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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: E-Mail system recommendations needed
Date: 2 Sep 92 05:22:16 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Aug28.225825.2032@pool.info.sunyit.edu> buck@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Jesse Buckley) writes:
>In article <2A9CF942.29269@orion.oac.uci.edu> fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) writes:
>>I am looking for an email package for about 200 people on an Ultrix
>>system. I know of the public domain systems (MH and ELM) but we need
>>something with more features, especially since most users are
>>used to cc:Mail on MSDOS. If you know of any packages (commercial or 
>>otherwise), please let me know. 
>
>Take a look as MUSH, it's highly programable.  If it's not enough go and
>buy Z-mail.  I *WISH* I could but, there is the budget thing in my way.

Another noteworthy user agent is Columbia MM, a version of the DEC-20 mail
package that runs under just about any Unix you can think of.  Opinions vary
widely, but I personally think it's the best I've ever used.  Particularly
useful for new users is command completion via ESC -- makes the whole thing
more or less explain itself.  Worth looking at, in any case.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	 tls@panix.COM
  "Oh, you have wounded me!  I have very few prejudices, actually.  The
biggest problem is that I am intolerant of fools.  That is why I have
such a low tolerance level for Libertarians."  -- Jim McMaster
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: shahryar@crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi)
Subject: Exabyte 8200 --> 8500 tape conversion...
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 01:56:23 GMT

Dear all,

I am intending to buy an Exabyte 8500 [5 Gig 8mm] tape drive.  I
wsa curious to know how I can format my current 8200 tapes [2.2 Gig
8mm] be reformated as 8500 tapes.  I taked to Exabyte and they said
that their tape drive reads both formats but they did not tell me
how to reformat the tapes to be written in the higher capacity.
Can anyone help me??

Shahryar

--
Shahryar G. Hashemi
System/Network Administrator -- RICOH Corporation California Research Center
2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 115         Telephone: (415) 496-5730
Menlo Park, CA  94025-7022             FAX: (415) 854-8740
E-Mail: <shahryar@crc.ricoh.com>
From: rouilj@dl5000.bc.edu (John P. Rouillard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: problem with lpr
Date: 29 Aug 92 03:32:10 GMT
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College


Well I am trying to use lprps on a DECstation 5000/120 running Ultrix
4.2A. If I don't specify a of=... in the printcap, the psif filter
gets executed, and everything works fine. If however, I use of, in
conjunction with sb, the of ffilter gets executed, followed by the
following in the error log:

 /usr/lib/lpd: lp1: output filter died (0)
 /usr/lib/lpd: lp1: Fri Aug 28 22:22:06 1992: Job 336 aborted
 /usr/lib/lpd: lp1: Closing output connection for dev
 /usr/lib/lpd: lp1: open failure (2) of control file cfA336dlws12.bc.edu
 /usr/lib/lpd: lp1: Fri Aug 28 22:22:06 1992: daemon 8004 exit
 
Well, how am I supposed to exit the of so that the "if" can get called?

Everything works fine with the ln03rof filters in both the of and if
locations, but I want syslogging of major errors like out of paper
etc. Also having the error messages mailed back to the user is very
useful since we have people writing their own postscript here.

So does anybody have any ideas as to how the "of" filter should be set
up to produce a banner page, and still have the "if" filter get
executed?

Thanks.

-- John
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
Subject: Re: maxtor disk problems on decstation 5000 - HELP!!
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: 25 Aug 92 14:17:19




In article <1992Aug25.203250.11167@utkux1.utk.edu> snyder@voodoo.utcc.utk.edu 
(kim snyder) writes:


>> Background:
(mostly deleted)

>>   sectors (512 bytes) 2,947,261

Here is a major part of your problem. Ultrix v4.1 will not deal with disks
that are greater than 1GB. What's happening is that you are wrapping around.
It's Ultrix v4.2 that goes with the 10byte addresseing scheme from the SCSI-2
draft and will address disks of larger capacity.

It is just possible (because the addressing limit is on a partition basis) that
if you NEVER address the c partition (which is usually defined as the entire
disk) that you could get away with it. But, you're better off upgrading to at
least Ultrix v4.2 for your workstation.

>>   Maxtor has no clue about using their disk on unix much less on a
>>   decstation.  could it be that since scsi is not scsi is not scsi,
>>   that there is something fundamentally wrong w/ this disk? 

There's probably nothing wrong with the disk. Just the capability of the SCSI
driver you're using to address a disk that size.

>>   kim


I hope that this helps.

				Thanx,
				  AJ


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mcba@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Michael C. B. Ashley)
Subject: Re: NFS problem
Summary: try using NFS locking
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:40:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.193805.3107@coe.montana.edu>, osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Craig Spannring) writes:
> 
> I have a DECStation 5000 setup as an NFS server for a few 3100's.  I am
> having a problem with the server locking up for about 15 seconds or so
> whenever one of the clients tries to access through a stale NFS
> handle.
> 
I had this problem too, and it went away after installing NFS locking. I
put the following in /etc/rc.local

# %NFSLOCKSTART%
echo -n 'NFS Locking: '^I^I^I^I^I^I>/dev/console
[ -f /usr/etc/nfssetlock ] && {
^I/usr/etc/nfssetlock on & echo -n 'enabled; '^I>/dev/console
}
[ -f /usr/etc/statd ] && {
^I/usr/etc/statd & echo -n 'daemons: statd '^I^I^I>/dev/console
}
[ -f /usr/etc/lockd ] && {
^I/usr/etc/lockd & echo 'and lockd'^I^I^I^I>/dev/console
}
# %NFSLOCKEND%

(those ^I are tabs - my editor shows them explicitly so I know they are
there...)

Hope this helps. I presume this is what fixed my problem. Its a pity
that the documentation is not a bit more helpful in this regard. Also,
"nfssetup" disables locking by default if I remember correctly.

Michael Ashley mcba@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Subject: Re: Does PHIGS exist for Ultrix?
Keywords: PHIGS Ultrix 4.2
Reply-To: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Washington State University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 19:11:06 GMT


In article <3664@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>, l1ngo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Linh Ngo) writes:
|>From: l1ngo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Linh Ngo)
|>Subject: Does PHIGS exist for Ultrix?
|>Organization: University of Colorado at Denver
|>Lines: 12
|>
|>A user here wants to order a graphics package which requires the
|>PHIGS graphics library.  Does anyone know where I can pick this up?
|>We're running Ultrix 4.2 on several VAX/DECstation [32]100's.
|>

DEC sells it (not the answer you wanted to hear, maybe :-).

--
Joshua Yeidel               | yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu
Academic Computing Services | All standard disclaimers apply
Washington State University |   "Believe it if you need it, 
Pullman, WA 99164-1226      |     or leave it if you dare..."
509/335-0441                |         -- Robert Hunter
From: njohnson@sysad.cnde.iastate.edu (Neil Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Using DEC NSR with DMS
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:55:14 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA



How do I configure NSR to back up local disks on DMS clients?

I don't really like the idea of backing up /usr 30 times (it is backed up when I
do the DMS server).

I tried using a directive just to backup files in /local and that seem to
do the trick until it backed up our entire online-documentation CD-ROM (which
is mounted under /usr/lib/dxbook).

Any other tips on using NSR would be greatly appreciated.

DEC's documentation is confusing as always.

Thanks.


-- 
Neil Johnson, N0SFH		 | Systems Administrator
njohnson@cnde.iastate.edu        | Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
njohnson@sysad.cnde.iastate.edu  | Institute for Physical Research & Technology 
neil@iastate.edu		 | Iowa State University 
                                 | Ames, Iowa
From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: VAX Ultrix 4.3 ?
Date: 29 Aug 1992 16:59:21 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,Tx


	I understand that version 4.3 of Ultrix for MIPS has been released.
Has it been released for VAX ? I just got version 4.2C. How is that different
from 4.3 ? Thanks.
	Please email responses. Thanks.

				Cheers,
				Dan Ts'o		212-327-7671
				Dept. Neurobiology	dan@rna.rockefeller.edu
				Rockefeller Univ.	...s5!rna!dan
				1230 York Ave.		tso@rockvax.bitnet
				NY, NY 10021
From: osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Craig Spannring)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: NFS problem
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:38:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: coe.1992Sep2.193805.3107
Organization: Geographic Information & Analysis Center Montana State University


I have a DECStation 5000 setup as an NFS server for a few 3100's.  I am
having a problem with the server locking up for about 15 seconds or so
whenever one of the clients tries to access through a stale NFS
handle.

The way I can duplicate the problem is to log on to the first machine,
create a subdirectory, and chdir into the new subdirectory.  Now if I
log into the second machine and delete that subdirectory it will hang
the server for about 15 seconds whenever the first machine tries to
access the now defunct directory.  During this 15 seconds or so the
server seems to be stuck in kernel mode.  I have tried logging in to
the server as root, renice'ing to -20, and I still don't get any cycles
for the 15 second hicup.

Any advice?  Any suggestions on where to start looking?

