HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Ethernet/TCP/IP Config
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:13:18 GMT
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

In article <1992Oct16.000539.7388@fx.com> franco@fx.com (Frank Minjarez) writes:
>
>change the default broadcast address on the IBM to whatever the Suns are using
>because Suns and IBMs default to different values.  You can't change it
>with smit -- eeek so use "chdev -l en0 -a broadcast=<broadcast_address>"

Eewww.

Sure you can change it with SMIT:
----------------
                  Change / Show a Standard Ethernet Interface
 
Type or select values in entry fields.
Press Enter AFTER making all desired changes.
  
                                                        [Entry Fields]
  Network Interface Name                              en0
  INTERNET ADDRESS (dotted decimal)                  [a.b.c.d]
  Network MASK (hexadecimal or dotted decimal)       [255.255.255.0]
  Current STATE                                       up                      +
  Use Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)?              yes                     +
  BROADCAST ADDRESS (dotted decimal)                 []

-------------------
Got there using Communications -> TCP/IP -> Further Config -> Interfaces ->
Selection (en0) -> Change/Show Characteristics . No problem.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ( Hari Seldon ... psychohistorian )
Subject: Re: Survey... RS/6000
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:08:09 GMT

In <1992Oct7.213852.7050@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> jogi@austin.ibm.com (Vijay Joglekar) writes:


>Folks,

>I need your help.  I am trying to find out what kind of problems
>you folks face with you RS/6000.  Did you have any tools that helped you
>to solve the problem?  If not what would they be.

yes try this. get me a tool that sucks the info from the stupid odm
and puts it in the proper files. i don't care if you use the odm but i want
to be able to *see* whats being used. there is nothing more
confusing than looking at the files and forgetting that they do not count.

>What I am looking for is a top 10 list of tools that I could compile that will
>help the IBM customer in installing/operating the RS/6000.
>The tools could be the ones you used on another workstation eg SUN etc...

>If you have some suggestions/responses do send me mail.

bill pociengel
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From: tim@sabus.UUCP (Tim Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: ksh question
Keywords: login
Date: 16 Oct 92 05:24:40 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: The SABUS Group

How does /bin/ksh know when it is a login shell?  Ie, how does it know
to source .profile, /etc/profile?  Does login invoke a special way?
The reason I ask is that I need to duplicate this behavior.

Thanks.

Tim
tim%sabus@uunet.uu.net

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From: dirk@kimosabi.ucsc.edu (Dirk Coldewey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: automount daemon
Date: 12 Oct 1992 23:00:14 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz, CIS/CE
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dirk@cs.ucsc.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: kimosabi.ucsc.edu
Keywords: NFS automount

I've been having an immense amount of trouble getting the AIX automounter
to work.  I'm wondering if anyone has a similar, successful, setup?
Here's what I am trying to do:

I want certain subdirectories from other systems hard-mounted via the
automounter to /auto/$remote_system/directory, and a symbolic link
created from the directory /$remote_system/directory to
/auto/$remote_system/directory.  For example, we have a DecStation server
named lancelot, from which I would like to automount the /home/a directory
as /auto/lancelot/a, and I would like users to be able to refer to this
file as /lancelot/a (that is, the automount daemon should create a symbolic
link from /lancelot/a to /auto/lancelot/a).

To this end I've set up two files: /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.servers.

-------------------------------<auto.master>------------------------------
# triton:/etc/auto.master
/auto           /etc/auto.servers

-------------------------------<auto.servers>-----------------------------
# triton:/etc/auto.servers
lancelot/a      -rw,hard,intr   lancelot:/home/a
lancelot/b      -rw,hard,intr   lancelot:/home/b

I've added the appropriate entries to the /var/yp/Makefile file, and done
a "make auto.master" and "make auto.servers".

Then I start up the automount daemon: /usr/sbin/automount.  According to
the doc, the auto.master NIS map is consulted by default.

What happens now is that /auto gets created with permissions 555, ie.
dr-xr-xr-x when I try to access /auto/lancelot/a.  Doing an "ls /lancelot/a"
just ellicits a "/lancelot/a not found" message.

