed to the user who
issued the lpr command) and aborted, leaving the spool file in
/var/spool/qdaemon. Of course, having a full /var causes all kinds of 
problems, since nobody can save edited files or spool other printouts then.
When I called IBM, they said that this behavior was "expected", since enq
didn't "know what to do when the spool device filled up". Does this make sense
to anyone out there? Of course I have instituted the obvious workaround,
which is making people use lp instead of lpr, but I feel that it shouldn't be
that hard to have enq delete the temporary spool file if the spool device
fills up.

-----
John Bell
NASA Langley Research Center
bell@hops.larc.nasa.gov

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dbeedle@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Dave Beedle)
Subject: No time zone in date!
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:52:08 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

    Hi ho!  We just upgraded to AIX 3.2.0 and are haveing some problems
First, the date command does not return the time zone.  This seems to be
causing problems for othe programs, notably the netnews which can not produce
a valid message ID and so we have no posting.  Must this be turned on or is
there some setting that controls this?
    The second problme we are having involves elm and maybe sendmail.  When
replying to a message which originated on the local system a .J^A. is appended
to the TO: field.  The standard  mail  command does not seem to have this
problem.  I have looked and dinked in the sendmail.cf file far too long and
have even used a sendmail.cf file from a machine which does work...no change.
Hints?
    Finally, I can't get anything to compile!  Things that used to compile fine
under 3.1.5 now don't get far before stopping.  I do have bsdcc set up but no
luck most of the time. Any big change in how to compile ported stuff?
    I have noted one difference between the machine that does work and mine.
language environment on mine (the one with problems) is set to C (POSIX) while
the other machine is set to English (Unites States-IBM 805?).  Could this
contribute to the problems?

    Thanks for any tips...I'm running out of tricks to try!

TTFN

    Dave Beedle - Illinois State University
                Office of Academic Computing - dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jern@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Bob Jernigan)
Subject: x3270 install/license server
Reply-To: jern@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Bob Jernigan)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:47:56 GMT

I've just finished installing 3.2.3 but when I attempt to install 
x3270 I get a "license server not found" message.  I can find
nothing in the literature on the license server.  

What have I missed?

bob
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jochenr@neuro.informatik.uni-kassel.de (Jochen Ruhland)
Subject: Re: What is with all the inst_Uxxxxxx directories?
Organization: FG Neuronale Netzwerke - Uni Kassel
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:45:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.130244.21896@socrates.umd.edu>, christes@socrates.umd.edu (Skip Christensen) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan21.085328.8316@cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
|> >christes@socrates.umd.edu (Skip Christensen) writes:
|> >
|> >>I was told that I could remove the inst_U* and deinstl directoreies in
|> >
|> >Have you tried to apply a PTF after that ?
|> Done it three or four times.  No problems.  One thing - this
|> procedure isn't recommended for systems running in a diskless or
|> where there is a shared "/usr" situation.
|> 
|> 
Bad news, I removed all the inst_Uxxxx stuff on my /usr-server, after 
committing on the server, and after commiting all my clients.
Can I now continue doing PTFs as the pour in? (3.2.3 just around next
door)...
In fact I can't ... what to do now?

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From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vt100 source to 3270 display
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:53:26 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

Sometimes the best solution to these problems is to give the user an
IBM-compatible PC. The PC can emulate both a 3270 (works better with a
hardware card; ok, but slow, with some software) and a VT100.

	
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From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: semop overflows after 16,384 calls!
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:21:58 GMT
Reply-To: mbeckman@mbeckman.com
Organization: Beckman Software Engineering
X-Mailer: uAccess LITE - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5

We're using the semop operation to synchronize two tasks, where process A does
a semsignal, and process B does a semwait. The semop operation uses a semundo
flag so that the value of the semop is subtracted from the calling processes
semadj value. The problem is, after 16,384 semsignal calls, we get a semop
error of "RESULT TOO LARGE". Apparently, semwait in process B is not decrementing
the semadj value and it overflows. 

Questions:

  1. Can the semaphore operations be performed without the semundo flag?

  2. If process A keeps issuing semsignal and process B uses semwait, how
is semadj value maintained?

  The AIX documentation for the semxxx operations is very scanty, and none
of the flags are explained anywhere we can find. We're in urgent need of
an answer on this, because we have a demo of this package next monday! 
Help!

  -mel

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From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Autostarting jobs at boot?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 21:47:07 PST
Organization: Beckman Software Engineering
Reply-To: mbeckman@mbeckman.com
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: uAccess LITE - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5

We've developed a database server that runs as several background tasks
and which fields client requests from another system over a network. Our
server works fine, but now we're ready to package this as a product and
I can't figure out how to properly get the thing to automatically start
up at boot.

I'm currently appending a stanza to inittab:

USDAserver:2:once:/usr/usda/start@boot >/dev/console 2>/dev/console

and this works to get the thing started OK. But we need to put in some kind
of delay during which a user could choose to cancel the thing. The start@boot
script looks something like this:

echo "Do you want to cancel the USDA RISC server?"
read answer
if "answer" = y
  then exit
fi
startUSDA1 &
startUSDA2 &
startUSDA3 &

Unfortunately, we can't seem to get any input back into the script -- it
all goes to the shell (or getty) running at the console. 

There must be an easy way to do this. I though of writing a special killUSDA
script that would look for the start@boot shell and kill it, but apparently
init doesn't put the command line into the process table entry for inittab
items, so I can't identify the process (it currently says "sh sh sh" in
a ps-ef).

Perhaps I shouldn't even be starting this via inittab? Am I supposed to
be registering this thing as an AIX subsystem somehow?

Thanks for the help!

  -mel

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: afx@muc.ibm.de (Andreas Siegert)
Subject: Re: Archive for AIXTIPS?
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Keywords: archive aixtips
Reply-To: afx@ibm.de
Organization: IBM AIX Field Support Center, Munich
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:39:14 GMT

In article <stritzi.727655766@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger) writes:
>Where are the AIXTIPS newsletters archived? Is there FTP access?

Try ftp.ctp.se.ibm.com
I do try to keep the archive there up to date but it I am sometimes
blocked by my non optimal internet link.
cheers
afx

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
Subject: Re: Question compiling bash, compiling in general
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:20:38 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

In article <1993Jan21.221652.27111@g2syd.genasys.com.au> roberts@g2syd.genasys.com.au (Robert Swan) writes:

   [ . . . ]

> On a related note, I'd like to get it to recognize a C in column 1 as
> a comment introducer.  I'm also having difficulty getting it to understand
> the continuation character in column 6.  Moreover, as far as I can tell,
> the EQUIVALENCE statement is completely broken.  Anyone who can help
> me with these problems needs help.

If you could post some small examples of the constructs that are not working
for you, we can probably help.
--
                                   Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix