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From: ldm@texhrc.uucp (Lyle Meier)
Subject: User lpd at user id 104.
Organization: Texaco EPTD
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:38:11 GMT

In 3.2.3 AIX there is a user called lpd. It is at uid 104 which is also
assigned to one of my users. (The AIX machines came much later than the 
user and other systems dont seem to use anything above 100). 
I did a find / -user lpd -print and didn't find any files owned by lpd,
and no daemons owned by lpd seem to exist. My question is could I change the
ID and what would this affect ?  Or alternativly could I just delete the
account.

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From: fisk@cvdv73.mayo.edu (Tom Fisk)
Subject: Tool to transform/reorganize ASCII files
Reply-To: fisk@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:31:36 GMT


We are looking for a tool that would allow us to take an ASCII input file, 
and reorganize/transform it to another format.

The task at hand is taking ASCII data dumps from several different
medical centers that have similar but different formats and "normalizing" them
to one common data format that I can import into a database.  I would
essentially have to take apart the ASCII input records, reorganzie the data,
possibly do some transformations on the data (i.e., changing all the diagnosis
codes to a standard list), and write the data out to my common format.  I 
will then take this common format and import it into my database.

The "perfect" tool would allow me to have a configuration file to drive the
entire process.

Does anybody know if such a beast exsits?  Does this sound like something 
that GAWK would be capable of handling?

Thanks for your help and suggestions!  Tom.
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From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
Subject: Re: Backups for RS/6000
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:30:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.152645.28406@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, op@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Olaf  Pors) writes:
>>I have to backup my RS/6000 model 220 before a disaster occurs.
> 
>   See the discussions in pub/rs6000/rootvg.restores on
> uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU.

   Olaf, how "current" is the information listed there.  Dates seem
   to be mostly August/September.  Nothing newer?  b.

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From: vla@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Louis Verhagen)
Subject: Re: WITHDRAWAL OF SUPPORT FOR AIX VERSION 3.1.5
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:36:44 GMT

mjg@eng.cam.ac.uk (Michael Gray) writes:

>>This was announced in February, 92, but it's probably time for a reminder.

>>Effective February 28,1993 program services for AIX Version 3.1.5 for
>>RISC System/6000 and selected program releases and/or modification
>>levels will be withdrawn. 

>>Honest, folks, 3.2 is better than 3.1.5!

>Why, then, am I still waiting for my copy of 3.2 from IBM software
>distribution in Denmark?  My VAR has had to provide me with a copy he
>assembled himself.  IBM UK just don't seem interested in supporting
>AIX customers in an effective way.

>Disgruntled,

You are not the only one grunting. We have been prommised fixes
and updates for over a year. They do keep on sending us phamflets
telling us that they are up to 3.2.3 with new fortran, X11R5 etc.
But after a simple phone call one learns that "mayby next month?"
will be the time. 

I wonder if this kind of service is world wide or just in some
countries. 

The machines are nice the service stinks
Greetings from OZ

Louis Verhagen
From: emillion@sobeco.com (E.J.Millions)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: disk space
Summary: disk space doesn't match
Keywords: disk vg lv df
Date: 22 Jan 93 00:37:26 GMT
Organization: Sobeco Inc., Montreal, Canada.

I recently added a disk to an existing volume group and am somewhat 
puzzled by the difference between df and lslv, as follows

% df
Filesystem    Total KB    free %used   iused %iused Mounted on
/dev/lv04      2097152  865984   58%   15372     2% /mounts/b
% lslv lv04
LOGICAL VOLUME:     lv04                   VOLUME GROUP:   vg03
...
MAX LPs:            600                    PP SIZE:        4 megabyte(s)
COPIES:             1                      SCHED POLICY:   parallel
LPs:                568                    PPs:            568
...
MOUNT POINT:        /mounts/b              LABEL:          /mounts/b

Perhaps it is simply that I'm tired and it's time to go home, but
the last time I checked  2,097 Meg was not equivalent to 4x568=2,272 Meg.