According to the documentation (ha), I think this should work.  I'm not
sure that "cd /lancelot/a" should necessarily cause the automounter to do
its thing, but at least "cd /auto/lancelot/a" should.
This identical arrangement works on our Sun, DEC, and SGI systems.
Can anyone provide any isights on how one might make this work on RS6000
systems?

The documentation leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to automount.
For instance, the purpose of of the "Directory" commandline argument is
described as: "members of the Directory variable are made available by using
a symbolic link to the real mount point withing a temporary directory".
What kind of a "variable" might this be?  What might its format be?

					Thanks,

					Dirk
					dirk@cse.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ben@osiris.usi.utah.edu (Ben Pratt)
Subject: Re: How is /etc/nologin removed during reboot?
Organization: Utah Supercomputing Institute
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 16:02:15 GMT

In article <MARC.92Oct15153002@marc.watson.ibm.com> marc@watson.ibm.com
(Marc Auslander) writes:

  > The design is that shutdown removes /etc/nologin. The purpose of the
  > file is to prevent getty from allowing new logins while shutdown is
  > running. However, during system test it was noticed that if shutdown
  > failed while /etc/nologin existed, and the machine was then rebooted,
  > there was no way to use it!  So the lines you noticed were added to
  > /etc/rc.
  > 
  > (If you get stuck with an /etc/nologin file, you have to boot the
  > maintainance system to remove it.)
  > 
  > Why are you trying to keep the file around?
  > 
  > If you really want it, replace the line in /etc/rc with
  > touch /etc/nologin
  > but I think you will not like the results!

There is at least one obvious reason why you would want to keep the
nologin file around after a reboot...

The removal of /etc/nologin occurs in several of the rc scripts.  I would
recommend that you remove these and have rc.boot call your own local
startup script where you can place your own site-specific customizations
to the startup process.  We call ours /usr/local/etc/rc.local.  In it I
recommend that you test for the existance of a file named something like
/etc/disallow.  If it exists, don't remove the /etc/login file, else do:

	#!/bin/ksh

	# rc.local - local startup customizations, called by rc.boot.

	.
	.
	.

	if [ -f /etc/disallow ] ; then
		echo "/etc/nologin will NOT be removed if present..."
	else
		rm -f /etc/nologin
		echo "Logins are ENABLED ..."			
	fi


Or something like that...  As I recall, any changes made to rc.boot
require that bosboot be run with the appropriate options so that the
changes take effect.

Using this method, when you create /etc/nologin, you have the added
safety of needing to explicity touch /etc/disallow to force the nologin
file to stick around after a reboot.

We use this technique as part of a suite of scripts and crontab entries
to have our systems automatically shutdown at scheduled down times - our
operators run VM systems and we can't trust them to bring our systems
down cleanly, and we don't want to come in in the wee hours to do it
ourselves.

Ben
ben@snow.usi.utah.edu
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:55:36 EDT
From: James MacKinnon <MACKINNO@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: tape drives for RS/6000

Along with two colleagues, I am seriously contemplating the purchase of
an RS/6000 340 or 350.  We know that we have to buy some sort of tape
drive, for installing software, backup, and off-line storage of large
datasets, but are confused by all the different types available.  There
seem to be at least six possibilities:  150 MB, 525 MB, or 1.2 GB QIC
drives, a 2GB 4mm DAT drive, and 2.5 or 5 GB 8mm (Exabyte) drives.  I
think these are listed in order of increasing price.  The two larger QIC
drives and the 4mm drive have quite similar prices, though.

Any advice re the advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives
would be welcome.  The 150 MB QIC drive seems a bit small.  The other
QIC drives seem large enough, but I have heard that QIC tapes are
expensive, and I don't know how performance and reliability compares
with 4mm and 8mm drives.  At the moment, we are considering only IBM
drives, mainly because we don't know much about the alternatives.

Feel free to post or reply by e-mail.  If I learn enough to make it
worthwhile, I will post a summary to the net.

James MacKinnon, Department of Economics, Queen's University
mackinno@qucdn.queensu.ca
From: s913300@rubicon (Nga Tran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: PRINTER PROBLEM
Date: 12 Oct 92 07:32:43 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: rubicon.bf.rmit.oz.au


	I would appreciate if someone could advice me how to move the print
	jobs from 1 queue to other queue.

	s913300
From: zdv103@zam070.zam.kfa-juelich.de (Hubertus Reger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Pobe/X
Keywords: performance
Date: 8 Oct 92 07:19:07 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany

Does anyone get some experiences with the software package 
PROBE/X of Startegic Software Group Ltd. ?

