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From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Physically Replacing Systems
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:17:45 GMT

fred@network.ucsd.edu (Fred Criscuolo) writes:

>Within the next two weeks, we will be physically replacing our two Model
>560s running 3.2.1 with two new Model 580s running 3.2.3.  Pleese note that
>we're not upgrading, we're getting two new boxes and selling the old ones.

This won't help you with this move, but I have learned that the only way to
ensure that 3rd party applications (as well as PD stuff) can be moved with
ease is if they are installed in their own subtree, and preferably their own
filesystem/disk.  With this configuration I was able to easily move my external
disks containing my /depot and /home areas to my new machine last summer.  I
just hooked them up and imported the volume groups.  It pays to plan ahead...

If you don't have that option, make a backup of the entire disk.  You could
then try to extract the application files onto the new machine.  Even better
would be to install from scratch and put all your 3rd party stuff under
/usr/apps or something to avoid this problem in the future.  Your important
configuration files will still be on the tape so you could extract them and
then place them in their new locations.

-John

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From: james@engrs.unl.edu (James Nau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: chgenet not showing Adapter Connector
Date: 19 Dec 1992 00:33:35 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering & Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
NNTP-Posting-Host: engrss2.unl.edu


I have someone asking me about setting up his model 350 running
AIX 3.2.mumble (could be from 0 to 3 for all I know) and connecting
to ethernet.  No problem, I've done about 20 or so RS/6000's.  Well,
when one does 'smit -C chgenet', it lists all the normal options,
but NO line for switching from bnc to dix! (Of course, we need dix :)
Using the X based smit did the same thing.

I only had about 10 minutes to work on it before a meeting, but
has it changed how to change dix/bnc?  Email preferred, and I'll
summarize (I'm like, WWWWAAAAYYYY behind in news!)  Perhaps I
can blindly do a "chdev -l 'ent0' -a bnc_select='dix'".  BUT, why
is there no 'line' in smit, and no error message?

Thanks
James
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bruce@ncs.com (Bruce E. Parkin)
Subject: How I got xdm to work and thanks
Organization: National Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:48:19 GMT


Recently I have posted several questions to this News 
group about xdm. I would like to say thanks to all 
of you who responded with helpful answers. It has
always impressed me how much people who read this News
group are so helpful and kind whenever I have asked for
help. So thank you one and all.

First I found out that xdm does not work in AIX 3.2.0.

Then I found out that it does not work on 3.2.3 without 
loading this other tape we got from our SE who does not
really seem to know what it was for but said we needed
it. It had a lot of fixes for xdm and X runtime. But 
that is our SE for you. No one here new anything either.

The problems and how I solved them:

1)	Without running the login program our system would
	not set the "LOGNAME" variable. (xdm does not run
	login). Without this variable set each new aixterm
	would tell you that you had mail, when you didn't,
	because of how the MAIL variable is generated.

	So anyhow, I changed /etc/profile from 
	"readonly LOGNAME" to LOGNAME=$USER. Maybe a 
	security hole, but no worry with the people I work
	with.

2)	The screen saver would still come on with the large
	"X" even when the xdm login window was showing. So
	I modified /usr/lib/X11/Xserver to read:

	0: local /usr/bin/X11/X11/X nologo -sdebug

3)	Any time I killed any program I had started from my
	.xsession, all processes would be stopped and I would
	get logged out. This is is a real pain. 

	I found the best solution to be to change the last
	line in the .xsession that starts an aixterm 
	and remove the exec - run the last aixterm in the
	foreground. Then the auto-logout does not happen when 
	any process is killed - you must kill the last aixterm.


The rest of the configuration was as documented.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: cordes@cs.ua.edu (David Cordes)
Subject: Disk Drives for RS/6000s
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:31:53 GMT

Hi there,

I realize that this is probably a fairly common question, but was curious if anyone had a
summary of the various hard disk drives that were available for the IBM RS/6000 (models
520, 320 and 320h) and their experiences with them.  We can get IBM drives for 50%
of list, so that gives us a best deal of about $4800 for a 2.4G drive, but there are
lots of other options if we do not follow the party line.

