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From: saus@media.mit.edu (Mark Sausville)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: How to use nslookup to go from IP address to name?
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:59:56 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory

In article <1992Jul24.104122.9943@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size) writes:

   From: coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size)
   Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
   Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:37:59 GMT
   Lines: 14

     This may be a FAQ, in which case please accept my apologies; I've just
     added this group.

     How can I use nslookup to translate an IP address into a fully-qualified
     host name?  It will do the reverse, but any time I feed it an address, it
     just parrots it back to me.

This is how it's done.

     <#1 bijou:/u/saus>nslookup
    Default Server:  localhost.media.mit.edu
    Address:  127.0.0.1

    > set qu=any
    > 18.0.85.18.in-addr.arpa
    Server:  localhost.media.mit.edu
    Address:  127.0.0.1

    18.0.85.18.in-addr.arpa	host name = bijou.media.mit.edu

In other words, tell nslookup that query type is "any" then give it
the address in reverse byte order appending "in-addr.arpa".  This has
to do with how reverse mappings are managed by named.

								M.

Mark Sausville                           MIT Media Laboratory
			 	         Room E15-473
617-253-0325                             20 Ames Street
saus@media.mit.edu                       Cambridge, MA 02139
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Subject: DEC's new policy on upgrades
Summary: pay through the nose.
Organization: UTCS Unix Systems Group
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:38:08 GMT

 According to two of our local salespeople, DEC will no longer sell
incremental upgrades to people without DEC's overpriced software
service agreement[*]; you must buy full install kits. Worse yet,
you cannot backdate a software service agreement; it starts from
the currently shipping OS, and to hell with you if you haven't
been keeping up to date.

 I am, well, livid is a good word. Either DEC's salespeople have
mispoken themselves to us AGAIN, or DEC has decided to shoot itself in
the foot with a small tactical nuke. If this is indeed the policy, I
will do my utmost to dissuade people from buying DEC gear, because
their support has just dropped from 'non-existent' to 'hostile' (it
has already killed one potential sale).

 If this is not in fact the policy, I am sure that we and our
local salespeople would appreciate being enlightened about it.
If it is, well, goodbye DEC; please go under fast so that we
can stop being distracted by the thrashing.

Disclaimer: There are not currently the opinions of the UofT, although
the author is working on changing that.
[*: Support is on the order of $300+ a month; DEC releases less than
    one usable new version a year, on average, and the full kit cost
    is $2,000 or so -- incrememental kits are cheaper.]
--
"SVR4 much more resembles a high-speed collision between SVR3 and
 SunOS--you can find bits and pieces of both systems in unlikely places,
 some intact while others are barely recognizable."	- Dick Dunn
cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu	           ...!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utgpu!cks
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum)
Subject: Re: MANPATH?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Distribution: comp.unix.ultrix
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:44:49 GMT

>Is there a version of man available for DECstations that supports
>MANPATH?

	decuac.dec.com: pub/sources/bsd-man.shar.Z

mjr.
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From: helix@netcom.com (Helix Systems Inc)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
Subject: need acucap, tip help
Keywords: tip uucp acucap
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:21:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

I've got a Practical Peripherals 9600SA modem connected to a DECstation
5000/125 running Ultrix 4.2. I know the modem and cable work, because I
can use kermit from the 5000 to dial out, and in fact I am doing that 
right now.

My problem is tip (and uucp). When I use tip to call out, it dials the
number, tells me it's waiting for a carrier. About 10 seconds later,
the modem connects (I can tell by the led lights on the modem), but
the tip program never gets the message, and it eventually times out
saying no carrier detected.

It seems obvious to me that my /etc/acucap file is not configured
properly. I have for DAYS to get it right, and I still can't. Can
someone who has some experience with acucap help me out?

Louie LaPlant
helix@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
Subject: Re: More on Ultrix 4.2a and GCC 2.x
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:45:29

In article <1992Jul22.044232.16315@kirk.bu.oz.au> bambi@bu.oz.au (David J. Hughes) writes:

| Just when I thought all was looking up, I've come over a bit of a
| problem.  The gnu ld bails out in mid link.
| 
| System	=	DecSystem 5900  Ultrix 4.2a
| 		GCC 2.1  (stage 3 compiler and ld)  
| 		gcc config'd as mips-dec-ultrix
| 
| 
| The problem happens while building imake from the Motif distribution
| (not a very tall order for a C compiler).  The error is :-
| 
| 
| pid xxxxx (ld) was killed on an unalligned access at pc 0x4028fc
| gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 10.
| 
| 
| If I copy the Ultrix ld into /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/.... and rename the
| gnu ld, all works fine.
| 
| Has this been seen before?

I remember fixing bugs in collect2 (aka, ld) similar to that in the
GCC 2.2.2 time frame.
--
Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.
From: jeff@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Jeff White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Using 3rd party disks on DECstation 5000's
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:48:44 GMT
Organization: Drexel University, ECE Department, Philadelphia, PA


   We're going to be getting two HP 1.35 Gbyte drives (sorry, don't know
model numbers) for use on 5000/240 running Ultrix 4.2a.  While specific
information about this drive would be nice, I'd like to know in general
how well and compatible 3rd party drives are to work with.  One will be
the system drives, which I think complicates things a little.  I talked
to a local DEC tech support guy about it, and he said (for this drive) to
hope that the std DEC rz58 disktab entry would work with it.
   Any replies would be appreciated.  

					Jeff White
					jeff@cbis.ece.drexel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: tschia@exodus.reuters.com.sg (tschia)
Subject: LAT SERVER 300
Organization: Reuters Singapore
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:01:37 GMT


	Does anybody knows how to 
	1) Connect the LAT SERVER 300 using C function routine instead of excuting system call 'lcp -h '.
	2) The attribute of a tty port using LAT SERVER cannot be change
by using function call ioctl(). How can I overcome it ?

Your help will be much appreciate.
Thanks you. 

Regards

T S Chia
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum)
Subject: Re: How do you cat together files without getting subdirs?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 01:03:25 GMT

>I want to cat a pile of text files together. They are all in the same
>directory.  However there are also subdirectories in there too.  How can I
>wildcard to get the files, but not the subdir entries?

This will cat all files in a directory and its subdirectories:

	(find . -type f -print | xargs cat )

The parentheses run it in a subshell, so its output in turn can be
redirected:

	(find . -type f -print | xargs cat ) | grep seaotters
	(find . -type f -print | xargs cat ) > /tmp/output

To get all files in a directory that are not subdirectories or devices:

	(for a in *; do
		if [ -f "$a" ]; then
			cat $a
		fi
	done) > /tmp/output


There is probably some way to do this with a single grotty line of perl...

mjr
From: taluskie@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Looking for Accounting Filter for Postscript
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:32:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: ut-emx.76515
Organization: Institute for Fusion Studies, UT-Austin
Originator: taluskie@daisy.cc.utexas.edu

Hi ,

I've been working on getting printer accounting working on some of my
departments machines.  Right now, I'm stuck on an DecStation 5000 running
Ultrix 4.2 (rev 96).

The problem that I'm having is finding a accouting filter (if in /etc/printcap)
that is smart enough to deal with postscript that is being printed via a 
serial line to an Apple Laserwriter.

I've tried using ln03rof and found that on my machine it will print normal
text files (and record an accurate page count).  But for postscript files
it will print them while silently skipping writing an accounting record.

This is the case if I set Da=ascii or postscript.

The other filter that I've tried is lpf which seems to just count the
number of lines in a postscript file and change in that way, rather
than find out (in some smart way) how many pages were actually
printed.  On a sample one page text file , the filter recorded two
pages as printed.  For an 11 page printout of a postscript file with
875 lines, it reported 15 pages printed....

Has anyone else out there found a better printer filter or can tell me which
filter I should be using...the state of our documentation is pathetic.