-- 
=========================================================================
 Six of one, 110 (base 2) of | Craig Spannring --- (406) 994-6128
 another.                    | osycs.giac1.oscs.montana.edu
 ----------------------------+ Geographic Information & Analysis Center
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ethernet Interface hardware address
Date: 26 Aug 92 02:31:24 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center

>> Is there a simple command to get the ethernet hardware address?

	arp from another machine. ;)

	There's also an ioctl that can be used to get the physical address:

	struct ifdevea hw_addr;
	if (ioctl(s, SIOCRPHYSADDR, (caddr_t) &hw_addr) < 0) {

mjr.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hrt@utne.aosg.gsf.dec.com (Henry R. Tumblin AOSG)
Subject: Re: Service Accounts running X login
Reply-To: hrt@aosg.gsf.dec.com
Organization: AOSG
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:44:49 GMT

> On all our machines there's a passwordless service account allowing
> every user to shutdown the machine from the console.

> When we got an Ultrix machine I installed such an account.
> The problem: with an X window login on the console people can
> login into this account without any restrictions.

> Are there any possibilities to control the actions of some special accounts
> after the X window login ?

You can modify the .profile or .cshrc to be a "captive" account so that all
that you can do is perform a shutdown or exit. Part of the problem with
Ultrix is that it doesn't use the MIT style of startup, which invoke xdm which
uses scripts to control the environment. What you can do to work around this
is to specify a script instead of the session manager in the /etc/ttys file.
Look at the man page for dxsession and it'll show you how to specify this. Then
what you can do in the script is to detect the special account and do the 
right thing, otherwise you exec dxsession and everything works as normal.

> Btw, is it possible for an user logged into the console in character mode
> to start an X window enviroment ? Someting like startx ?

Sure by having them start xdm which should do the right thing. You may need
to set the sticky bit on xdm if you want non-priviledged users to start xdm
since it normally gets started by root. You may have to fiddle with this.

The good news is that we've gone to the MIT style of startup in OSF/1-Alpha and
this type of customization becomes much easier to do.

/Henry

--
Henry R. Tumblin                        Alpha Open Systems Group
From: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: /bin/test bug?
Date: 25 Aug 92 12:59:28 GMT
Reply-To: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Are you sure that you're using /bin/test?  Perhaps you're actually using
some shell's built-in test instead.

I just tried both

% /bin/test 's' = 's'

and

% test 's' = 's'

on an ULTRIX V4.2A system using the supplied csh as the shell.  In both
cases, the exit status was 0.

-Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Re: Using DEC NSR with DMS 
Organization: CS
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:34:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.165514.21673@news.iastate.edu> njohnson@sysad.cnde.iastate.edu (Neil Johnson) writes:
>
>
>How do I configure NSR to back up local disks on DMS clients?

Add the client to the NSR database, remove the All spec for the filesystems
to back up, and explicitly list the ones you want...

Or else I'm missing something completely obvious about your question...
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: cunning@arthur (Dave Cunningham)
Subject: dump(8) under ultrix
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 18:32:56 GMT

I'm trying to integrate an ultrix (4.2) system into a network backup
scheme.  The other systems involved allow anyone to run /etc/dump, and
use permissions on the device special files for security.  This allows
dump to be run from an account other than root, which is in a group
that has read permissions on the raw devices.  This doesn't work under
ultrix since only root (or opser?) can run dump.

There is also a file called /usr/etc/dump.4.1, which seems to be a version
of dump without this restriction.  I can't find any mention of it in the
docs.  Can anyone tell me what it is, if/where it is documented, and whether 
there are any concerns I should have about using it ? 

--
#include  <standard_disclaimer.h>

Dave Cunningham				cunning@arthur.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.		O/81-10, B/157-5E, (408)-756-1382
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: multiple yppasswd requests corrupting NIS passwd?
Organization: Information Services, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:57:02 GMT

DEC 5000/200, Ultrix 4.2 is NIS master to several NIS clients which are also
DEC 5000/200 with Ultrix 4.2.

We distribute the passwd database via NIS (yes, NIS, sigh).  It seems like
the NIS database got corrupted today.  We have 2500 entries in /etc/passwd
but ypcat passwd on the NIS client just showed 4 entries.  I touched
/etc/passwd on the NIS master and did a ypmake and this cleared the problem.

How did this happen?  More pointedly, if two people do a yppasswd from a
client, does the NIS master bother to check to see if the NIS databases are
being written to before doing doing ypmake?  Could the two yppasswd requests
have been trying to write to the NIS files simultaneously?

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

Any clues?

--
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: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Syntax question for rc.local file
Date: 29 Aug 92 20:57:26 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center

>Is this correct syntax?
>
>	/etc/routed add default 129.71.1.11 1 & echo 'routed'	

	Nope. To add routes manually, use the "route" command, not the
router daemon!