Specifically, we are looking at drives that are 1G or bigger, and plug into an existing
system WITH MINIMAL EFFORT.  Any information that could be provided would be greatly
appreciated.  I would also be willing to summarize this to the group (assuming interest
and lack of duplication with the work of others).

Thanks in advance.

------------------------------
David Cordes
Department of Computer Science
University of Alabama
(205) 348-6363
cordes@cs.ua.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: eswu@waterloo.austin.ibm.com (Wu)
Subject: ulimits and MIT X11R5 xdm
Summary: MIT public patch 20 contains xdm ulimit fix
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:39:24 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin
Keywords: MIT X11R5 xdm

The fix to MIT X11R5 xdm to set ulimits when the user logs in is
available in MIT public patch 20. The public patches are on
export.lcs.mit.edu in "pub" via anonymous ftp.
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From: mth@cci632.cci.com (Michael Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.shells
Subject: Anyone ported Windowing KSH to AIX 3.2/RS6000??
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:33:38 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom, NAS

WKSH 1.1 compiles OK under AIX 3.2.3, but when I run it, I get
"No function to call wk_libinit".  When I nm xmwksh, wk_libinit
isn't there!  

If I do the same on the Sun, the function is there.  Anyone 
successfully built this on AIX?  Please email.

Thanks.
-Mike Hickman
mth@cci.com
Northern Telecom
Rochester, NY
From: mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: User resource limits
Date: 19 Dec 1992 04:02:47 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

In article <BzGo2A.88K@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu writes:
>What are the limits (setable limits, not those defined in 
>/etc/security/limits) of the user account resources:
>	stack
>	data
>I can only set the stack up to 65536 and data to 524288.
>The data limits the user to 260+ MB, but our modelers
>need more (300MB or more) to do large model runs.
>I haven't found a way to get above these limits.

On the few occasions I wanted to make one of the settings 'unlimited' I
couldn't get smit to accept '-1' as the setting. So I typed 
'vi /etc/security/limits' and changed it manually. Never seemed to give me
any problems.

jack
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From: bege4000@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Bernd Gebauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Anyone ported shared-X to AIX 3.2 ???
Date: 17 Dec 1992 21:54:32 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
Keywords: shared-X,shX

Hi Folks,

has anybody ported the "shared-X" tool from the X11 contribution
(shX.tar.Z) to AIX ?
I've heard there should be at least some commercial products
with such a functionality.

Thanks for every hint.

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From: tuc@stormking.com (Scott J Ellentuch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Chooser on X11R5
Date: 12 Dec 92 00:17:13 GMT
Organization: The Telecom Security Group

Hello all,

	Just a quick question.  On X11R5 is there any reason why we can't
change the Imake to allow "chooser" to be built? (Or, define BuildChooser).

				Scott
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From: cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu (Craig Metz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Anyone have a Gopher 1.1 port to RS6k AIX 3.1.5 or 3.2?
Date: 21 Dec 92 00:57:39 GMT
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


	If anyone knows where I could find diffs or source to
a version of Gopher 1.1 that works properly under AIX 3.1.5 or
AIX 3.2 for the RS/6000, could you please mail me? I have 
compiled the latest version, but the client has many problems
stemming from AIX's perpetually broken curses...

						-Craig
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: raj@ics.uci.edu (Richard A. Johnson)
Subject: AIX 3.2.3 has X11R5 ?
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:17:50 GMT

I heard a long time ago from a person inside IBM in Austin that AIX 3.2.3 would
have X11R5 on it.  I finally got a copy of AIX 3.2.3 (after many trials and
tribulations with our branch office!), and installed it here.  It seems to
still have X11R4 on it!  Is it true that AIX 3.2.3 has X11R5?  Maybe there are
two different versions of AIX 3.2.3?  I have one which seems to be made up of
just a bunch of updates.  Is there another?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: neumann@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Christof A. Neumann)
Subject: Re: AIX and PS/2
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:53:32 GMT

From the German IBM branch I recently got the information that AIX
is *not* released for their IBM Think-Line. Whether it's running or not
is another question, however.