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From: dcm@codesmith.austin.ibm.com (Craig Miller - dcm@austin.ibm.com)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: What is the problem with NFS under AIX?
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:54:49 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

In article <BZS.92Oct11002714@ussr.std.com> bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
>>I export my CD read-only (to a Sun), it works fine for a while, then
>>all of a sudden it decides that . is unreadable on the Sun side and no
>>amount of re-exporting, umounting, re-mounting etc (on both sides)
>>will clear this condition up. The CD is fine locally on AIX.
>
>Well, frantic unexporting, commenting it out in /etc/exports,
>re-exporting without, uncommenting, unmounting, remounting etc (all
>under AIX) seems to eventually make the problem go away (at least for
>now.) But I have no idea what the formula is and it's definitely some
>kind of annoying bug.


	This sounds suspiciously like ix27474, which fixed a bug
	in the getattr() vnode op of the cdrfs.

	It appears this apar was shipped in ptfs U405876 and U410256.

		Craig
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From: sdl@adagio.austin.ibm.com (sdl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2 assembler double consts gcc.2.2.2
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:36:32 GMT
	<1992Oct5.165740.6083@csd.cri.dk>
Reply-To: sdl@austin.ibm.com
Organization: AIX Base System Kernel Development


In article <1992Oct5.165740.6083@csd.cri.dk> pky@csd.cri.dk (Peter Kyllesbeck) writes:

[Reasonable arguments why the internationalization of
the AIX assembler is incorrect].

I agree.  

Please open a problem report to get the process started to
get a fix.  In the meantime, as I said before, a workaround
is to run gcc with LANG=C.

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From: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: max fs size
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:55:45 GMT
Reply-To: joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
Organization: SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

In article <zh_pw1s_@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de>, ente@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Karsten Winkovics) writes:
|> 
|> Waht is the maximum file system size under AIX3.2???


Straight from the horse's mouth (or in this case,
/usr/include/jfs/filsys.h):

#define FS_MAXSIZE 4194304L /* Filesystem max size=4194304 .5k blocks */

So whoever said 2,147,483,647 bytes (2.1 Gb) wins the kewpie doll.

*) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *)!(* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (*
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joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu  -or-  415/926-2846
Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:10526 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:26574 comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware:1778
From: rick@mel1.geg.mot.com (Rick Rankin)
Subject: Re: groff compiled anyone?
Organization: Motorola, inc. - Scottsdale, AZ
Date: 09 Oct 92 16:08:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.141745.1416@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il> dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld) writes:
Path: schbbs!mothost!ftpbox!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!blekul11!frmop11!barilvm!vms.huji.ac.il!wisipc.weizmann.ac.il!menora.weizmann.ac.il
    dov
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   From: dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld)
   Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:17:45 GMT
   Sender: news@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il
   Organization: Weizmann Institute of Science, Computation Center.
   Lines: 13

   Has anyone managed to compile groff on AIX, either with the xlC compilor
   or with g++?

   I couldn't find any information about groff in the FAQ.

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It compiled fine under AIX 3.1.5 using gcc-2.2.2 and libg++-2.2.  You
can't use xlc because groff is a c++ program.
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From: tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar)
Subject: X11R5 for ge0
Organization: Inst.of Theor.Chemistry,Univ.of Vienna,Austria
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:09:15 GMT

  I think to remember to have read hear some time ago, that in December a
X11R5 server should come out even for the ge0 graphics adapter.
  My question is - will it come from MIT (like the server for the skyway
adapter), or from IBM? The reason for my asking - is there any chance to
get it fast and without bureaucratical fights with the representatives?

