HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Apparent NSR problem, was:Re: LMF -- What am I doing wrong?
Organization: CS
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:34:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.235514.21626@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>
>
>I'm having problems combining licenses for NSR under Ultrix 4.3.  I've
>parked in front of this with bookreader for a couple of hours now, and I
>still don't seem to have it configured.

Turns out that according to DEC support, it's NSR that's hosed up.

NSR counts the number of clients in your resource file, and compares that
to the number of licenses.  Which is fine.  But it screws up and if you have
a client in the resource file multiple times  (Which I do, 1 time for /, 1 
time for user files, and 1 time for everything else), it counts each
of those as a separate client.

So I have 30 client NSR records, but it's really only 10 different machines,
but NSR thinks I need 30 licenses.  Stupid program anyway.

One can only hope that it's fixed in 2.0, because these constant messages
are veddy veddy aggravating.  Half tempted to go null that string out in
the binary.
-- 
 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: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
Subject: Re: FPU errors on 5000/240
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:23:26 GMT

lhawkins@olaf.wellesley.edu (Lee Hawkins) writes:

>In article <1992Nov18.201537.11370@mother.bates.edu> rob@mother.bates.edu (Rob Spellman) writes:
>>He didn't have a software test for this problem.  Instead, he looked
>>at the revision of the daughter board.  His notes state that anybody
>>with rev b01 or greater will not have the floating point problem.

>This isn't quite correct.  Our box had a rev B01 board that did have the
>problem.  It was replaced today.  However, our base numbers are
>different:
>	50-something B01
>	^^

This is getting confusing. Sid at ULTRIX support said that my FPU was OK
when I told him I had read 50-20626-01 B01 off of it. I have someone here
who has months of work invested on one of our DECstations, and he
won't graduate, as planned, in December if the DECstation has been 
generating random numbers instead of floating point calculations. Can someone
at DEC give me the straight poop?

-Mike
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: dcoleman@acoustic.aosg.gsf.dec.com (David M. Coleman AOSG)
Subject: Re: Q: escape sequences to modify dxterm title?
Keywords: xterm dxterm escape codes
Organization: AOSG
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:49:58 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.105312.19054@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, kirschnt@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Torsten R. Kirschner) writes:
|> can anybody tell me whether there are xterm-like escape sequences to
|> modify a dxterm's titlebar string dynamically??

	Here's a csh script that'll work with either xterm or dxterm:

#!/bin/csh
#
# dtitle	- Set  title for terminal window and icon
#

set	window_title	= $1
set	icon_title	= $2
if (${icon_title} == "") then
    set icon_title = $window_title
endif

#
# xterm title
#
set	esc	= ""
set	ctrl_G	= ""
set	do_window = 2
set	do_icon	= 1

set	title_window	= "${esc}]${do_window};${window_title}${ctrl_G}"
set	title_icon	= "${esc}]${do_icon};${icon_title}${ctrl_G}"
set	title_xterm	= "${title_window}${title_icon}"

#
# dxterm title
#
set	osc	= ""
set	st	= ""
set	title_dxterm	= "${osc}21;${window_title}${st}${osc}2L;${icon_title}${st}"

if ($TERM == "xterm") then
    echo "Setting xterm title ... " ${title_xterm}
else
    echo "Setting xterm title ... " ${title_xterm} \
	" or dxterm title ..." ${title_dxterm}
endif
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mellema@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Garrelt Mellema)
Subject: DAT rescue
Keywords: DAT, EOT
Organization: CRI, institute for telecommunication and computerservices.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 15:26:22 GMT

Hello,

I have the following problem. By accident I started writing (with tar) at
the beginning of a DAT tape which already had several tar archives on it.
Is there any way of getting the tape positioned after the new end of tape
mark, so that I can access the data that is still on there somewhere?

Tar, tarx, mt, and dd will not let you do this. I have also tried to break off
a tar process to stop an end of tape being written, but this doesn't work
either: the error handling will always place two tapemarks and an EOT
at the end of the tar archive.

Are there any programs to position the tape beyond an EOT mark?

Please mail me any suggestions.

Technical details: DEC3100, Ultrix4.2
                   DAT: TLZ04 (devices /dev/(n)rmt4h)

P.S. I have also access to a DAT unit in an HP outfit:
                   HP 9000/720, HP-UX8.05,
                   DAT: HP6400 1300S (devices /dev/rmt/0m[n])
                        (on the back it says model: C1512A)
From: andrewr@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Compiling  codes under OSF/1 T1.2-1  ALPHA M500
Date: 16 Nov 1992 23:37:21 GMT
Organization: The University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Farhad Shakeri (farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU) wrote:

+ to be more specific:  I have tried to compile
+ tcsh 6.00 or 6.01 or 6.02 on Alpha but the
+ binary when run gives me error when I use pipes 
+ i.e.  ls -CF | more
+ 
+ this is the error I get:
+ 
+    tcsh: setpgid error (Not owner).
+        or
+    tcsh: setpgid error

	I've been getting this on my MIPS/OSF system too. Press
sursor up and try again - I'm not completely sure what causes it,
it would appear to be random, but occasionally it happens a few
times in a row. I patched tcsh when this error occurs to retry it
twice immediatly, only returning the error if all three failed,
but that didn't seem to help an awful lot. I took it out again as
it was a grotty hack.
	My suggestion is this - get something to do a fork()
elsewhere in the system (do an "ls" in another window), then hit
cursor up and try again. This always seems to work. Alternativly,
just keep hitting cursor up/return until it works.
	If this is happening all the time rather than just on
odd occasions, though, something's just got a bit more broken
than it was before. SPR it.

Cya,
	Andrew.

/*
 * andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au            Andrew Rutherford
 * +61 8 228 5669                      Network Specialist, ITD
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Subject: Re: ** XMETER ** for Ultrix
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:27:40 GMT


In article <1encp8INNmh7@agate.berkeley.edu>, stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) writes:

|>If you look at /usr/include/rpcsvc/rstat.h you'll see see that DK_NDRIVE
|>is taken from sys/dk.h instead of being fixed at 4 (as in the Sun version).
|>This causes the protocol to become incompatible.

This is a problem with the rstat protocol itself.  IMHO, it is only a cute
toy, since fixing DK_NDRIVE at 4 restricts it to machines having 4 or fewer
disk drives.  A real fix would be to rewrite the entire protocol to be more
realistic and robust.

						Frank
Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:8387 comp.sys.dec:6044
From: garrett@lib.washington.edu (Adam Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Help using 'slavepc' with DEC SoftPC
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:12:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov18.171204.12306
Organization: University of Washington Libraries

SoftPC users:

I am trying to use a floppy drive on a IBM PS/2 70 from my DEC 5000/200 running 
SoftPC (this is known as SlavePC).  I have made a serial cable as specified on
page F-4 of DEC SoftPC User's guide.  After connecting the machines together
and starting SoftPC, the program seems to hang after I attach 'drive A'.  Has
anyone else experienced this problem?  Do I need more pins in my serial cable
then what is decribed in User's guide.  Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Adam R. Garrett
University of Washington Libraries     INTERNET: garrett@lib.washington.edu
352 Suzzallo Library, FM-25            PHONE:    (206) 543-8843
Seattle, WA  98195                     FAX:      (206) 685-8049
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: jtruitt@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Jim Truitt)
Subject: upgrading to ultrix 4.3 -- any problems???
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:10:40 GMT
Reply-To: jtruitt@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Jim Truitt)
Organization: Harris GISD

Hi,

        I currently run Ultrix 4.2 on a DECstation 3100. I am interested in inst
alling a software
package called Majordomo for manageing mail lists. To do this I have been told I
 will need an
upgrade to Ultrix 4.3.

        I would be interested in hearing from people who have performed this upg
rade and
what if any problems it creates.

Thanks in advance
Jim Truitt


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: johnson@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Chris Johnson)
Subject: monitoring tools
Summary: looking for ...
Keywords: audit contrl 
Organization: Northeastern University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:27:01 GMT

     Hi all.

     I'm at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.  We run a bbs kind of
system here.  We also allow the users of this system access to Ultrix.
This of course presents a few problems.  

     Some of our users try to break security and system integrity just
to see if they can.  On my VMS system I have software written by Clyde
Digital, now RAXCO, called AUDIT and CONTROL.  These allow me to look in
on and record whatever a user types at a keyboard and save it to a file.  
AUDIT does this from login to logout.  CONTROL does it interactivly and can
also take over a user's terminal.

     What I need is something like the Clyde Digital/RAXCO softare on
VMS but for Ultrix.  Does any body know of such a system?

     Any help much appreciated.

Chris Johnson
Northeastern University.
From: dirico@tropix.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Digital's Alpha AXP information
Keywords: Alpha AXP
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:08:53 GMT
Reply-To: dirico@tropix.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec,comp.windows.x
From: shinton@rodin33.kns.com (David Shinton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
Subject: DXSESSION: Is there a way to run a logout script?
Keywords: logout
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:38:55 GMT
Organization: Kulicke and Soffa Ind. Inc., Willow Grove, PA


I would like to be able have the functionality of running a logout script
when a user quits from dxsession at a workstation console. Is there a way
to do this? Please email and will summarize the results. Thanks!

-- 
David M. Shinton (215) 784-6967
Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc
Internet mail address: shinton@kns.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: disktab entry for Fujitsu M2624FA
From: heathman@bbs.mdcbbs.com
Date: 19 Nov 92 23:02:28 GMT
Organization: KAISER AEROSPACE
Nntp-Posting-User: heathman


	Does anybody have a disktab entry for a Fujitsu M2624a 520MB 3.5 
disk drive ?  Also what if any things do I need to look out for when I add 
this disk to my workstation ?


Thanks
grAnt

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: amaranth@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Paul Amaranth)
Subject: Re: FPU errors on 5000/240 P.Amaranth
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:27:29 GMT

>I am sorry for contradicting. These things are only correct for the right side of the " = " , and only to bracket expressions.
>Change 
>ainv=1.0/i
>to
>ainv=1.0d0/i   or ainv=1.0/dble(i)
>in your program and you will get a different result!
>namely   -86354540.28378928  .
>on a DEC with FPU - bug AND on a DEC 5000/240 without FPU - bug.  
> 

The first expression is evaluated in single precision, then widened to
double for the assignment, the second is done in double, maintaining
precision, so of course you will get a different value.  

Only 1 of my 4 unfixed 240s was sensitive to this program anyway, so
getting the same different answer running a different program doesn't
seem to mean much.

If DEC would send me the tech info on what is wrong, maybe I could look
at the code generated and figure out why that 10 line program shows a
sensitivity to the FPU problem.  Yeah, right.  Like I needed this FPU
problem in the first place. 'Course, if I knew what was going on, maybe
I could tell my users they didn't have to rerun that last three months of
work.  Might help defuse the 'Kill the Messenger' syndrome.

OK, so here's the bottom line:  that EXACT 10 line program, when run on
5000/240s showed a problem on exactly ONE of my four unfixed 240s, all
of which showed serious problems with the Ponder program.  The Smith
program failed on the same 240, and worked correctly on the other
three.  The Ponder program seems to be the definitive test to show if
you have a problem.  Changing various things in the test program would
get it to work on the same 240.  It was the minimal pathological case
that caused it to fail modeled on operations ocurring in the Smith
program.  Why would anyone want to fix it?  

You think its lousy Fortran?  I agree, but that wasn't the object of the
exercise.  The object was to get a short program that failed in the
same circumstances as the Smith program.  I did that, thought it was of
sufficient interest to post it and have now spent more time explaining
Fortran semantics that I spent writing the program.

Since I'm taking up bandwith, did anyone else see that program fail?  Or
is it just my one wierdo 240?

I'm getting tired of Fortran semantics, anyone have any idea of exactly
what's happening in the FPU?  What sequence of operations cause the error?
Something I can look for in the object and determine if my users had
a problem or not?

-- 
Paul Amaranth  Manager User Services - office: (313) 370 4541 (also voicemail)
(internet)     amaranth@vela.acs.oakland.edu  |    This space 
(bitnet)       amaranth@oakland               |    temporarily
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From: grant@panhed.psc.edu (Shirl Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: m_copy1 ???
Date: 17 Nov 1992 10:13:30 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



I am seeing this alot on ouyr Ultrix V3.1 machines (vax & pmax).  the
machine dies with a panic, the message is about m_copy1.  Does anyone
know exactly what is happening, what causes this error, or even which
program is causing the panic?  Follows is the log file from one of our vaxes.

Please respond via email - I am really behind on news.

Thanks, -Shirl
---------------------------------------------------
********************************* ENTRY    13. *********************************
----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS                             ERROR EVENT 
OS EVENT TYPE                  200.     PANIC 
SEQUENCE NUMBER                 12.
OPERATING SYSTEM                        ULTRIX 32 
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON                      Mon Nov 16 13:08:20 1992 EST
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM                      tba185 
SYSTEM ID                 x08000000
SYSTYPE REG.              x01010000
                                        FIRMWARE REV = 1.
PROCESSOR TYPE                          KA630 
PANIC MESSAGE                           m_copy1 

-----------------------------------------------------

Ultrix-32 V3.1 (Rev. 9) UWS V2.1 System #2: Tue Apr 23 13:19:47 EDT 1991

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: LMF -- What am I doing wrong?
Organization: CS
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:55:14 GMT



I'm having problems combining licenses for NSR under Ultrix 4.3.  I've
parked in front of this with bookreader for a couple of hours now, and I
still don't seem to have it configured.

Decstation 5000/240, Ultrix 4.3, NSR 1.0


Here's the scene.

I just received 10 NSR PAKs.

According to the documentation on BOOKREADER for combining multiple licenses,
I use lmf register to register each pak.  Then use lmf load to register them.

So I registered 2 of the pak's.

Here's the output from a lmf list:
# lmf list
Product                   Status                     Users: Total      Active

DECNSR-NET-CLNT           enabled                   
DECNSR-NET-CLNT           enabled, multiple         
DECNSR-NET-SVR            active                            unlimited


Then, it says to combine the licenses, use the lmf load command.  And it 
gives an example for loading multiple licenses.  Specifically, it says:

For example, if you have registered two licenses for the product ALLSUM,
you can form a single license in the kernel cache by typing:

# lmf load 0 ALLSUM.

So I do a 

# lmf load 0 decnsr-net-clnt 

And I get:
Combine DECNSR-NET-CLNT AL3-WM-92316-732 with DECNSR-NET-CLNT AL3-WM-92316-733

Which is what the hell I was trying to do in the first place.  So now an
LMF list shows:

# lmf list
Product                   Status                     Users: Total      Active

DECNSR-NET-CLNT           active                            2          0    
DECNSR-NET-CLNT           active, multiple                  2          0    
DECNSR-NET-SVR            active                            unlimited


I think that the license is registered correctly (from the 2 in the total
column), but everytime I do a LMF reset, I get the 
'Combine...' message printed above.

So how the hell do I stop it?

If I register 5 licenses, then fire up nsrd, I get:

nsrd: RAP error, Too many clients, exceeded DECNSR-NET-CLNT license (35003)
nsrd: RAP error, Too many clients, exceeded DECNSR-NET-CLNT license (35003)


What am I doing wrong here?  Am I supposed to mod the units on the NET-SVR
license to match the number?
-- 
 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: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen@guest0.iit.nrc.ca>
Subject: Hung processes on Ultrix 4.2 LAT port again
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:32:45 GMT

Every now and then, Ultrix LAT hangs a process.  This raises the load
average by "1" and our batch queueing system stops scheduling certain jobs.
Nothing but a reboot will dislodge this stuck "process".

# ps -laxwwt02
      F UID   PID  PPID CP PRI NI ADDR  SZ  RSS WCHAN STAT  TT  TIME COMMAND
10008021 253 14092     1  0  -1  0 299b 184   12 702fc D     02  0:00 /software/newsreaders/bin/lrn

# kill 14092
itcsh: kill: Process 14092: No such process.

# lcp -p /dev/tty02
lcp: /dev/tty02 not connected

# stty all >/dev/tty02
speed 9600 baud , 0 rows, 0 columns; nl tabs
erase  kill   intr   quit   stop   eof
^?     ^U     ^C     ^\     ^S/^Q  ^D

ULTRIX V4.2 (Rev. 96)
#include <dec/spr.h>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum AXP)
Subject: Re: psroff
Keywords: roff groff
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:50:55 GMT

>As far as groff is concerned, it can be compiled under the ULTRIX
>operating system.  I did it.

	In fact, you can have the fruits of Frank's labors for FTP
from decuac.dec.com, in /pub/binaries/groff-1.04-mipsel.tar.Z

mjr.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: weis@netmbx.netmbx.de (Dietmar Weis)
Subject: Re: recommendation for SCSI-Device-ID's
Organization: netmbx, Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:03:30 GMT

ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento) writes:
>In article <IJS8QPG@netmbx.netmbx.de> weis@netmbx.netmbx.de (Dietmar Weis) 
>writes:

>>> Shall I change the slowest device to ID 7 (TZ30) or just put the new disk
>>> to ID 7?

>  If you need to add another device, I would recommend setting the CPU up to
>ID 7 and then moving the slow devices up the chain. I would recommend against
>setting anything higher than the CPU ID (that may just be a superstition of my
>own).

Thank you for your followup, AJ. Yes, it was a posting from you.
But please tell me: how do I change the ID of the host adapter on the
cpu board from 6 to 7 ?
I cannot find this mentioned in my documentations.

Thank you very much.
Dietmar
-- 
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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: CD-ROM is really a pseudoterminal??
Date: 16 Nov 1992 00:52:01 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
NNTP-Posting-Host: sayshell.umd.edu
Keywords: Gak!  Ugh!  Pfui!

In article <BxMCny.DAw@newsflash.concordia.ca> smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) writes:
>I hate to disagree with Boyd Roberts, as he obviously knows what he's
>talking about (as demonstrated in many other posts to this group,
>among others). 

And you shouldn't...

>Now *that* is news to me, but then as I mentioned in a previous post, I
>make no pretensions toward being a kernel hacker.

It's not really news to anyone with much kernel hacking experience.
It's been that way since at least V7.

>It may be that pff incorrectly assumes that any two devices with
>identical major and minor numbers are necessarily the same device.  *I*
>certainly thought so :-)

Yup, incorrect assumption..

>I notice that ofiles (which I didn't run yesterday) reports that nobody
>is using /dev/rz5c, even though pff still finds the telnet process on
>ptyra.

Don't worry about the pty; it has nothing to do with your problem.

>So what's left?   I still think that "recycling" major and minor numbers
>is a particularly strange thing to do, but if it really has no bearing
>on my case, what does?

Why would you think this is strange?  As Boyd noted in a prior
article, there are two distinct switch tables, one for character
special devices and one for block special devices.

>It's definitely not that the mount point directory is busy.  I can't
>find any other processes using the "real" /dev/rz5c.  So why won't
>mount do what I want it to do?

I dunno.. did the CDROM autoconfig when you booted?

louie