Here is a copy of the relavent entry in /etc/printcap:

lp|lp0|0:\
        :af=/usr/adm/lpacct:\
        :br#19200:\
        :ct=dev:\
        :fc#0177777:\
        :fs#03:\
        :if=ln03rof:\
        :lf=/usr/adm/lperr:\
        :lp=/dev/tty00:\
        :mc#20:\
        :mx#0:\
        :of=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/ln03rof:\
        :pl#66:\
        :pw#80:\
        :rw:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
        :sh:\
        :uv=4.0:\
        :xc#0177777:\
        :xf=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/xf:\
        :xs#044000:\
        :Da=postscript:
 
-----

Many thanks for whatever help you can lend,


-- 
        ___          "I am a great believer in Luck.  The harder I work, the
| /      |                  more I have of it."    - Thomas Jefferson
|/ ince  | aluskie _________________________________________________________

taluskie@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, Physics Computer Group, UT Austin, 512-471-5821
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: kent@exodus.reuters.com.sg (kent)
Subject: Backlog of Listen function in Sockets
Organization: Reuters Singapore
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:18:07 GMT
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: Re: DEC's new policy on upgrades
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:15:06 GMT


>According to two of our local salespeople, DEC will no longer sell
>incremental upgrades to people without DEC's overpriced software
>service agreement[*]; you must buy full install kits. Worse yet,
>you cannot backdate a software service agreement; it starts from
>the currently shipping OS, and to hell with you if you haven't
>been keeping up to date.

I know of several 3rd party software companies which have policies
like this, as well as at least one other workstation vendor.

I am not sure what DEC's policy is for educational institutions in 
Canada, but here in the U.S.A., software licenses are FREE via the
Campuswide Software Licence Grant (CSLG) program. We purchase the
CDROM Consolidated Distribution service and install new version of
any package that's covered under CSLG from the CDROM. If telephone
support is needed, then optionally you can buy the Educational
Software Library (ESL) service. All along I thought Canada was 
included in the CSLG/ESL deal, but maybe they have something similar.

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: treese@crl.dec.com (Win Treese)
Subject: Re: To many open files - Problem with named
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:56:40 GMT


From the FAQ:

What does the message "named: accept: Too many open files" in syslog mean,
	and how can I fix it?

There is a bug in the ULTRIX version of named that causes it to run
out of file descriptors when it does too many zone transfers.  A
somewhat different version of named that does not have this problem
can be found in cra-bind.tar.Z.  This version cannot use Kerberos for
server-server authentication, as the ULTRIX version can.  It does
support Hesiod data and queries.  It is not supported by Digital,
although it is in active use on Digital's Internet machines.


Win Treese						Cambridge Research Lab
treese@crl.dec.com					Digital Equipment Corp.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: henchey@hench1.enet.dec.com (paul henchey)
Subject: Re: dxpsview error
Reply-To: henchey@hench1.enet.dec.com (paul henchey)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:39:55 GMT



In article <1992Jul21.075712.1036@mwk.uucp> you write:
|>> 
|>> On a DECstation 5000 w/ a color screen, when trying to load a
|>> Postscript file into Postscript Previewer (under DECwindows) we
|>> receive the following message:
|>> 
|>>     as_root:/> dxpsview test.ps
|>>     X Error:  BadAlloc - insufficient resources
|>>       Request Major code 53 ()
|>>       Error Serial #670
|>>       Current Serial #671
|>> 
|>> The program then immediately crashes (without dumping core).  This
..
|>
|>The only way I've been able to get it to work is to start it up without a
|>file on the command line.  Then I have to select WATCH PROGRESS under the
|>OPTIONS... menu. 
|>


I've found that is possible to avoid such crashes of the postscript
previewer by changing the watchProgress and useComments resources to
on and off respectively.  I did this by adding the lines

*watchProgress: on
*useComments: off

to the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/DPSViewer.  This way you
can still specify a filename with your command to start the program
and the "right" options will be set automatically.

I believe that the problem being avoided here occurs only on certain
workstations such as the PX which have limited bitmap memory available to
the Xserver.