	/usr/etc/route add default 129.71.1.11 1

	RouteD is used for adaptive routing, route(no D) is used to
manipulating static routes. If you're going to get into interesting
mixtures of static and adaptive routes, I suggest you look at using
gated (FTP it from someplace).

mjr.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: frank@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (Frank Horowitz)
Subject: dxdb source window resizing?
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: CSIRO Geomechanics
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 08:16:10 GMT

	This is likely a FAQ, but my newshost expires comp.unix.ultrix fairly
fast...  I'm trying to find out how to get the source-code pane in dxdb to
resize with the rest of the window.  I've played with the
dxdb.widthSourceLines value in my ~/.Xdefaults, but to no avail.  Anybody
have a clue as to what's needed?  (Environment: DECstation 5000/240, Ultrix
4.2A.) Please e-mail responses, and I'll post a summary if warranted.

	Thanks in advance for any help! 

__________________________________________________________________
Frank Horowitz;                            frank@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au 

CSIRO-Geomechanics, P.O. Box 54, Mt. Waverley, Victoria 3149, AUSTRALIA
Tel. (03)881-1247 (Int'l +61 3 881 1247),FAX (03)803-2052 (+61 3 803 2052)
From: rouilj@dl5000.bc.edu (John P. Rouillard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: malloc
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:20:36 GMT
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College


There is also malloclib from comp.sources.reviewed. I think its at
patch level 13 at this point. I used it to debug some rather nasty
memory problems in cvs 1.3, and it always lead me right to the
offending line.  In its current incarnation, it even handles X malloc
calls.

Truly an amazing package.

-- John
Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:6636 comp.infosystems.gopher:345
From: tkt@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Latest version of Ultrix gopher?
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:13:17 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University




Hi all, 
	I was wondering what the latest version of Ultrix Gopher is, and
where I can get it.  Thanks.



Adam  (tkt1@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: dump tape (retrieving contents)
Keywords: dump
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:34:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntpd2.1992Aug25.233416.19633
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Aug25.193434.6173@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:
>Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
>From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
>Subject: dump tape (retrieving contents) 
>Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
>
>
>Is it possible to retrieve single files from a dump tape ?

Examples:

1.  % restore iv	# defaults to tape /dev/rmt0h
2.  % restore xv name	# defaults to tape /dev/rmt0h

In the case of using 'x' you probably need to use the name
as stored on the tape.  You can use the 't' option to get
the names.

>
>--Christoph Kukulies
>
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 20:22:15 GMT
Organization: WINCO
Subject: dxpsview problem
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: WINCO
Keywords: 

OK, nostalgia buffs, how about this:

We recently installed ULTRIX 4.1 on 3 of our old VAXstation 3100's here.
(Don't laugh, they were running 3.0 :-).  We also installed the mandatory
upgrade (4.1.1, I think), and most everything is peachy.  However, the
dxpsview program is failing with the following message:

    X Toolkit Error: Server does not have PostScript extension.

This happens whenever one tries to open the postscript file for display.

The odd thing is that it works fine on another VAXstation 3100 running
4.1 (without the mandatory upgrade, BTW).  I can't seem to figure out
what it is that I've missed.  I've compared the setld -i output from 
the system that works with the system that doesn't, and they both appear
to be in sync as far as installed subsets (again, except for the fact that
the one that works does *not* have the mandatory upgrade).

Any ideas, oh most helpful ones?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: nfs_mount: access denied 
From: kumargs@ACS1.memst.edu (Gannu Satish Kumar)
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:05:02 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University, Memphis

hi,
	we have a dec 5000/25 and AUX running on a Machintosh.
i am exporting a directory from AUX to the ultrix machine and when
i am trying to mount the exported directory on ultrix i get  the 
following error.
# mount -t nfs -o soft,rw acs2:/usr/dict /usr/acs2
nfs_mount: access denied for acs2:/usr/dict
#

The /etc/exports file of AUX is as follows
/usr/dict -access=ACS1

Can anyone tell what is wrong with what iam doing?
thanks for the help
Gannu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: sys_sprute@vxdesy.desy.de (Lars Sprute)
Subject: 'less' as man pager
Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:10:46 GMT

Hi,

I would like to use 'less' as the pager for the man pages. (default is 'more').
I tried to define the environment variable PAGER, but it doesn't work,
'more' is still used.

Any ideas what to do ?

Thanx in advance,

Lars

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: problems with receiving mail 
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 04:12:12 GMT


[ The customer, murphy@sscdaq.phy.bnl.gov (Michael Murphy) is having
  strange mail problems after rebooting. ]

The first place I always looking when mail stops working is to
make sure /var/tmp is still work write-able.  I've generally
only seen it on DECnet mail, but that may be due more most of
mail being delivered via DECnet.
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix