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From: wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar)
Subject: Get an cron error message - Need Help
Organization: IKE
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 08:44:18 GMT



 Hey,

 I get an error from cron every 10 or 20 minutes, but I can not recognize
 the error. Could somebody help me ? The cron error message appears
 as mail for root like this:


  >From sys  Mon Oct 12 09:40:05 1992
  >Received: by faksvr-eth.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (920110.SGI/BelWue-1.0SG(subsidiary))(for root) id AA00759; Mon, 12 Oct 92 09:40:05 +0200
  >Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 09:40:05 +0200
  >From: sys (System Activity Owner)
  >Message-Id: <9210120740.AA00759@faksvr-eth.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de>
  >To: sys
  >Subject: cron output
  >Status: R
  >
  >bin:/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/bin/X11/bin/sh/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/usr/bin:
  >/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/bin/X11/bin/sh/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/usr/bin:/bin:
  >/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/bin/X11/bin/sh/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/usr/bin:/bin:/etc:
  >/usr/etc:/usr/bin/X11/bin/sh: is not an identifier
  >
  >*************************************************
  >Cron: The previous message is the standard output
  >      and standard error of one of your cron commands.



 Please mail me your informations !

 Thanks for your efforts,

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: syscrc@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter)
Subject: Re: "Totally Insane" CD NO LONGER AVAILABLE
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:34:46 GMT

portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes:


>A few weeks ago, I explained how to get a copy of the
>"Totally Insane" developer's CD, containing source
>code for 3D, font, and image manipulation.
>
>All of the available copies are now gone, but thanks
>for your interest....
>
>
>--
>Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com

What are the terms of the use of the CD?  Can it's contents be distributed
among users?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: tlynchhuw@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Xview 3.0 resources (help!)
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:47:25 GMT


I need help with some XView 3.0 resource setting problems.

I have compiled XView 3.0 on Irix 4.0.5 and I have to execute all xview
applications with the -fullscreendebug option specified or the window 
manager becomes frozen (this is due to a bug in Irix 4.0.5). 

I have been trying for quite some time to get xview programs to recognise 
the xview resource "Fullscreen.Debug: True" which is documented in the xview 
man page that comes with the distribution. I have also been trying to use the
resource "text.extrasMenuFilename: /usr/local/lib/.text_extras_menu", both
without real success.

Here is what I have tried...

	1. adding the following lines to my $HOME/.Xdefaults file

		*Fullscreen.Debug:	True
		*text.extrasMenuFilename:	<as above>

	   after doing this and then executing an xview program I still get
	   a hung window manager and warning messages saying the text menu
	   file could not be found.

	2. adding the above lines to the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XView
	
	   after doing so and executing an xview program I still get the 
	   same errors which suggest that the resources are not being loaded.

	3. I then tried the following command using $HOME/.Xdefaults as
	   modified in (1).

		xrdb -merge -nocpp $HOME/.Xdefaults

	   then I tried executing an xview application and hey presto! the
	   text menu file was found and read but the window manager still
	   hung!
	
	   I investigated the xview code and found that in the file

		./xview/lib/libxview/defaults/defaults.c

	   (which lists command line options and their corresponding resource
	   names) there was no resource name associated with the command line
	   option -fullscreendebug although one is listed in the xview
	   documentation!

	   This may well be an XView 3.0 bug. I have seen postings from
	   people who have said that they have managed to get it to work
	   but they have all failed to reply when I have asked them to show
	   me exactly how.

What I want to know is this: What do I have to do to get xview to read the
resources in the .Xdefaults file? I would rather have xview read the resources
in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XView since this will save a lot of frozen window
managers by holding for _all_ users, so what do I have to do to get xview to
read it?

Could anyone who offers me a solution to this please send me (if they don't
mind) full copies of their .Xdefaults, .../app-defaults/XView, .xsession and
any other relevent files files so that I can thoroughly check that I have not 
left out something pathetically obvious (I wouldn't call myself even half
an X expert).


Many thanks for any help you give,

Huw Lynch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: kevin@neuron.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Montgomery)
Subject: Re: IL: ilmemoryimg coord space reset -> 'img1 << img2' => 'img1 != img2'
Organization: NASA-Ames Biocomputation Center
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:43:38 GMT

In article <1bkkb7INNhbt@fido.asd.sgi.com>, walker@owl.asd.sgi.com (Christopher Walker) writes:
|> I think that's what I just said :-) (we are planning to support this in 2.0)

duh- this is kevin's brain, this is kevin's brain on zero blood sugar.. (sorry)

|> If you have an operator chain, and issue a getPixel or getTile on the end of 
|> the chain it will only compute the page that contains that pixel or tile.. 
|> why duplicate the functionality in ilMemoryImg?

yes, but under the current scheme o' things, you copyTile the whole image
into the ilMemoryImg to work on it.  While it's true that this (overloaded []
for ilMemoryImg) would duplicate functionality (and one should be ultimately
doing tile-based processing of a non-memimg chain), when prototyping and using
a large image, it's sometimes nice to be able to get to immediate results, 
rather than having to wait for the whole image to be processed during the
copyTile before use.  It is a minor point and true, I should just be going
tile-based at the outset and increase the cache/page size to that of the image, 
but when you're first-pass prototyping something to see if it works, it
just slows you down a bit, especially for long, computationally intense 
chains.  not a real problem and I'd understand leaving things the way 
they are for simplicity's sake, though...

|> > do a histogram before you can process any data.  I think the nice IL demand
|> > driven model starts to break down on global operations and the ilMemoryImg
|> > is a nice way to hack out of it, but I don't really see any other way 
|> > around it.  
|> Well, I don't know if I would use the term "breaks down" :-).

:-)  wait, i *did* call the model nice!  (really- i think it's the best thing
	since sliced bread!)  it's just that you have to jump out of the model
	and do that lazy, crazy ilMemoryImg thang sometimes...  (to be more
	ImageVision Correct (tm), i'll set the page size to the size of the 
	image and getTile instead)

|> Another way around this problem is to force the page size on the operator that
|> needs to access the whole image to be the size of the image (i.e. a one page
|> image).. that's what we do for the 2D-FFT code (which has the same problem).

good idea-  will give it a try...   (thanks!)

are you folks looking for 2.0 Beta sites yet?  Are there many functionality
increases in the release, or is it mainly perf enhancements (RE, parallel, 
etc)?  if there's functionality that you'd like someone to beat on, I'd be
up for playing with it...  (& let's drop the discussion to email if so)

						kevin
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How to find which system (4D/30, Indigo,etc) am I logged onto ?
Date: 8 Oct 92 03:50:52 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <ld790iINNgeg@bovina.cs.utexas.edu> ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward) writes:
| Just to be a bit more complete, the V35 (VME based 4D/35) claims to be an
| IP12, even though it isn't.  But close enough, and certainly not worth enough
| effort to change the PROM (and I expect that OSG doesn't have the volume
| of sales to influence this much for the software hinv, but this can be good.
| We are considering buying some more V35s where I work, and Dominick Arsi of
| OSG came out and did a dual head demo.  Dog kinda freaks when you move the
| mouse to the 2nd head to diddle with shadow.  MAJOR roll!)
| 
| (If I remember correctly, the V35 is really an IP17)

Nope.  The V35 *is* a repackaged 4D/35, just like the name would
indicate.  Of course, there are some changes to make it work as
a VME based system, but they aren't externally visible for the
most part (to programs, that is).
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
Subject: Re: What format does the "snapshot" command save in?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Customer Support Division
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:52:43 GMT

In article <1b2bviINNbh7@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, smythe@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Matthew Aljian) writes:
|> 
|> The snapshot command saves a file with the extension .rgb.  What file format is this?  I've downloaded the .rgb file to my Amiga at home, and none of my
|> image processing programs can load it.  One of them, however, "thinks"
|> that it's a Targa, but doesn't have the right loader.  The other program
|> has a Targa loader but can't load the file.
|> 
|> So is there a program on the Indigos or Sun SparcStations to convert .rgb
|> files to something more useful, like a jpeg, ilbm, gif, etc?  Something that
|> my program at home can read?
|> 

If makewhatis(1M) has not been run on your system, run /usr/lib/makewhatis as
root.  Then do:

    apropos gif

You will see:

    fromgif (6D)            - convert a GIF image into an IRIS image
    togif (6D)              - convert an IRIS image to a Compuserve GIF image

"apropos image" will give you a list of other image tools.

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From: wicks@dcdsv0.fnal.gov (Matthew Wicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: PLEASE!  read the group before asking questions.
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:59:49 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL
NNTP-Posting-Host: dcdmjw.fnal.gov

In article <1992Oct14.123015.6930@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, taylorf@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Frank S. Taylor IV 283-4278) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct13.200751.27379@cc.ic.ac.uk>, vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) writes:
|> |> In article <r0s5rt0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
|> |> - Recently there have been a series of requests for various pieces of
|> |> - information that have already been asked within the past few weeks.
|> |> .....
|> |> - 
|> |> - I know that we don't have an FAQ for the group, but still, please
|> |> - check the recent articles before asking again.
|> |> 
|> |> A FAQ would definitely help.
|> |> 
|> -- 
|> Let's not forget that there are plans to break this newsgroup up into
|> separate sections.  This should help alleviate some of the traffic in 
|> specific areas (I believe there was going to be a comp.sys.sgi.newusers
|> type group?).