Ciao,
EjM
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From: taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Legalities of making PTFs available for ftp?
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:51:33 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin

In article <1jkq6qINNl1g@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> woks4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Ksoll) writes:
>In article <C15ssG.t7u@austin.ibm.com> spider@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>>In article <1993Jan19.171004.69432@crs4.it>, svpillay@.crs4.it (Kanthan
>>Pillay) writes:
>>> 
>>> What are the issues involved in my setting up a repository of AIX PTFs
>>> for anonymous ftp?
>>
>>I think this would be an awesome idea....
 [ deleted ]
>>.............................Keep in mind that storing these PTF's could
>>realistically add up to over 1 Gigabyte! Also, If I want to ftp a PTF,
>>I also need to know all the pre-requisite, co-req, if-req, etc... PTF's that
>>go along with the one that I want to put on in order to install the PTF.
>>This means there must be some logical shellscript written to do this, else
>>the person wanting the PTF will need to get them all (and probably won't be
>>able to since they don't have enough disk space).  

The problem is making sure that you have all the pre-reqs needed for
a fix and with the HUGE amount of fixes out there knowing where your
system is at any given time is difficult since sometimes installing a
fix will break something else.

A few months back our University AIX Users group had a meeting with
some of the installp (and I think kernel) people (one of the perks
being in Austin).  They were talking about AIX 4.0 and they were
talking about having the ability to allow admins to shrink filesystems
online, etc.  

What I would much rather have more than anything else in this world is
for IBM to take a group of their AIXers and have them install ALL the
fixes in the system (fixing those conflicts that might arise between
patches), then 're-gen the kernel' (as my SE liked to say) and STOP.
Release that as AIX 3.3.0

I would much rather have reliable operation of the system that I
have now instead of any 'new features' and alot of unresolved 
questions.  I would gladly do a re-install on my machines, if I
knew that what I was getting was sound.

I'd also like to know what people are doing who have a 400 MB disk
as rootvg and are running out of space to install these fixes (even
after commiting).

Ta ta for now,

Vince Taluskie

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From: hurf@graphics.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Can't get the beast to boot from the tape, fer the Love O'Mike.
Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:13:52 GMT
Organization: Program of Computer Graphics- Cornell University
Distribution: world
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Keywords: I'm not sleepy yet  3.2.3 install  3.1 system

	I am trying to do a 3.2.3 base preservation install on a 3.1 RS6000*
	Punching yellow twice in succsession at "200" gets me the diagnostics
	from the disk every time. What's the trick? 
	
	*How do I get the machine to tell me what it is? It was a 530 (mebbe)
	that IBM has kindly updated for us but I don't know what it
	is now (550? 560? 570?)

thanks in advance 


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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Subject:  shar.Z
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:12:34 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

In article <1993Jan26.165602.25592@PacBell.COM> smmyers@foghorn.srv.pacbell.com (Sean Myers) writes:
>     I have a file with the extension shar.Z I know that the .Z means
>compressed, but what does the .shar mean ?  I've seen it referenced
>before I think as an archive, but I can't find that reference again.
>Any help would be great.  Thanks.

It's a compressed shell archive. After compressing or using zcat, you
can run it through /bin/sh to extract it. Otherwise, you can find a
program called unshar for some additional security checking.

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From: mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Backups for RS/6000
Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:29:25 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

In article <11283@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> greenfie@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Steve Greenfield) writes:
>
>I have to backup my RS/6000 model 220 before a disaster occurs.  I have a
>400MB hard drive that is about 85-90% full.  I have only one volume group;
-snip-
>I have no tape drive attached to my machine.  I can rdump to a RS/6000 in
>the machine room that has an 8mm tape drive /dev/rmt0.  But when you rdump
>you can only dump one filesystem at a time.  I would assume that you can
>piggyback/stack the filesystems on a tape but I don't know how to set this
>up and to use the tape to restore in case of an emergency.
> 
>I would like to be able to do a mksysb of my rootvg volume group.  Can I
>nfs mount the /dev/rmt0 tape drive from another machine?

No.
 
>Are there any other possibilities that other RS/6000 users have implemented?

*If* you can free up some disk space on the other machine (looks like you
need about 300Mb) you can NFS mount a directory from the machine with the
tape drive onto your machine and do a mksysb into it. (If you need details
you can email me.) You can then, if necessary, dump the image to tape.
To restore, you can set up the machine with the tape as a network install guy
and stick the image back on disk. It requires some contortions, but as
far as I know your only other choices are to hook up a tape drive or to
backup to floppies. (And if you backup to the 300+ floppies you know that
somewhere about #50 there's gonna be a bad one.)