Cheers
   Christof
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From: timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu)
Subject: test, ignore
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:24:54 GMT


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From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Letago Networker on AIX
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:16:20 GMT

dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker) writes:

>Somethings to keep in mind .... with a AIX  server,  the  tape  drives
>needs special microcode in them, so if you dont have  an  IBM  drives,
>you might be "screwed" (Legato sits above the OS as an application).

No longer true.  IBM now (w/ 3.2.x) provides an "ostape" (Other SCSI Tape)
driver that works well.  I've been using a Sun tape drive for months without
problems.

-John

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: banana@panix.com (Walter Polkosnik)
Subject: X11R5 / GL Questions
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:22:43 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

I have an IBM RS6000 running AIX 3.2. It seems that the version of X that comes
with the system is X11R5. I hear the current version is X11R5 and X11R6 is in
the works! I find many of the neato public domain programs I would like to get
say they need R5 to compile. Why is there such a big lag between R5 coming out
and IBM distributing it to their customers? Is there an easy way for me to
upgrade to R5 by getting some files from export.mit.edu? I really can't justify
putting too much effort into it though. Let me know how hard it is.

An unrelated question: I found out that to do certain things with Mathematica I
need to have SGI's GL libraries installed. On my installation tape there are a
couple of UPGRADES to those libraries, but not the ACTUAL libraries. Aren't
those libraries part of the standard stuff that gets distributed, and if not,
why would IBM send me upgrades to software I do not own?

Puzzled in Peoria,



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From: woks4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Ksoll)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: qdaemon on 3.2.3
Date: 18 Dec 1992 08:56:20 GMT
Organization: CompuNet Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de

Hi folks,
I have observed on different machines that the qdaemon of AIX 3.2.3 
eats large amounts of CPU-cycles.

Is there a lovely bugfix available on the net? ( a simple new qdaemon
would be prefered to a needs-one-day-of-downtime-to-install-but-you-
have-a-consistent-ODM-database PTF).

Is it save to replace the qdaemon with an older version (say AIX 3.2.2)?

Thank you,


Wolfgang Ksoll           woks4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
CompuNet Berlin GmbH, Mariendorfer Damm 1-3, W-1000 Berlin 42, Germany
Phone: +49 (030) 707 85 - 123 FAX: - 130
From: rriv@oural.inria.fr (Robert Riviere)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: poor NFS performance under 3.2.2
Date: 17 Dec 92 11:17:51 GMT
Organization: Cermics/Inria-Sophia Antipolis

In article <Bz2wAx.ELs@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
>I've just finished upgrading all our 320's to 3.2.2 (with a single /usr
>server and /home spread over three machine), and notice NFS performance
>seems to be _way_ down on 3.1.5. 
>

We also have the same problem with three /usr clients of a 560 /usr server.
NFS is so slow that it takes 5 min to launch an X server on the clients...
And with automount, it is definitively out.

I've got the proof that it isn't the server. A Sun client works fine.

IBM answered :
1- "There is nothing about a NFS problem in our database. Shut up and go away."
2- (After tortuous discussions) "Try to modify some transmit and receive queue
sizes under smit."
	Result : the /usr client booted no more.

Fine. Isn't it ?


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From: fehrin@math.TU-Berlin.DE (Franz Fehringer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: RiSc World
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:54:39
Organization: FB3, TU-Berlin, Germany.
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: newton.math.tu-berlin.de

The aix-FAQ mentions the magazine RiSc World and says it is free.
Can I contact them via E-Mail or is there any FAX-Number around?

Greetings Franz.
From: hartmans@npc.ece.utexas.edu (Sam Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Determining Your Service Level -- an IBM response
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:19:03 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
In-reply-to: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu's message of 17 Dec 92 14:28:13 GMT

>>>>> On 17 Dec 92 14:28:13 GMT, jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) said:
In article <jpe.724602493@ee.egr.duke.edu> jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:

John> Nntp-Posting-Host: ee.egr.duke.edu

John> In a problem report I submitted this week I asked how we were supposed to
John> determine our service level with all these PTFs in 3.2.  Here is the response
John> I got from the person handling my request.

