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From: msc@orac.holonet.net (Matthew S. Cronk)
Subject: Re: Problem with restoring from system backup on AIX 3.2
Organization: Information Access Technologies, Inc. of Berkeley, CA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 02:23:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.194259.9076@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>all week trying to figure out why this won't work. Basically I've done
>your ye olde generic mksysb via smit of an AIX 3.2 system that I'm setting
>up. The backup's being stored on 8mm tape, just /dev/rmt0.1 on the system.
>This backup is of a freshly-built system; I'm working on installing a lot
>of software and want a working bootable system backup before I go on.
>
>Now, when I boot from the tape (to verify that the backup indeed worked,
>i.e. re-install the entire system from the backup tape), I get the following
>messages (this is before the install menu comes up and after it asks me
>to press '1' on the console):
>
>	INIT: EXECUTING /sbin/rc.boot 2
>	AIX Base Operating System Installation...
>	Restoring Base Operating System install files from tape: /dev/rmt0.1
>
>	/sbin/rc.boot: /usr/lpp/bosinst/bosmain: not found
>
>	INIT: single user mode
>
>And then leaves me with a root shell with no filesystems mounted, no
>path, no nothin'. Note that the file "/usr/lpp/bosinst/bosmain" is not
>on the original system that I backed up. 
>
>Obviously, this is quite perplexing, as the procedures involved are all
>"by the book". Can someone tell me what's going on and how to work around
>the problem? I can provide more information if needed.

The file "/usr/lpp/bosinst/bosmain" is the program that manages the base
operating system installation process.  It MUST be there in order for
installation to work.
The question that comes to mind is: why isn't that file on the system?
You say the backup is that of a freshly built system, yet something on
the system has been modified if the bos installation executables are
not there.
It might help if you modify the "mkinsttape" command and remove the
redirects to /dev/null.  The "mksysb" command calls the "mkinsttape"
command to create the image on the tape that contains the installation
utilities.  If you remove the redirects to /dev/null, then you will be
able to see any error messages that have been suppressed.  In all
probability you will see something about "file not found" as the
installation utilities files are being backed up into the tape image.
If you can fix this situation, then the chance of the tape working will
be much better.

matt
From: ferreira@torolab6.VNET.IBM.COM (John Ferreira)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 10:15:47 EST
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Wanted : xdbx for AIX
Organization: IBM Canada
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <1dc10gINNcne@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> David R. Stepien writes:
>Boy would I love to get a version of xdbx that runs on AIX and
>supports C++ (IBM's xlC compiler).  Anyone know of such a beast?
>
>Much appreciated,
>
>David Stepien
>
I'm not sure what xdbx is.  If it's an X-window based debugger ...
The IBM SDE WorkBench/6000 V1.2 product is a software development
environment that contains:
- X-window interface to dbx
- language sensitive editor
- program builder
- E/C/D facilities
- ...
John Ferreira
IBM Canada
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From: vic@cd.com (Vic Serbe)
Subject: Any good AIX seminars out there?
Organization: Central Data Corp., Champaign, IL
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:11:08 GMT

Please let me know if there are any good AIX seminars out there
particularly related to system administration and configuration. I'd
also like an intermediate level of programming as an optional, but am
most interested in simply configuring and managing an RS/6000 platform.

Please return email with ads, recommendations, names numbers, et. al.

Thanks.

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From: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM (Frank Kraemer)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 09:00:18 CET
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re. restoring mksysb tape
Reply-To: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM
Organization: IBM Germany, BO-89 ACIS South
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: Usenet 3.0

mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:

>   INIT: EXECUTING /sbin/rc.boot 2
>   AIX Base Operating System Installation...
>   Restoring Base Operating System install files from tape: /dev/rmt0.1
>   /sbin/rc.boot: /usr/lpp/bosinst/bosmain: not found
>   INIT: single user mode

The first 2 files on your tape are used to boot the system. Not all files
packed in these 2 files seems to be on tape - did someone removed them before
you created the backup tape. You can boot either from diskette or use a
other tape.

frank ;-)








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From: konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ksh question
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:26:04 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: IBM AIX Porting Center, Austin

In article <NICK.92Nov5093629@alphaville.osf.org> nick@osf.org (Nick Dokos) writes:
>
>   Info says to use the START environment variable.  In my .profile, I have:
>
>     START=$HOME/.kshrc
>     export START
>
>I did not find such a thing in info, but if it is there it is wrong.
>The standard way is to define the variable ENV to point to your
>per-shell initialization file - see pp. 78 and 182 of Korn & Bolsky's
>book. The manual page for ksh states this explicitly too. Where in
>Info did you find the START reference?