Paul Henchey
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: schuster@rhds01.rz.fht-esslingen.de (Thilo Schuster)
Subject: Re: dxpsview error
Organization: Fachhochschule fuer Technik Esslingen
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:59:13 GMT

Hello Netlanders,

we've got a dxpsview problem, too. After an upgrade to Ultrix 4.2A, we
have to use the Xws Server on our DEC Station 5000/125 with PX
Graphic-Option and a color monitor.

Ok, I started the dxpsview and switched the WatchProgress Option on and
the UseComments Option off. Then I adjusted the scale factor to 0.9, how
it is described in the Release Notes, Page 2-8, because there is a known
problem, that the server cannot allocate pixmaps larger than 1280x1024 pixels.

The postscript file we want to look at is < 100 k.

But dxpsview made the server to produce a nice core file. Dbx said, there was a
bus error at location 0x5507dc. There are no abnormal entries in the 
/usr/adm/X0msgs file.

There is another hint in the Release Note on page 4-1: 
"The dxpsview command does not run when the default visual class is set to
StaticGray on a PXG-family option".

I modified the ttys-entry to "... window="/usr/bin/Xws -class0 StaticColor",
but this has no effect.

Has anybody made the same experiances ?

Thnx in advance.

greets,

			Thilo

-- 
Thilo Schuster                      Fachhochschule fuer Technik Esslingen
                                    Rechenzentrum
E-Mail:                             Flandernstrasse 101
schuster@rhds01.rz.fht-esslingen.de 73oo Esslingen (Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.lang.c
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Subject: Re: File Buffering Problem
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:08:28 GMT

>I have written a C program on a DecStation 5000 series running Ultrix 4.2A.
>I am using GnuC 1.37 but could use the Dec cc or c89 if I had to.  The program
>runs for a long time (min 15 hrs.) and writes log files during its run.
>It's not uncommon that the program will hang requiring a Ctrl-C to end it or
>that I want to see its progress by looking at the log files.

	If the program hangs, and you use ^C to end it, there are two better
ways to diagnose the hang. One is to run the program under a debugger and
when it hangs, stop it and see what's going on in there. Another is to kill
it with a signal that causes a core dump, and then examine the core file
with a debugger to see where it was when it hung.

>A. I have tried using the fflush(stream) function but apparently this only
>   flushes the C file buffer and not the Ultrix one since nothing gets written.

	fflush(stream) will flush the disk buffers. If it doesn't, your
application is doing something weird. fflush()'s behavior is well documented
and well tested:
     The fflush routine causes any buffered data for the named
     output stream to be written to that file.  If stream is
     NULL, all open output streams are flushed.  The stream
     remains open.
	Believe me, if fflush() didn't work as advertised, there would be a
lot of broken code.

>C. Is there any way to force piping output to get flushed as it's being
>   written?

	Put a call to "tee" in the pipe as a diagnostic tool.

mjr.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: odonovan@sciborg.UWaterloo.CA (Chris O'Donovan)
Subject: Re: Info on SLIP w/ DECstation and PC through a LAT term server
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:20:08 GMT

>I would like to be able to run SLIP between a pc at home and our DECstation
>5000 at school. I need to dial up to a terminal server and connect to our
>machine over LAT. I have set up the DECtstation end correctly. (I think) But,
>how do I connect to it from the PC? I tired using procomm to dial the modem
>and connct to our machine.

I would love to be able to do this with my Mac (i.e. use my Mac at home as an X-server). Does anybody out there know how?

I will summarize and post.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Chris O'Donovan               |
odonovan@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca |
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: How to use nslookup to go from IP address to name?
From: pmurray@watson.lib.muohio.edu (Peter Murray)
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:32:38 -0500
Distribution: comp
Organization: Miami University Libraries

coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size) writes:
:     This may be a FAQ, in which case please accept my apologies; I've just
:     added this group.
: 
:     How can I use nslookup to translate an IP address into a fully-qualified
:     host name?  It will do the reverse, but any time I feed it an address, it
:     just parrots it back to me.