We have been having  discussions on splitting up this group and the final
details are being worked out on how to handle the info-iris mailing lists.
I hope to proceed to a Call for Vote towards the end of the month. However,
there wasn't any proposal for a c.s.s.newusers group.

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From: jackr@wpd.sgi.com (John "Jack" Repenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: An exciting xwsh(?) bug
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:46:52
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: dblues.wpd.sgi.com
In-reply-to: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu's message of 2 Oct 92 14:40:52 GMT

	3) 'repeat 10 xwsh -autofork -e ftp your-machine'

	Who does ftp (or xwsh) think you are? It works best for us
	just after login.

Here's a way around the problem: use "xterm +ut -e ..."

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske)
Subject: XOpenDisplay Problems on 310 VGX (Oh, come on, a DIFFERENT 310 VGX)
Originator: bryan@IRIX
Keywords: TAC-tical weapons
Reply-To: bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske)
Organization: EAI, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:40:32 GMT


Dear SGI Guy,  (Don't mean to sound sexist, but 'Dear Aunt Crabby' just does
                not sound that good.  I need a good opening line.  <sigh.>  )


If my syslog looks like:

...
Oct  7 04:28:41 kodiak unix: gm3.u - Fri Jun 5 04:28:07 PDT 1992
Oct  7 04:28:44 kodiak unix: dg: No HPLL detected: vcodac=0x2 
Oct  7 04:30:44 kodiak xdm[29125]: Hung in XOpenDisplay(:0), aborting
Oct  7 04:30:44 kodiak xdm[29125]: server open failed for :0, giving up
Oct  7 04:33:56 kodiak unix: Vertical retrace timed-out!
Oct  7 04:38:46 kodiak unix: Vertical retrace timed-out!

[ad nausium, every 4 minutes, 50 seconds until you lunge for the reset switch]

Oct  7 09:14:19 kodiak unix: Vertical retrace timed-out!
Oct  7 09:19:09 kodiak unix: Vertical retrace timed-out!
Oct  7 09:23:59 kodiak unix: Vertical retrace timed-out!
Oct  7 09:32:14 kodiak syslogd: restart
...

six seconds after a user (pick a user, any user...) logs out, with
DisplayManager._0.terminateServer:True, what's happening here?
It seems that xdm cannot restart the X-server properly, sometimes there
is no video output at all, (none, trust me,) and sometimes there's no sync
on the signal that's left.  This has only happened about 3 times, but the
ONLY way to recover is to hit the reset switch.  One can rlogin and try
to 'reboot', 'shutdown', or 'init 0'.  No Joy(tm), go for that reset switch.

Please teach me. I wish to know both cause and cure.  Man pages give me only
part of the story and I'm still digging through the hardbound manuals.


Most Sincere Thanks in Advance

Bryan Manske.


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From: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
Subject: Problem compiling Fortran program
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Barnard College, Columbia U, New York
Originator: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:54:35 GMT
X-Posted-From: avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Can anyone illuminate the following error message?

		f77 -g -C -static  -c bmin1v.f 
	ugen: internal: binasm stms write error
	*** Error code 1

It results only from this single file, and only with -C (bounds-checking).

This is on an Indigo, using Fortran 3.4.1 under IRIX 4.0.5(B, I think).

Any help as to what to look for in the file would be most appreciated;  it's
a long file, with many routines.  The code is rather vanilla Fortran-77; with
the exception of INCLUDE, it tires to be standard-conforming.

	-P.
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From: scjones@thor.sdrc.com (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Bug in SGI's malloc?
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:24:08 GMT

In article <5273@bacon.IMSI.COM>, jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
> Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com> writes:
> 
> 	My understanding is that there are some folks out there who
> 	have huge processes that want to do a quick fork and exec.
> 
> Isn't the traditional solution to this situation vfork()?

In the old days, fork() just made a complete copy of the parent process
and then fired it up.  If the parent had a large address space, this
meant a lot of copying and it required a lot of swap space.  Since most
children just call exec() which throws away the current address space,
this was very inefficient.

Berkeley solved this problem by inventing a new system call, vfork(),
which is a bit of a hack.  In essence, the way vfork() works is by
puting the parent process into a special non-runable state and then
"lending" its address space to the child process.  When the child does
an exec(), the address space is given back to the parent process, the
parent is put back into a normal runable state, and the child gets a
brand new address space created for it.  Since the child shares the
parent's address space, the parent and child can not run simultaneously
and the child can change the parent's global variables.