>If I do backup and a disaster stricks, don't I have to have a booted system
>to do restores?

I don't follow. The machine with the tape drive/image is going to have
to be up. And I don't even want to think about the horrendous contortions
you'd have to go through if all you have is dump/backup's of the
individual filesystems. Gack! I'd rather do a mksysb to floppy!
 
later,
jack
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From: sdm7g@elvis.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski)
Subject: Re: Re. AIX Function Equivalent To VM's "RETRIEVE" Function Re: AIX Function Equivalent To VM's "RETRIEVE" Function
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:43:23 GMT


Ron Wigmore <SYST8103@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> writes:
>
>On a VM system we can set up a PFkey to recall any commands just
>entered *AND* modify them.  AIX's 'history function' only lets me
>re-issue commands just entered *unmodified*.
>

In article <19930126.010847.96@almaden.ibm.com> kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
>Try,
>
>$ set -o emacs  # for emacs command line editing
>
> ... etc. ...


Also, try 'fc' .
I prefer the emacs line-editing mode most of the time, but the nice thing 
about 'fc' is that it pulls an entire 'while' loop or other multi-line
command into the editing buffer, not just a single line. 

Make sure that $EDITOR and/or $VISUAL are set apropriately.

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From: Mickey_Coggins@vnet.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 10:48:32 CET
Cc:   dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Language support causing problems???
Reply-To: Mickey_Coggins@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.1

In <1993Jan25.012350.13546@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> Dave Beedle writes:
>First, the date command does not return the time zone.  This seems to be
>...
>this is just a guess.  How does one go about changing the locale/NLS?
>    Dave Beedle - Illinois State University
>                Office of Academic Computing - dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
Type locale -a to see which "locales" you have installed.  If you
have the en_US or En_US installed, you can simply set the LANG
environment variable in /etc/environment, or use "smitty chlang".

For any command, you can type "LANG=en_US date" to see what would
happen with that language environment.

If you don't have the en_US locales installed, you have to install
them from your AIX tape.  I recommend running with the en_US locale,
since it is ISO (like most of the other machines on your network).

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From: christes@socrates.umd.edu (Skip Christensen)
Subject: Re: copy 8mm tape to 8 mm tape (using 2 tapedrives)
Keywords: 8mm, tape, 2 tape drives
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:20:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.031737.21487@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> vla@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Louis Verhagen) writes:
>I would like to attach for a while a second 8 tape
>drive so that I can copy data from one tape
>to the other. Does anybody have any ideas about
>which command to use for this? 
>
>e.g. tar (and than pipe it to the second 8mm drive?)
>or   dd ??
>
>Any help is more than welcome. 
>
>Greetings
>Louis Verhagen		Vla@waves.ce.adfa.oz.au
>


You said you have two tapes -- both 8mm.  Let's assume one is
rmt0 and the other rmt1.  Use the tcopy command, e.g.

tcopy /dev/rmt0 /dev/rmt1

ensure both are working at same block size
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Subject: Re: backup and the -p option 
From: Craig_Anderson@kcbbs.gen.nz (Craig Anderson)
Date: 29 Jan 93 02:27:57 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

Rudy Chukran (chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com) writes: 
>backup -p is very convenient, but non-portable.  I use it a lot myself. 
>But tar |compress is usually more space efficient and portable. 
 
I believe "tar | compress" makes it almost impossible to recover data 
from a damaged tape.  "backup -p" doesn't have this problem plus it also 
appears to have checksums on the data portion (something tar doesn't). 
 
-Craig 
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Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 14:51:17 EST
From: Ron Wigmore <SYST8103@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX Function Equivalent To VM's "RETRIEVE" Function

On a VM system we can set up a PFkey to recall any commands just
entered *AND* modify them.  AIX's 'history function' only lets me
re-issue commands just entered *unmodified*.

Is there a way of having AIX (or an xstation) put the entire contents
of the command just entered back onto the command line *AND* then let
me change it slightly.  It would have to allow for 'backspacing' and
'forwardspacing' over the contents of the command line without having
what is already there deleted or blanked out.