201 Parity Check...Brain Stopped

A thousand (and twenty four) apologies !  ENV is correct...not START !!
Thanks to the folks that caught my error.  That's what I get for speed
reading.  My .profile has the following lines:

  START=$HOME/.kshrc
  ENV='${START[(_$-=1)+(_=0)-(_$-!=_${-%%*i*})]}'
  export START ENV

I have no idea what all the gorp on the ENV line means, but it uses the 
$START I set up in the preceding line.

I was posting from home and was too lazy to fire up ascii-Info to struggle
through what is left of the ksh documentation.  Gimme back my man pages.

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From: jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov ()
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: List of fixes in 3.2.3??? (and 3.2.2 problems)
Date: 10 Nov 1992 15:25:12 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center
NNTP-Posting-Host: gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1992Oct31.044356.9639@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> vla@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Louis Verhagen) writes:
>jmasters@pcocd2.intel.com (Justin Masters) writes:
>
>>dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker) writes:
>
>
>>>3.2.3 is available now ... the X11R5 AixWindows is available in December ....
>
>You guys are just fibbing. According to IBM australia the latest release is
>
>3.2.1    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>These mails are probably made by HP or other vendors to make us normal 
>IBM users feel left out.
>
>Greetings from OZ
>Louis Verhagen 

I guess IBM australia is just a bit out of date... (I just ordered 3.2.3 yesterday
and was told it should arrive sometime around thanksgiving...:-)

John


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From: kcameron@erc.cat.syr.edu (Ken Cameron)
Subject: *xterm function key translations
Originator: kcameron@erc.cat.syr.edu
Organization: Electronic Resource Center, Syracuse
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 20:28:47 EST

I am trying to create a *xterm (real xterm or aixterm) that will use
my own set of escape codes for the function keys. This needs to work
only in the one window I configured as the other windows will be doing
normal AIX stuff. I've tries the use of xrm and translations but
haven't figured it out yet. If someone has a solution please email/post
so I can get this working. Basicly I am trying to have a VT100 window
with vt100 keys (but its on a remote system) so I can't alter the
remote termcap (since it's not Unix).
Thanx,

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From: rmwise@mcigate.apdev.mci.com (Bob_Wise)
Subject: Re: ************ HELP: Defunct processes with XDM
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:35:53 GMT
Organization: MCI

In article <jpe.720978596@ee.egr.duke.edu> jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:
>uad1216@dircon.co.uk (Hugh Neale) writes:
>
>
>>This doesn't seem to do any harm until we have hundreds of defunct 
>>processes (which are of course un-killable), and eventually 
>>the system grinds to a halt and has to be re-booted.
>
>Actually you can have a cron program that kills, the restarts the
>"master" xdm process at an appropriate time.  Another possibility
>is to grab the X11R5 xdm and build it -- it works properly.
>

The X11R5 xdm does not seem to work under 3.2.2 and later.
See my previous post.

-Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.mail.mh
From: jsantos@godzilla.ma30.bull.com (James Santos)
Subject: MH 6.7.2 for AIX 3.2
Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:03:06 GMT

Hi,
	Does anyone have the above-mentioned software running?  I
would be interested in seeing the settings for the MH configuration
parameters that were used, rather than doing this by trial and error.
The system comes with MH 6.6, but I am having trouble with commands
like 'inc' either taking a great deal of time to complete or never
completing at all.

Thanks,

Jim
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: stsiegem@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Stephan Siegemund-Broka)
Subject: Re: How to redirect outputs from the command "time" into a file?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:42:14 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

peba1231@camillo.fb12.tu-berlin.de (Peter Bartsch) writes:

>>Hello, everyone:
>>
>>My first question is about saving outputs from the timing command
>>"time" into a file. I tried "time a.out > a.time", but it did not
>>work. How to capture the outputs into a file? ( I am running
>>AIX3.2 on RS/6000 model 550).