System V, on the other hand, just fixed fork() to work more efficiently.
Rather than having fork() copy the whole address space, it just copies
the virtual memory page tables so that the parent and child each point
to the same page.  Pages which are writable are marked as copy-on-write
in both processes so that when either process tries to write to a shared
page, it gets a private copy.  If the child actually writes to all the
writable pages, it ends up with a complete copy of the address space
just like it used to, but if it calls exec() right away nothing's been
copied but the page tables.

Now what this has to do with malloc(), I don't know.  The way fork()
works doesn't necessarily have anything to with with the way brk(),
sbrk(), and malloc() work.  I for one would welcome a more in-depth
explanation from someone at SGI as to exactly how malloc() is
implemented.
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From: feil@prl.philips.nl (Hans feil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Need Help in Showcase III - about inserting EPS files
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:45:48 GMT
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Netherlands

portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes:


>In article <1992Oct6.160924.3261@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, cychong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu writes:
>> Hi, every comp.sys.sgi subscriber,
>> 
>>      First I would like to say thanks to those who
>> helped me to fix the problems I had in using Showcase.
>> 
>>      Now I found another problem.
>>      Is there anyone familiar with PS and EPS stuffs? The
>> question I have is that I have some EPS files which I can
>> both see on xpsview and print on Mac LaserPrinter (I just
>> used lpr) but I CANNOT insert them into showcase.
>> Showcase just gave me a blank block with the EPS file
>> names printed in the middle of the block.
>>      (Enclosed you can find an EPS file which has that
>> kind of problem.)
>>      Does anyone know why this happen?

>From the online help card entitled "Importing Encapsulated
>PostScript Files,"  accessed under the "Importing Objects"
>item on the Help menu:

>	"If the EPS file was not saved with a preview image,
>	IRIS Showcase displays a rectangle and a file name.
>	This only affects the screen display; the image
>	prints correctly."

Does Showcase version III is going to make use of Display Postscipt?


Hans Feil.
Philips Research Labs.
Eindhoven
The Netherlands
feil@prl.philips.nl
From: kupec@agouron.com (John W. Kupec)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: hostname change causes problems
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:02:33 GMT
Organization: Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Summary:  I've changed the hostname of a machine and it now
	  is having problems with net services.

Hardware:  Indigo Elan
Software:  4.0.5b, NIS client

Description:  Machine was originally called "mred".  All remote
	services in/out (rsh, rlogin, etc.) and automounter
	worked fine.  Machine name since changed to "MrEd".  Now
	"MrEd" can't start automounter or other services.
	Error messages in SYSLOG are:

Oct  8 18:42:32 MrEd automount[115]: Can't get my address
Oct  8 18:43:07 MrEd mountd[258]: Can't find hostname for 192.135.144.25
Oct  8 18:43:23 MrEd lpd[203]: unable to get network name for local machine MrEd

But, ypmatch gives proper info:

MrEd 5# ypmatch MrEd hosts
192.135.144.25  MrEd MrEd.agouron.com

MrEd 6# hostname
MrEd

MrEd 7# cat /etc/sys_id
MrEd

MrEd 8# grep MrEd /etc/hosts
192.135.144.25  MrEd MrEd.agouron.com

NIS master is a Convex, NIS slave server is 4D/210 running 4.0.5b.

This happened to me a few months ago with similar hardware/software
but I gave up and restored original hostname to get around problem.
This time I'd like to understand what gives.

thanks,

-- 

John Kupec (kupec@agouron.com)
Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
San Diego, CA  92121 (619) 622-3040
From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: PLEASE!  read the group before asking questions.
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:07:51 GMT
Reply-To: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

In article <r0s5rt0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- Recently there have been a series of requests for various pieces of
- information that have already been asked within the past few weeks.
.....
- 
- I know that we don't have an FAQ for the group, but still, please
- check the recent articles before asking again.

A FAQ would definitely help.

- I'm starting to
- reach the point where I won't answer some questions, just because
- they are too frequent (or were just answered recently).

That is another problem, the people at SGI are too good in responding 
to queries. (No, please don't change)

I also fear parts of the faq cannot come from sgi and should be contributed
by users. I would be willing to help, but cannot do it all alone (would
be too long-winded to read).

                                    Thomas
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From: lgt1@ohm.york.ac.uk (Laurence Tyler (Guest - CompServ))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How to find which system (4D/30, Indigo,etc) am I logged onto ?
Date: 9 Oct 92 09:47:14 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK

The command 'uname', particularly 'uname -a' gives a concise
one-line summary...

Laurence.
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