For example I type in (because I am a programmer, not a typist :-)):
    "gp /usr/lpp/info/En_US/sys.sys"
when I should have typed:
    "pg /usr/lpp/info/En_US/sys.sys"

As it is now I have to retype the ENTIRE line without making any NEW
typing errors.  That's expecting an awful lot from me.  8-(  With the
RETRIEVE function on VM all I have to do is push a PFkey and then
retype two letters - which is why I never needed to learned how to
type well.  :-)

Ron,,,
From: pgainer@vnet.ibm.com (Patrick Gainer)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 19:13:15 EST
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: semop overflows after 16,384 calls!
Organization: IBM - Toronto Lab
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <01050810.oljql1@mbeckman.mbeckman.com> Mel Beckman writes:
>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
>

My advice would be to not use the semundo flag.
Try something simpler like:

/*
 * Routine to init sem to 1
 */
void init_sem(int *semid)
{
  *semid = semget(IPC_PRIVATE,1,IPC_CREAT|IPC_R|IPC_W);

  semctl(*semid, 0, SETVAL, 1);
}

/*
 * Routine to decrement semaphore. If 0 is decremented, process blocks.
 */
int
  dec_sem(int    semid)
{
  static struct sembuf sembuf = {0,-1,0};

  return(semop(semid,&sembuf,1));
}

/*
 * Routine to increment semaphore. If 0 is incremented, previously blocked
 * processes are awakened.
 */
int
  sqlo_put_token(int    semid)
{
  static struct sembuf sembuf = {0,1,0};

  return(semop(semid,&sembuf,1));
}

That should do the trick for synchronization.

>_____________________________________________________________________
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From: geuder@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Uwe Geuder)
Subject: Re: Question -- gdb 4.7 crashing our rs/6000's
Organization: IPVR, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:43:46 GMT

Jonathan> Here is the problem.  When we try to run gdb-4.7 (from GNU)
Jonathan> our machine dies.  The 888 error is 102-300.  The crash

Debugging did not work for us until we got U406391.
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From: stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger)
Subject: Memory upgrade (Kingston) in RS/530
Keywords: rs530 memory
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:43:42 GMT

In a 530 with 4 memory boards (each 16 MByte) I tried to install
Kingston SIMM's (32 MByte per board) to get 2 spare sd1 boards.

530 should take pairs of memory board. It showed out, that the machine
did only but, if at least THREE memory boards were installed.

Has anybody had similar problems?

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From: joe@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Joe Nappa)
Subject: xcd -- where be it?
Organization: Design Computing Unit, The University of Sydney
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:36:33 GMT

Could someone tell me where I can obtain an ftp-able copy of the
audio CD playing tool for the RS6000 -- preferably one that 
doesn't need imake. Thanks. xcd is preferable.

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From: scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: postscript printer accounting / AIX
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:50:36 GMT
Reply-To: scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Stephen C. Woods)
Organization: UCLA School Of Engineering & Applied Science

>The problem lies in the fact that you would need a full postscript interpreter
>in order to find out how many pages were written.  In the simplest case, you
>could just could the showpage commands.  But, usually the showpage command is
>conditionally generated via macros, who depend on font sized, etc.

Much simpler is to query the page count before printing (from the printer)
then read the value returned.  
Then query again when the jobs is finished, and read the new value.
new - old is page count (exactly).
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From: woks4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Ksoll)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Experiences installing AIX 3.2.3
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:20:30 GMT
Organization: CompuNet Berlin
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In article <1993Jan26.155849.11544@msc.cornell.edu> rick@cougar.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran) writes:
>o I used the "from scratch" 3.2.3 tape.
...
>o It took about 3 hours to do the initial installation on a 530 with 8mm tape.
...
>o It took about 4 hours to install the U409579 tape.

Hi,
I have two questions:
- how much time did you spent to have a running system? Two days?
- are your numbers for 3.2.3 base or extended (with X11R5)?
Thank you,

IBM: how much doest it cost in the U.S. to order a preinstalled (not preloaded
system where I have to spend days to apply and fix the complete OS [say:
AIX, AIXwindows, FORTRAN])?
The above told installation process is unprofessional software distribution..

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