									Tom
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it (G. Vitillaro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: perl under AIX/370 1.2.1
Keywords: AIX/370 perl 1.2.1
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:20:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: ipgaix.1992Oct08.162054.122778
Organization: Universita' di Perugia

peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it (G. Vitillaro) writes:

Anyone tried to compile per 4.035 under AIX/370 1.2.1 (update
level 600)?
I would like to share some experience and put some question.
Thank in advance for any help,
G.Vitillaro
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From: SYD.FARBER@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Syd M. Farber")
Subject: Managing Data using Volume Groups
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:04:43 EST

I am in the process of configuring a RS6000 and would like to know if it is
feasable to manage data in a single volume group or to set up multiple volume
groups.  For example, a volume group for application software, a volume group
for application data, a volume group for paging, and a volume group for the
system software.  Can someone please tell me the advantages and disadvantages
to creating multiple volume groups.  Thank you for your help.

Please email your information or recommendations.
       Syd.Farber@office.wang.com
Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:10531 comp.sys.sun.admin:7102
From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: NFS: AIX3.2.2 mount of SunOS 4.1.2 partion bombs
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:19:42 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

lwk@engin.umich.edu (Lewis W Kellum) writes:
>We have encountered a problem with RS6000s running AIX 3.2.2 trying 
>to mount partitions of Sun4s & Sun4cs running SunOS 4.1.2. The mount
>attempt panics the Sun4's with a memory alignment error, and kills the

Then the Sun's have a bug.  If you panic, you're broken.

However if you get an iptrace of the problem,

        iptrace -s serverhostname -b /tmp/trcfile 
        perform the actions that cause the problem
        kill (iptrace's pid)

on the 6000 and have it ready when you call IBM customer service to
report a problem, we'll be more than happy to look at it and verify
that we're not sending anything too weird to your Suns.

Use my name.

You can look at the iptrace file yourself with 'ipreport -rsn' if you
wish.  The latest and great version of ipreport is available in the
following PTF:

In the LPP bosnet, PTF U409802 shipped the following files:
     /usr/bin/ipreport


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: tvd@controls.ccd.harris.com (Tom Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: IP addresses
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:28:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: ccd.1992Oct7.172849.16452
Organization: Harris Controls and Composition

Hello,

   Does anyone know of a way to send a message to an IP address.  The problem
   have is:  A user on our system is using a IP address; I know it's an
   xterm, but I don't know where it's at.  If they had a window manager 
   running I could send a bitmap image with a message.  Anyone have any ideas?

   Thanx in advance!


Regards,

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Malte Uhl)
Subject: Re: TeX 3.14 under AIX 3.2
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 12:32:55 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.
Keywords: TeX LaTeX

I have built TeX3.14 with gcc 2.2.2, bison and lex (not flex) under AIX 3.2.2.
No problems at all.

Malte
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rick@ransom.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran)
Subject: Re: Help! How to do backup on a network?
Organization: Cornell Materials Science Center
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:20:30 GMT

In article <1ajav4INNm0d@network.ucsd.edu>, dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David Knight French) writes:
|>   You may be interested to know that rdump also
|> requires that the local machine have root access on the remote machine
|> with the tape drive.

There is now (allegedly) a fix for this.  It allows the traditional
"user@host:/dev/rmt0" tape drive syntax for AIX rdump.

The fix is "PTF U405865 and others" on PMR 4x745.  I have installed it,
but I haven't tested it yet.  I'm too busy installing PTF's.

rdump has a slight advantage over the "dump | rsh dd" thing in that it will
do some kinds of tape control via "rmt".

If you use "dd", be sure to specify "obs=<your chosen block size>".
This is the only option which forces dd to unfragment blocks.  If an 8mm
drive gets a 512 byte block fragment, it will pad it to 1024 bytes, thus
creating a bubble in your archive.

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From: lusgr@chili.CC.Lehigh.EDU (Stephen G. Roseman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX telnet...7 or 8 bits?
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:16:27 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University
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Dave Beedle (dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu) wrote:
: 
:    Does the version of telnet on AIX strip high bits or not?  Does it run in an
: 8 bit mod or 7?  Thanks!
: 
: -- 

	I think not, because we were trying to telnet the Dow Jones News
Retrieval service from AIX machines, but it only worked well from PCs going
into AIX, not workstations.  DJNR puts out 8-bit characters and I could not
find a way to strip them, and the screen was unreadable.

	So, for that reason (and another telnet problem), I switched to using
the TCP connect feature of C-Kermit 5A.  (kermit -j hostname -c)  Works
perfectly.

Steve

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