>From: Cindy Miller Barrett <cindy@eureka.austin.ibm.com>
>
>Since AIX 3.2 uses a selective fix strategy, there is not a solid way
>to determine the "Service Level".  One can run AIX 3.2.0, AIX 3.2.0 
>with a bunch of PTFs installed,  AIX 3.2.2 (which is AIX 3.2 with a  
>specific package of PTF's), or AIX 3.2.3, etc.

John> How wonderful.  It seems the mere concept of a system level has pretty much
John> gone out the door at IBM.  Any comments out there about this?

John> -John
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	IBM has created a way of making sure what patches you have
installed on your system. IBM certainly isn't the only OS vendor to
distribute patches, biut under AIX, you can determine (although it is
tedious) exactly what is installed. This is a good idea.

	Also, IBM has used this installation method to provide interum
upgrades, so they don't have to build an entire new release of the OS.
Perhaps, though, it is getting about time for all the "working" PTFs
to be merged into a release with a new modification level, and the
"semi-working, or still buggy" PTFs to be reissued to work with the
new modification level of AIX. Or, at least, somethin g needs to be
done because there are just too many PTFs out there. Also, the
installation strategy needs to be sped up. For example, it would be
nice if all pre-requisites were checked at the beginning of an install
run (in one quck pass), and this never had to be done again. In short,
there needs to be a way to package more than one PTF an a single
installation image.
From: crow@waterloo.austin.ibm.com (David L. Crow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2.3 has X11R5 ?
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:36:00 GMT
Reply-To: crow@austin.ibm.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM AWS Graphics Systems

raj@ics.uci.edu (Richard A. Johnson) writes:
>I heard a long time ago from a person inside IBM in Austin that AIX 3.2.3 would
>have X11R5 on it.  I finally got a copy of AIX 3.2.3 (after many trials and
>tribulations with our branch office!), and installed it here.  It seems to
>still have X11R4 on it!  Is it true that AIX 3.2.3 has X11R5?  Maybe there are
>two different versions of AIX 3.2.3?  I have one which seems to be made up of
>just a bunch of updates.  Is there another?

    The 3.2.3 release was split into a base release and extended release.
  AIXwindows 1.2.3 (which includes the R5 server and clients) is part of
  the 3.2.3 extended release which should be available any time now.
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From: dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Letago Networker on AIX
Date: 12 Dec 92 14:14:10 GMT
Organization: western geophysical exploration products
In-reply-to: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM's message of 12 Dec 92 06:09:00 GMT

>>>>> On 12 Dec 92 06:09:00 GMT, kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM (Frank Kraemer) said:
	Frank> Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
	Frank> News-Software: Usenet 3.0

	Frank> Hi,
	Frank> in UNIXWORLD 12/92' Legato Networker was the big winner in the product
	Frank> review for back-up software. Can someone using it, provide his experience
	Frank> with the software or give me a pointer to more info.


We use it extensively ... with a Comtec (aka Lago aka StorageTek) Tape
Library  (270GB)  with  two  drives.   Works real good for lights outs
backups ..and restores are much much faster.

We  use  a  Sun  Server  (the  Legato  guys  are the Sun engineers who
inveneted RPC, NFS etc ...).

Somethings to keep in mind .... with a AIX  server,  the  tape  drives
needs special microcode in them, so if you dont have  an  IBM  drives,
you might be "screwed" (Legato sits above the OS as an application).

The database files get huge ... we keep 2 months of  database  history
files for about 40GB worth of data ... the  database  size  is  around
2gb...

i.e.  figure  2.5%  of  the information you want to remember is in the
database.

The  X-windows interface is a bit quirky and their are some minor bugs
that  are  only  cosmetic  ....  but  for  the  actual backup/recovery
subsystem,its rock solid.

Let me knowif you want any more information.
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From: tuc@stormking.com (Scott J Ellentuch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Xstuff in common?
Date: 14 Dec 92 00:41:37 GMT
Organization: The Telecom Security Group

Hi,
		What do puzzle, xlogo and xeyes have in common that
maze, ico, xgc and xclock don't?

	If you know, PLEASE tell me.

			Scott
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