Translating IP addresses to names requires use of the reverse-mapping
pointers.  The first step is to ask nslookup for a PTR entry, rather than
an A entry.  Then ask for the .in-addr.arpa. pointer.  An example is below:

pmurray:~:290: nslookup
Default Server:  lib.muohio.edu
Address:  134.53.24.2

> set query=ptr
> 2.24.53.134.in-addr.arpa.
Server:  lib.muohio.edu
Address:  134.53.24.2

2.24.53.134.in-addr.arpa        host name = watson.lib.muohio.edu
> exit


This is a reverse translation for 134.53.24.2.  Note that the numbers are
reversed in the query.

Peter

-- 
Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager        pmurray@watson.lib.muohio.edu
King Library Technical Support                      pemurray@miavx1.bitnet
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio                              W:513/529-2884
From: beckmann@endor.harvard.edu (Gary Beckmann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: postscript printers
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:47:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: endor.BECKMANN.92Jul27114758
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University

In article <3636@MILANO.INFN.IT> AMERONI@MILANO.INFN.IT writes:

   Hello !
   I remember reading in this newsgroup a discussion on
   some options for a postscript printer which are supported
   on a risc machine only with a printeserver (the options
   concerning the landscape printing and so on) and I remember
   someone sayin that with a dec kit they were supported
   also not on a printserver.
   Could someone email me other information and /or a
   summary of the discussion (I am interested in particular
   to the name of the kit)?
   Thak you very much
   alberto Meroni
   alberto.meroni@mi.infn.it

I'm also interested, and if you mail it to me I promise to post a
summary.

Of course, I made this request a couple weeks ago and got no response,
so I suspect my summary will be easy 8-)

--
					Gary Beckmann
					gary@zeus.dfci.harvard.edu
					beckmann@das.harvard.edu

Disclaimer: This space for sale.
Quote:      "I never met a chocolate I didn't like." --Deanna Troy, STtNG
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: j1h9453@eagle.tamu.edu (Joel Andrew Huddleston)
Subject: Little white cardboard things in CD-ROM distributions.
Reply-To: zod@zeus.tamu.edu
Organization: Academic Computing Services
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:27:24 GMT

Has anyone figured out what the little white cardboard things are
that are stuck to a strip of thin waxy paper delivered with DEC
CD-ROMs?  They are not sticky and seem to serve no purpose.  I
can find nothing in the literature that describes why they are
there.

The full strip is about 6 inches long and 2 wide.  There are
eight 1/2 inch pieces and two at the ends that are 1 inch wide.

If anyone has a clue, please let me know.

-- 
Joel Huddleston  eka j1h9453@eagle.tamu.edu
     Peace: Not just the absence of war but the absence of fear.
       War: Not just the absence of peace but the absence of cowardice.
Disclaimer: Not just the absence of blame but the absence of responsibility.
From: rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: How to use nslookup to go from IP address to name?
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:37:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Jul24.083727.77
Distribution: comp,world
Organization: Banzai Institute

In article <1992Jul24.104122.9943@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com 
  (Rodent of Unusual Size) writes:
> 
>     How can I use nslookup to translate an IP address into a fully-qualified
>     host name?  It will do the reverse, but any time I feed it an address, it
>     just parrots it back to me.
> 
>     #ken    :-)}	Jeratol the Chaotic
> 
The "classic" hack for this is to reverse the order of the IP number
sets and add "in-addr.arpa". So to find the host name of 123.456.0.666,


	> set q=any
	> 666.0.456.123.in-addr.arpa
	Server: blah.blah
	Address: NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN

	666.0.456.123.in-addr.arpa name = beast.hoo-hah.hell
	>

The set q=any must be done first, or you'll get an "unspecified error".

Richard Travsky
Division of Information Technology     RTRAVSKY @ CORRAL.UWYO.EDU
University of Wyoming                  (307) 766 - 3663 / 3668
"Screaming. A lot of dramatic situations begin with screaming." Barbarella
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