>In (t)csh, run your job within a subshell, like this:

>% (time some-important-program > vip_output) > time_output

>If you prefer to have both outputs in the same file:

>% (time some-important-program > vip_output) >> vip_output

>Peter 

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easier still 
timex some program >& file (in csh)
timex some program > file 2>&1 (in ksh)

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From: nsysdbj@straylight.acs.ncsu.edu (David Joyner)
Subject: Re: mail relay  AIX 3.2
Organization: North Carolina State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:49:53 GMT

 (anna@deis49.cineca.it) wrote:
: We have problem in sending mail messages outside our local domain.
: If we define 
:  DRmail-relay-name
: in the file /etc/sendmail.cf  ALL messages, including those having addresses
: which can be resolved locally (i.e., appearing in /etc/hosts) are sent to
: mail-relay-name. We would like these addresses to be resolved locally, and the
: relay to be used only for "unknown" addresses. 
: Thanks for any hint. 
:                                

The behavior that you want is exactly how the R macro is documented
in the sendmail.cf file.  By default, if you have that macro defined,
only outgoing mail that cannot be locally resolved is sent to the
relay host.  If you're seeing something different, check out the lines
in ruleset 0 after the comment "Resolve addresses that are in our
local domain".  They should be uncommented.

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From: nsd@ednor.bbc.com (Nick Duffek)
Subject: chown() symbolic links?
Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:30:49 GMT

AIX chown(symbolic link) affects the file to which the symbolic link points,
while all other UNIXes with which I've experimented affect the symbolic link
itself.  Does anybody know how to chown() symbolic links on AIX?

Thanks for any help.

Nick
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.sysv386
From: leonid@netcom.com (Leonid Crossman)
Subject: Does AIX run on IBM PC ?
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Unix, AIX, IBM PC
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:23:07 GMT

Subject says it all. Could someone tell me if AIX runs on IBM PC, AT or Microchannel, or on EISA? If so how can one obtain the system and how much does it cost
approx.?
Thanks in advance for help, Leonid.
From: agw@dsm.fordham.edu (Art Werschulz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: traceroute and tcpdump
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:09:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: dsm.AGW.92Nov5170900
Distribution: comp
Organization: Fordham University/CLC, Division of Science and Math

Hi.

Does anybody have versions of traceroute and tcpdump that work for AIX 3.2 
on an RS/6000? Thanks.
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From: pack@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman)
Subject: Re: Troubles with rmt
Summary: does aix switch rewind with rewind-offline?
Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:33:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.211836.24463@ncar.ucar.edu> pack@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman) writes:
>We are having problems with /etc/rmt aka /usr/sbin/rmt..

and (aside from perhaps a related problem with the S stat request
failing at all times from rmt), the problems seem to be related to
rmt unloading the tape when a rewind is issued.

Now, browsing through Sun's mtio.h, I notice that 

mtio.h:#define MTREW            5       /* rewind */
mtio.h:#define MTOFFL           6       /* rewind and put the drive offline */

but, in ibm's tape.h we see

tape.h:#define STOFFL   5       /* rewind and unload tape */
tape.h:#define STREW   6       /* rewind */

So what is a remote machine to do?  Is there a true "standard"
for rmt such that "I5" should be a straight rewind and not map
directly to a machine specific ioctl of unknown affect?  It would
seem that AIX's rmt is just passing the Ioctl request along with
the number unchanged.  By the way, this is with AIX 3.2.* (3.2.2 and
3.2.3) and with rmt 

  08      1.12  com/cmd/arch/rmt.c, bos, bos320 5/22/91 17:52:38


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From: dla@se05 (Doug Acker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: MH 6.7.2 for AIX 3.2
Date: 12 Nov 92 03:16:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: Western Geophysical Exploration Products

In article <-pB=hmB@engin.umich.edu> paul@engin.umich.edu (Paul Killey) writes:
>In article <jsantos.721407786@godzilla> jsantos@godzilla.ma30.bull.com (James Santos) writes:
>>Hi,
>>	Does anyone have the above-mentioned software running?
>
>This is what I used:
>

I got a set of diffs if you are itnerested ...included are diffs to the MIME
code too ....
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From: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM (Frank Kraemer)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 09:01:14 CET
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re. bffcreate -X doesn't work
         Re: bffcreate -X Doesn't Work
Reply-To: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM
Organization: IBM Germany, BO-89 ACIS South
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: Usenet 3.0

tkevans@fallst (Tim Evans) writes:

>I was setting up and "install server," following the instructions
>in the AIX installation manual, and the load of the boot images and
>ptf's ("bffcreate" is the command that's executed from SMIT)
>kept failing.  Each time the failure happened, the jfs I'd
>created for them showed up with no space available.

bffcreate first restores all images from the tape to /tmp (default)
and than does a 'restore -p' to pack them in big files and place these
files in /usr/sys/inst.images. It's much more easier to use 'dd' to
copy the files directly from the tape to disk. The only thing you have
to take care about it the naming. If all images are copied run 'inutoc'
on the directory were you placed your files this will create the
table of contents files '.toc'.

frank ;-)








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From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
Subject: Re: Use Of 10-BaseT With AIX...experiences?
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:49:18 GMT

westes@sti.com (Will Estes) writes:
>I'm wondering if others out there are using 10-BaseT with AIX, and what
>have been your experiences with it, good and bad?  In our situation, we
>want to get all of the PCs onto 10-BaseT connecting through the hub to a
>Netware/386 box.  The question is should we put the AIX system onto the
>same net via 10-BaseT, or do we go by ethernet from AIX to the hub?  Any
>reasons to favor ethernet over 10-BaseT with AIX?

This is the setup we have.  There have been no networking problems to speak
of, but we did find that NONE of the thickwire-to-10BaseT adapters fit
nicely because the thickwire jack on the back of our AIX machines is recessed
a bit and surrounded by a plastic frame.  A real thickwire cable would fit
nicely, but the adapter needed to be really wedged in to connect properly,
and a slight nudge is enough to knock it out while live.

I kinda wish IBM would have done what everyone else has been doing for a long
time and NOT recessed the thickwire jack.  *sigh*

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From: dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (John DeDourek)
Subject: Re: Use Of 10-BaseT With AIX...experiences?
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:17:25 GMT


We are using "Allied Telesis CentreCOM" 210TS Twisted Pair Transceiver
which fits on the back of the 220 PROVIDED THAT YOU DON'T also use
the parallel (printer) port.  In the latter case, it does fit, but
not well, i.e. the transceiver and printer connector are slightly
interferring.  Obviously, in the latter case, the size of the connector
on the printer cable is related.

dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Automount and direct mounts
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:24:21 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

In article <BxFuEv.9IK@csd.cri.dk> tnr@csd.cri.dk (Torben N. Rasmussen) writes:

>When will the patches be a part of the official delivery from IBM.
>In AIX3.1 they had a patch for automount, then with AIX3.2 they delivered
>the old one again.

Eventually.  3.2.1 or 3.2.2 may have the new automount in it.  the 3.1
patch was unofficial.  3.1.9, I think, should have the correct
automount shipped intact.

3.2.1 is really 3.2 with a collection of PTF's on top of it.  So is
3.2.2.  But at some point, there will be a NEW release shipped intact
with no patches, (of as yet unspecified numbering. 3.2.x or 4.x or 5.x,
i guess. i dunno.)  And that release will eventually have Selective
Enhancements on it too.

It gets sorta complicated doesn't it?

>Will the patches ever be included in the releases or are they different
>products from different companies. It seems so.  :-(

It's the same company, IBM.
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From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Problem with restoring from system backup on AIX 3.2
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:42:59 GMT

This is an inane question, but I've been beating my head against the wall
all week trying to figure out why this won't work. Basically I've done
your ye olde generic mksysb via smit of an AIX 3.2 system that I'm setting
up. The backup's being stored on 8mm tape, just /dev/rmt0.1 on the system.
This backup is of a freshly-built system; I'm working on installing a lot
of software and want a working bootable system backup before I go on.

Now, when I boot from the tape (to verify that the backup indeed worked,
i.e. re-install the entire system from the backup tape), I get the following
messages (this is before the install menu comes up and after it asks me
to press '1' on the console):

	INIT: EXECUTING /sbin/rc.boot 2
	AIX Base Operating System Installation...
	Restoring Base Operating System install files from tape: /dev/rmt0.1

	/sbin/rc.boot: /usr/lpp/bosinst/bosmain: not found

	INIT: single user mode

And then leaves me with a root shell with no filesystems mounted, no
path, no nothin'. Note that the file "/usr/lpp/bosinst/bosmain" is not
on the original system that I backed up. 

Obviously, this is quite perplexing, as the procedures involved are all
"by the book". Can someone tell me what's going on and how to work around
the problem? I can provide more information if needed.

Thanks a lot,
mdw

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